Rajon Rondo is tied for fifth all-time (with The Big O) at 8 playoff trip-dubs. Oscar had 8 in 14 years, Rajon's got 8 in six years. Magic leads with 30 in 13 campaigns. In comparison, LeBron James has 6 (six) in nine seasons. Kobe is not even on the list.
http://www.sportscity.com/nba/nba-all-time-triple-doubles-181/
I think this is why a lot of people -- myself including -- find the triple double emphasis to be a bit misguided. Rondo has more triple doubles than Michael Jordan. Does that suggest in any way that he was more impactful of a player? Of course not. Yet, when people see "triple double", they automatically assume a player had a dominant game.
Rondo has probably had 50 games where he was better than in Game 1. He played pretty poorly for most of three quarters (3 points, 1-for-7, 6 turnovers). However, because he reached some arbitrary statistical plateaus, people are talking almost like this was a historically great game. It wasn't. It was a great final 13 minutes, and that should be celebrated. However, it would have been a great fourth quarter even if his final stat line didn't include the requisite 10-10-10.
I'll take KG's last two games over Rondo's last two triple-doubles. Most importantly, though, each of those efforts came in a win, so the rest is just nit-picking.
I don't think he had a historically great game and I criticized Rondo for his defense in his last triple double game and also for his meh play during that game.
But I didn't see it this game.
He rebounded well all game and he involved his team mates well all game. Your stats of 6 rebounds and 12 assists in three quarters prove that. Also, his one on one defense on Holiday was also very good all game. It was Bradley that was guarding Turner.
He didn' shoot well in the first three quarters but only KG did on the whole team and he had some bad turnovers but he also was given credit for a couple to's that weren't his fault.
I will say this, what I can't stand at times about Rondo is his transition defense when he does make a turnover. There's three types of ballhandling players that when they turn the ball over do a certain thing:
1. THE HUSTLE BACK AND TRY TO MAKE SURE THE TURNOVER DOESN":T COST THE TEAM ANYTHING PLAYER- this is not Rondo
2. THE PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN AN BEAT YOURSELF UP OVER THE TURNOVER PLAYER - Rondo has too much confidence to be this player
3. THE COMPLAIN THE THE REFS AND TELL YOUR TEAMMATES WHAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DOING SO THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN PLAYER - Not only is Rondo in this group but so is Pierce which means bad turnovers by those two usually lead to transition baskets for the other team as neither hustle backs on transition defense when they turn the ball over.
Case in point was that horrible brain fart between them in the third after Boston had come back and taken a 4 point lead. It took KG to come back and force Iguodala into a miss and then KG goal tended the put back rebound by the Evan Turner. Pierce and Rondo were so busy blaming each other neither got back and put a defensive body on turner who got the miss after a great KG play to stop the layup by AI.
I think Rondo had a pretty good overall game until the last thirteen minutes and then took over the game and turned that pretty good game into a really good game because of his performance in the fourth.
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