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Originally Posted by Betrayer

This may be a little over the top.

He dribbles pretty well getting into the lane and averages only 2.4 turnovers per game. Not a tiny number, but not huge either. Rip averages 2 turnovers per game himself for a guy who doesn't create off the dribble at all and AI is at 3.61 for his career (I think he's a pretty good dribbler).

As for passing, he averages 3 assists per game. Rip averages 3.4...not much difference there. The guy's a shooting guard, not a PG, so 3 assists per game is pretty normal.

Rebounds? Gordon averages 3 per game. Rip, who is about 5" taller only averages 3.4 for his career.

I'm not going to try to say he's a great defender, but Scottwood posted earlier about how he falls about right in the middle of the pack for SGs based upon the stats at 82 games.

It seems to me that he's about average at most of those things and he's an exceptional scorer with the deep range that this team has none of since letting go of Billups (41% career 3pt is excellent...Reggie was 39% career).

So, as you said he certainly doesn't have a perfect game, but saying he can only do 1 thing is not accurate either.

Comparing him to Rip isn't going to help your cause much at all.