Rockets guard Eric Gordon was named the league’s Sixth Man of the Year, which was announced on TNT’s awards show Monday night.
Gordon averaged 16.2 PPG and 2.5 APG in 75 games for one of the league’s most potent attacks. The oft-injured Gordon never appeared in more than 64 games in his five seasons with the Pelicans franchise before signing with Houston last summer as a free agent.
Teammate Lou Williams and the Warriors’ Andre Iguodala were the other finalists. Only one member of the Hoops Rumors staff chose Gordon as his top pick.
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Can’t really knock it. Iggy will always be in consideration for his play but he has too many good players to get credit for what he does. Of the other two, Gordon’s numbers slipped the least. Kind of made him the defacto winner.
Um what? Lou Will was better than Eric Gordon in nearly every single way. These voters suck
Look at their numbers once he got traded. He likely wins as a Laker. As a Rocket he screwed the pooch.
I understand D’Antoni may arguably be the best “player friendly” coach in the league when it comes to players statistical output but Lou didn’t screw **** up. D’Antoni essentially made him 7th man. You can’t put all of this on Lou.
You’re right but you can’t blame D’Antoni either. Not his fault that Lou Williams and James Harden can’t play defense. If one of them could, it would’ve been easier to fit them together down the stretch, but if he’s putting both of them out there at the same time, he’s giving up a ton of defense (not that its a focus of D’Antoni’s philosophy anyway).
Lou Williams minutes didn’t really change and his shots were about the same. The difference was what went in and what didn’t. They played the same pick and roll game with him that he did in LA. He was the 7th man but he was the only 7th man with a green light to shoot it whenever he wanted.
I agree the trade definitely hurt his numbers but it’s hard for me to delineate because his both his Lakers and season avg. are better than Eric’s in most categories while his numbers as a rocket really wouldn’t garner him any consideration on their own. I guess consistency is important is well. One of the rare times a forum discussion has made me change my mind. Well done
I concur, Chris. These are smart posters, in an era where many lack quality articulate responses. Lou’s Rocket numbers rightfully played a role in his snubbing but point I was alluding to is- you don’t think being 7th man messed with his head? feels like a demotion even if the numbers say he still plays 20+ mins a game. Psychology is the name of the picture I’m trying to paint, my friend. D’Antoni did nothing wrong, Based on individual talent alone, Gordon should’ve came 6th, and Williams 7th. Just trying to figure out how Lou cooled off that much after he got traded to Hou.
When he was on the court with the Lakers he was in control. He had a green light essentially and had the ball in has hands a lot. I believe he was one of the leagues top 4th quarter scorers as the Lakers often went with him over DLo in the crunch. With the Rockets that was never gonna be the case