I'm already starting to see and hear grumblings about Rajon Rondo's jumper. In 3 preseason games, not only hasn't it fallen with any regularity. It really hasn't fallen at all. So people are already starting up with the Rajon Rondo still can't shoot types of comments. Maybe some of that is our (as in the family of Celtics blogs) fault. We're the ones that told you Rondo was working with Mark Price... which undoubtedly set the bar pretty high. I get that. And now it's time to bring that bar back down to earth a little. You don't change a mechanical flaw in a jump shot and have it come out perfectly in the first 3 games of the preseason. I don't care how many jumpers you shoot in an empty gym or in intra-squad scrimmages. Nothing simulates actual game speed against other teams. When you're in the heat of battle... and you don't have coaches starting and stopping the games... and you're playing against first-team players rather than your own bench... you tend to revert to som...
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