Playoff Talking Points: Rondo's Show Now

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No one with a wife and kids, or the need to eat leafy greens, has time to watch all this basketball. But we do. So, as a service to the public, here are the Playoff Talking Points you need to fake it at the water cooler:



o. Over, Under, Sideways, Down: Amar'e Stoudemire is really, really good. However, he has also played almost his entire career with Steve Nash -- the kind of partnership that makes a player that much better while calling into question how good he actually is.



OK, that's not entirely accurate. Amar'e spent a season and a half showing he could work with Stephon Marbury, winning the Rookie of the Year in 2003. It was only when Nash came along, though, that Stoudemire came into his own. Post-microfracture, the changes in Amar'e's game both allowed him to take better advantage of playing with Nash and made Nash's life easier. At this point, their relationship is more symbiotic than most would assume.



Rajon Rondo is playing absolutely out of his mind. Mere days after everyone decided Deron Williams had eclipsed Chris Paul as the NBA's best point guard, Rondo is hitting statistical benchmarks only Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain have attained -- and most importantly, leading his Celtics to a much-needed win after LeBron James cut their hearts out in Game 3.



Yet in an interesting reversal of convention, Rondo's contributions are taken less seriously because, supposedly, he plays on a stacked Celtics team.

 

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