Ben Gordon, Where are all the haters at? Options

[eddog2]

So, it took a while for me to come on here and throw all the Kirk lovers/BG bashers under the bus. I hope you can all recognize how special BG is and how vital he is to our offense. BG has been simply sensational since he started getting big time minutes (and since Kirk got hurt). Over his last 5 games he's averaging 27.4 ppg, 4.4 apg, shooting 53.3% from the field, 44.8% from the arc.

And I do not what to hear spiff about wins and losses because other then Rose nobody has helped BG & the Bulls win games. I really hope we deal Kirk for Harrington or some other PF/C. Or I hope we deal him for an expiring contract. There will be a handful of really good free agents both this off-season and next off-season so I hope Paxson places us in a position to maximize on that.

[sport1016]

BG's problem is his biggest weakness is his biggest strength. He decides that he's going to dominate a game, going to shoot no matter what. When he's on, he's one of if not the biggest reason we'll win (see the dallas game). When he's not, he has the same poor shot selection and he can blow a game for us.

His turnovers are down this year. This is no doubt due to the number of times he drives to the hoop and either makes a shot or gets a foul called instead of turning it over.

But he almost blew the indiana game for the exact same reasons that he won us the dallas game. Every time we started to pull away, he'd start launching bad jumpers and driving into an overcrowded lane. He kept them in the game.

This year he has to start though, because he will win some games for us all by himself. It's just too bad he can't restrain himself on an off night.

I think when it comes down to it, everyone on the team already knows Rose is the best player on the team, and they're figuring out how to play off of him (look at Noc, who's thriving, and Luol is coming around). BG, though, still acts like he is our MJ/Kobe/Tmac/whatever. Not good for the team.

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