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RIDICULOUS: Rajon Rondo Rips Dwyane Wade And Jimmy Butler
After the last couple of losses Chicago Bulls stars Jimmy Butler and Dwyane Wade have been fed up with the attitude of some players. Wade and Butler criticized the team for not caring enough.
Butler said to ESPN:
“Motherfu**ers just got to care if we win or lose. At the end of the day, do whatever it takes to help the team win. You play your role to the tee. Be a star in your role, man. That’s how you win in this league, man. You have to embrace what this team, what this organization needs for you to do on either end of the floor.”
Wade told ESPN:
“I’m 35 years old, man. I’ve got three championships. It shouldn’t hurt me more than it hurts these young guys … It has to change. It has to hurt inside to lose games like this. This s— should f—ing hurt… I can look at Jimmy and say Jimmy’s doing his job. Jimmy can look at me and say Dwyane’s doing his job. I don’t know if we can keep going down the line and be able to say that.”
Rajon Rondo thought ‘if the shoe fits, wear it’, and responded via Instagram, posting a picture of his old Celtics teammates Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen saying:
“My vets would never go to the media. They would come to the team. My vets didn’t pick and choose when they wanted to bring it. They brought it every time they stepped in the gym whether it was practice or a game. They didn’t take days off. My vets didn’t care about their numbers. My vets played for the team. When we lost, they wouldn’t blame us.
They took responsibility and got in the gym. They showed the young guys what it meant to work. Even in Boston when we had the best record in the league, if we lost a game, you could hear a pin drop on the bus. They showed us the seriousness of the game. My vets didn’t have an influence on the coaching staff. They couldn’t change the plan because it didn’t work for them.
I played under one of the greatest coaches, and he held everyone accountable. It takes 1-15 to win. When you isolate everyone, you can’t win consistently. I may be a lot of things, but I’m not a bad teammate. My goal is to pass what I learned along. The young guys work. They show up. They don’t deserve blame. If anything is questionable, it’s the leadership.”
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I mean Rondo may be right with privately talking to teammates before addressing the media, but I think Rondo is the last guy on earth who should complain. Leadership? Not playing for stats? Not taking days off? Why didn’t Rondo learn a thing or two from his former legend teammates. Or did everyone already forget this?
Rondo’s last couple of years just have been disasterous for Rondo, personally and as a player.
