i like it - was leaning that way as well - also found this article which talks about boston not being totally up to speed yet with perkins out...
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Imagine Tim Lincecum not being able to throw every pitch in his repertoire or Tom Brady not being able to call every play in his playbook. That’s sort of how Rondo’s feeling right now.
The past three seasons, he’s been able to call any play with complete confidence because he knew Allen, Garnett, Kendrick Perkins, and Paul Pierce would be on the same page. “With all five of us out there I can call any play I want,’’ Rondo said.
That’s the impact of Perkins’s absence.
“With a new guy — whether it’s Shaq or Jermaine [O’Neal] — it’s kind of hard for them to pick it up,’’ Rondo said. “You can’t call as many plays as you want this early in the season.’’
Rondo’s been an instructor of sorts this preseason, but with the season opener against the Heat just a day away, he’ll go in knowing that he won’t have his full palette of plays at his disposal.
“Rondo could come down last year in training camp, call a play that we ran the year before, and that group ran it and ran it with great execution,’’ Rivers said. “This year he calls a play that we’ve just put in and they still can’t run it because one guy doesn’t know it. It messes up the whole group.
“Having your starting unit intact is huge, especially in training camp. When you’re teaching the rest of the guys stuff, you’ve got a group that can show everybody else exactly how it’s run. But we’ll get it.’’
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