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“I’ll start playing around July,” Gordon said.
http://www.vigilantsports.com/2014/0...is-doing-well/
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“I’ll start playing around July,” Gordon said.
http://www.vigilantsports.com/2014/0...is-doing-well/
Sick of hearing this
I'm tired of this guy.
Watch out, it's infective. My knee started hurting after my run yesterday. Damn gordon.
very minor cleanup = two months without training
but in case he will stay this year - it is good when he will train before the training camp.
I love all these stories. It is blatently obvious that the Pelicans and Gordon's camp are trying to put this news out there to get the word out to the other 29 teams. Now, we just need him to play some pickup ball with some other NBA players, so they can get the word back to their teams about how good he looks and this guy can be gone in 3-4 weeks.
Keep it up guys!
Can't wait til he's off the team. Hopefully he doesn't play another game in a New Orleans jersey.
Every damm summer its the same story. :deadhorse
I'd rather this than them saying he had another set back.
When was the last totally healthy summer Gordon had? Sixth grade?
lmao his comments aren't leaked to the media for the sake of a trade, teams know how particular knee injury/surgery takes to heel lol
he was asked this question b/c not ALL people hate him and want him traded and wish him to get healthy and help this team...go figure.
i hope we can trade him but i dont read this as a tatic we are a class organization and something as silly as this message wouldn't help/hurt a trade, trust me
Can we let Gordon play in the summer league so people will see him and be impressed enough to trade for him? lol
Any interview is done with a purpose. The second you get into the industry, you realize this. Guys don't just give out random quotes. You have to go through a team PR person and/or a players' agent.
You got multiple pieces here, coupled with a national ESPN piece a few months ago where there are quotes from Dell and Monty talking about how Gordon sacrifices for our system and if he were elsewhere he could still be a 20 ppg type scorer.
If you don't think this is calculated, then - no offense- you don't understand how teams and players use the media for their own gain.
Pretty sure he says that every offseason. If he had any sense he would come off the bench and be the sixth man so he could shot his little heart out and help this team instead of consistently letting his ego getting in the way.
I guess my point was more this: calculated as you want to call it, it wont effect his trade value by them interviewing him saying "ill be playing in july" IMO now if he just was taped dropping 35-40 in a pick up game that would be different.
And i respect 100% of your opinions MM, you add the most insight and call people out on the ignorance so that was more of my argument.
This wont help his stock.
But you never know what will help. If something can move the perception meter 1 degree, why not try it? It can't hurt.
There have been articles about how he is sacrificing. About how will be healthier than ever heading into next season. About how he doesn't view himself as a backup, though we might do it anyway.
You never know if another GM sees all this stuff and goes, "You know, I might be able to get a steal with this guy. He will finally be healthy and his only issue is that the Pelicans don't know how to use him."
All you need is one GM. And again, it doesn't hurt one bit. And like I said, I do believe the next step will be him playing with other NBA players in a pickup game. I think this is a calculated propaganda campaign by both the team and Gordon's camp to help him get traded. We saw the first stages of this in that ESPN article of February. Now these pieces are phase 2. Phase 3 will be him playing with other players and tales of him looking great leaking.
I'm not sure if anyone... Gordon's camp or the Pelicans ...will risk him playing "pick up". I think both sides would be thrilled if he gets traded this off season, but both sides also know the ultimate goal is for him to be in a position to opt out next year.
Side note: How surprised should anyone be if we do Gordon/Anderson/Pierre for Boozer/Dunleavy and 19 (or 16)??? That makes A LOT of sense to me.
Couldn't see Bulls doing that because it would have to be agreed to on draft night and the Bulls will go after Melo and others first. Gordon would be a fall back option after they strike out
I just don't see Demps trading away Anderson in a package just to help get Gordon out the door. Maybe I'm being n**ive, but I believe that Jrue, Tyreke and Ryno will not be traded by Demps. I'm not saying they are completely untradeable, I just think that it'd have to be for a quality piece. An exceptional young vet, if you will.
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Eric Gordon...I don't believe in fairy tales!!!
So the Bulls have to amnesty Boozer to go after Melo or Love?
And it wouldn't necessarily have to be agreed to on draft night. The Bulls could draft the best "assets" at 16 or 19 that could be used in any number of deals after the draft. Similar to Houston's draft strategy in 2012.
