He was aggressive from the get-go. Obviously, he knew that his number would be called more often than not, given the absence of Harden and Westbrook and the surplus of usage that would come his way. Since returning from in-season knee surgery, Gordon has shown flashes of his old self but also signs that he still needed time to get things back to normal. “I feel like I’m getting back to being myself,” Gordon said after the game. “I told everybody — when you have surgery during the season, it’s always going to be a process. Now it’s just about us collectively playing together for one another because we can do this thing. We just gotta turn this thing around and win a lot of games.”