Comments on: Ben Gordon on last season: ‘It was just a mess’

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:23:19 +0000

He doesn’t do that bad getting to the hoop.

By: kamal

kamal — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:19:13 +0000

Is Gordon saying that he came to play every night? Sure didn’t look that way to me. I’m glad he is such a professional, because I’d hate to see his version of “dogging” it.

By: RyanK

RyanK — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:45:36 +0000

Gordon is what he is, but lets not confuse the fact that he doesn’t do anything well except shoot the basketball. When he’s not making shots, he doesn’t give us much. Joe D should have known this going in…it’s hard to blame Gordon for being what he has always been.

“It would be nice if any of those statements were true, but I think it’s pretty clear now that new coach or not, the Pistons still have serious rifts in the locker room that will need to be fixed when the lockout ends.”
I’m not sure there’s going to be a rift in the locker room this season. Having a real owner around will make a big difference. If Bill Davidson would have been sitting over there watching the games from his normal seat, this stuff never would have happened. Good trade, bad trade, these guys would be gone long before these issues came to such a head. Believe me, knowing the owner has his eyeballs on you changes the way people act in any environment.

By: Jodi Jezz

Jodi Jezz — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:38:52 +0000

Ben Gordon is the man!!! I cant wait till next season when he can finally get his starting minutes and be that 18-21pt scorer again…Hopefully we can get some good assets back when we trade Rip and Prince(S&T)…We should include Daye and Jonas in that trade too!!

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:28:57 +0000

Probably Rip or Gordon will be gone. But I completely disagree with you. CV may be gone too cause we have so many PF’s

By: neutes

neutes — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:17:36 +0000

We’re going to lose again with Rip, Gordon, and CV all getting minutes anyway. What’s the difference?

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:39:26 +0000

Get ready to lose again with Daye, JJ and Singler all getting big minutes.

By: detroitpcb

detroitpcb — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:36:43 +0000

and if Rip is not on the team, i play Daye some at the 2 guard allowing JJ (and Singler) some time at the three. This assumes that Prince & T-Mac do not come back.

By: detroitpcb

detroitpcb — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:30:27 +0000

Ben Gordon’s tenure with the Pistons has been a dismal failure. Joe should move him for whatever he could get or if the new CBA allows for contract relief the Pistons should dump Gordon’s contract.

I have gone over this before but Gordon is a terrible defensive player who cannot get over a screen, cannot guard bigger two’s because of his height, cannot stay in front of the point guards he is asked to guard because of his footspeed and lateral quickness.

On offense he is careless with the ball and gets ripped constantly (at least once a game) for no legitimate reason. He takes high degree of difficulty shots and has never made them as a Piston. Often he fails to swing the ball on rotations when he could get a teamamte an easy shot prefering to diddle with the ball and then take a difficult shot.

Personally i play Knight and Stuckey in the backcourt with Bynum and Rip off the bench. Ben Gordon needs to go.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:15:47 +0000

For someone like myself who has not given up on Charlie V and BG this actually is good news for me. I still think these two are good players and last year was just a mess. Nothing but better basketball should be ahead.