I understand the why we took him. High upside while still being a safe pick. Personally I think that upside is much more limited than most so I would have traded the pick away to Charlotte for their 2013 unprotected 1st.
It's not that I dislike Gordon solely because of his comments. He's injury prone and we were forced to sign him to a contract we obviously wasn't comfortable signing him to other wise he would have never hit the open market. He's not a max contract guy although he has all the potential to be. I'd rather not have gambled and traded him away the minute he refuse to sign the original deal we offered.Also you're not a huge fan of Gordon bc he doesn't want to be here, if i recall correctly. Which I agree somewhat on, but we have some years to see if that's a good move or not and can garner some assets if we truely believe he hates it here, which i'm pretty sure you agree'd that we need to get assets for him no matter what as well?
I like Rivers potential as a Harden type just not as our starting PG.as for Rivers, it seems people either love him or hate him. I love him if he's our Harden combo off the bench, but if we round peg square hole him as a PG I won't be happy.



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