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Burke overreaction retraction action gaining some traction.

Holy hilarious thread title
 
I was encouraged with his play tonight. But he still has a way to go to earn my complete fanship. I also realize he's a rookie and so my expectations are tempered.
 
I've always thought he'll be a guy that gets you around 15 points / 7 assists (not necessarily as a rookie), while also bringing great leadership on/off the court; his stats will be good (not spectacular), but he'll have a bigger impact than the stat sheet suggests.
 
I didn't see much different out of him tonight than I did in Summer league. Well, I guess I take that back. He was far less aggressive now. And I think that's helped him look better.

But, I still didn't find him fast or explosive. I didn't see him breaking down the defenses much. He was mostly just 'there'. Made a couple shots, helped him look better. And a couple nice passes.

But, nothing to write home about, surely. He's more passive now. That's about it. Still the same player with the same limitations I saw in summer league. But, now he's trying to do less.

I'll give him this though, he looked competent. Not exceptional by any means, but, he did seem to carry his share of the load. I won't have any problems with him if he continues to do that.
 
He looked better than he did in summer league, but 5-14 with only 2 Reb and 3 AST isn't really a great performance, unless we're comparing it to SL. While he did have some nice passes, and did run the offense a lot better than he has in the past, his antics forced Gordon into being the PG out there, hence Gordon's 8 AST. I was also a little troubled that our rookie PG took the most FGA's out of all our players, that doesn't seem right.

I saw improvement tonight, and that was heartening. Bu I am going to need to see some more PG skills from the kid before I start jumping up and down for joy.

https://scores.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=400491510
 
LogGrad98 said:
Nah. Still not that impressed. He has a good handle but he still over-reaches and gets stuck. I think he can come along just fine, but only time will tell.
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He's never going to grow if he doesn't fail. You can teach him not to get into that situation, and that makes for a good ball player. But he's already a good ball player. The only way he's going to be great is if he knows how to get un-stuck when he ends up there.
 
ElRoach0 said:
He's never going to grow if he doesn't fail. You can teach him not to get into that situation, and that makes for a good ball player. But he's already a good ball player. The only way he's going to be great is if he knows how to get un-stuck when he ends up there.
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If Burks could only teach him how to drive into a quadruple team and still make some circus shot that would really improve his game, but he has time.

I do agree with time he will tighten things up and make better decisions. I think he's going to be fine.
 
Sexual Favors said:
He looked better than he did in summer league, but 5-14 with only 2 Reb and 3 AST isn't really a great performance, unless we're comparing it to SL. While he did have some nice passes, and did run the offense a lot better than he has in the past, his antics forced Gordon into being the PG out there, hence Gordon's 8 AST. I was also a little troubled that our rookie PG took the most FGA's out of all our players, that doesn't seem right.

I saw improvement tonight, and that was heartening. Bu I am going to need to see some more PG skills from the kid before I start jumping up and down for joy.

https://scores.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=400491510
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I don't think his antics forced Hayward into the pg role. Corbin and the team wants Hayward to do that. And I think it will help Burke taking some pressure off of him.
 
Technically he shot 5-13, one of his misses was a late quarter full court heave. 5-13 is 38%. Which is what we can probably expect for a lot of the games from Trey. Rookie PGs always shoot like ****.
 
Looked a lot better, but still early, and still looking to shoot too much. He did ok on Curry, but Curry is not a big strong PG but a finesse player. He's likely to have trouble with physical points like Deron and Lawson.
 
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