"Trade Rajon for Deron Williams this summer while his stock is high"

[Smutzy#9]

[colincb]

I can see Paul's lobs to Jermaine O'Neal sailing into the seats over and over and over again, like a bad dream...

[raynman]

Trade Harry for Weasley? WHAT?!?

[jdz101]

Great minds think alike.

[Kane3387]

This seems like pretty apparent sarcasm to me.

Without a doubt. Strange ppl don't seem to notice that. All the italics and the wink face in the subject line cause me to think this OP is not being serious  lol.

Great win today. We can legitimately make it to the finals if we get contributions like this consistently. Could be 2010 all over again.

[GreenFaith1819]

This seems like pretty apparent sarcasm to me.

Without a doubt. Strange ppl don't seem to notice that. All the italics and the wink face in the subject line cause me to think this OP is not being serious  lol.

Great win today. We can legitimately make it to the finals if we get contributions like this consistently. Could be 2010 all over again.

Woah there, lol...let's not get TOO ahead of ourselves.

Finals? This Team? THIS year?

This game was just a fluke

[Smutzy#9]

I wouldnt exactly call it a fluke,lets face it, the Heat have been rather filthy with their road games after the all star break 3 double digit losses in close succession..... They arent unbeatable.

[jdz101]

I wouldnt exactly call it a fluke,lets face it, the Heat have been rather filthy with their road games after the all star break 3 double digit losses in close succession..... They arent unbeatable.

but they are unbeatable.....surely their 8 ring dynasty has to start soon...

[KP43]

Obviously Rondo is not the elite point guard we need. Sure, he's a good player but an elite player should be able to take over a game on his own.

Without three hall of famers two hall of famers playing out of their mind, we would have lost. Clearly Rondo was only lucky that the Heat had no good point guard. If Pierce hadn't shut down LeBron, we would've lost. If KG didn't shut down Bosh, we would've lost. If Avery didn't shut down Wade, we would've lost. If Avery wasn't play like a superstar, we would've lost.

The problem with Rondo is he can't win on his own.

I'm so mad we weren't able to trade him for Chris Paul. How about Rondo for Westbrook? We'd have a lot of scoring. Westbrook is so much more talented than Rondo. He could probably win a basketball game all by himself.

We should trade Rondo + both our firsts for something before he no longer has the luxury of three Hall of Famers. I mean, Chris Paul would've probably had a quadruple triple against the Heat if he had the luxury of three two hall of famers. Even someone like Ramon Sessions would've done better than Rondo.

If we had gotten Chris Paul, he would've single handedly lifted our team while we were on our losing streak. It wouldn't even have mattered if all three of our big three were injured. He would've made Sasha Pavlovic look like a basketball king. He would've made JO look 25 again. And he would've went in 110% every. Single. Game. And he would've come out completely healthy because he's blessed by the basketball gods.

haha, just made my day! TP

[Smutzy#9]

Not 4, Not 5, Not 6, Not 7, Not 8 but 12 games in a row with double digit assists.

[kenmaine]

Two things about this thread-

1) There are many posters who actually feel this way- Rondo haters, you know who you are, lol. I guess Rondo was just "padding his stats" again against the Heat. Or he's a toxic lazy jerk because he doesn't have a triple double every game. And where's that list of ten better pgs in the NBA? And oh yes, how are the Clippers and Nets doing with the great Chris Paul and Deron Williams?

2) Most of the posters can't even recognize blatant sarcasm when they see it.

[wdleehi]

Two things about this thread-

1) There are many posters who actually feel this way- Rondo haters, you know who you are, lol. I guess Rondo was just "padding his stats" again against the Heat. Or he's a toxic lazy jerk because he doesn't have a triple double every game. And where's that list of ten better pgs in the NBA? And oh yes, how are the Clippers and Nets doing with the great Chris Paul and Deron Williams?

2) Most of the posters can't even recognize blatant sarcasm when they see it.

The Clippers are the 4th seed in the west having won 5 games in a row and a record of 7-3 in the last ten.

Basically, the same spot as the Celtics except with home court advantage at the moment. 

[Edgar]

Not 4, Not 5, Not 6, Not 7, Not 8 but 12 games in a row with double digit assists.

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[Kane3387]

Two things about this thread-

1) There are many posters who actually feel this way- Rondo haters, you know who you are, lol. I guess Rondo was just "padding his stats" again against the Heat. Or he's a toxic lazy jerk because he doesn't have a triple double every game. And where's that list of ten better pgs in the NBA? And oh yes, how are the Clippers and Nets doing with the great Chris Paul and Deron Williams?

2) Most of the posters can't even recognize blatant sarcasm when they see it.

The Clippers are the 4th seed in the west having won 5 games in a row and a record of 7-3 in the last ten.

Basically, the same spot as the Celtics except with home court advantage at the moment.  

As great as Chris Paul is, I think we have seen how much Billups meant to that team. His presence was key for them at times. They are on a nice run but they are not the team they were earlier in the season with both Billups and Paul out there.

I think the Celtics would be better with Paul, but not by much. With Paul we are a definite contender for his big play ability in the last 3 minutes of games. With Rondo we are a borderline contender with the things he consistently does in the first 45 minutes of games.

I do believe presently we are a contender. The Heat are anything but unbeatable and a lot of times they lack heart. The Rose injury is starting to eerily remind me of Kg in 2009. Constant day-to-day injury statuses and no real updates on when he will actually come back. The Bulls could be in trouble if they draw a tough first or second round opponent.

If Rose isn't full strength then Rondo is a very tough matchup for him on both ends of the floor. With a less then 100% Rose the Bulls on paper are a very even matchup for us. As for the Heat, well, again they seem like front runners. When they aren't ahead they typically lose more then they win.

When you take the R out of heart you get heat.

[LarBrd33]

This thread is intended as sarcasm, but I support it.  I'd trade Rondo for Deron in the offseason without hesitation.  It's no surprise that Rondo's great play coincides with Kevin Garnett turning back the clock as an MVP candidate and Paul Pierce playing like he belongs on 2nd team All-NBA again.  

There was an article a while back comparing John Wall to Rondo and the numbers suggested that if they swapped roles, Rondo's assists would drop dramatically and Wall's numbers would inflate dramatically.  You gotta wonder what a star like Deron WIlliams could do on Boston.  Or more importantly... you gotta wonder what Rondo will do when the big 3 stop making things easy on him and his best teammates are the likes of Jeff Green and Avery Bradley.  You have to fear that Rondo's lack of shooting ability will become a problem when he can't dump the ball off to three hall of famers.  I still see Deron as the 2nd best PG in the league (behind Chris Paul).  Rondo isn't on that level.  He's my 2nd favorite player on the Celtics, though... it would be painful to see the trade.