The New York Knicks need a point guard and may pursue one in free agency, but it seems safe to say that said point guard won’t be Rajon Rondo.
Rondo is a point guard who likes the ball in his hands and isn’t known for his three point shooting, and he admitted on Friday that the triangle offense probably wouldn’t be a good fit for him.
Knicks coach Derek Fisher, who runs the triangle offense, got quite defensive and fired back at Rondo on Sunday when asked if it concerned him that an elite player like Rondo would say something like that.
“That’s your decision on whether or not he’s elite or not,” Fisher shot back, via Marc Berman of the New York Post. “You can’t ask him when he wasn’t very successful playing against [the triangle] whether or not he wants to play in it. That’s his opinion. That’s fine. He doesn’t play for us. We’re not concerned about his opinion about us at this point.”
Fisher really came out firing considering Rondo was pretty directly asked about the triangle offense and gave an honest – and probably correct – answer. Rondo won’t adapt, and anyone who thinks he will would just get a situation like that which came about in Dallas. It simply doesn’t suit his strengths, and even before this, it would have been highly unlikely that Rondo and the Knicks would have had mutual interest when the point guard hits free agency during the summer. That said, Fisher isn’t the first person in the NBA to question whether Rondo is as good as he and many others think he is.
