Maybe Rondo's best shooting night ever?

[nickagneta]

Lost amidst the anger and overreaction of the loss to the Warriors the other night was the career night that Rajon Rondo had. No not in points scored or free throws made and attempted. But possibly in shooting. And by shooting I mean real, honest to goodness shooting, not FG% or eFG% or TS%.

Rondo was 7 for 9 from the charity stripe and, by my calculations from rewatching the game and looking at ESPN.com's shot chart for the game, was 6 for 11 on outside long and mid range shots. That's 77.8% from the free throw line and 55.6% from outside shots on a total of 20 shots that had to be taken using his new shooting form.

Now as I said, these aren't career numbers for Rondo. But for an overall outside shooting/free throw shooting night in which he had to rely on his new shooting discipline, it might be the best shooting night of his career, in that regard. I hope this becomes just another regular shooting night for Rondo and not the exception because if he can attain this type of proficiency on his shooting from the outside, on a game in and game out basis, it catapults him into the discussion as being one of the three best PGs in the league.

Bad night for the C's but extremely encouraging from this perspective. Imagine Rondo shooting like this every game for the rest of the year with a healthy group of starters and bench? Wow!!

[makaveli]

Bad night for the C's but extremely encouraging from this perspective. Imagine Rondo shooting like this every game for the rest of the year with a healthy group of starters and bench? Wow!!

Rondo will be that player in 2 or 3 years...no one is born a bad or good shooter, it's just confidence with him, and he will have it with experience.

[Tai]

Hey, I was saying thing a couple of times, even during the game, and I knew if the C's lost no one would care or just forget amongst their rage.

And, of course, this was without one of the Big 3, and if Rondo plays tonight, he may have to play alongside only one of them. I dunno, he may shoot more, and who knows what happens then? 

[nickagneta]

Another little tidbit about Rondo's game the other night. It tied him for his career high of double doubles in a season with 15. That's right, last year after 80 games Rondo had 15 double doubles. This year it took him only 30 games to pull that off.

Pretty cool, in my book.

[thebirdman]

http://www.hoopdata.com/boxscore.aspx?id=291228009

[Mike-Dub]

Rondo's offense was great but I really hope he can start picking it up on the defensive end... Two games in a row where he has gotten tourched by the opposing team's pg's... Davis, Ellis, and Nash... Three tough pg's in a row though.

[BballTim]

Another little tidbit about Rondo's game the other night. It tied him for his career high of double doubles in a season with 15. That's right, last year after 80 games Rondo had 15 double doubles. This year it took him only 30 games to pull that off.

Pretty cool, in my book.

  Side note, but Rondo has 15 double-doubles and the rest of the EC pgs have combined for 20.