PHOENIX — I don’t care much for ROY debates, but Eric Gordon demonstrates tonight that he belongs prominently in any conversation about this class of rookie guards. But we knew that.
Regarding his play tonight, well, it’ll be familiar to anyone who’s watched him all year. He shoots the lights out from beyond the arc [3-4 3PA]. He uses his quicks and strength to drive to the hole, and looks to draw contact. On a couple of occasions, he loses the handle — a part of his game that he’ll work on and improve. He doesn’t force any shots in a game where there’s little cost for doing so.
With Kevin Durant starting at the 2 for the Sophomores, Eric has the thankless task of guarding him. I think it’s reasonable to give him a pass, don’t you?
Al Thornton exhibits his athleticism for the crowd in Phoenix and seems much more relaxed in the schoolyard brand of basketball played here tonight. He makes a couple of spectacular passes on drives, something he rarely does within the confines on the Clippers’ halfcourt offense.
We get to see Thornton guard Eric for a couple of possession, something Eric mentioned today everyone in the Clippers’ locker room was hoping to see. At that juncture, Clipper Darryl, who is in a luxury box on the west side of the arena, gets up and starts a chant of “Let’s Go Clippers, Let’s Go!” It falls upon deaf ears.
The rookies spent much of their day on public display and available to the media. Eric looked like he was having the time of his life. He laughed with reporters, spoke with confidence about his growth as a player, but was modest. In a word: Classy.
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Gordon played really well, but I felt he could have been more aggressive. It was sickening to listen to Kenny Smith suck on Mayo’s junk all night.
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Stian Reply:
February 13th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Kenny Smith is an ignorant poser. He has an opinion on Gordon but, unfortunately, it’s a very uninformed one.
Tonite he said something like, “Gordon started getting minutes when Baron went down” before he remembered that Gordon wasn’t a 1 and corrected himself “….and when Cuttino Mobley was traded.”
It’s sad we have all these so-called experts on TV and in print that get paid good money for spouting opinions that are supposed to be based on facts and doing research but are usually the result of homerism and ignorance.
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Q.D. Reply:
February 14th, 2009 at 8:52 am
But he also said, he hasn’t watched the clippers b/c they weren’t winning
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Stian Reply:
February 14th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Kenny is still bitter that the Clippers didn’t have a welcoming committee and limo ready for him at the airport and told him to “grab a cab” when he flew into LA for a pre-draft workout. Lil’ Kenny got miffed and got back on the plane instead.
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About Kenny Smith Reply:
February 14th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Kenny Smith is indeed an uninformed TNT joke. He has that pre-conceived talk-down mentality about Clippers.
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Posted on February 13th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Gordon was out of the game when the sophs went on a 30-10 run to steal the game. I bet Gordon on the floor was + numbers
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Posted on February 13th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Beasley ballhogged all night…29pts on 22 shots! compared to EJ with 19pts on 8 shots!!…Westbrook 4for10…Rose 1 for 5…
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Posted on February 13th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Eric Gordon is one of the classiest guys I have seen in the league in a long time. Even in an all star game where he could have just looked for his own shot and not worried about it, he still looked to set his team mates up. And KA please post some of those interviews he did, the only one I saw so far was from the guy who runs the Birght Side of the Sun blog.
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Posted on February 14th, 2009 at 7:22 am
I was there in 108 and of course focused on Al and Eric. I never heard a peep from Clipper Darrell and had no idea he was even there. Eric looked great as expected early and if he wasn’t a humble type, he could have dropped 46 himself. Hoped for more from Al but there was so many ballers what can you expect.
egg rolls there were rancid and tasted like some kind of chemicals. had to correct that with a widmer and a pretzel.
Looking foward to tueday night and a chance for a win vs. a down Suns team.
Good chance Amare is gone then and new players not pugged in. We’ll see.
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Posted on February 14th, 2009 at 7:46 am
I was suprised how much PT gordon got during the game, but no one gave him the ball becase rookies were playing selfish ball except for few like rose and others. But when he did get the ball he shot lights out. Thorton was kind of a ghost, i didn’t really notice him. But overall good clipper presence at game.
By the way, does any one know if clipper daryll has a real job or are the clipper organization paying him his pepiness?
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Posted on February 15th, 2009 at 12:49 am
i’m most impressed by brook lopez, rose, and gordon’s play from this rookie class this season
hopefully we can make gordon our franchise player without enstilling a star attitude… he can defintitely fill the character role that EB had before he decided to suck
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Posted on February 15th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Looks like people are talking about the clips shipping off Camby. Mostly on Yahoo sports.
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neiljphx Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 9:15 am
first take just said that he was considered by Cavs and others as consolation prize if Amare can’t be had. also said that while Clips have said Camby is not available, he thinks he could be had if someone was willing to take Kaman as well. which would leave us with…….fkn eh. (no offense to DeAndre who i’m sure will be solid down the road)
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Posted on February 15th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Who’s Acker? WE just traded for him
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AmlEO_25Lb7LjHnFsoq1tTa8vLYF?slug=ap-pistons-clipperstrade&prov=ap&type=lgns
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Posted on February 15th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Apparently we tried a Baron for Kidd swap and the Mavs rejected it.
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Q.D. Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Where is that link?
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McPancakes4u Reply:
February 16th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
yeah i saw that about a week ago on espn.
it was kaman and BD for kidd
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Q.D. Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Oh, it was Marc Stein’s “I would do this trade”…So it’s not a rumor just a guy from ESPN playing w/ the Trade Machine
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Posted on February 16th, 2009 at 9:37 am
According to ESPN, the Clips are saying Camby is untouchable….What the F? How can a 35 year old be untouchable? By the time this team is good, he will be retired…if we can get either a choice or an expiring contract for him, I will pay the plane ticket. And the yahoo above who said he is only available if a team would take Kaman w/him, that is obsurd from both the Clips POV and also the receiver, the Clips and DUNCEleavy aren’t even stupid enough to think that one team would trade for TWO 7-foot centers.
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pete mack Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Marcus has been arguably the Clippers most productive player, and at a reasonable cost. Not to mention his contract is short term, expires before 2010. I believe he is a great compliment in the high post to Z-Bo, and erases many of his mistakes on the defensive end.
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Posted on February 16th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
The Rookies were winning decisively when Gordon was on the court. From what I remembered, the game started going to the Sophs when Russell Westbrook started ball-hogging like a mutha***er.
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Posted on February 16th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Wouldn’t this be nice!!!!
http://games.espn.go.com/nba/tradeMachine?tradeId=b2ew6b
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RickyisgonnabeaClipper Reply:
February 17th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
No.
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Posted on February 17th, 2009 at 10:41 am
If it wasn’t for Beasley the Ball-hogging B****, Gordon would have won the MVP award. I don’t think Durant would have scored as much if EJ was in the game.
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Posted on February 17th, 2009 at 11:46 am
NO NO NO to any trade involving Camby. Kaman, ok. Camby NO.
Remember people we will probably have the first pick in the draft. So we can trade that to plug holes. If Ricky starts to play like himself that will be good bench help. We are looking at some good things next year. But I think that Camby is the glue guy.
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