last year was so painful watching rondo coming back and the fear he wouldn't fully recover,to have lost forever that magic that is rondo-now he comes back early from another operation puts up the numbers he has -critics have such short memories and are so myoptique-we almost lost a court genius to injury --remember its early season a young team missing a rim protector and rondo still not 100%-playing down and dirty defense is grueling and with all that lateral motion and fighting over tops of picks dangerous and still coming pack physically and mentally from ACL so give his defense a break-i know, i never recovered from my knee surgery-