Lawson on Rondo and the Mavs: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Caught this on Ty Lawson's Instagram. Pretty wild. What say you? <a href="https://twitter.com/Adam_Mares">@Adam_Mares</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/jmorton78">@jmorton78</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Raj_Sharan">@Raj_Sharan</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/afeinst21">@afeinst21</a> <a href="http://t.co/mQh0q0rOro">pic.twitter.com/mQh0q0rOro</a></p>— Corey Carlson (@NORTHERE) <a href="https://twitter.com/NORTHERE/status/592554506627391488">April 27, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Rondo's size, strength and length are perfect for the Rockets defensively. Offensively Rondo is just about the worst possible choice.
On paper Rondo looks perfect for Houston, but in reality he would be nothing short of cancerous for our team chemistry.
Rondo didn't have the ego early on - So he knew his place. As he got better, he was worked into the offence more until he slowly became the leader of the team. I think in Dallas, he wanted the same freedom as he had in Boston, but I don't think he realised that, because he's not a top 10 PG, no contending team would give him that kind of freedom. Right now, he can't exist with a lot of people, because he wants all the control. That's why he'll probably go to the Lakers
I think it'll be the Knicks. They're always desperate to stay relevant so they'll overpay him, and he and Melo sort of deserve each other. Can't see Melo and Kobe co-existing.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Multiple sources: Rajon Rondo did not receive a playoff share from the Dallas Mavericks.</p>— Eddie Sefko (@ESefko) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESefko/status/593472231113625603">April 29, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Multiple sources: Rajon Rondo did not receive a playoff share from the Dallas Mavericks.</p>— Eddie Sefko (@ESefko) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESefko/status/593472231113625603">April 29, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The Mavs, as usual, will also surely turn over every possible rock in the trade market. Of course, that hasn’t been too kind recently for Cuban, with deals for Lamar Odom and Rajon Rondo turning out to be two of the more disastrous trades in recent NBA memory. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin The bizarre end of Rondo’s blink-and-you-missed-it tenure will go down as the most memorable thing about this series for the Mavs. Rondo never really fit with the Mavs, as the concerns about the impact of his poor shooting in coach Rick Carlisle’s flow offense quickly manifested and were never solved. The hope of a “Playoff Rondo” sighting was crushed after his poor Game 1 performance and the appearance he gave up in Game 2. The Mavs and Rondo made a mutual decision to part ways the next day, sources told ESPNDallas.com, framing the reasoning as a back injury as a favor to try to help the four-time All-Star point guard save face. The truth was that the Mavs didn’t want Rondo, who was going to be replaced in the starting lineup regardless, pouting and rubbing off on other players, Ellis in particular. Essentially, the Mavs made a drastic move in an attempt to do damage control on a chemistry crisis. Remember Cuban’s comments last summer about how the Rockets didn’t understand chemistry as well as the Mavs? Ouch. http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas-mavericks/post/_/id/4705234/mark-cuban-has-nothing-to-say-much-work-to-do
If Rondo doesn't get his playoff share (pro-rated at least for game 1), then neither should MataDirk Flopwitzki.
It *is* pretty crappy. I am pretty sure we paid Maxwell whatever he was owed, but it's a very different story. Maxwell had been a big part of a championship, and was even a huge part of the season we got Drexler. Rondo was never part of anything very good in Dallas.
