February 24, 2009 5:09 PM As a fan of diversity, in genes as in other things, I'm against cloning. But if I were living a sci-fi movie, and had to somehow maximize NBA profitability without leaving some illicit basement laboratory, my short list of ideas would include methamphetamines in the locker room coffee (worked in baseball!), calf-muscle rocket boosters, or ... thirty Rajon Rondos. Honestly. If the point is to have fun watching basketball, and the Phoenix Suns aren't in their prime any more ... who would ever want to watch a game without a Rondo? (Special allowances could be made for contests featuring Chris Paul.) How do I know he's ridiculously fun to watch? My mom told me. The other day my mother -- who does not watch a ton of NBA basketball, but generally likes the Blazers -- took the conversation well off-topic to declare that Rajon Rondo was simply her favorite NBA player. It's a small focus group, but one that means a lot to me. And I can back it up with my own experience. Let's not bog down this argument with actual numbers and such, but it sure seemed to be that for a spell there in Denver on Monday night, Rondo -- the point guard -- had more offensive rebounds than all the Nuggets together had defensive rebounds. He was everywhere, doing everthing, and all in delightfully fast and sneaky style. The Nuggets were clearly gassed. But so were the Celtics! Except Rondo. They had no Garnett, and by the time any other Celtics really heated up, Rondo already had the game well in hand for the green team. John Krolik, author of Cavs the Blog, has gone to some trouble to explain in a FreeDarko blog post what it is about Rajon Rondo that makes him so uniquely clonable: As much as any player in the NBA, Rondo is paradox incarnate. Rather than being a paradigm of quiet contribution and efficiency at all times-the standard "know your role" PG-Rondo is at once an unstoppable for whom there is no possible answer and a gaping wound whose weakness provides a possible attack point. He is the type of young, talented, and developing player who normally thrive on bad teams, but he runs the point for the league's current juggernaut. He the worst shooting guard in the NBA, and yet leads all guards in FG%. He's brimming with athletic skill and his body looks like the product of Jay Bilas being allowed access to the Forge of Hephaestus, and yet he's more beloved by stat heads than scouts. His play is more audacious than any guard in the league, and yet he is the unknown star of the Celtics. The fantastic of Rondo all traces back to the fact that he has no jump shot. This is hardly news. However, it is important to make some distinctions between having a bad jump shot and Rondo's jump shot. Russell Westbrook and Raymond Felton have bad jump shots. They are given space and it is the goal of every defense to force them into taking a shot, and it is a constant struggle for them to create lanes by trying to keep defenses honest. Rondo has no jump shot. He has eschewed it. It is a false God to him. It is not a part of his decision tree but an unwelcome last resort. Defenses do not try to force him to take a jump shot, for there is no pretense he will actually take one. When Rondo gets the ball in his hands, the clarity of his goal actually leads to a greater set of permutations than it normally would-if we are to stretch the metaphor of the outside shots, than the difference between other point guards' possessions and Rondo's possessions are the difference between a gunfight and swordplay. To wish, as most do, for a Rondo with a jumpshot is to wish for a sober Bukowski, a Woody Allen with normal relationships, Obama without the Bush era. 誰來翻譯一下XD -- I'm gonna steer clear 'Cause I'd die if I saw you I'd die if I didn't see you there. So I don't think I'm gonna go to LA anymore http://0rz.tw/0WMGt John Mayer - In your atmosphere --

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