Did you all see what Rondo just did?

i remember a topic that fatal9 started a while back where he looked at every assist made by rondo and said only two were questionable, out of 24

its obvious there's moments where he stat pads, no denying that, but to say his entire game is based on generating assists is completely asinine, he purposely creates plays to get guys open, he only passes to guys that he knows are open and will shoot the ball

basically every pass he makes leads to someone trying to score, he very rarely makes passes that result in a non shooting play

and to be honest? when i see rondo driving and he has a slight chance to make a layup, and instead he passes to a WIDE open PP/Ray/KG, i'd MUCH rather them take the shot than him, let's not act like he's the greatest finisher in the league, and i think he knows it, rondo knows he's not the greatest offensive player

but when he needs to score? he does ..twice last night he blew by his defender in a half court set untouched to the basket for an uncontested layup

when he wants to score, he does, but lets not act like he should be taking shots over three hall of famers, pass the ball to the offensive juggernauts please

I don't even give a shit too call him out on it, I just don't want them to deny he does it.

I agree with everything you said pete, except you'd rather see him pass to Ray/pierce. I think since he's actually a decent finisher he should just finish it, but aside from that I agree entirely.

[QUOTE=pete's montreux]i remember a topic that fatal9 started a while back where he looked at every assist made by rondo and said only two were questionable, out of 24

its obvious there's moments where he stat pads, no denying that, but to say his entire game is based on generating assists is completely asinine, he purposely creates plays to get guys open, he only passes to guys that he knows are open and will shoot the ball

basically every pass he makes leads to someone trying to score, he very rarely makes passes that result in a non shooting play

and to be honest? when i see rondo driving and he has a slight chance to make a layup, and instead he passes to a WIDE open PP/Ray/KG, i'd MUCH rather them take the shot than him, let's not act like he's the greatest finisher in the league, and i think he knows it, rondo knows he's not the greatest offensive player

but when he needs to score? he does ..twice last night he blew by his defender in a half court set untouched to the basket for an uncontested layup

when he wants to score, he does, but lets not act like he should be taking shots over three hall of famers, pass the ball to the offensive juggernauts please[/QUOTE]
So that should bring the value of his assists down some.

to be honest i dont know why he doesnt look to score as much anymore, maybe he's gunning for the assist title, maybe he's gunning for the record i don't know

but when rondo does RONDO, the celtics offense hits on all cylinders, it's beautiful to watch, players getting bounce passes through 5 guys for an open layup, him driving and drawing defenders passing out to ray and pierce and kg on the wing, fast break trailing threes for ray and pp

rondo doing rondo helps the team and leads to wins

and i agree with glide, ive always said theres a much larger percentage of BS assists in the entire league than people actually realize, but what are you gonna do? theres nothing you CAN do

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I have to defend him here. He must have been afraid of the COCKBLOCK!

ive never seen any pg better at drawing in defenders and passing to open players, really

he does it literally 20-30 times a game, he's giving high percentage looks to elite shooters, and he gets assists for it, which are completely deserved

[QUOTE=pete's montreux]to be honest i dont know why he doesnt look to score as much anymore, maybe he's gunning for the assist title, maybe he's gunning for the record i don't know

but when rondo does RONDO, the celtics offense hits on all cylinders, it's beautiful to watch, players getting bounce passes through 5 guys for an open layup, him driving and drawing defenders passing out to ray and pierce and kg on the wing, fast break trailing threes for ray and pp

rondo doing rondo helps the team and leads to wins

and i agree with glide, ive always said theres a much larger percentage of BS assists in the entire league than people actually realize, but what are you gonna do? theres nothing you CAN do[/QUOTE]
I'm just saying that, yeah you can gawk over the high numbers and that's good he's getting them.

24 and 22 assists in one game is still 24 and 22 in one game. No matter how you look at it. My only problem with him is when I see him do things like this and get credit like he did something spectacular.

[quote=Glide2keva]I'm just saying that, yeah you can gawk over the high numbers and that's good he's getting them.

24 and 22 assists in one game is still 24 and 22 in one game. No matter how you look at it. My only problem with him is when I see him do things like this and get credit like he did something spectacular.[/quote]

I don't know why anyone would gawk over a play like that. If they did, they're idiots.

[QUOTE=pete's montreux]I don't know why anyone would gawk over a play like that. If they did, they're idiots.[/QUOTE]
I was saying gawk at his high assist numbers.

[quote=Glide2keva]I was saying gawk at his high assist numbers.[/quote]

Well he's doing a lot of work. He's making the right plays. If a PG passes the ball to an OPEN player, he's doing his job and should get all the credit he deserves. 20+ assists is spectacular, period.

lol @ stats not mattering. If you went by the eye test, JR Smith would be better than Kobe.

[QUOTE=HB40TheNextStar]lol @ stats not mattering. If you went by the eye test, JR Smith would be better than Kobe.[/QUOTE]
Using whose eyes? JRs?

Rondo haters really got their Panties in a twist over this! Can't believe there are people writing essays about it. That's some funny stuff. Who cares what he does as long as he doesn't turn the ball over.

[QUOTE=Glide2keva]I'm just saying that, yeah you can gawk over the high numbers and that's good he's getting them.

24 and 22 assists in one game is still 24 and 22 in one game. No matter how you look at it. My only problem with him is when I see him do things like this and get credit like he did something spectacular.[/QUOTE]
22 assists is still spectacular. And if you took off the 10% of so-called 'padded assists', which is a generous figure, he'd still be the assist leader so far...