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Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

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  • #16
    Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

    Originally posted by rommie View Post
    What?

    Murray was the best opition for this team. We needed some major help in the backcourt without Jamaal. All we had was Travis Diener, Andre Owens, and Marquis Daniels playing point guard. Murray does help us.

    Larry never said Flip was going to be our guard of the future. If you don't mind seeing Diener play 40 minutes a night I guess signing Flip was a bad move. Oh well.

    Who cares if we don't get Mayo or Gordon? I do like Mayo's game but IDK about his character issues. And Gordon needs to stay in college at least another year for sure.

    I really don't see what the big deal is in signing Flip Murray. We needed help in the backcourt and he was the best opition avaliable. Sam Cassell wasn't going to sign with us and I doubt you want to trade Danny Granger for a guard. Sometimes you just gotta take what you can get and that was Flip.
    I would have completely agreed with you on this, except that the season is so far along. We have absolutely no chance whatsoever to make it past the first round of the playoffs...none. And so, for a chance at cracking that coveted 8th seed we give up the chance to select the 8th pick (or better)...sorry, but I'd just as soon have us win or lose the remaining 20 games with the group that started the season...and have more pingpong balls.

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    • #17
      Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray



      If Jordan can play with a hurt wrist in the NBA and score 63, then Gordon (if he's even going to be a remotely decent player in the NBA) should be a able to keep the turnovers under control and shoot at a higher percentage.

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      • #18
        Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

        Originally posted by Roaming Gnome View Post
        Shade...Please, take the cream and crimson glasses off.

        Eric Gordon has not done a fine job in the last month of silencing his critics.
        I'm not denying that EJ hasn't played well of late. But he also didn't play well at some points early in the season. He's been frustratingly inconsistent.

        I'm looking more at NBA potential with EJ, and though he hasn't developed them all yet, he has the tools.

        Is he still raw? Yes. But that doesn't mean he won't develop into what he's capable of becoming.

        There are ZERO quick-fix players in this draft. Whoever you're going to take, you're going to need to develop. And with EJ's stock likely dropping right now, he could potentially be a steal where he's taken.

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        • #19
          Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

          I have not seen AJ play much thanks to the Big 11 network, but everyone's sure fire #1 pick Beasley hasn't exactly come through at crunch time the past month. I'll search the SA Express News archives when i get time, but he was fading dramatically at the end of games.

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          • #20
            Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

            Originally posted by GrangerRanger View Post
            If Jordan can play with a hurt wrist in the NBA and score 63, then Gordon (if he's even going to be a remotely decent player in the NBA) should be a able to keep the turnovers under control and shoot at a higher percentage.
            So let me get this straight. You just bashed Gordon because he's not like Michael Jordon? Really.

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            • #21
              Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

              The only reason I like seeing Flip is for the pure fact that I don't see a glaring hole in his game other than the awful 3pt%. Then again, I don't know a lot about him and don't have FSIN to evaluate him w/ us. How's his on the ball and help defense?
              A: "I've got to wait until it gets dark to finish filming. We have one scene shot at night."

              J: (Drunk) "Come film in my pants man, it's already dark there."

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              • #22
                Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

                Originally posted by Mal View Post
                So let me get this straight. You just bashed Gordon because he's not like Michael Jordon? Really.
                If you're a "college superstar and sure fire NBA All Star", then yes. You should play more like Jordan than not when facing college players whom 99% of will never see an NBA jersey on their backs, and they know it.

                The funny thing is, I can remember a high turnover, bad shooting player a few years back that had wrist problems that everyone made excuses for. He had all the tools, to play PG, or SG, and if it wasn't for his bad wrist in college, would have been much better. He went high in the draft and for all the hoopla ..... you got Larry Hughes. Yay.

                Looking around the web I found this site, and this picture, thought it was hilarious.

                http://heylarryhughespleasestoptakin...bfantana_2.jpg

                -- Steve --
                Last edited by Pacersfan46; 03-16-2008, 03:35 PM.

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                • #23
                  Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

                  Originally posted by kellogg View Post
                  For the life of me, I simply can't understand our GM's thought process in bringing in Ron Murray. This guy has been with 5 teams in 6 years, shoots 41% career (27% from the three), miserable A:TO ratio (actually less than 1 with the Pacers), and can't crack the starting lineup anywhere...and he'll be 29 this July.

                  The irony of it all is this...if he manages to help us win enough games to make the playoffs (and then of course we get knocked out by Detroit), our GM will have essentially traded a legitimate shot at OJ Mayo or Gordon for Ron Murray. Nice job once again.
                  Think about the contradiction here.

