Let's face it: For most of the season, EG has been laying turds on NBA courts nationwide. He started off terribly, seemed to be breaking out of his slump for a few games, then went right back to stinking things up. His monthly splits bear that out: PPG Oct 14 Nov 18.1 Dec 14.3 3pt%: Oct .234 Nov .345 Dec .287 I'm not sure that continuing to got out night after night and clanking balls off the rim was going to ever lead to him getting back into form, but MAYBE... Maybe getting off the court for a while has gotten his mind into a better place. Maybe he's had the chance to work on form in a low-pressure way. Maybe now that we're winning and the pressure isn't as great, he'll come out and just shoot without thinking too much. That's my hope, anyway. I think Eric was struggling from the pressure of having to correct an early-season slump and it just kind of snowballed when the entire team was sucking along with him. {Deleted erroneous Austin Rivers comment}
I think we would have to wait for EG to return before we can call it a blessing in disguise. Also, we signed Austin Rivers before EG got hurt so idk where you got the idea that the Austin Rivers signing was due to an unhealthy EG.
Good catch on that one. Got my dates wrong. Deleting it from the thread starter. And obviously if EG comes back still sucking, it's not a blessing in disguise. I'm saying that hopefully it will be, since nothing else seemed to work for him and we were pretty far into the season already. I mean, something had to give.
I think EG is still very important to us. He is a qualified and excellent 30-minute elite rotation (especially when fighting with the Warriors). I have always believed that his condition will gradually improve, the season is still very long, we have the beard god, CP3 will return in two weeks, we will be better and better.
luckily enough we dont need him to play otherworldly to be a positive contributor for rockets he just needs to be a mediocre his defense is mostly been acceptable all season long CHECK give us several drives per game (he almost always plays well when he tries this) CHECK hit an occasional 3 ptr CHECK stop taking so many bad shots , well something has to be done about it and i am afraid its not in DNA of dantoni to tell him that TLDR basically he just need to stop shooting so much from long range and he will be a net positive for rockets we have many solid shooters now and we dont need him to take all the shots Stop forcing bad 3 pointers Eric, youre not steph curry or james harden!
he had one of his best games of the season the game he got injured though and looked to have finally turned the corner. if we had the same EGO from the last memphis game we probably win at portland
you think with the new drama between butler and philly's coach will cause a trade? if so, im thinking philly would be more interested in gordon than minnesota?
I thought this thread was going to be about how it gave House his chance to really shine and/or how Rivers has been a pretty amazingly fortunate find (based on the relatively small sample size of games he's played, at least). But yeah, I could see EG coming back stronger... I just hope he doesn't wait too long.
The funny thing is EG is an infinitely better fit for the 76ers than Butler because they need pure shooters rather than defensive guards.
Harden is teaching EGO and CP3 a lesson about excuses. I still say let's trade Gordon for the best big forward we can find. We are overstocked at guard (total roughly $90m): Harden/Gordon/Green CP3/Rivers/Knight Meanwhile at Forward (total roughly $15m): Tucker/Clark House/Ennis/Green We're fine at C: Capela/Nene/Hartenstein Rivers, Green and Knight (and even House/Ennis) can cover the backup guard minutes easily. We need to shuffle things, and I doubt Knight/1st gets us anything of real value. Gordon has been in a 30+ game "slump". Maybe a change of scenery is best for him too.
