Rondo really is a basketball genius

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He loves to study film. He is a basketball junkie. He has a photographic memory. Since moving on from the Celtics, even this past season as he was with the Bulls, I’d oftentimes hear him calling out our plays to his teammates, and getting it correct every single time.

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From a Q&A of a Boston writer by Jim Eichenhofer. There's more at the link including talk about how he's an underrated, good finisher at the rim. LINK

What I want to know is how much will Rondo raise the BBIQ of this low BBIQ team? Everybody focuses on what Rondo can't do, and there are some important things he can't do well, but what kind of impact can having a floor general on both sides of the ball have? And I know you can't quantify that and it's hard to discuss, but if this works out I think this might be where Rondo makes the biggest impact on the team.

The past few years it was quite common to focus on the mistakes that often cost us a game and have one of the bad plays down the stretch be something like "Why did he get out of position to go guard that non shooter?" In the Jamel McMillan interview with Kumar, he even made a comment along the lines of you can tell a player like Jrue all of these scouting report details during the week but that doesn't mean he'll be able to remember and use that info in the heat of battle during a game.

I posted the highlight clip in one of the other threads where Rondo blew up an inbounds play by directing Boogie to the right spot in the middle of nowhere guarding nobody when they were in Sacramento. The Boston writer commented multiple times in the interview how Rondo blew up Celtics plays and how that was a big part of the Bulls advantage in the playoffs before he got injured. BBIQ is probably the number 1 non injury complaint about this team in the AD era and Rondo might have more BBIQ than every other player on the team combined.

Sons, I'm excite.