agiaco wrote:
I'm glad to have MCW over Burke. Better playmaker, defensive instincts, NBA size and proved so far to be just as clutch as Burke. No knock on Trey, but MCW will be a bigger difference maker for years to come. MCW schooled the Heat in his first game and shut D Rose (albeit rusty) down.
Have you even seen Burke play......Your just reading to much into everyone down playing Burke and his game, if people actually watched him, and looked at the high level of play he has to show up to, more people would realize that MCW isn't better than him. Just because you have higher PPG and PER, doesn't mean much when talking the full game of a player.
Burke is ice cold in veins when it comes to 4th quarter shots that matter, just tonight shot the 3 to take the lead, and then landed 2 free throw to get the 3 point lead, both in last 3 minutes of game.
MCW size does allow him steals, rebounds and blocks that Burke could never get, but I would trade all that for Trey's FT shooting and TO Ratio. The fact is, MCW is great and being at right place at right time, but doesn't have the "control" that Burke has, MCW is getting way more TO's.
The one thing I credit MCW the most about, is the fact that he steps up when it matters, but overall he hasn't won many games considering Philly's average opponent is .476(Jazz's average opponent is .560), I mean MCW just lost to Bucks?! Burke is losing to high quality teams all +.500 (minus 1, SAC) and they are playoff teams(aka PHO, IND, @POR, SAC, POR, SAS, @MIA and @ATL)
No one seems to get this, but anyone can look as good as MCW when the level of play is low, which is averaging at .476, not to mention Philly's home/away is 15/13, and Jazz is 13/17! But like I said yea MCW has stepped up in big games, but if you take away his first 3 games of season, he doesn't look as good as everyone thinks, he has only won 4 games since!?! Everyone wrote Burke off, just because his FG% wasn't "great" at Summer League. So ROTY is about FG% and PPG.
Have you even seen the points that Burke has held point guards to, like @Pepsi, held Lawson to 0, and Robinson to 7, he helped in giving Oladipo only 3, the list goes on.
You realize 76er's PACE is extremely higher than Utah Jazz, which easy explains "more stats" like the 10 more points a game his team gets, but if you go check Hollinger's Power Rankings, Jazz have had the #1 absolute hardest schedule to date, Philly has had 22nd, so it isn't hard to get stats on "crap teams".
I say MCW and Burke are equal, but each are better at certain things:
Level of Play:
MCW = 7 wins when starting - MIA, @WAS, CHI, CLE, MIL, ORL, and BKN!
Average Win: .411
1 win against +.500, none on road!
1 Road Win
Burke = 7 wins when starting - CHI, @PHO, HOU, @SAC, @DEN, @ORL and @CHA!
Average Win: .464
3 wins against +.500, 2 of those on road!
5 Road Wins