Video: Rajon Rondo Tosses Alley-Oop With His Forehead

Once again committing yourself to stat you know is wrong and can’t be proved. 95% ehhh, how long it take you to crunch all that game tape today? And now it’s just 10 footers okay? Why do you insist on making asinine overexaggerations? We both know you could’ve gone with 60% (still higher than it actually is) to make a real solid argument, but you couldn’t help yourself and went with the hyperbole. You can’t do that with me and expect to be taken seriously. That’s why this is fun to me. You’ve locked yourself into 3 arguments (“at all,” 47% from 10-15ft is awful and 95% of RR’s 10fter’s are wide open) you can’t validate so instead of readdressing your points or concede that you’re being over-the-top you dig deeper. Worried, naw not in the slightest. He’s adequate enough to snag a starting pg spot, adequate to make it to 2 Finals, adequate enough to crack SLAM’s top20 and adequate enough to make the all-star team (totally subjective, but 2 can play that game)…

Your arguing with me like I have something against Rondo. His jumper is terrible, and hasn’t gotten ANY better. Your opinion doesn’t prove that otherwise. I know why, how good Rondo is, I am just not stupid enough to think he is a good shooter. That’s it. You can focus on if my facts are 100% accurate all you want. Prove me wrong about those, doesn’t change my point. Rondo can’t shoot, and hasn’t gotten better. Goodnight.

Never said he was good that’s why you couldn’t quote me on that, I’m simply arguing he’s better than you made him out to be. “Your arguing with me like I have something against Rondo,” naw I’m arguing with you cause you use over-the-top statements to make your points. Arguing that way doesn’t hold weight it’s immature. You can’t get away with that BS when writing in legitimate settings. On comment sections like this it doesn’t matter you can away it, but in any other format you’d be taken to task for compiling an argument in such a frivolous manner. Take everything I’ve typed and everything you’ve typed; neither of us is entirely right, but my opinions are far closer to reality than yours. Already told what you what I see. I know his J improved since his rookie year, I know 95% of his 10-15fters aren’t wide open and I know 47% from 10-15ft isn’t awful so now what? 25% of his shots coming with less than 4 on the clock would help someone trying to defend his low shooting percentage by the way…

His jumper hasn’t improved. His set shot hasn’t improved. How teams guard him. The fact that he is hesitant to shoot. His career low 31% from 10-15 feet. His Career Low Free Throw %. Are All Proof that his shooting is just as inefficient and productive as it has been his whole career. All improvements other than that are purely aesthetic. And guess what, I don’t give a sh*t if my arguments are over the top, like you said, it is a comment section. I am giving you accurate to (unproven) semi-accurate information from my cell phone. Lol I could give a sh*t if some of what I say is not on the money, you haven’t added anything but conjecture. Focusing on stats out of context, like pointing out 47% isn’t that bad, when we all know he can’t and won’t (for good reason) shoot anything but a wide open jumpers or a shots against the clock, which is also usually wide open. Most defenses focus on keeping him out of the lane and playing the pass. Literally giving him uncontested shots. There are a few that try and get into him. Click my name you can read an article about how teams guard him in the pick and roll, from like a week ago. Talks about how he is invited to shoot and refuses. If his jumper were improving, the bestrhig he could do for his team is make the defense respect him. And he hasn’t done that, he’s gotten factually worse. At all aspects of shooting but shots from 17-22 feet. Where he shot the least amount of shots, and a career high % from that distance. (I don’t have a source for that last fact, which you can use to support your argument if you want it does work, minus the attempts thing, and you can look It up if you want to get it exactly right) he shot career lows to the worst % since his rookie year. What real reason other than the (fifty so ergot attempts from 17-22 feet) do you have to think his shot has actually improved, rather than not, if not regressed?.

is it me or does someone leaving you wide open begging you to shoot actually make it harder to shoot? it takes away the flow and makes you think about it more, with defense using that tactic his number of shots is going to go up while overall % drops. and people saying its is elbow poking out or he should change his shot is crazy, he should perfect how he shoots but concentrate on his footwork into the shot, and maybe see a sports psychologist to deal with blocking the pressure out. and lets say the leader of the free world calling you out cant help with the confidence of shooting either. but to say hes horrible is an extreme exaggeration. and maybe ray allen should learn how to pass from rondo (instead of jumping every time he passes) or maybe rondo working with 3 future hof should continue playing his role and give the ball up and play solid D

The reason they back off him is because they dont wanna get left where they are and todays zone defenses allow this. and if thats your so called “strength” than of course your gonna over criticize that aspect of his game, but I think your coming from a bias place, his skill set is so over developed in some areas that having an average jumper works for him, as for teams backing off of him i think thats partly doc rivers fault, more pick and rolls and more movement would allow him to step in to his jumper with rhythm, and thats where improving his footwork would be a great asset. i still think horrible is the wrong word to describe it, especially because i bet on his worst day he shoots better than all if not the greater majority of those who post on slam

Rondo doesn’t shoot that good, your crazy. In my men’s league right now, with Rondo’s 3pt % (can’t compare field goal % cuz it’s a men’s league, lots of layups) he wouldn’t be in the top 50. Every single guard that I played with in high school shoots better than Rondo (holler at the makers of “the gun”). I guarantee the posters at slam who have been hooping as perimeter players their whole lives can all shoot better than Rondo as well.

bk the ref stopped this shht hours ago, it’s over la. “You have only provided your opinion. Which means nothing,” you swear like everything I’ve typed isn’t sitting right above this for everyone to see. I’d love it for my opinions to be displayed at probballtalk and hoopdata, but unfortunately I can’t take credit for the research it took to compile those shot range %’s…

It shows that Rondo makes 1.8 shots for every 5.5 attempts outside 3 feet. Which is absolutely terrible.

Or 8.8 makes out of every 21 shot attempts outside 3 feet for his career. Or 41% – Which also is absolutely terrible.

he’s great. really great. He would be the best PG in the NBA if he could shoot.