mclemore shot 32% and 35.8% from Three in his two NBA seasons. Gay is a 34% career 3-Point shooter. They donīt have a stretch Big-man. Donīt want to hate on Rondo or the Kings team, but itīs not like it is a perfect fit for Rondo (Allen,Pierce,Garnett provided much more spacing and scoring ability in general)
Definitely hear you one the Boston big 3 being a better fit but that's more based how good the big 3 were as players not necessarily how you'd want to construct a roster around Rondo. Cousin/Gay/McLemore may never be as good as Pierce/Allen/Garnett but as players you could argue that they are a better fit next Rondo.
Your kind of picking and choosing your stats there to support your argument. With McLemore your looking at what he's done lately ignoring how well he shot at Kansas and how textbook and natural his form is. We were more going off how good of a shooter that he's projected to become, especially considering that he was expected to develop more slowly during the draft process.
But then when ya talk about Rudy Gay it's career stats that tell the story, stats that have been pretty seriously deflated by his time spent in Toronto as leagues least efficient, high usage offensive player.
Rudy plays more Small Ball 4 now and has never really fallen off his fresh start high FG% in Sacramento. Last year he shot 36% from 3 which is fine for a high usage primary scorer.
With Rudy we're more looking at what have you done for me lately since he is already fully developed.
Also the spacing as a whole might not be as open as it was in Boston but the extreme attention that Cousins draws could easily offset that. KG may have been a monster in his own right but with all respect to Perkins, Darko and Jermaine O'Neal, Rondo's never played with a post player even half as good or draws a fraction of the attention as Demarcus Cousins. A lot easier to whip pinpoint passes out to 3 point shooters when 3-5 of the defenders assume the ball's heading to the big man and collapse around Cousins.