I agree, it’s a good find, but I think his best case scenario is Nelson, if he keeps the pace from the 800 minutes he played last season.

Anyway he should be starting and getting regular minutes, there’s no reason not to play him 30 mpg.

How good is a 36.4 AST%? It would have ranked Burke 8th in the NBA if he had enough minutes to qualify. A lot of the guys that would have ranked ahead of him had sky-high turnover rates. Burke averaged 7.8 assists, 2.0 turnovers per 36 minutes, close to a 4-1 assist/turnover ratio.

I think the improvement in Burke’s passing game is not a fluke, and is sustainable.

So what would you say Burke’s single thing was, from Utah to the player he is for us?

Isn’t it obvious?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MjaMXR-R7aA

I have some hope, he did show good signs. My problem with assuming he’ll be good is that his production shows a worrying profile of a lot of midrange shots coupled with the combination of very low free throw rates and very low steal numbers + only mediocre 3pt%.

Like, Chris Paul made a legendary career for himself without having the size and while shooting a lot of midrange jumpers and not a lot of 3s, but he always had very good free throw rates for his size and was a monster stealing the ball. Kyle Lowry is another guy who has a similar profile, obviously a bit worse in everything compared to a guy like Paul.

I worry that Burke will simply be a huge negative on defense and if he can’t get to the line or become an elite 3pt shooter it won’t be enough to have a very good assist to turnover rate and good midrange percentages.

I’m not asking him to be Chris Paul or even Lowry obviously. His statistical profile screams Jameer Nelson to me. Low steal and FTA numbers, not an elite shooter but a good ast to TO ratio who had some good seasons. Nelson on his prime would probably be the best point guard we’ve had in a while but hardly something to get too excited about.

It is interesting how much Kanter hates Utah. Rarely do you hear a guy hate a former team quite that much.

@45: Just that maybe we should wait a bit before we declare he grew up and is a different player like you’r referring to someone else.

I’m with you there. I personally don’t care much about how or why he played so well last year. I just loved what I saw, and I love that what he showed after being called up was pretty much aligned with what he was showing in the G-league and what he did way back when during his sophomore year in college. My point is that his ability to be an effective NBA PG going forward is entirely contingent on his TS%. He’ll never be more than mediocre defensively or as a rebounder. However, he’ll always take care of the ball better than most. But the shooting is variable. The biggest concern is that his shooting on 2pt shots from 16 ft and out was a freaky 56.6%! Even Steph has only beaten that mark twice. Kevin Durant never did it. If Burke missed 11 more shots from that long 2 range, he’d be around his career average. But those 22 points could have been made up on 4 more made 3’s (he shot over 40% on over 200 attempts during 2016-17 and in the G-league) and 10 more made FTs (he only shot 65%, far below his career numbers of over 80% everywhere else. So there’s reason to be hopeful that he’s figured out how to be more efficient.