Is it time to admit Rondo meant so much to this team?

[OsirusCeltics]

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[BballTim]

Rondo's game is penetration and that's what we needed last night

Theory vs Practice

Rondo's attributes is good in theory, but not productive in practice

In theory he has freakishly long arms, big hands, athletic, fast, passing skills, can penetrate any defense, fire in the belly, hates losing

But in practice, like what he produces on the court, isn't anywhere near his attributes

Has long arms, but has horrible perimeter defense, lets his man drive the lane constantly
 
Has great passing skills, but causes too many turnovers and holds the ball stifling the offense

Can penetrate any defense, but where is this skill in the fourth quarter? Scared to attack the rim because he's scared of his bad free throw shooting

Fire in the belly, but has so much temper tantrums, which costs his team to lose games. I know everyone did not forget how he cost the Celtics to lose so many games because his best friend Perk was gone, and was "sad"

I like Rondo. But the thing about him is that he doesn't take advantage of his impressive skills, and way too inconsistent. I rather just have a less talented point guard who knows his role and increases the Celtics' winning totals

  Your theories are wrong. In practice he's the league leader in assists (and has been for a while), he's been 1st or 2nd team all-defense 4 years running, averaged something like 17/7/12 in the playoffs last year and led the team to the ecf. He's also typically among the league leaders in best assist/turnover ratios.

[action781]

Rondo can't play center and guard Howard as effectively as Bass can.

Exactly.  When Dwight gets 7 offensive rebounds that lead to baskets, oh, there's the 14 points that we lost by.  I was really disappointed that Doc didn't play Jason Collins more last night.  More confused than disappointed actually.  I felt that was a no brainer.

Rondo is also a very good rebounder so that would've helped a lot but we've needed help in that department for a while

Rondo isn't going to keep Dwight from getting rebounds.

  While these may be true, we've won games before when Howard (or someone else) got a ton of rebounds. Sometimes you stop them from doing what they want, sometimes you do other things well to offset what they're doing well.

Very true.  Given that this was a nationally televised game last night, there is a good likelihood that Rondo could have given us that last night too.

  Yeah, as far as you know Rondo never plays well in games that aren't on national tv.

[ItStaysYang]

What do you mean "is it time"? If you hadn't realized this before he went down, you are oblivious