He's a career 30% shooter, I dont really care if he shoots 2 3s a game and hits one. Any guy can get hot for a game, Dort hit 30 in game 7. The people in here arguing have no idea what theyd be giving up if they went to contest them every time. We can play better defense but letting Rondo shoot 3s is something you are gonna have to live with.
Let him have a couple tonight and if he is hot, adjust. Same for lebron. I think we should pack the paint.
Jason Kidd was a 30% career playoff 3pt shooter before he got to Dallas. He was a poor shooter for most of his career but by that point he had clearly improved. Rondo's time in Boston is not indicative of how he can shoot now. He's not an sharpshooter by any means, but for the past five seasons he's been hitting 35.3% on 2.4 attempts per game. He's selective, not incapable. Should we not weigh recent seasons more heavily than seasons over a decade ago? Blake Griffin is a career 69% FT shooter, but it would be silly to call him a poor free throw shooter now when he's been hitting 76.5% for the past five years.
not if you're not going to guard him completely. There's a difference bw treating him like dort who isn't guarded at all and just being conscious and at least soft resistance. Rondo has the ability to impact the game in a multitude of ways. That's proven.
He's not improved now either LMAO. Rondo is definetly not a 35% shooter not matter how you wanna clice it, he's had a good shooting night, Im willing to play the percentages and let him have the shot sometimes. Dude, he's 35% on 2.4 attempts, do you really think he's gonna shoot 5 3s per game on 40% the rest of the way? I have said many times that its not great to give up open looks that to anyone, but you have TO GIVE UP SOMETHING. You have to help on Lebron or AD. 35% on 2.4 attempts dont mean anything, let him keep shooting that way if he's that good.
Light contest is all you can do and you live with it. Either that or Lebron or AD kills you. If he averages 19 points a game the rest of the way, so be it.
light contest is what the rockets didn't do at all and haven't. that was a dumb gameplan from the beginning acting like he was some rookie like Dort. They were lucky rondo just played badly in game 1 because he got the same exact looks Lebron/AD are both gonna get theirs regardless
He looked terrible that first game, expecting him to shoot 40% on 5 attempts is def an outlier game for him no matter how open he was. They better contest him now though I dont want either of them averaging 40 though.
he just played badly. that was literally his first game in the bubble and what 6 months off. he came back game 2/3 knowing what was going to be open and made the rockets pay are people going to keep saying its an outlier game after game. you do know you run out of games to say that. Next thing you know it's elimination time. and then people are like well he got hot at the right time, while the rockets go fishing
It took Schroder who's way younger about 3 games to get into form. No on say Rondo shooting at this clip, he had an outlier game. The points that really hurt you are the turnovers and the shots he had at the rim. Lightly contesting his shot is all you can do. It's fine, a bad shooter made us pay for a game, it happens.
Schroder has nothing to do with Rondo. outlier game. so thats 2 game outlier. and 2 losses for the rockets cool
Neither of them had played in a while. One guy was a 6MOTY candidate who took more games to recover than Rondo who had also been out for a long time.
doesn't matter. one player like rondo has no impact on the other. one player does this means a completely different player cant do it? that doesn't make sense Are the rockets guarding Schroder like they do Dort and Rondo. Nope. Are they same player? Nope
Dude, I'm just giving you an example of one dude who's way younger getting into shape way less sooner. No thought Rondo, not even Lakers fans(and other anaylists) thought he would be anything but a liability this series.
and im saying they don't have anything to do with each other. It's not even about getting into shape. The way the rockets chose to guard rondo to this point is just dumb. He's a proven vet who happens to be an nba champ that has seen it all. letting him play like he's in open gym getting free shots up was/is ridiculous. People out of shape can make shots when they're just given to you. those analyst are dumb too if they thought he'd be some liability when the lakers have no actual pg outside of lebron
Well let's see if he can keep it up, im betting he's gonna get some open shots this game too, let's see if hits like he did last game. He can't shoot so he's supposed to kill spacing for the Lakers. He's made his shots, credit to him. Like I said, most people even heavy lakers fans thought he would be this good. It would be crazy to expect a guy who hasnt played in months to play like this after only game. Just getting a hand up should be enough to completely dip those percentages. Even so I doubt he can keep up 40% on 5 attempts per game.
i mean if that's your evidence that you're going to go by. We have heavy rockets fans who think harden sucks so that's that. anecdotes from a fan base isn't really much of a valid concern to me lets see if he can keep it up is the same logic that has them hurting in the last two games. how many more is everyone gonna ask that before its too late
I think its just too much to expect him to have the kind of impact he did in game 2-3. No one was expecting him to play that way. Just like no one was expecting Morris to go 4/4 and he came back to Earth the very next game.