Just to argue the other side:
Ryan Anderson and Anthony Davis play the same position, making Ryan a luxury, especially if you can add a SF at some point in the next couple of years that can nail the 3 point shot. By trading Anderson/Gordon for Boozer/Dunleavy/19, you could get a C or SF in the draft and have as much as $20m in cap space in 2015 to go after any Free Agent you'd possible want. There are several players in the 2015 free agent class that could be the final piece(s) to a roster ready to ascend. And I don't think subbing out Ryan/Gordon for Boozer/Dunleavy moves the needle much in either direction for 2014, but does answer the SF question for next season and gives us a little more cap flexibility now.
I'm not sure why you'd exclude RFAs when Dell has shown an ability and affinity to go out and get those players...
Potential UFAs however, include Melo, LBJ, Jeff Green, Brook Lopez, Kevin Love, Al Jefferson, DeAndre Jordon, Roy Hibbert, Marc Gasol, Thad Young, and LaMarcus Aldridge.
There are also a half dozen RFAs that could/should/would be considered.
To me, it's only a matter of your preferred roster construction, and whether or not you think an extra $4m in cap space this season, a guaranteed $20m next season (free yourself of the fear that EG opts in), and a first round pick is good value for Ryan Anderson --who happens to be coming off of neck surgery.
hey gordon himself mentioned in the article that "we're trying to do things like the spurs system," not that that is surprising or not already known but might the first time I've seen one of our players say it out right
Bring him off the bench next year, his ego will probably force him to opt out when his player option hits and limited minutes increases the chance of him staying healthy.
This dude can't get out of here fast enough. Just go away already. Dam
I hope EG plays out every last minute of his contract. These trade proposals are quite funny though.
I hope he plays out every last minute of his contract as well. As far from nola as possible.
Because I think his treatment in this town by the media is unwarranted and bush league. I think this is not lost on players around the league and will make this town a difficult sell. The only way we will get free agents here it to overpay like we did with Tyreke and until the last third of the season most people were ready to run him off as well, when the problem with Tyreke was all Monty Williams.
If he's gonna be here, then he may as well play and play well, which makes an eventual move more likely. Can't trade 'em if he's still hurt.
I think you are exaggerating a bit. The media in larger markers are MUCH harsher on the players than the NOLA media. If any player is so thin skinned to be offended by the NOLA media so much that they would not play here, they likely will not like anywhere they go.
Aminu ended up being more kiwi than kawhi
I was thinking more about the shape of his head, but still...:hihi:
Media in larger markets have more to report on than local idiots being offended because a restricted free agent signed an offer sheet with another team. The vicious comments made about him after he signed with Phoenix were just unprofessional and an outright joke!
If you're stupid enough to make the comments gordon did before being sure about the team you'll be playing for, you deserve every vicious comment that comes your way. In a bigger market they would have sectioned him alive...vicious comments oowwnnn :hihi:
Haven't heard someone defend Eric Gordon in a while, so I'm out of practice. But let's begin this argument by saying why in the hell would you absolve Eric Gordon of all responsibility to conduct himself in a less "bush league" manor with the media and the fans?? That interaction is a 2 way street. Even if you were 100% accurate in your depiction of his treatment by the media, which I don't believe you are, you'd have to ask the question why is the media picking on your guy? What about your guy has made him so hated by fans and media? Why do Eric Gordon defenders consider it "bush league" and "unwarranted" instead of owning the fact that Eric doesn't have the public personality to get elected Trash Man (though he might be a fine individual privately) and has been a complete bust and disappointment on the court?? Eric Gordon defenders, like Eric Gordon himself, seem to never just own it.
Mark Ingram could pout/****/moan/complain and point the finger at everyone else, but the guy owns that he hasn't lived up to what was expected of him. Ditto for Aminu. Ditto for Roman Harper. Ditto for Malcom Jenkins. Ditto for Austin Rivers.
Eric Gordon might be a very intelligent dude, but he has no emotional intelligence. No sense of where he is and the moment he's in. He's been injured frequently and even when healthy he hasn't been worth half the money he's being paid by the Pelicans. He's never been mentioned as a leader on his team by the coaches or his teammates. He has terrible media skills and poorly chosen words and timing of his tweets. He's not nearly as involved in the community he lives as other guys on his team, or the guys on the other end of the Airline Drive Sports Campus.
Our Media has 99 problems but Eric Gordon ain't one.
He's his own problem and he and his fans need to own that.
Couldn't have said it any better
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I think any media would attack a player who makes a comment like "my heart is in Phoenix." Personally, I think he would have gotten a much rougher handling by the NY or Chicago media for instance, had he made that comment there. The problem was more with his comments than how the media reacted to them.
I think his heart should be in Minnie, home of the Pillsbury company where he could be the dough boy
What's so ironic is that MM accuses EG of not liking NOLA. Yet MM lives in Provo and does not attended games and never interviewed EG in the last two years