Are Our Young Players Really That Talented?

[Thee Jazz Fan]

Stop making ****ty threads, for the love of Ja.

I must spread some before giving rep to Cy. Amazing post.

 

[Bawse Dawg]

If you would rather have Marshall than Burke, please go jump off a building.

 

[Tarkanian]

Kanter = All Star material
(All Stars are not that stacked up in C department, TBH)

 

[Nate505]

I think all the young guys are very solid, but none of them screams superstar to me, or even all-star. But with a better coach and a better system I wouldn't be shocked to see a Burks or Favors be in the argument for an all-star game. And with a franchise chaning piece I think the young guys can all be great compliments to a championship contender, but that's a very optimistic prediction.

 

[LogGrad98]

As with most fan bases, we over-rate our favorite guys and are overly hard on the guys we feel are not cutting it. Frankly I think most of our guys are middle of the road for their positions.

 

[Qman]

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/burketr01.html

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/marshke01.html

Marshall's Defensive rating per 100 possession-- 114. Burke 115. They similiarly effective defenders so far.

Offensively Marshall 101 and Burke 101. So Marshall's second year is about as good as Burke 1st year. Hopefully Burke makes the normal jump for ex-rookies.



In theory Burke should make a jump in his next year

 

[DutchJazzer]

this whole marshall vs burke debate is stupid.


we WONT KNOW unless they both play in same system(or lack thereof)

 

[Jazz4ever]

This is from today's Salt Lake Tribune column on early entry players. The quote if from Trey Burke's father.
"The way I looked at it, there’s a certain number of guards that go in the first round," his father and agent, Benji Burke, said. "He wasn’t one of the three or four. He wasn’t going to jump over Damian [Lillard] or Kendall [Marshall]. He wasn’t going to jump over Marcus Teague, who just won a national championship. I told him, ‘Trey, come back. Get free advertising from Michigan. Win a Big Ten title. If you do what you’re supposed to do, you’re going to be one of the guys nobody can jump over.’"
So Trey wasn't as talented as Kendall Marshall who got waived by the Suns and was passed over by the Jazz when they signed Garrett. Perhaps our young guys might not be starters but bench players in actuality.

And his father told him this before or after his breakout sophomore year? That's correct, before.