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Re: Rondo's impressive road trip by the numbers, could it lead to banner 18?
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2009, 10:35:31 AM »

Offline Fafnir

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Nick it isn't about his overall production. It is more how there are games, particularly against teams with lots of length to hinder his drives, that by playing completely off him at times that he has been taken out of the game.

It happens less often now, but in the playoffs when you have a lot of games to game plan and adjust it is a signifigant weakness. One that effects the entire team because Rondo's man is providing a quick double much of the time. It is not about his low scoring.

He's a top 5 point guard even with a glaring weakness. As he addresses it he'll be an MVP type PG. I love that he has been taking the jumper more often off the dribble. Even if it drives his FG% down it will help the team overall. I worry that he'll stop taking it when KG is back.

Re: Rondo's impressive road trip by the numbers, could it lead to banner 18?
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2009, 10:53:03 AM »

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Nick it isn't about his overall production. It is more how there are games, particularly against teams with lots of length to hinder his drives, that by playing completely off him at times that he has been taken out of the game.

It happens less often now, but in the playoffs when you have a lot of games to game plan and adjust it is a signifigant weakness. One that effects the entire team because Rondo's man is providing a quick double much of the time. It is not about his low scoring.

He's a top 5 point guard even with a glaring weakness. As he addresses it he'll be an MVP type PG. I love that he has been taking the jumper more often off the dribble. Even if it drives his FG% down it will help the team overall. I worry that he'll stop taking it when KG is back.
I think that thinking is over thought out and overblown. LA did that to him in all six games last June and yet he still had two extremely productive games and averaged 10 points, 7 assists, 4 rebounds and 2 steals for the series in just 27 minutes. And now Rondo is a much better and smarter player than he was at that time last year. He cohesion with the starters is that much better. If Cleveland and LA want to pack it in and force him to shoot it in a seven game series, that too can be gameplanned against to nullify it's effects.

I think people are going to see a much different Rondo this playoff season as compared to last season and I just don't see where that game plan is going to be nearly as effective as everyone thinks it will.

Rondo is not the Rondo of June 2008. This is a much smarter, savy, more physical and more mature player and he and Doc will take advantage of the switch and lag defense that the Clevelands and LAs of the world will attempt to employ.

I'm sure of it.

Re: Rondo's impressive road trip by the numbers, could it lead to banner 18?
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2009, 10:58:02 AM »

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I hope you are right. The returns for this season certainly say he's made a huge leap, now if he does it in the playoffs we'll have an eighteenth banner.

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« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2009, 11:01:34 AM »

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I don't know what it will all mean in the long run, but in the short run it's making for some really entertaining basketball.  He seems to add a new move every week now.  The guy had shown steady improvement throughout his young career.  He's just flat out burning guys.  The body control he has at the speed he is moving is amazing.
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Re: Rondo's impressive road trip by the numbers, could it lead to banner 18?
« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2009, 05:16:54 PM »

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might i add that his jump shot, while he still doesn't trust in it, is looking tons better.

Rondo however has a another skill that he lacks that is troubles me: he doesn't have a left right cross over. All the all-star point guards have it. He has a one handed cross over and also has a great drive... but he needs a left right cross over.

His current crossover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6noMEirLYA

I want to see him do this instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3Y38z_QC04

he gets that down, and even without a jumpshot, he's an all-star.

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Re: Rondo's impressive road trip by the numbers, could it lead to banner 18?
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2009, 05:45:23 PM »

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Could Rondo's play make up for the loss of Posey and Brown?  Absolutely. 

But does it also make up for the improvements LA and Cleveland have made?  I'm not sure. 

Hopefully.