Is this the reason Trey Burke was out of the league? Because all he wants to do is spam midrange jumpers out of pick-and-roll situations? Midrange jumpers are cool and all, but there’s a reason that there was a huge backlash against them starting around six or seven years ago: there’s usually a better shot if you just try to look for it. The situations in which Burke shoots in this video are preferred to the “dribble around aimlessly for a while, then try a stepback from twenty feet” style that permanently blackballed players like Jordan Crawford, but I can’t tell that Burke even thinks about the pass on any of these plays.
I guess a better way to look at it is that Burke could become the point-guard version of 2014-15 Jason Smith, who also played for the Knicks and was also obsessed with midrange jumpers. If Burke can hit roughly 45% on those shots like Smith did, then I say, just keep shooting them. History has shown as that Burke probably won’t shoot that well, but I’ll give him a few more games.