03-15-2021, 12:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-15-2021, 12:32 PM by HanspardShowerVoice.)
(03-15-2021, 12:06 PM)jesusshuttlesworth82 Wrote: Gordon would be an interesting case of what he is vs what he could be on this team. When I watch him play for the Magic, I am thoroughly unimpressed. He thinks he is Kobe 4-5 times a game but the Magic havent had a real PG directing the offense in his time there.
Magic are my local TV market, and I see a lot of their games. Yeah, he's frustrating because the ability is off the charts but he's just not a very overall skilled player, and he dominates the ball takes a lot of contested mid range 2s like he is some superstar offensive weapon that an offense is supposed to clear out for and let him go to work. He also has the ability to be like a premier 2-5 shutdown defender, but he's never embraced that role. On the other side of the coin, he has played his entire career on a bad franchise where he was the former 4th pick in the draft and never played next to a legit star .. so maybe he carries the burden of expectations on him to be more than what he ultimately is.
I think the hope is that he's ike Shawn Marion when he was on the Heat and Raptors. He's not good enough to be a Superstar on his own team, but if you put him on another team with a legit Superstar and another All Star and convince him to focus on the things he could do at a really high level as a complementary player then he's a huge asset.