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February 24, 2009 5:09 PM
As a fan of diversity, in genes as in other things, I'm against cloning.
But if I were living a sci-fi movie, and had to somehow maximize NBA
profitability without leaving some illicit basement laboratory, my short list
of ideas would include methamphetamines in the locker room coffee (worked in
baseball!), calf-muscle rocket boosters, or ... thirty Rajon Rondos.
Honestly. If the point is to have fun watching basketball, and the Phoenix
Suns aren't in their prime any more ... who would ever want to watch a game
without a Rondo? (Special allowances could be made for contests featuring
Chris Paul.)
How do I know he's ridiculously fun to watch? My mom told me.
The other day my mother -- who does not watch a ton of NBA basketball, but
generally likes the Blazers -- took the conversation well off-topic to
declare that Rajon Rondo was simply her favorite NBA player. It's a small
focus group, but one that means a lot to me.
And I can back it up with my own experience. Let's not bog down this argument
with actual numbers and such, but it sure seemed to be that for a spell there
in Denver on Monday night, Rondo -- the point guard -- had more offensive
rebounds than all the Nuggets together had defensive rebounds. He was
everywhere, doing everthing, and all in delightfully fast and sneaky style.
The Nuggets were clearly gassed. But so were the Celtics! Except Rondo. They
had no Garnett, and by the time any other Celtics really heated up, Rondo
already had the game well in hand for the green team.
John Krolik, author of Cavs the Blog, has gone to some trouble to explain in
a FreeDarko blog post what it is about Rajon Rondo that makes him so uniquely
clonable:
As much as any player in the NBA, Rondo is paradox incarnate. Rather than
being a paradigm of quiet contribution and efficiency at all times-the
standard "know your role" PG-Rondo is at once an unstoppable for whom there
is no possible answer and a gaping wound whose weakness provides a possible
attack point. He is the type of young, talented, and developing player who
normally thrive on bad teams, but he runs the point for the league's current
juggernaut. He the worst shooting guard in the NBA, and yet leads all guards
in FG%. He's brimming with athletic skill and his body looks like the product
of Jay Bilas being allowed access to the Forge of Hephaestus, and yet he's
more beloved by stat heads than scouts. His play is more audacious than any
guard in the league, and yet he is the unknown star of the Celtics.
The fantastic of Rondo all traces back to the fact that he has no jump shot.
This is hardly news. However, it is important to make some distinctions
between having a bad jump shot and Rondo's jump shot. Russell Westbrook and
Raymond Felton have bad jump shots. They are given space and it is the goal
of every defense to force them into taking a shot, and it is a constant
struggle for them to create lanes by trying to keep defenses honest. Rondo
has no jump shot. He has eschewed it. It is a false God to him. It is not a
part of his decision tree but an unwelcome last resort. Defenses do not try
to force him to take a jump shot, for there is no pretense he will actually
take one. When Rondo gets the ball in his hands, the clarity of his goal
actually leads to a greater set of permutations than it normally would-if we
are to stretch the metaphor of the outside shots, than the difference between
other point guards' possessions and Rondo's possessions are the difference
between a gunfight and swordplay.
To wish, as most do, for a Rondo with a jumpshot is to wish for a sober
Bukowski, a Woody Allen with normal relationships, Obama without the Bush era.
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