                  A) he sucks

                  B) he'll help the Pacers win their way out of a better draft pick





                  The Pacers are so bad that adding bad players is actually an improvement? Sadly there's a part of me that agrees, but not enough to think that Flip is truly impacting this situation. Whatever they win or lose they probably were going to anyway.

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                  • #24
                    Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

                    I didn't really compare him to Jordan. I'm just saying, that using a wrist injury as a excuss for poor play is behind me. If Jordan can score 64 (as I stated) in the NBA then Gordon should be able to play at a better level then what he has done with his in a very different level of competiton.

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                    • #25
                      Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

                      Originally posted by GrangerRanger View Post
                      If Jordan can score 64 (as I stated) in the NBA then Gordon should be able to play at a better level then what he has done with his in a very different level of competiton.
                      Why? Injuries are an individual thing. Some injuries aren't that bad, and some players play through them better than others.

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                      • #26
                        Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

                        Flip might be worth a couple more wins the rest of the season and we may move down a spot. 4 out of 5 of our last losses have been by double digits. I seriously doubt he changes any of them. Maybe he changes the outcome in a quarter of all close games. That would probably be a couple more wins this season at most. The difference between a #9 and #10 pick is not usually going to be that important...

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                        • #27
                          Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

                          Originally posted by Shade View Post
                          vs. Wisconsin (game 2): 23 points on 41.2% shooting
                          vs. Michigan State (game 1): 28 points on 60% shooting
                          vs. Michigan State (game 2): 22 points on 50% shooting

                          He's also had bad games against bad teams:

                          vs. Coppin State: 15 points on 15.4% shooting
                          vs. Chicago State: 22 points on 25% shooting
                          vs. Illinois (game 2): 19 points on 23.1% shooting
                          Please. You can cite all the exceptions you want. I'm talking about what he has averaged vs. good teams vs. what he has averaged vs. bad teams.

                          Selectively picking a handful of games is kind of like the guy who comes back from Vegas saying he won a grand. Sure, he won a grand on one hand. But he lost 3 grand on the rest.

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                          • #28
                            Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

                            I think Gordon will be a good pro, just not a savior. I think Ben Gordon is a good pro.

                            I think Eric Gordon has struggled, but I also think there are mitigating factors. I think the Sampson debacle created some issues. However, I think the bigger problem has been that the IU offensive scheme has been a complete trainwreck all year long, and that would impair anybody's results against the top teams. The less efficient the offense is, the more freelancing, the easier it is for good teams to shut players down.

                            Mayo, on the other hand, I have no faith in, hence the comparison to noted chucker Jamal Crawford.

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                            • #29
                              Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

                              I am sick of the Gordon apologists. I've already shown it: againt teams that would be considered NCAA-bound without the lesser conferences getting tourney bids, Gordon has not been good. <30% from 3 pt range and around 40% overall. You can cite a game here or there, but look at average production. I don't even care if you exclude the Dakich games. It still doesn't look good. no matter the system or how dysfunctional it is, a 20ppg scorer shouldn't be chucking up those kind of percentages.

                              About 6 weeks ago, I compared the guy to Ricky Pierce, because I think Gordon can be an offensively skilled, but a defensive and pass-limited player (w/ some work). People were complaining and calling him the second coming of Wade and Jesus Christ rolled into one. What do you see in the last 6 weeks to prove any of my assertions wrong?

                              -limited height
                              -defensively weak
                              -limited rebounding
                              -limited assists
                              -when covered/targeted, can't extend over longer defensive players to keep his 3FG% up (Note: current % when guys have keyed on him).
                              -no mid range game to keep defenders honest
                              -decent, but not great, game at the rim.

                              no matter the system, he should be able to accumulate stats in all of these areas playing against school boys if he was that athletically talented and skillful. Hughes did it. Hamilton did it. Allen did it. Arenas even did it.

                              Complain about Mayo all you want, but compare Mayo's FG% against good teams to Gordon's before doing it. Compare his 3pt% to Gordon's vs. Good teams before doing it. Consider he gets more boards a game, and his Ast/TO ratio is at least 1:1. Who is the chucker?
                              Last edited by ChicagoPacer; 03-17-2008, 08:56 PM.

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                              • #30
                                Re: Trading Gorden or OJ Mayo for Ron Murray

                                Murray's actually better than I expected. He had some nice passes today, and outplayed Diener by a pretty large margin.
                                This space for rent.

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