rajon rondo fan club

love this kid

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finally saw him complete the little dipsy-doodle maneuver where he picks up his dribble, palming the ball, swings it back like he's going to pass behind his back and then brings it forward again and passes or shoots- you know what i mean

van gundy was hating on the move the other day and when he pulled it off it just looked so alien and beautiful, like someone who had never seen basketball would try to interpret a no-look-pass or something

also i like how mike breen says his name for some reason

yeah that move is hardcore

<3 that picture

this guy was born in order for marv albert to say his name

http://a.espncdn.com/media/apphoto/f11ae31e-f423-4fa9-94ee-abec61a5056f.jpg

cool article about rondo on espn: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/columns/story?columnist=macmullan_jackie&page=Rondo-090423&campaign=rss&source=NBAHeadlines

he takes five showers a day and always has towels and flip flops around because he won't let his feet touch the floor. doc rivers once had to tell him that his teammates hated playing with him because his body language was so bad when something went wrong.

Jesus what is it with the Celtics and these obsessive compulsives. First Ray Allen and now Rondo. Weirdos.

any of the big three have trade value - can we start over w/rondo

Someone will def. want Garnett (although given his health lately not sure if they should.) How many years left on Pierce and Allen at this point?

garnett 3
pierce 2
allen 1

http://hoopshype.com/salaries/boston.htm

under normal financial skies the c's would be in perfect dealing position w/those years - these days it might be a lil tougher - not like theyre gonna trade any of them anyway

I loved how he showed up to Game 1 in the Red Bull stock car - and then shimmied out the window looking like a cowboy in a button up tucked into his slacks.

Can't believe he's listed at only 6'1 - he has Igoudala-like reach for his size, and looks more like 6'3 or 6'4. Compare to someone like Aaron Brooks, who, despite being listed at 6', looks like he's shorter than Nate Robinson when he's on the floor.

Yeah Allen's the only one I could possibly see going.

they imo do have a shot at the title next year - but age and injuries make it unlikely - if rondo plays like he did the last couple games and they pick up a free agent or two who knows

btw lil thought experiment imagine the c's get the second pick in the 07 draft and take durant - rondo + durant + big al + whoever they traded pierce for = sik young team

of course i wouldnt trade it all for the championship but still fun to think abt

rondo + wing defender/shooter + durant + jefferson + perkins

cant stop thinking abt this

If Garnett doesn't go to Boston in that scenario, I wonder who gets him.

a lot of people thought chicago had better pieces than boston at the time - tho i agreed w/minnesota taking the deal w/the most promising player in it - prob a lot of people didnt realize how good jefferson was since he played on such a crappy team

Is Al Jefferson good, or is he the new Shareef Abdur-Rahim/Elton Brand, piling up stats on bad teams? Obviously he's never had a truly good team around him, and he seems like a good dude, but it just makes me wonder.

What was Chicago offering at the time? Deng? Gordon haha?

Nah Jefferson (and Brand) is much better than Abdur-Rahim was. Wow Brand's really quickly gone from All Star to mediocrity in peoples' eyes, hasn't he?

Admittedly getting hurt all the time will do that to your perceived value.

i dont think jeffersons best player on a championship team good - cause his d is only middling - but i do think hes like multiple all star type good - second best guy on a title team good

i somewhat take issue w/the whole good stats on a bad team concept cause usually those guys dont actually have good stats - like they score a ton of points but have a bad fg% tons tos and play no D and maybe they grab a some boards cause no one else on their team can rebound - SAR fits that bill - tho elton brand imo was a legit dominant player - hes just all fucked up and in the hospital and shit now - and some of his clippers teams were totally dece

i dont know that anyone knew exactly what chicago offered but yeah they had a bunch of young guys and some draft picks - ty thomas was def in the mix w/those two guys u mentioned

one thing i'll trust bill simmons' opinion is boston sports, and he harps so much on the profound effect that kg, allen and pierce had on rondo that i wonder if he had been on a team w/ durant and jefferson if he would've developed like he has. and even beyond the mental part of the game, obv having three talents like that allowed for him some breathing room, allowed for him to concentrate on D, makes it easier for him to get to the basket etc etc

Rondo has 16 pt 8 rebounds at the half, dude is amazing.

dude is having one heck of a series so far

he got carried off the court at the end of the game. wtf. anybody know what it is? hopefully just a cramp.

"bottom of my feet were hurting" he just said.

funny dude.

20-11-6-5 tonight

one thing i'll trust bill simmons' opinion is boston sports, and he harps so much on the profound effect that kg, allen and pierce had on rondo

i'm as suspicious of intangibles in sports as anybody, and i will say forever to anyone who will listen that it is impossible to understate the effect that kg had on the celtics as a franchise. rondo, perk, big baby, and pierce (that is just the definite 100% shortlist) were profoundly affected by him.

as fun as it is to consider various rondo/jefferson/other cool dudes scenarios such a team would get absolutely obliterated by a team like cleveland imo.

now theyd be obliterated - in the future theyd be playing ok city staring other kevin durant for the title

and mentorship can have a profound impact def - but the problem w/gaming the scenario is u hav no idea what sort of people and environments rondo wouldve encountered otherwise and what his reaction wouldve been to them - theres def some value over replacement mentor calculus happening but ehhhhh imo

its mostly a giant tautology - the main impact garnett has had on the celtics is that hes really good as basketball - u can see this effect now when hes injured and not playing but still around to yell at people and the celtics are much worse - like i said on the good player/bad team thread w/paul pierce part of it is people having to invent a story to compensate for underrating garnett all those years cause his teams didnt win

now theyd be obliterated - in the future theyd be playing ok city staring other kevin durant for the title

i don't even know if i agree w/this. you generally win in the nba by having a top 3 player, a couple top 20 players, and/or playing elite defense. would a rondo/jefferson team have ended up fitting one of those molds? possibly, but not too sure.

