Gordon has become a better shooter it seems, not looking at stats.
He has, at least from what I've seen. I'm not looking at stats either. I remember him being more of a facilitator in New Orleans though. In Houston he's a scorer, and he's good at it, but I don't know if you can switch back to being more of a facilitator after a few years of being used like he has been. I think it's too late for him at this point. Not just because he's been a scorer for the last couple of years but he's also older now and he'll start regressing with age, maybe he already has and that is why he's more of a scorer now.
It would be like adding a younger Jamal Crawford with less ball handling skills, I think. We could probably bring Crawford back for a fraction of what it would cost for Gordon and even though Jamal might not bring all of Gordon's scoring, we'd have more cap space and a pick still.
I did pull up his stats. His 3pt shooting isn't very good. He shot 36% last year with 1.9 assists, which was a career low in assists. In New Orleans he averaged 15.5 ppg with 3.3. apg and he shot 39% from 3. In his last 3 years in Houston he has scored 16.8 ppg, 2.2 apg, and shot 36.4% from 3. He is taking more 3's now, 8.8 a game, and making more but statistically he's been worse than I thought.
He seems to do better in the playoffs, he shot 40% from 3 and averaged 17.2 this last year. He only had 1.7 assists a game but at least I see why I thought he shot better also, he does in the postseason which is when I watch more Rockets games.
