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For anyone wondering why Alec played 12 minutes last night...

The data points are beginning to accumulate. It could be that Burkes is just not that good and overestimated by some here (including me) and perhaps Ty was right in not giving him significant minutes in the past.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
Burks doesn't take screens well and finds setting off ball screens a novel, yet uninteresting task.
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On one of his earlier podcasts, David Locke mentioned how Burks does not use screens but a very high percentage of the time, he goes in the opposite direction of the screen. Since then, I've paid attention, and I see Locke is right, Burk frequently does not use screens but goes the other way. This strikes me as basketball 100. Isn't this something he can learn? Does he have a good reason for going the other way, or is he stuck in his ways and/or have low BB IQ or something else?
 
Plays like a *******. Gifted and special in some ways, but nothing can compensate for bad decisions.

Honestly, how can AN NBA player not know that contested, long 2s off the dribble (and not at the end of the shot clock) aren't good shots? Or not have any idea what a screen is for or how to use them?
 
jimmy eat jazz said:
On one of his earlier podcasts, David Locke mentioned how Burks does not use screens but a very high percentage of the time, he goes in the opposite direction of the screen. Since then, I've paid attention, and I see Locke is right, Burk frequently does not use screens but goes the other way. This strikes me as basketball 100. Isn't this something he can learn? Does he have a good reason for going the other way, or is he stuck in his ways and/or have low BB IQ or something else?
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He either A) goes too quickly, often resulting in a moving screen called, which should be extremely annoying for the screener when he gets an offensive call that isn't his fault, or B) takes it too high, letting his man jump over the top of it with ease. This leaves the only other option to go away from the screener, and the screener's man has little respect for his shot, and Burks pulls up from 22 feet, the least efficient shot in the game.
 
NUMBERICA said:
Plays like a *******. Gifted and special in some ways, but nothing can compensate for bad decisions.

Honestly, how can AN NBA player not know that contested, long 2s off the dribble (and not at the end of the shot clock) aren't good shots? Or not have any idea what a screen is for or how to use them?
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This.

Low BBIQ does not a superstar make...or even a solid role player.
 
Alec Burks doesn't do anything great. He's a good driver to the basket, but that's about it. He's a lousy shooter, mediocre defender, and has a low basketball IQ. I hope he proves me wrong and breaks out, but I'm just not seeing it.
 
He has been regressing too. He doesn't even do what he is good at anymore, which is get to the basket and get foul calls.

I thought he would learn and get better. He has some pretty good tools to start with. Must not work hard. Probably thought he was the **** already.
 
Hack said:
He has been regressing too. He doesn't even do what he is good at anymore, which is get to the basket and get foul calls.

I thought he would learn and get better. He has some pretty good tools to start with. Must not work hard. Probably thought he was the **** already.
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Or he just is, you know, dumb.
 
Never saw the star potential in Burks that many claimed they saw (don't deny it now bishes) but I definitely didn't see him as an NBA flame out, which he seems to be on his way to becoming.
 
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