Ben Gordon

Gimmick player. Potentially great to have depending on the price. Only worth 6mil max, thats the thing.

 

Adding another chucker? No thanks... and one like Ben Gordon? I mean he's only as good as a role player on most night. NO THANKS!

 

I bet he feels like a dumbass turning down that extension from the Bulls, now the market will be bad this upcoming summer with all the teams going cheap and the luxury tax possibly going down.

 

Ya. He is the prototypical spark player. The defense has to reconfigure their attack to combat him. You think JR Smith kills us, Gordan is twice as good. A championship caliber player... off the bench.

 

No Gorden. He's a ball stopper. If we make a play it's trade T-macs contract for a great young player and some contract filler

 

Gordon is a very good gun off the bench but he's sees himself as being much better. When his shot is on, Gordon is almost impossible to stop. What keeps him from being a star is he isn't the smartest player out there, has a habit of making very bad decisions late in games when defenses squeeze him and, of course, bad defense.

There are times when Gordon is lights out for 45 minutes and he terrorizes the other team. Then in the last couple of minutes, a good defensive team will make an adjustment, he won't react well and will turn the ball over a couple of times and take extremely difficult shots that miss.

As a 6th man sparkplug, Ben Gordon is a championship caliber player. He would be a great addition to the Rockets.

 

I'd be curious to see the so-called moneyball stats for Gordon that a guy like Morey uses. From personal observation, I see very few intangibles from him. Like almost none.

 

Other then outside shooting and decent handles, what else can that guy do? A short 2 guard specialist...

 

If a weapon like Gordon is WILLING to come off the bench for even 6 mill a year, why in the world would you not want him???
In my opinion as a team, w/o T-Mac, we are a poor in the jump-shooting department. Look at the opportunities Mo Williams created for Cleveland!

As for the lapse in judgment argument, if we can utilize Wafer, I don't see why Gordon would be a problem. Coming into a perennial contender like the Rockets, I think he would immediately understand his role on the team.

Emphatic YES from this Rocket fan!

 

Btw, BrooksBall, do you just like undersized guards or something? Are you under 6 ft?

 

Not gonna happen. As mentioned, this would only work if he would agree to come off the bench but he simply wont be willing to do that. Trying to start him creates a nightmare from a coach and GM's standpoint. One of the reasons Chicago was so high on Hinrich is because he's a 6'3"-6'4" true point that could feasibly start next to Gordon then cross-match defensively to compensate for Gordon's lack of height and inability to run the point. I don't see how that works with two 6'0" PG's like Brooks or Lowry that lack the height to offer that type of flexibility.

Don't get me wrong, if you somehow convinced him to sign for MLE I would welcome the idea with open arms. I just think his services will definitely go to the highest bidder. He took a $6M qualifying offer this past summer to buy more time NOT because he feels he's a $5-7M per year level player.

 

I live in Chicago and watch every Bulls game and you don't really want Gordon on your team. As others have said, he has the skills to be a good role player/spark plug for a great time, but he'll never be happy with that. He thinks he is a star, he's a chucker, doesn't set up his teammates, and when he's hot he WILL force bad shots to the detriment of the team. The Bulls have had a lot of close games that he's hurt them by forcing an offbalance shot with three guys in his face because he thinks he's a superstar.

Of course there are games he just goes OFF, like tonight in Miami...like I said you want him as a role playing scorer because he doesn't do anything else particularly well, but it won't work because he will always want to be the first or second option. If he's one of your top three options (like he is in Chicago), you'll never win anything.