Eric Gordon complains to the media about his lack of touches: I haven't been getting any touches lately
Eric Gordon, the team’s third best player with Beal and Nurkic out, played 24 minutes as the starter and only got up two shots. “Early on in the season, it was better. And lately, there just hasn’t been an emphasis [to get me more looks],” Gordon told B/R. “So, it’s definitely different. Lately I haven’t been getting hardly any touches really.”
Source: Chris Haynes @ Bleacher Report
Source: Chris Haynes @ Bleacher Report
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Gerald Bourguet @GeraldBourguet
Truthfully don’t think Eric Gordon said anything out of pocket if you read what he said, and he’s always been a straight shooter in answering questions. Only 2 shot attempts last night. The thing is it’s just not a headline you want right now with the team struggling – 12:12 PM
Truthfully don’t think Eric Gordon said anything out of pocket if you read what he said, and he’s always been a straight shooter in answering questions. Only 2 shot attempts last night. The thing is it’s just not a headline you want right now with the team struggling – 12:12 PM
Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
“We’ve got a lot of moving parts with our roster. We’re looking at different guys. We need guys to step up and I got to keep moving the pieces around in terms of how we’re using certain guys.”
Frank Vogel as he said he’s not getting Eric Gordon (0-of-2 FGs) involved enough #Suns pic.twitter.com/bkjAwyt5sk – 2:03 AM
“We’ve got a lot of moving parts with our roster. We’re looking at different guys. We need guys to step up and I got to keep moving the pieces around in terms of how we’re using certain guys.”
Frank Vogel as he said he’s not getting Eric Gordon (0-of-2 FGs) involved enough #Suns pic.twitter.com/bkjAwyt5sk – 2:03 AM
Duane Rankin @DuaneRankin
#Suns starting lineup at #Kings:
Devin Booker
Grayson Allen
Eric Gordon
Kevin Durant
Drew Eubanks
14th different starting lineup for Phoenix as Jusuf Nurkic is out due to personal reasons.
He had started every game. – 9:48 PM
#Suns starting lineup at #Kings:
Devin Booker
Grayson Allen
Eric Gordon
Kevin Durant
Drew Eubanks
14th different starting lineup for Phoenix as Jusuf Nurkic is out due to personal reasons.
He had started every game. – 9:48 PM
More on this storyline
Eric Gordon told B/R he plans to talk to Vogel on ways to get him more incorporated into the offense. “No question. Everybody knows the type of player I am and what I’m about. I came here to win, but what I do is score,” Gordon told B/R. “And I think when I score, it really opens up the door for a lot of people because I can score in big games and in big ways. That’s just what it is.” -via Bleacher Report / December 23, 2023
Gordon is in his 16th season and says he’s pretty much seen it all, but admits he didn’t see this state of affairs on the horizon. “We have a lot of good players. To be in this kind of situation, it is a little different because you would never go through lapses like this,” Gordon told B/R. “So, it’s definitely a lot different than what I kind of expected. “We go from winning seven in a row early on in the season and now we’ve lost eight out of 11,” Gordon continued. “So, it’s just tough with the type of team that we have. We just have to figure out the different sacrifices that we need to try to win a game.” -via Bleacher Report / December 23, 2023
Squandering leads. Stagnant offense. Defensive lapses. Turnovers. Check out the postgame reactions. Booker: “Frustrating.” Eric Gordon: “We just need to be more real with ourselves into having an unselfish mindset going into games.” Add a head shake to Gordon’s comments. Jusuf Nurkic: “We’ve got to find a way. At the end of the day, we’ve shown what we’re capable of. Whatever we have to do to make it right.” Drew Eubanks: “We just got away from what was working. What was working was recovering for each other, we were moving the ball.” -via Arizona Republic / December 20, 2023