The Case for Keeping Rondo

[Nut from Nh]

How there is not a total uproar over the obvious fact that we are making every effort to trade Rondo is beyond my comprehension.

Has anyone taken a minute to think about the near endless search it took Danny to find our PG?  Delonte West, Gary Payton, Marcus Banks, Chucky Atkins, Dan Dickau, Jiri Welch, and Sebastion Telflop.  That's just off my head but TA got a legit shot at one point, and you could throw in Sam Cassell for fun but the point is Danny searched high and low to find Rondo, we should remember how long and frustrating the search was!

He has improved tremendously every single year.  He is not nearly done improving.  He is a singular talent the likes of which we will not see for a long time.  14 rebounds in a playoff game?  I recall 12 rebounds in another?  He is already a star and is a surefire superstar and all of our other stars are not getting any younger. 

We know the reports about how his teamates once hated playing or him.  You know who else that statement applied to?  Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.  Rondo's knowledge is off the charts, his instincts unmatched by 99.99% of the league.  He cannot comprehend how players don't see what he sees so he gets frustrated.  So what?  He has gotten better as a teamate. 

He showed up late for a playoff game.  So what.  I don't give a bleep if he shows up at HALFTIME of a playoff game, when your averaging a freaking triple double in the playoffs like he was that puts him at about 12 points, 5 rebs, and 5 assists with at least 1 steal and that is STILL better than any other starting 1 in the East and better than all but 2 pg's out west. 

You have this kid locked up at cheap cash for two more years, and by then it will be a matter of opinion as to who is the better player Rondo or CP3.  When it is all said and done if Rondo leaves the green we are all going to be losing sleep.  You can coach yourself out of attitude, you can't coach yourself into the FREAK that Rondo is.  He is a FREAK, and he was the best player on the court in the first two rounds of the playoffs who was not named Lebron, including BOTH coasts. 

[TheLegendaryClub]

I completely agree with you on all accounts. There have been a lot of "don't trade Rondo or Perk" discussions. It's not that people aren't pulling for them, it's that it seems futile to do so now. When every single rumor has his name in it, and DA is smearing Rondo in all of the interviews, it doesn't look good for our PG. I'll be upset if he gets traded, and I'll continue to follow his career wherever he goes. But at the end of the day, I guess I'm starting to resign myself to the fact that if trading my favorite player is what's deemed best for the team by the guys who know best, so be it.

[VPofCommonSense]

let's not start shedding tears gentlemen.  The championship was one by Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and an underrated performance by Kendrick Perkins.  It wasn't won by the pretty inconsistent play of Rajon Rondo.

I love the guy, for all the little things he does.  That said, his potential contract demands scare the crap out of me.  He's not in the Derrick Rose, Deron Williams, Chris Paul class (young PG's the deserve max deals), he's in the Tony Parker, Devin Harris class (young PGs that should be making 8-10 mil a year.

So if there is a deal on the table where we can get a good young player/high pick or two good young players, why not do it?  The Big Three will do the same thing they did only this time we'll have a much improved Perkins to boot.