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Great article about Rondo and what goes on in his head
Posted on 4/10/15 at 9:35 am
Posted on 4/10/15 at 9:35 am
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Provide him with bad information? “Your credibility is shot,” Rondo says. And if he doesn’t buy the narrative, even off the floor, he’ll bail, he’ll disengage, as he does on movies whose storylines stray from logic, even for a moment. His last theater walkout: The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington. “I didn’t understand how he got the cop’s number,” Rondo says, referencing a certain scene. “It was just too much.” He recently watched the movie again to see if he could stomach it. He couldn’t.
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Rondo is adept at poker -- computing probabilities, counting cards -- emptying teammates' pockets. He's a whiz at bourré, the famously contentious card game that's fractured many an NBA locker room. Bryan Doo, the Celtics' strength and conditioning coach, calls Rondo the best spades player he's ever played. "And I've played a lot," Doo says.
ESPN Article
ETA: I also enjoyed this older GQ article about him when he had an internship at the magazine.
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Before Rondo's first playoff series against Atlanta in 2008, the Celtics distributed a 100-page book full of the Hawks' plays and statistics. Rondo took it home, then challenged assistant Darren Erman the next morning: "Quiz me on anything." Rondo nailed every question, until Erman tossed a curveball -- a question about something that wasn't in the book. "frick you," Rondo said. "That's not in there." Once, when Erman was with the Warriors, his team ran a side out-of-bounds play, called C, that he says they'd run maybe 15 times all season. They called the play. Rondo immediately shouted, "C! Rip screen, rip screen!" Erman and then-Warriors assistant Brian Scalabrine looked at each other, stunned: How in the hell did he know that?
This post was edited on 4/10/15 at 9:58 am
Posted on 4/10/15 at 9:39 am to RedRifle
He sounds like a crazy person
Posted on 4/10/15 at 9:43 am to RedRifle
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Rondo is adept at poker -- computing probabilities, counting cards -- emptying teammates' pockets. He's a whiz at bourré, the famously contentious card game that's fractured many an NBA locker room. Bryan Doo, the Celtics' strength and conditioning coach, calls Rondo the best spades player he's ever played. "And I've played a lot," Doo says.
This reminds me of Rainman
This post was edited on 4/10/15 at 9:44 am
Posted on 4/10/15 at 9:43 am to RedRifle
That story about him walking out of the movie has me laughing IRL
Posted on 4/10/15 at 9:53 am to tigerpimpbot
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This reminds me of Rainman
(Rondo's Connect Four prowess has since become legendary and has made for heartwarming-yet-awkward community outreach moments. The day he was traded to Dallas in December, he spent his final hours as a Celtic at Boston Children's Hospital, crushing all comers in the game, repeatedly telling kids, "No mercy.")
Posted on 4/10/15 at 10:17 am to RedRifle
I told y'all. If he thinks he's smarter than you, he won't listen to you.
Personally, I love the guy.
Personally, I love the guy.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 10:17 am to RedRifle
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he spent his final hours as a Celtic at Boston Children's Hospital, crushing all comers in the game, repeatedly telling kids, "No mercy.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 10:20 am to SabiDojo
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I told y'all. If he thinks he's smarter than you, he won't listen to you.
Makes sense why he never listened to Doc, KG, and Pierce.
I wonder what his IQ is.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 10:32 am to RedRifle
So Rondo is a genius? The Rain Man of the NBA?
Posted on 4/10/15 at 10:36 am to LSUAlum2001
i have to meet rondo. I love connect 4
This post was edited on 4/10/15 at 10:38 am
Posted on 4/10/15 at 10:44 am to jamsmiley
I have lost a decent amount of cash in bourre
Posted on 4/10/15 at 10:48 am to SabiDojo
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If he thinks he's smarter than you, he won't listen to you.
