Appreciating Gordon

I want to clarify my post yesterday, just in case it sounded like I didn’t think Ben Gordon was a quality NBA player.  ESPNChicago.com’s Jon Greenberg did a good job of describing Gordon in a recent article.  “Gordon was a basketball assassin, a sniper of the first order who radiated cool, calm and collectedness during his four-year tenure in Chicago,” Greenberg wrote.  ”He was everything you could want in a shooter - he had perfect form and an all-business mentality when it came to scoring.  The obsessively fashionable Gordon led the Bulls in scoring (20.7 points per game) and fancy-scarf accidents (one, which caught on fire in April, burning his arm) and never shied away from a post-game interview.”

Gordon is a heck of a shooter and can score with the best of them when he’s hot.  My point yesterday was that he is too one-dimensional for the kind of money he was asking for.  If he were 6′6″ and played better defense, I’d think he was worth it, but he’s undersized and doesn’t too much else besides score.  It’s too bad that the Bulls had to let him go without getting anything in return, but Gordon served the Bulls well for his five seasons in Chicago, something that all the fans should appreciate.

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