Re: Top 5 at each position
Found the original post you replied to.
"Only effective with" is a bit much, but in comparing all PGs in question, Rondo's weaknesses are much easier to gameplan against if he's not surrounded by shooters (not scorers but shooters). Conversely surrounding Westbrook with shooters is kind of pointless. But, it's still harder to use that against him bc when he's on, he's still scoring at a high level. Rondo can be on, but also needs the guys around him to be as well. That's how I took what he was saying, which I agree with.
Doesn't mean I'd rather roll out Westbrook as my starting PG than Rondo, but is a reason Rondo wouldn't top my personal list (and this most definitely is all opinion). He scored 44 points and they lost. The defensive strategy was pretty much "let Rondo try to shoot his way to 50" and it worked. He played a hell of a game if we take half those points away... but lets be honest, half those points came on shots where they left him about as open as if he were shooting in the gym by himself. It was an exaggerated approach. A modified approach against him on a team with more drivers than shooters would've been just as effective for the team and more effective against him. He's not even taking most of those shots, let alone making them if the defenders were even a step closer... still giving enough space to cut off his drive. I'm not taking anything away from him in that game but it's definitely a performance to be evaluated beyond the stats (his points anyway... the rest of his stat sheet was filled strictly by him being Rondo).
Anyway, you're right. Based on what you're responding to, I'm going a bit hard on you. But I do look at "only effective with 3-4 shooters on the court" is just purposely exaggerating a legitimate point for why you'd choose one over the other. There are still other legit points for why you'd choose Rondo over Westbrook.
Found the original post you replied to.
Moving westbrook to the 2 fixes that. I'd rather have him at the 2 than a pg who is only effective with 3-4 shooters on the court.
Doesn't mean I'd rather roll out Westbrook as my starting PG than Rondo, but is a reason Rondo wouldn't top my personal list (and this most definitely is all opinion). He scored 44 points and they lost. The defensive strategy was pretty much "let Rondo try to shoot his way to 50" and it worked. He played a hell of a game if we take half those points away... but lets be honest, half those points came on shots where they left him about as open as if he were shooting in the gym by himself. It was an exaggerated approach. A modified approach against him on a team with more drivers than shooters would've been just as effective for the team and more effective against him. He's not even taking most of those shots, let alone making them if the defenders were even a step closer... still giving enough space to cut off his drive. I'm not taking anything away from him in that game but it's definitely a performance to be evaluated beyond the stats (his points anyway... the rest of his stat sheet was filled strictly by him being Rondo).
Anyway, you're right. Based on what you're responding to, I'm going a bit hard on you. But I do look at "only effective with 3-4 shooters on the court" is just purposely exaggerating a legitimate point for why you'd choose one over the other. There are still other legit points for why you'd choose Rondo over Westbrook.
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