AS A FRESHMAN at Eastern High School in 2001, Rondo took a sophomore AP geometry class, taught by a man named Doug Bibby. He didn't do homework. He wouldn't bring his books. He frequently fell asleep at the back of the classroom, waking up only when an angry Bibby called on him to answer a question. Rondo would rouse himself, glance at the board, blurt out the correct answer and resume his slumber. He aced all his tests, which led Bibby to suspect Rondo of cheating, so the teacher gave Rondo different tests. "He aced those too," Bibby says. To send a message, Bibby still gave Rondo a D. It was, Bibby says, "a pissing contest."
IT'S 9:30 ON a February morning in 1994, and eight third-grade students at downtown Louisville's Engelhard Elementary School file into a classroom. They sit two a side at a pair of rectangular wooden tables pressed together to form a square. One of these children is what their teacher will one day call "the biggest challenge of my life."
The boy grasps concepts instantly and easily. He has a curious knack for analyzing numbers in ways that others do not -- so much so that he actually teaches the teacher new ways to solve equations, methods she'll go on to teach other students for years to come.
He finishes every assignment first, blazing through multiplication sheets, and the teacher knows to always have another activity ready, either in her hand or in a blue folder with work just for him. Or perhaps she'll ask the quiet boy with narrow cheeks who questions just about everyone about everything to formulate math equations for her to solve.
She knows that for as wildly gifted as this 9-year-old is, he can be just as frustrated with others who are not. "He just didn't understand why everyone else doesn't get it," recalls Melanie Benitez, still teaching at Engelhard, 21 years later.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 10:50 am to RedRifle
AP Geometry as a freshman? Lulz.
No wonder he was bored.
No wonder he was bored.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 11:02 am to SabiDojo
Wait, so they play bourre in nba locker rooms?
Posted on 4/10/15 at 11:15 am to RedRifle
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"He got all excited afterward. I told him to learn how to make a shot." -- Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle, describing his response after losing to Rondo in Connect Four
Posted on 4/10/15 at 11:26 am to SabiDojo
Geometry is normally taught to freshman At my HS. Don't see the big deal with that story lol.
And I read this the other day and it's pretty cool. Dudes a dick but he can go off at any second if he really wants to. Him and Kobe will be BFFs in LA next year.
And I read this the other day and it's pretty cool. Dudes a dick but he can go off at any second if he really wants to. Him and Kobe will be BFFs in LA next year.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 11:58 am to RedRifle
Just read the whole thing. Thanks for posting. I love stuff like this.
Thoughts after the read: Rondo is a dick. A smart, talented dick. That is all.
Thoughts after the read: Rondo is a dick. A smart, talented dick. That is all.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 12:27 pm to RedRifle
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AS A FRESHMAN at Eastern High School in 2001, Rondo took a sophomore AP geometry class, taught by a man named Doug Bibby. He didn't do homework. He wouldn't bring his books. He frequently fell asleep at the back of the classroom, waking up only when an angry Bibby called on him to answer a question. Rondo would rouse himself, glance at the board, blurt out the correct answer and resume his slumber. He aced all his tests, which led Bibby to suspect Rondo of cheating, so the teacher gave Rondo different tests. "He aced those too," Bibby says. To send a message, Bibby still gave Rondo a D. It was, Bibby says, "a pissing contest."
Sounds like me in HS, and then later in college. Anywhere I go I believe I'm the smartest person in the room.
I remember a literature course in college where I didn't even buy the textbook, rarely went to class. Instructor really couldn't stand me but I still got a B.
I got better with age but I still have to check myself or it gets the better of me. It's intellectual vanity. It's a handicap more than anything else.
I think Rondo will look back on his career with some degree of regret. He could be so much better if he would use others for their knowledge in areas where he might have a blind spot. No one can know everything without help. The true intellect knows that he can gain knowledge from anyone.
Posted on 4/10/15 at 12:32 pm to RedRifle
All I know is he drove Tubby Smith to start Brandon Stockton over him.
If you have to ask who, it's just furthering my point.
If you have to ask who, it's just furthering my point.
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