Give it to Rondo, get out of the way
After dominating a glorified pick-up game last Saturday to the tune of 33 points, 8 dimes and a whopping 8 steals, Rajon Rondo seems prepared to take matters into his own hands this year for the Cats. While the annual Blue-White game is hardly battling Texas, Rondo's 3 threes were telling.
Rondo spent the summer beating out ESPN scribe favorites Darius Washington and Marcus Williams for the starting job on the Under 21 US National team. Rondo showed such great floor leadership and vision that (according to ESPN draft "guru" Chad Ford) NBA scouts were rocketting the young Louisville native to the top of their point guard draft charts.
But more immediately, and more importantly for us UK nerdz, Rondo represents something UK fans haven't had in two decades -- a nationally recognized star point guard. Wayne Turner, Anthony Epps et al were fantastic, and performed well in clutch situation. But since the days of Kyle Macy, Kentucky hasn't had an All-American point guard. Rondo is on his way toward reversing that trend.
The most impressive thing to me is Rondo's desire to improve. You could see last year how he soaked up Tubby's offensive schemes, often getting tete-a-tetes while teammates shot free throws. It's obviously paying off.
The thing the Wildcats have to avoid now is standing around and watching the magician do his thang.
Rondo spent the summer beating out ESPN scribe favorites Darius Washington and Marcus Williams for the starting job on the Under 21 US National team. Rondo showed such great floor leadership and vision that (according to ESPN draft "guru" Chad Ford) NBA scouts were rocketting the young Louisville native to the top of their point guard draft charts.
But more immediately, and more importantly for us UK nerdz, Rondo represents something UK fans haven't had in two decades -- a nationally recognized star point guard. Wayne Turner, Anthony Epps et al were fantastic, and performed well in clutch situation. But since the days of Kyle Macy, Kentucky hasn't had an All-American point guard. Rondo is on his way toward reversing that trend.
The most impressive thing to me is Rondo's desire to improve. You could see last year how he soaked up Tubby's offensive schemes, often getting tete-a-tetes while teammates shot free throws. It's obviously paying off.
The thing the Wildcats have to avoid now is standing around and watching the magician do his thang.
1 Comments:
At 8:17 AM, The Old Doc said…
I see in the box score that Rekalim Sims had an NBA night - 6 fouls. I think rebounding may be a big problem for UK this year, even more so than last.
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