Rodriguez' frustration

[handiman]

It might have helped if they practiced together before playing together...

 

[hasoos]

It might have helped if they practiced together before playing together...

Yea, which brings up another point. The team had been together for weeks. So Nate decides after 3 weeks the best time for them to play the first time together is in a game?

 

[Iwatas]

Boob, you are surely being intentionally clueless?

This argument totally cracks me up. Can you say "small sample size"? I knew you could. Prior to last night, Sergio hadn't even played 48 minutes all season. So, his per 48 numbers are boarding on insignificant and certainly don't signify anythings close to a long term trend.

Hello? Sergio DID THIS for his rookie season, too -- just not quite as sterling numbers.


As for the rest of your "argument" ....

Don't let the fact that putting up those kind of assist/48 numbers is a LOT harder to do when you are playing against the other team's best players for 36 minutes is a LOT hard than coming in against the other team's second unit it racking up a couple of quick assists in less than 10 minutes.

Go ahead. Post examples of backup point guards in the NBA that are in the top 3 in assists/48 for a whole season (as Sergio was his rookie year), or who have ever managed 16.4 assists/48 for 6 games.

You can't. Because there are no examples.

Backup point guards simply do not do what Sergio did his rookie year (and so far this year).

Sergio is no star, today. But his passing is extremely rare, possibly without equal in the NBA today. If he can improve the rest of his game (admittedly, unknown right now) ....

iWatas