Can we really count on Eric Gordon?

It depends. If you complete your sentence, "Can we really count on Eric Gordon....to miss significant playing time, leaving a shortened rotation because D'Antoni refuses to play Brown, KJ, or Ennis, even if it's better to lose and not exhaust our main guys than to lose and exhaust them", then, yes, we can count on Eric Gordon.

But it would have been too long a title for your thread.

 

Yes, we absolutely need to replace Brewer with someone that can contribute in a well rounded way (a basketball player, not a specialist) - who is also capable of playing heavy minutes to both spell Ariza and replace Eric Gordon's minutes when/if he's out or off. Wilson Chandler has been thrown around lately here. That's fine. But even someone who isn't of that caliber would be satisfactory.

But... IMO that isn't priority #1 right now as far as need goes. More of an icing on the cake acquisition.

 

during the last game i heard the announcers say that gordon was out for the rest of the game because something was wrong with his foot. then i realized they were talking about aaron gordon lol, that **** scared me but i wouldnt have been surprised

 

I mean...not really? There's a reason he wasn't a marquee free agent. He's obviously good, but inconsistency and injuries have always been know for him. I'd be surprised if Gordon got back to what he was doing in December, but he's still a valuable player.

 

you can tell by his overly animated defensive reactions just about every single time he's ever called for a foul......the guy is hyper-sensitive and probably has a very low pain tolerance......that's why throughout his career he opts to sit for little booboo's that most other players would still suit up for

 

We have to.

He is the X-factor that keeps this team rolling. When he is hitting his 3's, we look a really good team. When he is bricking or injured, we look mediocre.

 

Rockets need 4 quality rotational-worthy guards. They have 3. The way Gordon/Bev plays, we can't count on health and need to mitigate that.
Need to grab another decent combo guard at the trade deadline.

 

Probably not. Probably not Beverley either. Or Nene. Both guards will be hurt when it matters most. And then everyone will be wondering why the hell Bobby Brown is playing against the Spurs in the playoffs & why Daryl didn't address the issue.

 

tomorrow, tomorrow, contenders tomorrow.....it's only a year away!

 

Maybe, maybe no

 

The difficulty and density of our schedule has taken its toll on a number of our players, so it's no surprise that EG's durability has taken a hit. We've played 55 games now, with only 27 left. If he needs to miss a game here or there, I don't think it will change our playoff ranking all that much, and I think he'll be fine come playoff time.

 

Many of us have been worried about injuries from the beginning. Bev, Gordon, Anderson, and Nene all have injury histories. So far, all of them have missed games. That's 4 rotation guys.

Depth is going to be a major question for us comes playoffs time.

 

Good grief. What now. Guy can shoot lights out but is make of thin glass.

 

Are we talking about the same Gordon? He's about as low-key on the court as they come.

 

Forget his previous years, just for the sake of argument.

This year is no different than every single year of Ginobody's career...wrt nagging injuries. Only difference is,,,and why we are complaining about it,,,is we can't sustain losing him like SAS could sustain losing Ginobody.

 

he protests to the refs whenever called for a foul or fouled himself without a whistle. albeit at least he does this in a non-threatening way and therefore never gets T'd up, you can see him always throwing his hands up and making that exasperated face

 

Time to start treating Gordon like Nene.