re: mentoring i totally hear you and agree to a large extent, but it's hard to fully state how much things changed when garnett arrived--from the players to the coaches/front office to the media to the fans. this didn't happen when pierce reupped w/boston, and sure as hell didn't happen when they traded for ray (a move which was generally met with suspicion). i don't know what other player would have such a transformative effect. look at perk--three years ago he was a soft, slightly reticent project big man, now he's one of the toughest interior defenders in the league, a pro trash talker and scary dude. per anything i've ever read that's pretty much all kg.

when you mention garnett's losing teams you are actually getting at some of the irony of him. while he is really good at basketball, especially defense, he is not really an elite offensive player. the effects that he has had on this team are all defense and "intangibles."

i completely disagree w/yr pre garnett perk characterization - his big improvement has been to cut down on fouling - he matured def but the potential was always there

not sure how yr defining intangibles here but its seemingly quite broad - more accurate to say that garnet is a v good scorer and world class at everything else - imo scoring/defense/intangibles isnt really an accurate way to look at a player

anyway not sure exactly what yr point there is - garnetts teams lost cause the other players besides him sucked - big exception was the cassell/sprewell team which had a v good shot at taking the title until cassell got injured in the conference finals

and u clearly dont need a top three player to win it all but it does obv help - tho realistically were prob actually talking abt top 5 or 7 - the winner always gets his stock bumped a bit by the success - anyway that guy in our scenario is kevin durant

I think that it isn't anything about Allen or Garnett specifically, but surrounding a talented guy like Rondo with three guys who are all similarly talented but veteran, instead of guys like Al Jeff or etc. who are talented but haven't accomplished anything, or the guys Rondo ran with at Kentucky, dudes of an inferior talent level ... the big 3 gave him an idea of how to improve and sustain that improvement. When you have a guy like that who has that arrogant self-belief, he simply isn't going to be mentored by guys who don't have that same level of ability, and Pierce alone was only one voice, one possible avenue to greatness. But when he can see the common traits those 3 guys have on a day to day basis, and when those three great players echo what Rondo is hearing from Rivers, it gives Rivers' opinions and orders more weight, and Ainge and Thibodeau and the other coaches as well.

And that honestly makes me wonder how great someone like Monta Ellis could be if he had the same sort of influences around him, instead of shoot-first dudes like Jackson and Crawford as his mentors.

sry if my wording was confusing--i meant to say a top 3 player OR a couple of top 20 players.

my point is just that garnett is a unique person who happens to play basketball really well. something very real changed re: the celtics and this city when he arrived and i think it was easy to see in how some of the young players developed. it's very hard for me to imagine rondo/perk/baby developing the way they have without him. i'm not saying that it's impossible, just v. hard for me to imagine.

http://www.talk-sports.net/nba/fan.club.aspx/Rajon_Rondo

o man look at the girls fightin over him
http://www.talk-sports.net/nba/girlfriend.aspx/Rajon_Rondo

Rajon Rondo gotta girl!!! He go wit someone I know so all y'all TRICK or treaters needs 2 all BACK de Hell up!!!

RAJON when u made that shot 4*20*09 at 4th quather it was 109-106 we had 108 when u made a nice ass move i jump off the chair and i got on the grown i was BOWING cuz the move was so nice and the score that was not the end of the game hell no I LUV U RONDO (ur the best player 2 me)

rondo had a sik game then disappeared in ot

i was BOWING cuz the move was so nice and the score that was not the end of the game hell no I LUV U RONDO (ur the best player 2 me)

^cute.

rajon's got the boy-band vibe going. can totally see how he could corner that market.

18 assists, hits people, dunks on your big man

rondowned

that dunk was nuts

this guy is something else! should have been on first team all defensive imo

ya paul gets more steals but rondo is better all around esp when considering his rebounding

Are we only talking about defense?

ya

he had a nice year offensively but nothing like what hes shown in the playoffs - good timing def

feel like his focus went from "how can I as PG best help my team win" to "how can I as Rajon Rondo accumulate the most assists possible"

ya hes def a ridiculous stat hunter

another sign that the game is frequently boring to him

rip

Bulls' Rajon Rondo is out indefinitely w/ a broken right thumb.

Whaaaat

irondoic

yung rondo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HceCBSa-KE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HceCBSa-KE

wow! excellent find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GED6caoaSw

lmao rondo still got it

i live in dallas and why did rondo basically spend his entire stint here with his middle finger in the air? obv i'm not huge into bball but i was a big fan and was excited when he signed on here, but dayumm

rondo and rick carlisle probably the two most stubborn people in the nba, and rick didn't want him in the first place.

Rajon Rondo - 真中锋 "A True Center"

Because despite playing guard, Rondo is terrible at three-pointers and free throws, scores almost all of his points in the paint, and brings down large numbers of rebounds.

— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) May 11, 2018

My lasting impression of Rondo came in locker room scrum after Anthony Davis had 53 vs. Suns:

Me: You’ve played with & against a lot of great players in your career. Can you put into perspective what A.D. is doing right now?

Rondo: Whatcha want me to do? Suck him off?

Me: Uh.

— Jeff Duncan (@JeffDuncan_) July 2, 2018

hahaha wow

“I can’t really say what I can’t use my right hand for” 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/HwkZIQei1U

— NBA Central (@TheNBACentral) November 23, 2018

I was wondering how Rondo is such a beloved teammate everywhere he goes. Apparently the answer is food. https://t.co/cdXoDw2ah1 pic.twitter.com/8WQN8xg9Fk

— Taco Trey Kerby (@treykerby) April 10, 2019

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