Trey Burke gets his opportunity to shine
sucks it has to be via injury, but more minutes opened up for him
http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/08/04/report-dante-exum-dia…
August 4th, 2015 at 10:37 PM ^
August 5th, 2015 at 10:55 AM ^
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August 5th, 2015 at 12:31 AM ^
Working out with Team USA will only help - LeBron, Harden, Cousins, Griffin, Davis and many others have come back from the experience noticably better.
Hopefully Burke makes a strong improvement and soaks it all up as he prepares for a strong season with the Jazz (hopefully his last, would love to see him playing back east - or worst case, backing up Kyrie in Cleveland.
August 5th, 2015 at 12:53 AM ^
August 5th, 2015 at 12:58 AM ^
no where else can you learn to beat a team like Angola.
"I don't know who or what Angola is, but they in some trouble." - Charles Barkley
August 5th, 2015 at 11:05 AM ^
It's the one that looks like a choo choo.
they are practicing agaist each other, ie the best players in the world.
what makes improvement hard to fathom?
And some of the best coaches in the world...
Go back and look at LeBron pre-Beijing Olympics with Team USA and post-Beijing Olympics time with Team USA. I use 2008, because that's when they implemented the current structure of Team USA after getting embarrassed in 2004 trying to play all-star game basketball.
He was a great player before and after, but his game was noticably improved in areas and you can tell he'd worked on specific things/learned a few new things.
Some would argue that was his transition from being a young player to a veteran. He actually started playing defense in 2008-2009, and his all-around game was what it is even today.
Does he get anything from playing with them now? Of course not, just a chance to play with guys near his level.
But in 2008? He left that experience a different basketball player. I've noticed the same thing in Davis' game, Griffin, Harden, Russell Westbrook, and so many others.
Westbrook is a great example - because there were so many PGs on the Olympic team he was forced to play a defensive stopper role. Which also worked because he wasn't playing a ton of minutes.
Go back and watch the camp leading up to that Olympics and watch the Olympics themselves, I used to watch just to see if the other team could cross halfcourt on Westbrook - he was insane. For a possession, he was by far the best on-ball defender in the world.
I truly believe that flipped a switch for him and made him realize - it's fun to be guard and be an elite defender. Now when he gets in lockdown mode, he's a BEAST for the Thunder. He didn't have that pre-Olympics. But playing a specific role, even as a superstar on his team almost opened his eyes to a part of the game he never really looked at before. Playing with a bunch of superstars will do that, Blake stopped being "just a dunker" pre-post Olympics.
There's so much experience and knowledge Trey can learn from being on that team...and it has nothing to do with Angola.
This is his last guaranteed year with the Jazz...I think he'll do fine and continue to improve. He's pretty close to being @ 40% from the floor and that should go up over time.
August 5th, 2015 at 12:44 PM ^
go get em Trey. THJ had a disappointing soph year in college, learned his limitations, then got better in some areas (defense, rebounding, shot selection) and limited his weaknesses (creating shots for himself). Hopefully Trey was paying attention as he enters his 'Junior' year in the NBA.