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Rondo is out for another night, but Avery Bradley has already done enough to merit playing time once he returns to the bench. But that could mean some adjustments. Here's Doc's take.
Offense may adjust to Avery Bradley - BostonHerald.com
"Because Avery’s not Rondo. He’s not going to be Rondo as far as running a team. But what he does defensively is so good for us it’s good to have him out on the floor. So if we have to have him out on the floor as a point, then we have to run a different set so that group can function offensively." It also means either Paul Pierce [stats] or Kevin Garnett will have to be on the court with Bradley, "because we’ve run half our offense from the elbows of late."
Doc is right, Avery is not Rondo - especially on offense. But as we saw on Monday, Pierce and others can pick up some of the load in terms of distributing the ball. In fact, that forced ball movement might have been just the thing this team needed to snap out of their offensive doldrums.
0 recs | 4 comments
good, get the ball in pierce’s hands anyway, i really think that is a huge part of our offensive problems, when we fail to do that, he is not just some other player, he is paul pierce for goodness sake(there you go jeff). better than the ray allen dribble, dribble, circle, pass to the other team trick, that one is getting old.
chicagogreen - January 26, 2012
+1
About the ray allen comment: YES IT IS GETTING OLD.
Kgwillkillyou - January 26, 2012 via mobile
lol bradley
this guy cant even dribble just give the ball to pierce as stated earlier and let him run the show. if bradley cant pressure the pg hes useless to the team. some guys he will beable to pressure and some he will have no chance. if moore starts making his shot that should be less of bradley. hes the only guy in the league who can shoot 1 for 9 and 3 assist playing 40 minutes and people go nuts over. ya he had a defensive game but that didn’t work tonight. love to see moore pass him in game play
18champs - January 26, 2012
How quickly fans forget how far Rondo has come since rookie yr
sgawrys - January 26, 2012
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