Rajon Rondo came into Chicago tonight and gored the Bulls. He did it with passing, defense, boards, oh and a few buckets of his own. If there is any doubt, Rondo officially owns the Bulls. Brad Miller tried to even some scores from last year with a horse-collar tackle on Rajon early on, earning Bradley a flagrant foul. Surely he would be happy taking the flagrant if it was traded for intimidating Rajon. Well just a few moments later, there goes Rondo on the break with only Miller back. What does RR do? He aggressively pushed it into Miller, drew the contact, made the bucket, and sent Sad Brad to the bench with his second foul. It turned out that Rajon sent the early message tonight (i.e. I'm not intimidated), and then backed it up by destroying the Bulls in the third quarter.
I pasted the box score after the jump because it is a thing of beauty. Balanced scoring! All starters not named Rajon played fewer than 30 minutes! Everyone was a + tonight, even Tony!
Boston
Starters
Min
FG
3Pt
FT
+/-
Off
Reb
Ast
TO
Stl
BS
BA
PF
Pts
R. Rondo
G
38:31
6-13
0-1
4-5
+20
0
7
14
5
3
1
1
2
16
R. Allen
G
29:39
4-10
2-4
0-0
+19
0
3
2
1
0
1
2
2
10
K. Perkins
C
22:23
3-5
0-0
4-6
+8
0
5
1
0
0
3
0
3
10
K. Garnett
F
26:52
6-8
0-0
0-2
+13
2
10
2
1
0
1
0
1
12
P. Pierce
F
24:59
4-12
2-5
4-4
+10
1
3
3
0
1
0
0
4
14
Bench
Min
FG
3Pt
FT
+/-
Off
Reb
Ast
TO
Stl
BS
BA
PF
Pts
R. Wallace
21:32
5-12
1-5
4-4
+13
3
5
0
0
1
2
1
3
15
S. Williams
21:05
2-4
0-0
0-0
+11
1
8
1
0
0
2
2
2
4
E. House
20:40
5-15
3-10
2-3
+14
1
3
0
0
2
2
0
1
15
B. Scalabrine
16:22
0-0
0-0
0-0
+11
0
2
1
0
0
1
0
2
0
T. Allen
11:26
2-6
0-0
2-2
+4
2
3
0
2
1
0
4
1
6
J.R. Giddens
4:05
1-3
0-1
2-4
+5
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
4
L. Hudson
2:27
0-0
0-0
0-0
+2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
Totals
38-88
8-26
22-30
10
49
25
9
8
13
10
22
106
Percentages:
.432
.308
.733
Team Rebounds: 9
Chicago
Starters
Min
FG
3Pt
FT
+/-
Off
Reb
Ast
TO
Stl
BS
BA
PF
Pts
D. Rose
G
35:21
8-19
0-0
3-5
-12
2
5
3
1
1
1
3
1
19
J. Salmons
G
28:50
2-7
0-1
0-0
-13
0
5
9
2
1
2
1
1
4
J. Noah
C
32:10
1-8
0-0
0-0
-21
3
13
2
3
1
1
1
2
2
L. Deng
F
32:43
5-16
0-1
7-12
-15
2
4
1
1
1
1
2
2
17
B. Miller
F
23:38
5-10
0-2
1-1
-7
2
6
0
1
1
0
0
4
11
Bench
Min
FG
3Pt
FT
+/-
Off
Reb
Ast
TO
Stl
BS
BA
PF
Pts
T. Gibson
33:53
3-9
0-0
6-7
-19
3
11
1
1
2
2
1
4
12
K. Hinrich
20:32
1-6
0-1
0-0
-22
0
0
1
2
0
1
2
2
2
J. Johnson
15:17
1-5
0-1
0-0
-11
3
5
2
1
0
2
1
2
2
J. Pargo
8:50
4-8
1-3
2-2
-3
0
2
0
0
0
0
1
2
11
A. Gray
6:19
0-4
0-0
0-0
-5
1
3
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
L. Hunter
2:27
0-0
0-0
0-0
-2
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Totals
30-92
1-9
19-27
16
55
19
12
7
10
13
22
80
Percentages:
.326
.111
.704
Team Rebounds: 15