Evolve into a complete body! Aaron Gordon breaks through the ceiling

In the opening game of the Golden State Warriors, Curry scored 42 points and led the team to a 137-131 victory over the Nuggets in overtime. However, the focus of the game was not Curry, but Aaron Gordon.

The uncrowned dunk king scored a career-high 50 points in this game, added 8 rebounds, and made 10 of 11 shots from beyond the three-point line. It can be called the highlight of his career.

Since the beginning of the season, Aaron Gordon has averaged 30.2 minutes per game, handed over a report card of 19.8 points, 5.4 rebounds and 2 assists, shooting 55.2% from the field and 48% from the three-point range.

Spreading out the first ten years of Gordon's career, his three-point shooting percentage was only 32.9%, but last year he exaggeratedly improved these data to 43.6%. After entering the new season, the big man is proving that this is no accident and is gradually becoming the norm.

As early as the playoffs last season, he had already contributed many unforgettable offensive moments, hitting multiple winning three-pointers and key goals. It is really amazing to be able to complete such a technical transformation before the age of 30.

Although the final result of his first 50-point night was a loss, Gordon's outstanding performance and the Nuggets' overall performance made the outside world more confident in the team's prospects for the new season. Although Jokic still scored a triple-double, his performance in this game was not ideal, and the team happened to encounter Curry who was running rampant offensively.

But from the perspective of a long season, this situation is not the norm. After all, we Jokic will not shoot 2 of 13 three-pointers in every game, and not every opponent will have a runaway Curry; but from Gordon's perspective, this can at least prove that his transformation on the offensive end is real enough, and Murray has also shown a state worth looking forward to.

Of course, Gordon's top performance against the Warriors cannot be sustained throughout the season, but for today's Nuggets, they already have two top secondary attackers who can fight alongside Jokic in the new season. From a team perspective, the depth of this team's lineup rotation this season is already the best in Jokic's career.

Since the total number of three-pointers made last season only ranked third from the bottom in the league, this also makes Gordon's improvement in three-point shooting particularly critical. Having a top receiver and shooter can further open up offensive space for Jokic. Before that, Gordon could only rely on breakthroughs and receptions to score, and his offensive range was basically limited to the finishing position near the frame.

Now, the evolved Gordon has added more diversity and future ceiling to the Nuggets' extremely extreme offensive system.

There is no doubt that Gordon's shooting performance is the biggest highlight of this game, but what should be more worthy of attention is that he is becoming more and more confident when attacking with the ball. He can force breakthroughs at mismatched opportunities, use his size advantage to score, and can also hit pull-up jumper three-pointers from the outside. This is definitely a better change compared to deeper rotations.

Gordon's career trajectory has been unfolded. He has grown from a lottery rookie who was defined as a dunking deputy to an outstanding team golden assistant. Now he is gradually moving towards a core level that can work side by side with stars. If he can combine today's top three-point ability and offensive creativity, then the upper limit of this Nuggets will be quite worth looking forward to.

They already have the strongest player Jokic, and now it seems that in addition to Murray, they have a core-level second offensive weapon. Perhaps this is the greatest value of this 50-point night.