Rondo went to private shoot around in Houston Saturday morning with Jason Terry?

[mgent]

Went to a gym in Houston, Terry was there. Who cares?

No, went to the Rockets stadium with Jason Terry -who plays on the team you are playing that night- to shoot/get shots up.
 I'm wondering if Pierce or KG have ever gone to shoot around before a game with a player on another team- particularly the team they're playing that day...I doubt it.

   Based on what? You don't think they'd ever hang out with former teammates when they're playing the player's team? I wouldn't bet the farm on that. Ray maybe, but I doubt they religiously avoid spending time with friends.

I think they'd definitely hang out, maybe go to dinner after a game- but going to shoot around before a game with an opponent is (to me at least) bizarre and I doubt this specific thing happens very often. I don't think anyone cares if they go out to dinner after the game- this is different to me. Usually teams have different times to use the court and avoid each other before the game. ie the Celtics shoot around is at 2 pm and the Rockets shoot around is at 9.30 am for 2 hours. They don't cross paths until tip off.

Apparently Rondo went to either the training facility or the Rockets stadium court with Jason Terry to shoot around in the morning. They played each other 8 hours later.
That's got to be a strange occurrence and I'll speculate that Scalabrine thinks so too given his response/tone when hearing this from Abbey the sideline reporter.

  I would assume that this was outside of the team shoot arounds, that Rondo still went to to the Celts shoot around and Terry still went to the Rockets shoot around. I'm not sure why you'd think that players hanging around together or going out to dinner is perfectly normal behavior but shooting hoops together is bizarre, but to each his own I suppose.

You really can't see the issue there Tim? There's a difference between game day shoot around the morning of your game with opposing players and going out to those same players after the business has concluded.

I'm not sure if you heard the broadcast, but I'll ask you anyway;
Why did Brian Scalabrine want confirmation from Mike Gordan that Abby actually said that Rondo went to shoot around with Jason Terry today ? His tone could best be described as 'is that what she really said?'
It's not common occurrence to do this thing pre-game.

Yeah, this is such a new concept that Rondo invented, what a trailblazer.  Bill Russell for instance would never go to Wilt's house before games 50 years ago or anything.  I guess it takes a genius like Rondo to realize two guys, who have overcome the astronomical odds of becoming an NBA player, might have common interests and like hanging out together.

And how dare Rondo work on his shooting!!!!  Especially with the 4th leading 3pt shooter in history!  If only he stayed home, the team would be so much better off.

What happened to the good ol' days of people calling out Rondo for not working on his shot?  What has this world come to?

[D.o.s.]

Much ado about nothing.