I know it seems to change every time Gilbert talks, so it’s important to get the latest information on how Gil is doing and when he thinks he’ll be back.  First, here’s what Ivan Carter had to say about Gilbert’s workout:

I’ll say this: the guy has not lost a bit of range and I didn’t see him favoring the left leg in any way. At one point, he drained 10 of 13 shots from four of five feet behind the three-point line.

That’s great, but when are we going to get to see him do that in a game?  Straight from Gil himself:

I’ll be back way before the playoffs, hopefully, within this week, I’ll be playing or maybe on the West Coast trip.

So it looks like he’ll be playing soon (crosses fingers) but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have his reservations, as he told Mike Jones:

“What would y’all do? Let’s be honest. Sit there! I guarantee, you’d be scared to walk outside. I know when my contract was up [in 2004] and I signed here, and I had to drive to meet Ernie [Grunfeld]. I stopped at greens, reds, yellows. Wanted to make sure nothing happen ’til I got my contract signed. I went the speed limit that day. Didn’t hit no freeways, no nothin’.”

His knee might not be 100% yet, but his confidence hasn’t wavered in his team:

We’re not scared of any team.  There’s no team that actually frightens us out there. When you have three guys that can score 20, we’re more frightening because no one has actually seen us as a whole group yet. Everyone has seen spurts of our team but they don’t have a scouting report. If they have a scouting report, it’s from last year so, we’re kind of the favorite going in if you look at it from that aspect.