Ben Gordon does Chicago a favor: Thoughts on the Pistons and Bulls
Does Charlie V just step in and take over Sheed’s spot?
Makes sense. Charlie is reminiscent of Sheed at the point in his career that he got traded to Detroit. He’s adept at stretching the floor to setup outside shooting and send the ball back around the horn if needed. No one has CV confused with a true PF, so again the weight for that falls on Maxiell and Prince depending on whether they resign McDyess or another big man (Gortat?).
Does Gordon start or come off the bench?
Neither makes sense right now. Rip isn’t quick enough, nor does he have the handles to get moved to starting PG. That means Stuckey remains the primary PG and now there’s a log jam. Rip was beside himself over his benching last season and now is stuck in the middle of Joe Dumars and a head coach walking into a tenuous scenario.
If Gordon is their 6th man, Will Bynum and he will comprise the smallest current backcourt I can recall since Courtney Lee and Jameer didn’t play much together. At the end of last season, Bynum found a lot of success in using his strength to create space and attack the basket. If this means that he’ll be getting a lot of assists kicking it back out to Gordon, they give other second units a ton of trouble.
It’s also known that once Ben Gordon gets the ball, it disappears into a black hole until it magically appears in a descent toward the basket.
Does Tayshaun get some extra money for having to again cover his teammates’ defensive mistakes and lapses?
Charlie and Ben aren’t know for being great on the ball defenders and in this system, will again be guarding much bigger players. Prince has to be exhausted. He’s played as many games as any player I can think of on a per-season basis. 82 games in all seasons but his rookie year, nearly 20 playoff games per season except for this year’s sweep by the Cavs.
Please, someone give this guy a rest.
Chicago has to be breathing a sigh of relief.
They now have a well structured team of players. Aside from Brad Miller, they get a ton of dead weight off the books after the end of this season (Jerome James, Tim Thomas, Aaron Gray) and Miller’s contract is $12M expiring. I’d resign him if possible at the MLE if he keeps playing at the level he did against Boston.
They’re going to have a good amount of money to sign a FA this off season, definitely need to target another veteran guard. Maybe even cobbling together a couple of their $6M (Thomas, James) expiring contracts to the Blazers for Bayless/Webster/Blake (expiring, too).
Rose/Salmons(or Hinrich)/Deng/Thomas/Noah?












