I'm curious to hear from someone who believed Ben mclemore or mkg+biyombo was "laughable return" for rondo. How did you react when you learned we moved rondo for a late 1st and filler?
Has your perspective changed ?
No. Those were terrible ideas and this is just more terrible. Ben Mc and a one seems better, but that other stuff was and remains terrible.
If Tony Parker were wondering out loud about leaving the Spurs you'd never see the Spurs make a panic move and lose a game of chicken like this.
Unfortunately Tony Parker has more trade value than Rondo... even in a contract year. There's a lot of red flags preventing most teams from going after Rondo. The market was weak.
You trade T Parker straight up for Rondo and the Spurs probably get a teeny better or stay the same and we get worse.
Spurs get worse and we get a little better. It's pretty clear. Rondo cannot space the floor like Parker can and he hasn't been able to drive to the hoop as effectively as Parker has in a couple years now.
I don't really know why anyone is trying to engage you in a Rondo debate when you've repeatedly made statements about him that confuse me into believing this is 2011 again.
Spurs should be fine with Rondo at the helm Rondo today is still an effective player, I don't understand why people on this site is equating him to Reggie Evans (it's not to you it's other people.)
Rondo is an exceptional talent but you're holding on to an alternative truth if you think he's capable of what he was a couple years back. Not only that, even if he was the same player, he's someone whose playing style needs to be accommodated by a certain coach and certain players. The Spurs ideally like to have four guys on the floor at all times who can shoot at least 16 ft. out from the basket, preferably a three-pointer. Rondo may be fine on that team now, but when Splitter returns to the starting lineup, Rondo's inability to stretch the floor beyond the midrange area would either compromise their spacing or force them to remove Splitter from the starting unit. He's hardly a player that you can just plug on any team and expect the team to be better, again, even if he was the player of 2011 and '12.
This argument is getting really old. There's nothing to suggest that post-2012 Rondo is enough of an offensive threat to be compared to any of the PGs he's miraculously still being compared to. Somehow people still get aroused enough to viciously defend one side or the other, as evidenced by this probably being the longest thread I've ever been responsible for starting. God love Rondo and his polarizing effect.