Rondo is cut from Team USA.

Wavy Q · Post #61 » by **Wavy Q** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:24 pm

god dammit, did he really just say does K stand for moron? awesome new signature for me

richboy · Post #62 » by **richboy** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:34 pm

Rondo shooting is underrated on this board. He isn't great but he can make a shot. Jason Kidd went almost the entire Olympic tournament without even taking a shot.

His ability to actually run a team is what will be missed. The question now will be can we execute half court offense.

StarsandStripes · Post #63 » by **StarsandStripes** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:34 pm

Whats the point of taking a truckload of shooters when you do not have a great passer and facilitator like Rondo on the team? Whos gonna create shots for these shooters?

Rose :roll:

bullsnewdynasty · Post #64 » by **bullsnewdynasty** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:36 pm

StarsandStripes wrote:Whats the point of taking a truckload of shooters when you do not have a great passer and facilitator like Rondo on the team? Whos gonna create shots for these shooters?

Rose

Rose is more than capable of dribble penetrating and kicking out to open shooters. If you haven't noticed, there isn't much 'set offense' being played by USA.

meatball sub · Post #65 » by **meatball sub** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:38 pm

The team is doomed to fail. No true facilitator on the team now. Rondo may be the worst shooting PG on the team, but he's the best facilitator of the bunch. If he withdrew, that's too bad because the team really needed him. If he was cut, it was a really dumb decision. Having both Gordon and Curry on the team is redundancy to the max.

Malinhion · Post #66 » by **Malinhion** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:45 pm

da.vid wrote:wow coach k is a moron
wtf does k even stand for? moron?

K stands for Shish-f-skee.

almatic · Post #67 » by **almatic** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:46 pm

MaxRider wrote:
cool007 wrote:I really didn't expect it.

I thought for sure it would be 1 of Gordon/Westbrook/Granger

Rondo wears Reebok ..... (Nike doing their thing again?)

Rondo hasn't worn Reebok in like 2 years, he's been with Nike for quite some time

dballislife · Post #68 » by **dballislife** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:47 pm

change the fcking title man, they didnt cut him

CjayC · Post #69 » by **CjayC** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:50 pm

"You can't fire me. I quit!"

Atmanne · Post #70 » by **Atmanne** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:56 pm

@ leaving because of family issues right after publicly saying you were on the verge of being cut.

Its-A-Rap · Post #71 » by **Its-A-Rap** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:01 pm

I thought he withdrew.

Post #72 » by **coldfish** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:02 pm

dballislife wrote:change the fcking title man, they didnt cut him

Read the quotes from coach K. This is the same as multiple other people who were let go. They always withdraw to save face. He was cut.

Tai · Post #73 » by **Tai** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:08 pm

coldfish wrote:
dballislife wrote:change the fcking title man, they didnt cut him

Read the quotes from coach K. This is the same as multiple other people who were let go. They always withdraw to save face. He was cut.

Same as other multiple people? Like who?

Malinhion · Post #74 » by **Malinhion** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:08 pm

dballislife wrote:change the fcking title man, they didnt cut him

Sure they did. They just did it with PR saavy.

fallacy · Post #75 » by **fallacy** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:13 pm

OKC now officially has the most players on team USA! Doesn't really mean anything, but it sounds cool to say. OKC makes up 1/6th of the team

saritasbora · Post #76 » by **saritasbora** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:13 pm

Tai wrote:
coldfish wrote:
dballislife wrote:change the fcking title man, they didnt cut him

Read the quotes from coach K. This is the same as multiple other people who were let go. They always withdraw to save face. He was cut.

Same as other multiple people? Like who?

Gilbert Arenas
http://twitter.com/TrueHoop/statuses/22018874375

DCsOwn · Post #77 » by **DCsOwn** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:15 pm

meatball sub wrote:The team is doomed to fail. No true facilitator on the team now. Rondo may be the worst shooting PG on the team, but he's the best facilitator of the bunch. If he withdrew, that's too bad because the team really needed him. If he was cut, it was a really dumb decision. Having both Gordon and Curry on the team is redundancy to the max.

I'm worried about the lack of a true facilitator on the team as well. I foresee a lot of iso plays for team USA in the near future, and that prospect isn't very appealing to me at all.

My theory on why he was cut is primarily predicated on his dominant/abrasive personality. If coach K preferred Rose, which he undoubtedly has from the start it seems to me, perhaps he feared that there would be a clash along the way when Rondo saw that his pt was being curtailed at the expense of Rose.

It doesn't make sense to me that he would be cut because of his lack of shooting. Team USA brass had to know that he can't shoot a lick from his body of work from this past season and the years prior. Why waste the kid's time if you know that his shooting would be an existential impediment to his making the team? Rondo has a very stringent personality (euphemistically speaking), and that probably was his major downfall in this instance.

Malinhion · Post #78 » by **Malinhion** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:21 pm

DCsOwn wrote:
meatball sub wrote:The team is doomed to fail. No true facilitator on the team now. Rondo may be the worst shooting PG on the team, but he's the best facilitator of the bunch. If he withdrew, that's too bad because the team really needed him. If he was cut, it was a really dumb decision. Having both Gordon and Curry on the team is redundancy to the max.

I'm worried about the lack of a true facilitator on the team as well. I foresee a lot of iso plays for team USA in the near future, and that prospect isn't very appealing to me at all.

My theory on why he was cut is primarily predicated on his dominant/abrasive personality. If coach K preferred Rose, which he undoubtedly has from the start it seems to me, perhaps he feared that there would be a clash along the way when Rondo saw that his pt was being curtailed at the expense of Rose.

It doesn't make sense to me that he would be cut because of his lack of shooting. Team USA brass had to know that he can't shoot a lick from his body of work from this past season and the years prior. Why waste the kid's time if you know that his shooting would be an existential impediment to his making the team? Rondo has a very stringent personality (euphemistically speaking), and that probably was his major downfall in this instance.

Because they put a lot of young players on the roster and the rest of them could have bombed out. Obviously this was a point guard audition.

DCsOwn · Post #79 » by **DCsOwn** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:21 pm

saritasbora wrote:
Tai wrote:
coldfish wrote:Arenas

To be fair to Arenas, he actually did injure his groin about a week before he was cut, so the explanation wasn't an outright lie. He was headed to the chopping block anyway most likely, but the excuse wasn't completely fictional like some have come to believe.

Tai · Post #80 » by **Tai** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 8:22 pm

saritasbora wrote:Gilbert Arenas
http://twitter.com/TrueHoop/statuses/22018874375

Ok, did Coach K praise him like Rondo did?

I mean, again, Rondo did have to go to a funeral for a family member while on Team USA. I can assume from the article that Arenas didn't really have a groin injury.

I mean, if Rondo comes out and says he was really cut, then fine, he was cut. Henry Abbott saying "sometime" and only citing Arenas has one time is interesting, but I'd rather look at this case-by-case.