Even though that's the link to the NY triple OT game thread, you must've gotten the thread wrong. I actually did go there and look for anti-Burke comments, and there is exactly one:
Unless all the rest got deleted or something, that can hardly be considered horrible Burke trashing.
Anyway, the worst that could be said of George is that he is more optimistic about Pat Burke than most of the rest of us. To accuse him of some sort of bias is unreasonable. I listened to some of the game last night, and Burke really was playing decently for being the 12th man (then again, with all the injuries, that actually makes him the 9th man). I tend to agree with George in that if all you're going off is the box score, it doesn't make any sense for you to be dismissing Burke that way. While he was in, there wasn't a horrendous drop in play, which is what I worry about if a third-string player is called into the game in non-garbage time. Him having to guard Yao could have been bad news, but it really wasn't.
People will take you more seriously if you watch more than a few nationally televised games - and I'm speaking in general here. I don't live in Arizona anymore and can't watch the local feeds, but there's always internet radio. It's not the same as TV, but you get a much better feel for the flow of the game.
Back to the actual basketball player, I think most of us can say that Pat Burke is doing good enough for being a minimal contract, end-of-the-bench guy. With all the crippling injuries (esp. to our big men), just having Burke not sucking is good enough for me. It might be nice to have Diaw play center for 48 minutes, but that's just not reasonable.
Comparing him to Voskuhl - well, Voskuhl used to be our starting center, wasn't he? I think we'll all agree that if Pat Burke starts center for us, that means that we only had five players active for that game.
) was that the Rockets were able to create defensive switches that put defending T-Mac. Not fair.
