Fuck Yea[h] NBA

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9 days left until the 2010-11 NBA season tips off.

Brought to you by Rajon Rondo the roller skating alien-dinosaur-ninja-magician. 

Freedarko once called Rondo “otherworldly and borderline autistic alien-dinosaur” and he was spot on. Rondo is not from this planet. He doesn’t understand our human concepts of basketball. He was delivered to this world with his own blueprint to success and he is unwilling to compromise on how that success is achieved. And for that reason alone we must love him.

Rajon Rondo or, as our boy Neal calls him, Rajondo swears he never watched the NBA until 2006. That might be deterring on the surface however I find it a beautiful characteristic of Rondo’s game. He was never tainted. He was never given a mold to try to fit into. Never a shadow to walk under. Never a player’s sytle to try and emulate. This is what makes Rajon an alien. He plays the game the way he wants to. 

Rondo won an NBA title in as a baby and was the most suspect of the 5 starters on that Boston Celtics team, with good reason. He has quickly come into his own since and last year was arguably the best player on a team that was 7 minutes away from winning an NBA championship. This summer Rondo was having a great run with Team USA when out of no where he was benched then quit the team as speculation where swirling about him getting cut. His reasons at the time where “family issues” but his real reasons were that he wanted to work on his game and win another title.

It’s no secret that ever amazing attribute of his game cannot hide the fact that he is a terrible shooter. It actually amazing that a guard can average near a triple double during a playoff series while also being such a bad shooter.

How bad? Dispite averaging 50.8% from the field (54% TS%, 51.7% eFG%) Rondo shot a putrid 21.3% from 3 and a disgusting 62.1% on free throws. According to 82games.com 48% of Rondo shot selection were jump shots, of which he had an eFG% of 34.8%.

You would think someone this motivated and determined to improve and win would fix the one aspect of his game that is an anchor for his career. Nope. When Russ Bengtson, of twitter fame, caught up with Rondo this summer and spoke to him about his suspect jumper and what he did to improve it over the off-season. Here is how the convo went:

Rondo on media day: Did you work with Mark Price this summer? “No.” Did you do anything for your shot? “No.” Feel better about it? “Yes.”

Rajon either does not care about shooting jumpers or he used some sort of alien-ninja-magic to get better. Either way I want to see what new tricks he has up his sleeve this season.

@Suga_Shane

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