World Cup will help with NBA intro: Exum
Australian teenage basketball sensation Dante Exum says the 近づいている World Cup in Spain will help make his 巨大（な） leap into the NBA just that little bit easier.
Exum went from mystery man to millionaire last month when he was snatched up by the Utah Jazz as the fifth 全体にわたる 選ぶ in the 2014 NBA 草案.
The 19-year-old point guard's first 発射 in the limelight received mixed reviews, however, with 観察者／傍聴者s 明言する／公表するing he struggled to compete against the bigger でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れるd men during the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas last week.
"It was 堅い getting 支援する on the 法廷，裁判所 because I hadn't been there in a while," he said.
But Exum, whose 196cm でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる 重さを計るs in at 88kg, is 確信して that by the time the NBA season rolls around in October, he'll have had a lot more experience playing against grown men.
That's because San Antonio 刺激（する）s' point-guard Patty Mills underwent 外科 to 修理 a torn rotator cuff, meaning Exum will have to step up と一緒に fellow NBA point guard Matthew Dellavedova (Cleveland Cavaliers) for Australia at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup this August-September.
The 二人組 have returned to Australia to train with their Boomers チーム仲間s at Canberra's AIS.
"The way I look at it the Summer League was 肉親，親類d of the プロの／賛成の-amateur thing, then the next step is the World 選手権, then I get to step into the NBA season," Exum said.
"It's just taking one step at a time.
"It's going to be a 抱擁する jump, but playing at the World Cup is going to make that jump a little bit easi er."
Exum said while it was unfortunate that Mills would 行方不明になる the World Cup, he'd 得る，とらえる this 適切な時期 at the Boomers with both 手渡すs.
"Patty is 明白に a 抱擁する 取引，協定 to this team and it's going to be 堅い losing him. But hopefully that gives me a bigger chance to step up and have a bigger 役割," he said.
He 追加するd that watching Mills' third-４半期/4分の1 blitz in the 刺激（する）s' NBA 選手権-winning game against the Miami Heat last month had given him extra 信用／信任 that he too could match it with the sport's best.
"A lot of people were 説 that what changed for Patty was his fitness. I think it was that he just got his chance," Exum said.
"I want to get on the 法廷，裁判所 and play. I want to get as much time as I can and 押し進める for a starting 位置／汚点／見つけ出す on the NBA roster."
