StojkoVrankovic wrote:Thanks for letting me know Rondo sucks at 3 pointers and FTs. By the way, DWill shot 40% from the field last season.....40%.
It's actually 41% rounding up.
And FG% isn't shooting. Shaq and Dwight Howard led the league for years in FG%...they are not great shooters.
If you want to talk about overall efficiency...Deron still has Rondo beat. 53% TS vs 48% TS.
StojkoVrankovic wrote:The Celtics shot better than New Jersey in FGs/3pointers/FTs, but the Nets had a better offense. Kind of an absurd stat huh?
Not really, because the Nets shot WAY more 3s and FTs, which are the two most efficient shots in the game. As a result, the Nets took a lot less FGA than the Celtics, but scored more points.
StojkoVrankovic wrote:You left out the assists for some reason.
True, Rondo has a greater volume of assists, but passing isn't the only thing that affects TOs...as someone facing greater defensive attention, and as someone also looking to score a lot more, Deron is more susceptible than Rondo in terms of TOs. I think it's better to look at how much offense both of them are producing from their scoring and passing, since high scorers tend to turn it over too:
Rondo: 101 ORating
Deron: 106 ORating
And btw, Deron's AST% was 46.6%, while Rondo's was 52.5%. Not a large difference. And Deron wasn't passing to Pierce, Allen, and KG.
StojkoVrankovic wrote:Once again, did he just decide to take last year off? His team needed him to score more and he shot the worst percentage of his career. He decided to be lazy and turned into a 3 point chucker. Sure, it was the worst of his career but it still happened.
He did score more, but guess what? You take someone who tends to be pass-first and isn't all that comfortable taking a ton of shots, and you basically make him take a ton of shots and surround him with crap talent so that the defense focuses on him...he's going to shoot a crap percentage.
It's not laziness...as I said, the 3 point shot is one of the two most efficient shots in the game. I'd rather he take 3s than midrange jumpers any day, unless he's a super-efficient midrange shooter, and even at his best, he's generally around 40-45% from midrange (which actually is elite). I'd rather he shoot 34% from 3.
100 3s at 34% = 102 points.
100 midrange shots at 45% = 90 points.
StojkoVrankovic wrote:Rondo just averaged 17-11.9-6.7 with fantastic defense in the playoffs. I look forward to the day when he can "take over"
On 50.5% TS and 3.8 TOpg.
And again, I can not stress the difference in talent level of the supporting casts enough. Deron has never played, even in Utah, with the same caliber of supporting cast that Rondo gets to play with.