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Trey Burke Highlights - 2014-15

Catchall said:
David Locke mentioned that Burke led the league in FG attempts taken late in the shotclock. Maybe that's partly his fault for not creating a better scoring opportunity, but conventional wisdom says he can improve his percentages by cutting down those attempts.
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But will he? He creates a LOT of those late shot clock attempts by NOT PASSING THE DAMN BALL! He dribbles down the clock, ignores teammates and then launches up a 3 or attempts to drive inside against a double team. That's either piss poor BBIQ or Allen Iverson syndrome.

The poor shooting I could stand, if he was taking 7-8 shots per game and facilitating the offense. But he's shown no consistency in doing that. Sure, we can find a few games where he's posted 7 or 8 or maybe even 10 assists. But the proof is in the averages. That shows those "highlights" of what he CAN do are outliers and what he WILL do most of the time is shoot poorly and play slowly and selfishly.
 
Stifle Tower said:
Highlight videos are just that...a handful of highlights from 82 games. Let's make a video of all 2,288 mins he played. Then, mixed in with the 9 mins of highlights from this video, we'll get the Trey who missed nearly 70% of his 3's, the Trey dribbling down the clock to futilely drive to the hoop against multiple defenders, the Trey completely ignoring wide open teammates so he can average 13 attempts per game, just slightly less than Hayward (who SHOULD be taking that many!). There are probably 50 PG's in the league who can make just as compelling a 9-min highlight video.

Give me a PG who can average 44%/37%, pushes the ball up the court on offense, looks for his teammates BEFORE looking for his own offense and stays in front of his man defensively most of the time. That's all we need in a PG.
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You keep talking about these highlights meaning nothing. Yet continue to talk about Burke dribbling the clock out and never passing when you have nothing to substantiate that assessment. Trey lead the team in assist percentage. So if he never passes what does that say about the rest of the jazz players?
 
I've been as down on Burke as the next guy, but there's no doubt that he improved in the second half of last season. I'm not sure what the shooting percentages say, but he was getting to better spots on the floor, and he got there more efficiently (in terms of time). I can understand the argument that he's due for a better year. That said, if he struggles, he could get seriously buried. Not a lot of room for error.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
This can't possibly be the slow guard with no ability to get around opponents who is being discussed in another thread. Where is the real Trey Burke highlight video?

In other words, clearly Burke has the tools that haters claim he lacks. What he needs now is better decision making and greater accuracy. There is hope that he could develop into a valuable piece, especially because we are only looking for a backup.
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I watched about 3 min (= 1 min as they are all triple re-played). They show that Burke is slow. Note that he never gets by his guy by going straight ahead in these highlights. They head him off and he gets by them by a change of direction. Nice moves and essential if you are slow. LOL.
 
Check out the move at 3:15, WOW. I've never seen a spin, dribble, spin like that one. He really showed me (and you) how to spin, dribble, spin.

- Craig
 
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