josh smith to boston? (rumor?)

[LarBrd33]

Not for the last few years. PP might have shot the ball but in 2010 or so as soon as they got down to 2-3 minutes left PP would bring the ball up and running the offense. That stopped a few years ago. Rondo would bring the ball up and initiate the offense all the way up to at least the last possession or two. He wouldn't have the ball as much if the other team needed to commit an intentional foul but that's about it.

Fair enough. The thing is, you no longer have Pierce to dump the ball to in half-court, and get out of the way.

   Not sure that's a bad thing. But I can tell you Rondo's been at or near the top of crunch time assists for the last 3 years. The previous two years he was 15th or so.

Tim,

Last night I got a text from my buddy.  He was having dinner with his girlfriend at a Chinese Restaurant a couple blocks from my condo in Downtown Bellevue, WA.   Bill Russell had just walked through the door.  How cool is that?  It certainly shocked my buddy... it was just this little "meh" Chinese restaurant (3 stars on yelp) in the middle of a little strip mall.  Some place called "Toy's Cafe":  http://www.toyscafebellevue.com/ ... I get them for delivery every once in a while even though I can walk there in 2 minutes.  My buddy's like, "Dude... ****... Bill Russell!?  Is he local or something!?!" ... I happen to know that Bill actually lives in Mercer Island (a little island between Bellevue and Seattle) so it didn't necessarily shock me too much.   

I briefly debated walking over there... but I mean... I wouldn't want to bother the man in the middle of dinner.  It would be awesome to meet Bill Russell, though.  Also, I've been running a low-grade fever all week.  Plus, I won that CLNS Radio/CelticsBlog "Bill Russell Basketball Sweepstakes" last year so at least I have his autograph.  I decided to just stay home and get some sleep.

So I went to sleep...

I started dreaming...

In my dream, I was at a Chinese restaurant and none other than Rajon freakin Rondo walked through the door.  I immediately walked up to Rondo.  He looked much taller in dream-form.  I'm like, "OMG!  RondoOOooooO!!  I'm a HUGE fan.  I'm obsessed with the Celtics.  I watch the games religiously.  I even post daily on some silly Celticsblog forum!"  Dream-Rondo smiled and responded, "Oh, Celticsblog?  I read Celticsblog!  What's your username on Celticsblog?"

I paused briefly... and finally responded, "BBallTim"

Dream-Rondo then bought me cake.


Anyways, I took it as a sign.  I need to be more like BBallTim on this forum.  No more negative nancy.  No more devil's advocate.  Rondo is our guy.  If I don't shape up quickly, I might not get free cake from Rondo in my fever dreams.

  That was... special. I'd guess posting things like that is helping you deal with whatever issues you're trying to work through. Personally I'm a little creeped out that you dream about being me and I'm somewhat thankful that you're on the other side of the country. I suppose I should keep a better eye on your posts so I'll know to change my username before you start sounding like you're old enough to get on a plane without an adult accompanying you.

Be my valentine, Timmy.

  That would violate the restraining order I'm requesting.

There's a really good joke in here about you and Rajon Rondo, but I'm going to leave it be.  Someone is being a tad malicious today.  I shall not be getting in a pee pee contest with Timmy this close to the trade deadline.  I'm just going to brush it off and assume you're extra on edge with a potential Rondo trade a mere 8 days away.

FWIW, I hope we keep him.  I'm on board with pushing for the 8th seed this year.

  Yes, I'm on edge, just like I was when you were certain he was going to be traded in the offseason, last trade deadline, and probably every offseason and trade deadline since he ran over your dog or foreclosed on your house or whatever happened. I'm starting to wonder if your Rondo obsession stems from some misguided loyalty to your Seattle hero Ray Allen and his bruised ego.

Actually the point of my intended silly story was that I've spent a lot of time on this forum pointlessly arguing with you about whether or not Rondo is a top 5/10/20 player in this league... and it clouds the fact that I'm as big a fan of Rondo as you are.  If I met Rondo in real life, I'd geek out.  He's my favorite player on the team.  And when I "keep it real" and say he's not on the level of Chris Paul, it makes me look like a hater.  Ultimately it doesn't matter.  It's not like our debates have any impact on whether or not he gets traded.  The joke was that if I met a Celtic player in real life who was familiar with the people on this Forum, I'd have to lie and say I wasn't LarBrd33.   I'd have to say I was one of the super-optimists like you or Celtics18. 

I didn't mean any offense by it, man.  Sorry if it came across that way.  Celtics18 just messaged me accusing me of cyberbullying you.  Enough is enough.  The point was to say I'm done arguing with you.  Who cares.  Rondo is some level of awesome.  We're on the same side.   Go Celtics.

[BballTim]

  The joke was that if I met a Celtic player in real life who was familiar with the people on this Forum, I'd have to lie and say I wasn't LarBrd33.   I'd have to say I was one of the super-optimists like you or Celtics18. 

  I sometimes think if I met one of the Celts that I'd be unable to stop myself from making some comment about their game based on something I picked up from some advanced stat website.

[Celtics18]

These persistent Rondo/Smith reunion rumors just won't go away.  Personally, I go back and forth on whether or not I think they'd make a good pairing.  I don't know, you'd definitely need a knock dead shooter at the two and a big who can step out and "stretch" to go along with them.

Some part of me thinks that they are two guys who might play well together, though.  They both do so many things well on the basketball court that I feel never get enough recognition, like defense, rebounding and passing.  Sure, neither is a great perimeter shooter or particularly efficient individual scorer, but I do think that with the right cast around them, it could work (or at least be fun to watch). 

[LooseCannon]

These persistent Rondo/Smith reunion rumors just won't go away.

After the Heat got together, a lot of people assume that players want to join up and form their own version of the Super Best Friends.  So, pretty much any time two players show any sort of off-court affinity, there will be rumors that those players would like to play together.

[pokeKingCurtis]

  The joke was that if I met a Celtic player in real life who was familiar with the people on this Forum, I'd have to lie and say I wasn't LarBrd33.   I'd have to say I was one of the super-optimists like you or Celtics18. 

  I sometimes think if I met one of the Celts that I'd be unable to stop myself from making some comment about their game based on something I picked up from some advanced stat website.

Yeah. Are some people being "super-optimists" or are others trying too hard to be "realistic"?

I feel it's the latter.

[LarBrd33]

  The joke was that if I met a Celtic player in real life who was familiar with the people on this Forum, I'd have to lie and say I wasn't LarBrd33.   I'd have to say I was one of the super-optimists like you or Celtics18. 

  I sometimes think if I met one of the Celts that I'd be unable to stop myself from making some comment about their game based on something I picked up from some advanced stat website.

I met fab melo and Avery Bradley in an elevator last year during the win streak.  I was just like "woah... Avery Bradley and Fab melo!  I'm a big fan of your team.  You guys are playing great..."  Then I realized what I had just said and looked at fab and said "well you need to get some minutes, but you guys are playing great".  They laughed.  It was cool. 

[SHAQATTACK]

I'm almost to the trade Green for Smith in some sort of deal.......but that's probably not the right trade to dump Green.

Mr inconsistent ...Jeff Green