Trey Burke Combine Measurements & Comparable Players
| Name | Height w/o shoes | Height with shoes | Weight | Wingspan | Standing reach | Body fat | Hand length | Hand width |
| Chris Paul | 5' 11.75'' | 6' 1'' | 178 | 6' 4.25'' | 7' 9'' | |||
| Mike Conley Jr. | 5' 11.75'' | 6' 0.75'' | 175 | 6' 5.75'' | 7' 10.5'' | 4.2 | ||
| Trey Burke | 5' 11.75'' | 6' 1.25'' | 187 | 6' 5.5'' | 8' 1.5'' | 6.9 | 8.25 | 8.75 |
http://www.nba.com/2013/news/05/17/nba-draft-combine-results/index.html
IMHO this closes the book on any negative discussion of Trey Burke's size. He is on track to be a high lottery pick. GO BLUE!
Fatty
He is chubby in the right places.
how could height with shoes vary that much when they all have identical heights without shoes? based soley on the footwear one chooses? why even take that measurement then? i'm really short, but if i wear stilts, i'll be an NBA player!
wears step-ups.
http://www.step-ups.com/
That's what she said...
The very existence of that statistic is, IMO, evidence that our country has failed to educate its population.
They don't play barefoot...
if you can sprint 3/4 of the court in under 4 seconds in stilts, you very well should be an NBA player.
Is Mike Conley a refugee?
Geez, but lowest of this years combine is Carrick Felix is at 3.3%
and the son of an Olympic Sprinter.
Chris Paul is the best comparison. Conley, IIRC, was a sensational athlete who was still learning to play basketball (relative to the 2 comps above). Paul and Burke both have the off-the-charts basketball IQ to dominate games even though when the opposing PG is a better athlete (something Burke will face most nights in the pros).
Burke might be a better shooter than Conley. The guy calling the game yesterday said something along the lines of, "Conley has improved as a shooter."
Paul also has a quicker first step than Burke (and probably anyone in the NBA). In a perfect world I see Burke becoming a lesser combination of Curry's shooting and Paul's PG skills to become a fringe franchise player.
Impressive that Burke has 3" more vertical jump than those two considering his athleticism has been questioned.
His "average" vert jump actually surprised me... Siva's was off the charts, and if I could imbed video I would insert a certain fast break from last month where Burke looked every bit the explosive athlete that Siva is.
That should put to rest any qustions of whether Burke is "too small" to play in the NBA. Put him out there on the floor and see what he can do. He should be allowed to succeed or fail based on his ability,not on some arbitrary belief that he is too short.
People must have short memories.
I'm not talking about too short to be a NBA player of any kind, but too short to be a lottery pick? Absolutely some people said that.. There were people convinced that with Michigan listing him at 6' 1" he must actually be about 5' 10".
Maybe they haven't said it recently, but is has been said during his Michigan career, and more than once. Hell, before his freshman year some people were worried that he was too short to be effective in the Big Ten!!
OK, well if people where saying that because they didn't really know how tall he was or because they're just idiots, then I can't really speak to that. But no intelligent person said that height alone would preclude Trey from an NBA career.
It's like Mike Hart. People said his size might keep him from having a successful NFL career. If I would have posted his height and weight next to that of Barry Sanders and said, "See, this should put to rest any concerns people have with Mike Hart's size" it doesn't really mean anything, right?
Just because Chris Paul is under 6'0" and really good doesn't mean that every NBA team is champing at the bit to draft a 5'11" PG.
Given his weight, I wonder if the oft-cited concern about Burke being knocked around will be laid to rest.
Going to the hoop Burke looks more Dwyane Wade (falling down all the time) than Chris Paul who maintains his balance. I think this is something Burke can learn in the NBA. There are also these things called fouls that Big Ten refs apparently haven't heard of.
6.9% body fat! I need to hit the gym.
Burke's small head gets him pegged at 6'1, but it looks like he's more comparable to a 6'2 or 6'3 player for all purposes other than seeing over the defense.
Trey Burke is underrated athletically, but comparing him to Kevin Johnson is a noooope. Not even close.
i think a lot of these guys cheat a bit on the height scale when reporting height, saves face sometimes. Even Chris Paul isn't as tall as he states on the sheets.
I know a bunch of them wear height insoles to weigh in and stats days to cheat the sheet, https://www.addheight.com had that confirmed, but wouldn't name names.