Saw some posts. To clarify my Burke hitting his ceiling post. He is smallish and does not have true blow by ability. Quite frankly, I'm not sure there's one good pg in the NBA who isn't one or the other or a combination of both. Rose, Westbrook, Lawson, Paul, Rondo, Parker, Lillard, Irving, Wall, and Deron (to a lesser degree but he also is complimented by great size) all have great explosiveness/athleticism. IMO, having watched Burke about 10 games this year, what I saw was a guy who was working so very hard on every single play to do his thing, whether it be drive by his man to the rim or draw a defender and kick it out, or get a shot off. Now, let's flash forward to the NBA when virtually all of the aforementioned guys are playing him. Can he defend any of them? Can he offensively attack any of them? I see a guy, as committed as he may be, who will struggle, and I would guess be a mediocre starter for 4-5 years and then fade into good back-up role for another 4-6. He'll have a long career because he seems to be a hard worker and gives a damn and therefore I would presume would be a true professional. But he is so very limited imo and will be a bust, relatively speaking in our eyes, of sorts.
The only guy I can think over the last 10-15 years who I could compare him to, who we could hope for him to evolve into over time, would be Steve Nash. They're about the same size. And Nash has never had insane quickness from what I recall, though he still was quicker than Burke. If Burke can become a savant like Nash seemed to be offensively, then that's perhaps our only hope of him being what many on the board pray he is.
