Someone is paying attention. Gordon makes sense, given his numbers as a starter, and the fact that he finished the season so strong. Mayo is sort of the opposite – his monthly averages actually decreased every full month of the season, though he did bounce back a little in the 9 April games. But why isn’t Derrick Rose on the list? Did he already break out? And Aaron Brooks? 14 and 4 as a starter? How much more is he going to break out? It’s also funny how the author argues that Gordon will benefit from having more threats around him (defenses won’t be able to focus on stopping him) and the Brooks will benefit from having fewer threats (with Yao gone, he’ll have to break out). Can both those things be true?

In fact, this last point is the reason that Gordon might very well take a step backward, in terms of raw numbers. Last season he HAD to score, but he’s not a heedless gunner (which is why his percentages are so impressive). It’s entirely possible that he’ll score less this season than the 18.4 he averaged as a starter last season.

but he might be hard for him to become an all star seeing as there is so many good guards. I don’t think that Griffin and Baron are going to make his numbers drop, if anything the added scoring threats of Baron and Griffin will make it harder for teams to defend Gordon making it easier for him to score and making our team much more dangerous.

  I would say Chris likes this. Just like in Steve’s post about TSP, it is clear that Gordon has the offensive eff. and the talent to be an All-Star for many years to come. The only thing that is working against him—- although I think it will change—- is the Clippers’ do not enough national recognition. I think this will change because they will be an improved team and we have the #1 draft pick named Blake Griffin.
  There have been many people that have performed really well in their respective careers that have been all star snubs, because the popular people always get voted in… lets hope that does not happen to EJ