re: How happy is everybody about rondo?

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Maybe because the 3 of them were always fricking hurt?

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I actually think the collection of Holiday, Gordon, Anderson, Evans, and Davis was a good core of talent. We really don't know how good that group could have really been since they were so snake-bitten with injuries.

Meh but mostly because of Solomon Hill starting with Rondo. If we had a shooter on the wing I'd be all for it.

54 votes now...

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Now if regular season Rondo turns into playoff Rondo

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People are really basing a lot off of one game..

Prefer Pelicans starting 5 with Rondo vs Bulls Starting 5 with Rondo but that's just me

According to my non-scientific poll, 98% of fans are either in favor of the signing or at worst neutral.

Most of the BBS guys hate this signing. They seem to not like anything, MM is ironcally the only one not shitting on Rondo

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i am confused. if you're turning Holiday into a 3 and D guard, he isnt worth $126M

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I'm looking at someone like Klay Thompson. He's able to guard 1-3. He's a knock down shooter. He's able to get off his own shot when the situation calls for it.

Klay has one of the best jumpers the game has ever seen, but if Jrue can get his 3 pt % to stay around 40%, he could provide the same type of role that Klay plays on the Warriors. We know their offense is predicated on ball movement from all 5 positions and moving without the ball. If Jrue can pick up those skills, he will not just be a 3 and D wing. He could be an upper escelon 3/D wing.

Before people start freaking out that I'm comparing Jrue to Klay, realize I am only saying that is the role I expect him to play in this offense. And again, if he can figure it out, he could earn that deal.

And they'll say you can't shoot if your 3pt percentage is under 40.

re: Jrue and Klay- i'm not a moron. i can recognize the difference between the players w/o #wellactually Klay Thompson is a better shooter


there are 2 problems:

1) Holiday has never played off ball consistently. you're asking him to do something he has not done in 8 years as a pro and god knows how many years as an amatuer

2) you just signed off on $5/126M to a guy whom you now want to take on a role he has never played before. maybe he can adapt (limited sample w/ Cousins last year was not promising, but limited sample is limited sample). he didnt earn that money as an off ball player.

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It's like people have no clue how to value anything outside of shooting.

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not really. it's valuing what a guy can do. Holiday is a ball dominant player on offense (and, yes, he's not a particularly good primary creator- i've stumped for him to be the off the bench scorer after his stint there a couple years back).

if you're asking him to switch that up entirely, that just doesnt add up to me w/r/t Holiday's skills on offense. if you're telling me the system will be set up to allow multiple guys to initiate/create, great.

maybe it works great. i hope so. but plugging guys into new roles isnt as easy as we would like to think- see Evans, Tyreke and Gordon, Eric

ETA- again, most of the confusion/debate/disagreement comes back to how we use/interpret positional labels. when we say SG, that can mean a ton of different things.

e.g.- Holiday is a creator who can do some things off ball. Moore is an off ball guy who can do a little bit off the bounce. Rondo is a creator w/ almost nothing to offer off ball.