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Originally Posted by houheffna
So your defense for Gordon's porous defense is "he isn't as bad as Rose"? Rose was a rookie, what's Gordon's excuse? As far as Beaubois, he didn't get hot, he just waltzed right past Gordon, over and over, he didn't always score, but he was able to drive past him.
Rose can learn to defend, and not have a size disadvantage at the position like Gordon does.
Gordon is a scorer...something you tried to limit Kobe Bryant to being, that is ALL he can do, he is not great at it. He is a good scorer, and he is one dimensional. Acting as if he is adequate defensively at that position is a fallacy. A tell tale sign is when you have to denounce other players' abilities to promote Gordon's. You have done that with Rose and Pierce. My money is on both of those players being much better at defending their positions than Gordon is over the course of their careers. He will always be costly because you will have to find others to do what he can't do.
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Rose has all the athletic gifts in the world to be a lock down defender. Great size, great strength, great quickness. BG is undersized and doesn't have the quickness. And your complaining about one and not the other. Rose came out of college as a good defender. BG came into the league as a terrible one and improved to average. He really isn't a problem defensively.
No I said that he is average defensively. You said they were one of the worst back courts in the league defensively. I said that was more rose. I didn't proactively make the point, I only made the point when you grouped them together. The numbers also support bg being average defensively, his opponents put up an average per against him.
Wow can we get more off topic and random. Kobe is a very good defender. He is a pretty good rebounder and I;d say above average at creating for others. When compared to Bron, which is where the statement came from, he looks more one dimensional.