Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 at 9:20 am  |  69 responses

New Orleans Hornets Reportedly Want to Trade Eric Gordon for Klay Thompson


The Hornets are said to have placed Eric Gordon on the market, and have their eye on Klay Thompson (unlikely as that deal may be.) Per the Times-Picayune: “Hornets officials had no comment regarding trade rumors Tuesday night, but Gordon said for the second consecutive day that he’s not concerned about the trade deadline. However, he acknowledged that anything is possible. ‘I don’t really get caught up to it,’ Gordon said Tuesday night. ‘But you just never know your situation. That’s part of the process but at the end of the day, you can’t worry about that as a player. If it happens, it happens. I’m definitely not worried about it.’ Sources confirm the Hornets would be interested in any trade deal with the Golden State Warriors that would include second-year shooting guard Klay Thompson. But sources indicate the Warriors are reluctant to part ways with Thompson, whom they feel is a young emerging star. With the Hornets’ matching the Phoenix Suns’ four-year, $58 million offer sheet to retain him as a restricted free agent, Gordon has veto power over any trade deal going into Thursday’s deadline. The Hornets are restricted from trading Gordon to the Suns. Gordon remains on strict restrictions by the Hornets medical staff to not play in the second game of back-to-back sets. He is not expected to play Wednesday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Quicken Loans Arena.”

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  • davidR

    okays good D? gets his own shot? he definitely doesn’t have either

  • LakeShow

    It’s hard to compare them only because their situations were much different. Allen didn’t have any good PG’s his first few years, while Klay has had really good PG’s. They are similar in skill set though. Klay is less talented like I said though.
    Aren’t you just happy they got rid of your boy Ellis? That team was never getting over the hump with that guy. I like his game, but he’s a 6th man.

  • davidR

    i’m actually still bitter monta got traded. i think the team is doing much better because there’s an actual second unit. i think jarrett jack and carl landry have a lot more to do with the teams success than adding bogut. i think a team of curry/monta/ SF (probably would not have been barnes)/lee/ezeli with klay, jarrett jack, landry, green coming off the bench would’ve been much better. have you seen how bad the team is without curry? or how bad they are in the 4th when the game is tight? they really need a slasher/second creator/go to scoring option…

    i also think that monta was optimized for the dubs, and i dunno what happened but damn he fell off quick once he started for the bucks.

  • davidR

    wouldn’t you also agree that a spot up shooter like klay should be exploding, especially having played with curry and monta?

  • LakeShow

    38% on 6 and a half 3 point attempts a game is really good.

  • davidR

    it is, but everything else about his game hurts the team. he jacks up way too many shots (41-42% fg), and he’s terrible during crunch time. he’ll take contested fast break 3s, force passes into crowded areas, take shots early in the shot clock, make defensive lapses…

    i mean i get it, it’s only his second year, and he shouldn’t be starting, but thats my point. if we feel that monta is a 6th man, what does that make klay?

  • http://www.facebook.com/rainman1991 Saleem Rainman

    underrated.

  • Max

    Lol, I did not know that!
    Pelicans f*cking rock bro!

  • LakeShow

    He should be starting.
    They need him to get those rookie/sophomore mistakes figured out while this team isn’t competing for a title. Because they could be if all goes well over the next couple, few years..

    Klay is infinitely better for this team than Ellis is, especially when speaking long term. They need shooters to space the floor for when Bogut is healthy again and that is something that Monta would be terrible at. Klay is better at defending the 2 position than Ellis was, with a MUCH higher upside to his defense with his combo of size and length.
    He needs to work on his slashing, handles, and passing… yes… but so does 90% of the other rooks and sophomores.

  • LakeShow

    By ” f*cking rock” you mean look weird and should have died off long ago based upon Darwinian evolution’s natural selection process in regards to extinction…
    I concur!
    Pelicans do rock!

  • davidR

    i can definitely see your reasoning he should be starting. for me, i thought him coming off the bench behind monta or curry was perfect for him. gave him the chance to d up monta every practice, settle into his role, and force him to really earn his minutes. but that’s just me.

    bogut healthy again… we’ll have to see. watching this team all the time, its obvious they don’t have a go to scorer, especially during crunch time, especially when the game slows down to a half court pace. this is gonna be a huge problem in the playoffs. they rely too much on shooting; when they’re hot they’re hot. when they’re cold, it’s really bad. i sincerely hope bogut can regain his form and command double teams, but with his injury history we won’t know for sure, although lee and bogut look like they can play together.

    klay definitely has better upside on d due to his size and length, but he really needs to work on his decision making, and his effort. monta only had the quickness advantage on d, but he definitely played hard.

    i guess we’ll just see how klay pans out. he showed a lot of promise as a rookie, but this year he seems to have regressed. it’ll be interesting to see how he handles the playoffs if the dubs make it

  • LakeShow

    Doesn’t care about defense… Hmm…
    Sorry just randomly came to this post from 3 months ago haha :)

  • Caboose

    Lol I’ll say this, I was COMPLETELY wrong about Klay Thompson. And you can shout that from the rooftops and hold it over me for as long as you want.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

    .

    1- Klay, for a 2nd year guy, is pretty damn solid defensively.

    2 – not at all. he is 23 years old, and he is already in the top 10% of all shooters in the league. sh*t, he’s shooting 41% from three…..IN THE PLAYOFFS, on five attempts a game.

    3- His shot selection is poor? based on what? he’s shooting 45% from the floor, and 41% from 3. That’s elite for a guy shooting almost half his shots from outside the arc.

    4 – so? nobody ever claimed he could. Reggie Miller couldn’t create a shot for himself either. He turned out fine.

    5 – that is just completely false. and fabricated.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    “1. He has a 109 defensive rating. That puts him just behind defensive studs like Luke Ridnour, JR Smith, Kyrie Irving, and Jose Calderon. ”

    - No it isn’t. You made that number up. His defensive rating is the same as all other wing players on the roster. Defensive rating reflects the team. So look at that, before you make some sweeping judgement that totally renders the stat irrelevant.

    2 – 42% isn’t really awful considering the shots he is taking inside the team’s offense. especially in the regular season, when he shot 4 whole shots a game from inside 15 feet.

  • LakeShow

    lol, We all wrong sometimes man. Klay still has a way to go anyway.
    Discus told me I had like 30 new comments from you on here, but they were all old, so that’s how I ended up here lol.

  • Caboose

    I posted this…how long ago? Check above, I said I WAS WRONG.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    haha my bad, didn’t even look. this conversation popped up in my network, and i saw you said all this nonsense.
    .
    my bad, again.

  • http://twitter.com/sooperfadeaway nbk

    i don’t understand why this popped up tho. like it was showing the activity as new, i wasn’t even looking at when it was posted.

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