I'm not sure he's a scrub, but his blaring deficiencies ghave been heavily covered up and his assist stats massively padded by having 3 exceptionally talented spot up shooters.
Call it lockout amnesia, but did anyone else just remember that Kevin McHale is our coach? Dear lord I hope this doesn't open up some sort of Boston-Houston trade pipeline. You know how much Danny Ainge likes white guys. I'm sure he's burning up the lines over Budinger.
Well yea he's an elite rebounder and defender, the team has nothing to do with that, but I do not believe he would be an All-star on most teams.
Chris Boussard reporting (snippet included in article about Boston looking to trade for Paul), so grain of salt and all that jazz. Thankfully Presti wasn't drunk that day. On the bright side, Ainge... at least you'll be able to re-sign Green for a pretty cheap deal now. :grin:
Rondo would be a good fit with Indiana, he'd be great with OKC (allowing Harden to fill the scoring gap that losing Westbrook would create). Rondo in New Orleans? No. You'd need at least a Westbrook to replace Chris Paul. Otherwise the NBA-owned Hornets won't go for it at all. Could be an interesting December, although big trades tend to mess up that particular season while chemistry comes into place. Dallas went out in the first round the year they traded for Butler and...Haywood? Orlando fared worse after the trade for Arenas/Turkeyglue. (Although those were midseason trades.)
Ditto that for all white ex-Celtics, really....Rondo notwithstanding. Still, I'm sure it's no coincidence that Bird in Indiana and Ainge in Boston at least led to an easier phone call. "Danny? How's it going...blah blah...how about Rondo?" "Larry, doin fine, blah blah, you'd better find a 3rd team in this, otherwise, no can do."
I agree here, but last year, it was actually Rondo who cratered at the end of the season. Maybe losing his buddy Perkins to OKC? Maybe he was physically hurt? For whatever reason, his stats nose-dived after the All-Star break.
