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Why is everyone down on Aaron Gordon?

The 2014 Draft is all about instant gratification - Aaron Gordon's career arc is going to resemble Gordon Hayward's - it's gonna take a while and people still probably won't be satisfied.
 
from naked eyes, he is built like thinner blake griffin. 6ft 8 230lb would be good number for him in nba and gradually bulk up more. i always thought he was legit 6ft 8 barefoot. i didn't think the size was a concern.

but in here he is listed at 6ft 6
https://prague2013.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/13/fu19m/team/p/eid/9616/rid//sid/9616/tid/379/profile.html

and this picture is alarming. he really does look 6f 7 at best.
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i guess he grew a little? i've seen 3 zona games, and he looked 6ft 8 barefoot to me, but maybe he really is only about 6ft 7 at best?

gordon definitely has athleticism to play 3, but his offense is such a suspect that it will take much longer for him to develop to be a 3. maybe he needs to just stay 1 more year and develop his game. i'll have to cross my fingers till predraft measurements. i like this kid alot at #8 ish, but i don't want a tweener with no legit position. we don't need that.
 
Fabtrey said:
from naked eyes, he is built like thinner blake griffin. 6ft 8 230lb would be good number for him in nba and gradually bulk up more. i always thought he was legit 6ft 8 barefoot. i didn't think the size was a concern.

but in here he is listed at 6ft 6
https://prague2013.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/13/fu19m/team/p/eid/9616/rid//sid/9616/tid/379/profile.html

and this picture is alarming. he really does look 6f 7 at best.
U19Team.jpg


i guess he grew a little? i've seen 3 zona games, and he looked 6ft 8 barefoot to me, but maybe he really is only about 6ft 7 at best?

gordon definitely has athleticism to play 3, but his offense is such a suspect that it will take much longer for him to develop to be a 3. maybe he needs to just stay 1 more year and develop his game. i'll have to cross my fingers till predraft measurements. i like this kid alot at #8 ish, but i don't want a tweener with no legit position. we don't need that.
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Judging from the eye test at the game, I would seriously doubt that he is 6'6" He looks taller than that on the floor. He is REALLY young so I don't suspect that he is done growing. If he grew into 6'10" he would be a monster. The local rag has him at 6'9".
 
He's almost guaranteed to measure out the same as a Derrick Williams or Michael Beasley. Gordon's trump card is his athleticism, and why I have him at #7. He is not a great athlete, he is a freak athlete.
 
framer said:
Judging from the eye test at the game, I would seriously doubt that he is 6'6" He looks taller than that on the floor. He is REALLY young so I don't suspect that he is done growing. If he grew into 6'10" he would be a monster. The local rag has him at 6'9".
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i certainly hope so. 6ft 10 listed height would help his draft status tremendously.
 
Jazz4ever said:
He's almost guaranteed to measure out the same as a Derrick Williams or Michael Beasley. Gordon's trump card is his athleticism, and why I have him at #7. He is not a great athlete, he is a freak athlete.
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i'm leaning towards that too. 6ft 7 1/2 at most. and probably will be listed at 6ft 9. beasley was 6ft 7. williams was 6ft 7 1/4.
 
I haven't been following his progress in the last few weeks, but for me it has been because:
-He's not that good at basketball
-He's not big enough (as a big) to make up for that
-He doesn't have enough perimeter talent (ballhandling, driving, shooting, passing) to be a 3
-He looks like with his size/athleticism/skillset to be less than a franchise player which is unfortunately exactly what this team needs. The Jazz have 5 players across every position that they could say the same thing about and if he's not going to obviously better, then what's to be excited about?
 
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