rajon rondo fan club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IedCMMX-ImQ

from simmons' column 2 day

• Since the 1986-87 season, only eight guards have grabbed 18-plus rebounds in ANY game (regular season or playoffs). Michael Jordan did it three times (once in the playoffs); Jason Kidd did it only once.

• Larry Bird had 69 triple-doubles but never a playoff game that looked quite like a 29-18-13. The closest: 24-17-10 (1981, Chicago), 19-16-13 (1986, Milwaukee), 25-15-11 (1986, Houston), 18-16-11 (1987, Milwaukee) and 24-18-10 (1990, New York).

• Only Oscar Robertson (1962: 32-19-13) and Wilt Chamberlain (1967: 29-36-13) had at least a 29-18-13 in a playoff game before, and in the past 40 years, only LeBron (2007: 27-13-13) and Magic (1986: 29-15-14) had at least a 25-13-13. So, um … yeah.

• If you read my basketball book, you might remember how I created a 42 Club for playoff performers who averaged 42-plus for points, rebounds and assists combined for an entire postseason (12-game minimum). According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Rondo also joined Wilt in the 60 Club for players who submitted a 60 (points, rebounds, plus assists) in one playoff game without scoring 30 points in that game. Wilt did it three times, all in 1967: 29-36-13, 24-32-13 and 16-30-19.

• For the playoffs, Rondo is averaging 17.9 PPG, 11.4 APG, 7.1 RPG and 1.9 steals. According to ESPN ace researcher Alok Pattani, only Magic Johnson ever averaged a 16-11-6-2 in the playoffs, and he did it twice: 1983 (17.9, 12.8, 8.5, 2.3) and 1984 (18.2, 13.5, 6.6, 2.0).

• We just compared Rondo to Magic, Wilt, Bird, Oscar and Jordan … legitimately.

if dude could ever learn how to shoot, he'd be top 5 all-time.

solid snippet of that column, which was otherwise "i have a twitter feed, let me tell you baot it"

i'm getting a little sick of the "3rd player to reach 19/17/14 with 2 chasedown blocks on a Tuesday" stats tbh

i am a fan of this basketball player

i'm getting a little sick of the "3rd player to reach 19/17/14 with 2 chasedown blocks on a Tuesday" stats tbh

― i✧✧@hyperr✧✧✧.o✧✧ (lukas), Tuesday, May 11, 2010 4:40 PM (2 hours ago)

all of those stats simmons dug up are totally legit/standard stats dude

wtf kind of line is 29-36-13

yeah i was O_O reading that one

I know he's not the only person to use them, and I know it's a nice way to show how a player contributes in multiple categories, but I still find it irritating. I think the data mining in US sports commentary can be obnoxious. I know I'm on the losing end of history.

points, rebounds, and assists?

there's only one stat that counts and that's the one in the W column

Seems to me that the L column also counts somewhat. (\pita)

points, rebounds, and assists?

i was complaining about people touting the combined stat line. "sure, other people have scored more points and gotten more rebounds, but only four players have done that AND had as many assists."

yeah I'm feelin lukas on this one. this year I was kinda bugged by the whole 'tyreke evans is averaging a stat line that only LBJ, MJ and the big O have ever done" - his team still had an awful record overall and are you really gonna say he is as good as those other dudes?

also it's kind of a problem in basketball where the game has changed so much over the years that you can't really use stats to compare players from different eras, cf. that ridic. wilt line above

that wilt game was apparently vs Russell too so....O_O

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http://www.slamonline.com/online/the-magazine/features/2010/05/you-got-rondod/

rajon rando is gangsta as fuck

rondo even!
but yeah this kid is great

THE LEGEND OF RONDO

http://www.theonion.com/articles/rajon-rondo,17556/

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CqDk4jAv_Y4/TA1st4iJXTI/AAAAAAAAEEM/rnukfx73GVg/s1600/05.jpg

"I call it Grand Theft Rondo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHCZsQFdS0Y

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literally rajon rondo fan club

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http://youbeenblinded.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Rajon-Rondo-Better-Than-Rose-and-Lee-Shirt-Pic.jpg

UH

UH

http://www.creamglobal.com/media/775801/rondo_01.jpg

hooooly shit

Rondo is a cool ass dude. Love his game!

have i said before that rondo is totally a soccer player playing basketball? i mean, dude is just total ingenuity & unfettered creativity on the fly

his fast break to garnett where he dribbled behind his back & then faked a pass to garnett, faked a lay up and then dished to garnett all in the matter of like .5 seconds was amazing

where can i see that

this is pretty sweet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e68fViKkUyo

scola "covering" garnett lol

his fast break to garnett where he dribbled behind his back & then faked a pass to garnett, faked a lay up and then dished to garnett all in the matter of like .5 seconds was amazing

― crocodile swag district - teach me how to dundee (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, November 3, 2010 3:11 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tbf none of that was at all necessary, btw the pistons are easily the most demoralized team ive seen this early in the season

they are one of the saddest teams in all of sports -- two aging ex-stars playing out their careers in anonymity, two high priced free agents that were overpaid by like 50% each turning the team into a dead weight and keeping it from getting any better & a mix of young guys like stuckey/maxiel/daye that are good but have minimal chance (if at all) to be real 'impact' guys

yeesh

ben gordon looked like he wanted to jump off something

nice summery btw

autumnery iirc

i think rondo is just practicing, basically, i mean why not drop 20 dimes and get in that groove before they start playing teams with real actual defenses. shades of larry shooting left-handed just because he was bored and maybe, someday, it might come in handy

plus don't underrate the fact that this is now his fourth year with basically the same group, and an extra year with pierce, playing 90-100 real games each year with them. bound to develop some crazy telepathy. i think teams undervalue this continuity; cf spurs, lakers; this is even a decent justification for the magic's no-move summer maybe

^i mean spurs and lakers are obvious examples that value this core continuity and are thus dangerous, hence why does one keep derek fisher, well because in addition to a few playoff daggers left in him he must know every microscopic twitch of kobe's game at this point

which means adding that kind of familiarity to rondo's raw physical talent and mad creativity = HAVOC

Actually this rondo streak has been making me think about how amazing stockton (whom i never saw) must have been - 15 assists is just a ridiculous number for any night

I recently watched the video of all 30 of scott skiles' assists when he set the record and it seems the definition of 'assist' is pretty loose in the NBA

btw last night was a great example of rondo adapting his game--he was much more aggressive trying to score against the bucks because

1) it was a close game
2) they were giving him too much space to drive or shoot--he hit 2 or 3 j's handily.

stockton's thing was that he was so simultaneously boring to watch, casually brilliant and dirty as a motherfucker
imagine a shorter, faster, more vicious time duncan who passed better than he could shoot
he was hard to really be a fan for but he could absolutely torch you