Rockets guard Eric Gordon will come off the bench when he returns from injury later this month, head coach Mike D’Antoni confirmed at Wednesday’s practice in Houston Gordon started 53 of 68 regular-season games for the Rockets a season ago, and all 11 in the postseason However, since the Rockets were set in the backcourt with James Harden and Chris Paul, the majority of those starts came at small forward ?— where the 6-foot-3 Gordon is undersized In the 2016-17 season, Gordon’s first in Houston, he won the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award as a spark plug off D’Antoni’s bench
Mike D’Antoni confirms that Eric Gordon will return to bench role
Rockets guard Eric Gordon will come off the bench when he returns from injury later this month, head coach Mike D’Antoni confirmed at Wednesday’s practice in Houston Gordon started 53 of 68 regular-season games for the Rockets a season ago, and all 11 in the postseason However, since the Rockets were set in the backcourt with James Harden and Chris Paul, the majority of those starts came at small forward ?— where the 6-foot-3 Gordon is undersized In the 2016-17 season, Gordon’s first in Houston, he won the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award as a spark plug off D’Antoni’s bench