Say, What About Rondo?

[Sinobas]

Well you know what it's pretty easy to put up some numbers if you have talent and your selfish. What I am amazed about is that you can't read through the lines about Ainge's comments. Does Danny Ainge seem like the type of guy to you that would go out of his way to bad mouth a player? Did he ever do anything like that here in Portland? The answer is no.

I'll give it to you that Rondo played very insane in the series. But he was also very selfish. Many times down the stretch he chose to make the Rondo play instead of the right play.

How does selfishness get you 10+ rebounds and 10+ assists?

 

[Minstrel]

I guess I believe where there's smoke theres fire. To many reports

This is a very overrated factor when it comes to rumours, especially on the Internet. One place makes a speculation based on fast and loose use of quotes and suddenly a bunch of sites all start "reporting" it, too, based on that first site. In such a case, it doesn't count as "lots of reports," because it's all just copying the original, unfounded report.

I think the same thing is happening with Rondo. Hoopshype (I believe) published an erroneous claim that Rivers lit into Rondo recently, saying "Do you know your teammates hate playing with you?" when it was actually from his rookie season and merely recently re-quoted in an article detailing how Rondo has matured. That bad reporting has spread from site to site and suddenly you have "smoke" where there was none, originally.