Rondo Has DJ Style

by Jeff Clark on Dec 7, 2007 5:10 PM EST in Boston Celtics News & Links

I am shocked and appalled at myself for failing to link to this earlier, but the venerable Kelly Dwyer has taken over the Yahoo hoops blog. This is huge. Kelly has the heart of a blogger but for whatever reason tried to be a columnist for SI.com. Well, I suppose that worked out fine for him too, but this is really where his talents belong.

Anyway, getting back to the point, he linked to a post done by The Painted Area (another fine blog) talking about Rondo. In fact, I wonder if it was a thinly veiled attempt to get CelticsBlog to link to his new blog. Well, done and done. And well done.

Here's a quote (by The Painted Area - click the link, they have pretty charts)

Rondo certainly seems to be finishing at the basket better, but man oh man, check out those mid-range numbers. It might be a shocker to anyone who watched him launch those backboard-breakers which killed the C's in OT vs. CLE recently, but he is up from .279 to .537 on his mid-range jumpers.

Not only that, but Rajon clearly has much more confidence in his shot, as he's made more mid-range shots so far than he did in all of last season, and launched nearly two-thirds as many. He's eschewed the three, and mid-range jumpers now account for twice as large a share of his total shots as last year.

C's fans: maybe there's hope yet that the kid can knock down an open shot or two in a big moment, DJ-style.

Kelly also links to this video about DJ. Man I miss DJ.

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DJ was my favorite Celtic.

by The Real Large James on Dec 7, 2007 7:22 PM EST reply actions

we got dj when he was already an allstar and world champion. rondo is a work in progress. what is going to make rondo is how he plays in the playoffs. mr. rondo, among his talents can sure rebound.

by nazzbo on Dec 7, 2007 11:00 PM EST reply actions

The thing I like about youtube, is you’re not forced to watch or listen to a long advertisement before you actually get to watch or listen to the media you’re after.

Today is the first time I downloaded the “gold rarities podcap” thing and over the first MINUTE is nothing I wanted, ever would buy, or needed to listen to.

Pretty lame…but that’s the way it is I guess.

Clickin on the DJ retrospective above and BANG!, you’re right there.

by mcpu40 on Dec 8, 2007 8:12 AM EST reply actions

DJ was a much maligned, former Seattle, finals MVP who got a bum rap in Phoenix as a malcontent. It was basically a problem with the management, not the man.

What the C’s did was give him his pride and then his mojo came back immediately but more as a finisher than a series MVP though I’d argue that if we’d won in ’87, via Bird hitting that 3 on the buzzer in game 4 (and us pulling out one win in the forum) he could have been finals MVP once again.

by TitleMaster on Dec 8, 2007 2:51 PM EST reply actions