BigRedDog wrote:You are so ****ing stubborn. .... C'mon. Burke has proven even at this point that he can be an offensive spark off the bench and certainly can be a back up PG. 18 pts, 11 ass, 26 pts, 6 ass ( which would have been more if his team mates finished better). His defense isn't as bad as people say, really only abused by Russell. He isn't slow. He is very quick and can get past most players to penetrate. Certainly his defense is as good as Jack's. Does he have flaws in his game? Sure , if not he would be an allstar starting PG. His job isn't just to run an offense. Thats part of it, its also pick and roll ( which he does very well), penetrate and dish ( which he looks good at), and give us some offense. Will he get better at running an offense with time? I would think so. He admitted faults in his attitude in the past and vows to improve that. I think most of us see that or at least those of us with open eyes. You have no clue that he's a bonehead. If he was such a bonehead he wouldn't of even had gone to the g league. If you want to think everything is money motivated , go ahead but maybe he has pride and really wants to prove he belongs. Trying to explain this to you is like talking to a ****ing wall.
Let's take a conservative estimate. The entire front office core of a franchise. Team President, GM, Assistant GM, Director of Player Development, head of scouting, scouts, training staff. Then lets look at the coaching staff - head coach, assistant coaches, training staff. Then there is the medical staff. Then there are assets that are OUTSOURCED. Plenty of teams use outside companies for analytics and scouting and esp international scouting.
A fair number would be 15 guys per franchise. But let's take it super conservative and say 10 per franchise.
That means for every team NOT the Knicks, you have 290 guys. Most who have spent their entire lives within the game. Many have played the game. We are talking decades of experience. But let's be super conservative again and say each had about an average of 10 years of basketball experience of some kind ( that's a super low estimate) Many have worked in front offices or as scouts where the total experience across the entire group racks up in the THOUSANDS OF YEARS WORTH OF EXPERIENCE.
For you to be right about Burke, and take me out of the equation completely, nearly 300 of the best basketball minds in the world, working full time, year round, non stop, with access to the best analytics and modern tools in recorded human history, would need to be wrong about Trey Burke. Every other team could have gotten Burke for the vets minimum. And did not bother.
What's the true narrative?
He has no use for a winning team in a contention window
He has no use for a rebuilding team
He does have a use for a team so gutted at the position that it was his best opportunity since his last major stop, where he was drafted by a franchise gutted at the position for about a decade.
This is NOT the NFL, where hundreds of players need to be scouted. This is not MLB, where it's thousands of players each year. In those environments, players can more easily slip through the cracks. Every NBA player is scouted extensively by virtue of a very limited talent pool in general. Not just in the US, but worldwide. The drafts are small. The leagues are small. It's a very small internal community in the larger sports world.
Let's say you are right and hundreds of NBA minds are wrong. Again, remove me from the equation. What is the chance that Burke, outside his traditional developmental window, just slipped through the cracks? 1 in a thousand? Teams looking to win are going to take the bet on guys who are 80 in a 1000. Or even 50 in a thousand of panning out the way they hope. Even if Burke is everything you say, teams have to evaluate the risk versus reward in terms of investment of those minutes and that roster spot.
You don't have to like what I have to say. You don't have to agree with it. I've never shut down anyone's right to their opinion here. Even if I disagree. And I disagree often. But the perspective I take here and most of the time is how a functional modern NBA front office is going to look at a player available in the marketplace. Hence why Burke was AVAILABLE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I call him a waste of a roster spot not because his failures are absolute, but because his chances to succeed for the long term positive direction of this franchise is a relative loss compared to using those minutes ( an asset in themselves) and that roster spot in other ways.