Rubio Thread Seis (VI)

[kmgarnett21]

I thought this was hilarious. After the Cavs/Wolves game, SportsCenter did a segment on Rubio, but all Legler talked about was Rubio's turnovers and how he needs to cut down on them and shoot at a higher percentage. He didn't mention one second that 1) Rubio's coming off major surgery or 2) that Rubio's been playing at a decent level the past 2 weeks. All the ESPN moron talked about was criticizing him for the turnovers and poor shooting. What a tool.

[Elendur]

Hi everybody!

...

and "'Taluego"

[Mattya]

Ricky gave him the sexy eyes.

[nbanflguy]

After tearing his acl late last season, Ricky Rubio worked hard to rehab and get back to playing the game he loves. He came back around the time you would expect someone to return from acl surgey, buthe was not the same player from last year, not even close. Through 15 games he was shooting only 23% from the field and looked tentative and scared. There was flashes of his former self, but thats all it was, just flashes. Now he finally looks to have shook off the rust and tentative mindset and he is back to the Ricky we saw last year.

Last 10 games:
13.1 ppg
8.6 apg
3.2 rpg
2.4 spg
42% from the field
33% from 3

This is while missing most of the team. He looks like the Rubio of old and hopefully he continues to improves.

[Malato]

Pek... You are an awesome player but... just listen to Rubio, please:

[Murphs56]

Pek... You are an awesome player but... just listen to Rubio, please:

He'll never listen

[NikolaPekovic]

no other point guard i would want on my team

[Whateva]

last 6 games :

15ppg
3.5 rpg
10.0 apg
2.33 spg

[kmgarnett21]

All of the Pek hate is getting a little too much for me.

Also, I think it takes a large amount of energy for him to dunk it. Yes, he's 6'10 or whatever, but he's also 300 freakin pounds and he's not very athletic. He showed to start the 3rd qtr last night he can dunk, and he probably should as often as possible, but he's not going to be dunking on people like a prime Shaq used to.

[C.lupus]

I think Pek is really missing Love's presence.

Back to Rubio...nice game last night. It would have been nice to get the triple dub but oh well. I think the ten boards was initially a mistake. It seemed like Benz was saying he had 8 then next thing he said he had ten, then a couple minutes later he said they dropped it to nine.

Ricky really seems to ramp up his intensity in the fourth, trying to will his team to the victory. It's just too bad he doesn't have enough help. Guys are trying, they are just out-manned.

[AttackTheRack]

Way way outmanned.Thats an NBA team in name only.RR should get a cut of ticket sales.He's the only cat worth watching out there.

[Malato]

http://cjzero.com/gifs/RubioToBealReverse.gif

[Klomp]

Faked the camera guy out

[Klomp]

http://hoopshype.com/videos/hoopshype/r ... st-amazing

[Basti]

http://hoopshype.com/videos/hoopshype/r ... st-amazing

Ricky is an awesome and very likable dude. The joy in his eyes when he talks about Rick was impressive to see. He also misses Love badly.

I wish I could have watched more games recently to see Ricky balling again. I guess I won't be able to watch many games in the next few weeks either. Too much work ahead