People don't understand how good he is. Kyrie at age 19 was arguably better than LeBron or Durant as rookie teenagers. Those two shot like 40% as rookies. He's unbelievable... he played like 11 games in College, stepped into the NBA and was already one of the best shooters in the entire league. It's incredible he was able to be that efficient with that supporting cast with that kind of attention. Incredible.
Rondo's a great player... I'd take Kyrie over him easily.
I understand how good he is, I just don't think it's a given that he'll ever be as good as Rondo.
I think he might be better than Rondo already. Hard to say. The fact that he's still a child and scoring that efficiently with no supporting cast (meaning he's getting all the attention of the defense) is sort of mind-blowing. It would be interesting to see what he'd do with a supporting cast like Rondo's.
Could Irving get 12 assists per game on Boston? Maybe
Could Rondo average 23 points on the Cavs while shooting 46% FG, 40% from three and 80% from the line? No.
Can't wait to see how good Irving is as an adult.
To be fair to Rondo, it's hard to compare anyone to him at the moment. Through 24 games, he's second only to the great Chris Paul in terms of efficiency. He's having the best season of his career so far.