Burks from day 1 > Roger Braille, Chucky Jay Miles, whatever other ****-tastic players Corbin played over him that year
2nd year Burks > Foye
3rd year Burks > Richtard Jefferson
No one is saying that Burks was worse than those players.
However, I would argue that Al + any of those players would be more effective than Al + Burks in the respective years he was in.
As far as Burks vs Foye goes, Dal's insistence that Burks and Al couldn't co-exist is way over exaggerated,
Tbh, agree to disagree. Think of Ty's offensive systems, the starting personnel, and how Burks would have been utilized as a starter.
and more importantly, isn't even relevant. All that mattered was the future of the Jazz.
Two things:
1) first of all, that might have been all that had mattered to you-- it's impossible to know precisely what the Jazz were thinking at the time
2) It's not black and white. Playing behind Millsap and Favors could have ended up expanding the games of Kanter and Favors. Literally every time they're interviewed about certain skills, or training rooks, they gush about the training that they received from their former teammates. By choosing to not give Burks lots of minutes in his first two years, or disregard starting Favors and Kanter during their first two years-- this did NOT mean that the Jazz chose to ignore the future of their franchise.
Burks was a part of that future, Foye was not. End of story. Now, I don't put all the "Foye playing over Burks" blame on Ty, KOC deserves a lot of flack for even signing him in the first place.
Umm,
almost none of the blame should go on Ty. Foye suited Al better. Al was better than Burks particularly in the system set out by Ty.
tl;dr
All hale Burks, bishes.
Pretty sure I have a long-*** thread on Burks love. We just need to come to grips with the fact that he wasn't good enough to be a two-way starter, and he didn't have the particular skill-set to best play off of our two best offensive players. Plain and simple. Why did Hayward get more burn than Burks? Think about it.