Kentucky Sports Radio
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
…for former UK point guards. Sunday was an interesting day for current NBA PGs who used to call Lexington home, and while some had career highs, others had unfortunate career lows.
As you might have read yesterday, Rajon Rondo tore his ACL and is out for the season, leaving the Celtics in a bit of a bind. This is absolutely the worst time for him to get a season-ending injury, as he was playing the best basketball of his already solid career. While he was only averaging 13.7 points per game, which is still up a couple on his career average, he was distributing a whopping 11.1 assists per game, and was the only player in the league to be in double figures in that column. The great Chris Paul threw out 9.7 per game, good for a distant second place.
Not only that, but Rondo was slated to be a starter on the Eastern All-Star team in February, alongside Celtics teammate and Revolutionary War survivor Kevin Garnett. The NBA leader in triple-doubles, Rondo had taken what used to be a “Big Three” in Boston, and turned it into “Rondo’s Roadhouse” (which sounds like a movie I’d pay money to see). With Allen gone, and Garnett and Paul Pierce both getting pretty old, there was no doubt it was Rondo’s show now. But with him sidelined, this is likely the end of an era in Boston, and it’s possible that the Celtics could “blow up” the current roster and become very active on the trades before the deadline, or during the offseason.
Meanwhile, in Detroit, Brandon Knight scored a career-high 31 points in a win against Orlando, even though for whatever reason J.J. Reddick got most of the highlights in the ESPN recap. For that reason, I won’t link it here, but you’re welcome to check it out for yourself. Knight shot a blazing 75% from the field, including 5-8 from three. This might be the sort of game to turn a good young point guard into a great one, propelling the 1st Team All-Rookie player into talk for All-Star consideration.
Overall, several 1-guard Cats have found themselves in the elite NBA discussion recently. As a December SportsNation poll shows, at least three young Cats (Wall, Bledsoe, Knight), are among the league’s best young point guards:
It’s hard to say that their success “makes up” for Rondo’s injury for UK fans, but it at least helps. So while we wait for Rajon to get back in action next season, we can watch several other Cats as they improve and make a run at what Rondo has: elite status.
[powered by WordPress.]
Bill Keightley Report : Never to be forgotten.
11 queries. 0.322 seconds
January 28th, 2013 at 9:03 am
Keith Kelsey to UL
January 28th, 2013 at 9:05 am
I have a horrible feeling that Marshall Henderson is going to absolutely lose his mind tomorrow night. Spinning head, green vomit Exorcist type shit. Lose his freaking mind.
January 28th, 2013 at 9:09 am
2) what do you mean by that?
January 28th, 2013 at 9:11 am
KSR is using a SportsNation Poll as a serious means to evaluating the NBA’s point guards? This is beyond lazy….anyone that’s stupid enough to waste time on a SportsNation poll has absolutely no clue what they’re talking about on any topic.
January 28th, 2013 at 9:13 am
3 – Jo, I believe #2 means he thinks Henderson is going to pull a Turner (40 pts) against us and Ole Miss will leave us in their wake. I kind of agree.
January 28th, 2013 at 9:15 am
Henderson comes back to reality and puts up past-UK game type numbers like Turner has thus far. 13 pts 5-22 shooting.
January 28th, 2013 at 9:16 am
Hopefully Henderson will not have a good game but i’m not sure about the spinning head thing
January 28th, 2013 at 9:18 am
If his head spins is that traveling…or a shot fake/crossover
January 28th, 2013 at 9:20 am
People calling for a full blown Henderson exorcism lol. Funny part is I could actually picture something like that happening
January 28th, 2013 at 9:30 am
No, this is not the sort of game that turns a good young PG into a great one. See, in general, point guards have AT LEAST ONE assist. Brandon had a whopping ZERO. He’s not a PG, never has been, and he’s shown that to be true at the NBA level.
January 28th, 2013 at 12:44 pm
Corey needs to title his posts “Recycled News,” or, you know, actually put some thought into his work. Better yet, he could always stop writing…