DAL OFFSEASON: Trade & FA | Mavs "mostly done...but you never know."

[cjeter24]

So.... everyone's out on Aaron Gordon? At one point, he was one of my favorite Mav targets.

Jonathan Issac is going to miss the entire season.  And Gordon's value is way down.  I doubt they trade him based on those things.

My problem with Gordon is how a friend of mine that's a Magic fan put it:  "once every three to four games, Aaron Gordon drives to the basket, playmakes, and is an absolute force.  but most of the time AG thinks he is Kobe and takes terrible shots."

Maybe the Mavs can fix him but to me he's a better Andrew Wiggins.  Steve Clifford is an excellent coach and Gordon plays next to a center that can stretch the floor so I'm not buying it's a system or coaching issue.  He's just a low IQ player.

As someone who believes AG is just a bad fit there  based on scheme(not a bad coaching thing), I can certainly agree he is a low IQ player. I think that's magnified by not putting an emphasis on what his strengths are. Clifford isn't a heavy PNR guy so he's not going to be demanding for AG to be setting screens. Carlisle will be because that is the offensive system. AG envisions himself as a volume shooting big and nobody has showed him how his game can excel because it doesn't fit their vision of the offense they are running. 

In short you need AG to buy into your vision for his game. And if he doesn't, he'll continue to be who he is. You definitely have to get a read on his attitude and desire to improve via coaching and various backchannels. He may refuse to ever be who he needs to be. And if so yeah obviously none of use will have any interest for him.