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Agreed. Rondo can be inconsistent. Maybe the lack of a true backup can give him all the confidence he needs.

I think you’d have to say that the team’s one remaining weakness is still inconsistent play from the point guard spot. I wouldn’t say that the position is a weakness overall, but the night-to-night performance from Rondo can be, and is one of the reasons that I think the projections of 65+ wins are off base. Too many nights when Rondo’s just really off his game.

It’s frustrating, because it’s not even whether his shot is falling or not, it’s whether he’s getting beat on D, how he’s setting up his teammates, it’s inconsistency in the stuff that he’s really GOOD at! Those are the things that should be there every night.

Oh, and any more overhyped story than his working with Mark Price for a couple days? Those pull-up jumpers look OK, but no excuse for a guard to not make a higher percentage of his free throws.

hunter had a bad game and looked vulnerable.we live and die with rondo, but it is nice to have so many options.baby decided to be the go to guy out there and showed some confidence and defense.

And once again, the ""rondo is a product of the big 3" myth is proven hideously wrong…the first couple preseason games all he did was defer to KG and the other guys so they could get there games going, and he was generally out of sync…they sit, he has his best game so far and LEADS the team to a win…yes he must some free throws, but otherwise played fantastic

has translated into the pre-season. Rondo sure seemed fine to me last night. Look, the bottom line is the real games still haven’t even started yet. Hell Ray Allen missed 3 free throws on Sunday. Point is, it’s pre-season.

…would be the first to admit he has come with consistent effort every game. Last season he admitted he got up for games against the premiere PG’s like Kidd, Nash, DWilliams, CP3, etc, but fell off if he was facing Raymond Felton, for instance.

His FT’s still look gawdaful, but I’d put that down to the 40 minutes he played (hopefully) last night.

I’d bet good money he worked on free throws over the summer. It is absolutely crucial that he hit those at a decent percentage. He is a slashing guard who is going to get fouled a lot. He has to be able to convert those points, otherwise he’ll get hammered every time he goes to the cup.

I thought Sheed, Baby & Perk looked good. Giddens & Hudson are still very raw but seemed to play with alot of energy. Giddens still looks like a rookie, I guess because he basically IS one. That clover tat though…. Kids these days….

Rondo will always be a poor free throw shooter as long as he continues to start the shot by holding the ball over his shoulder next to his ear. Instead, he needs to start that shot out in front a la Larry Bird. There is a statue of this in the hall of fame:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/45/150546006_4b609b9910.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/150546006/&usg=__puH53dwhkC15BFHOklJIaRKDGxs=&h=500&w=334&sz=119&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=n-v6ti3HXb0UNM:&tbnh=130&tbnw=87&prev=/images%3Fq%3DLarry%2BBird%2Bstatue%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG

When Harris was playing…. Well, sort of playing.

Rondo was off the hook last night. He single-handedly won that game. 1 rebound away from a triple double. Wow.

As Tommy (and jurr) said…
Rondo is shooting free throws FROM HIS EAR, which is kinda like shooting a gun from your hip. Not going to be very accurate, ever. I guess he and Mark Price never got around to free throwing.

What amazes me is that after 3 years in the NBA nobody has taken the time to point out that hey, Rajon, you’re shooting free throws like a little girl. Huh? Isn’t that why they pay all those assistant coaches? I don’t get it. Is it not a big enough deal that the difference between a good free-throw-shooting Rondo and a bad one could = 15 more lost games in the season, and a little thing like the championship?