Rondo Update: had surgery, will be out 4-6 weeks

New Orleans guard Rajon Rondo underwent surgery on his sports hernia injury and will miss 4-to-6 weeks, league sources tell The Vertical.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 10, 2017

Once again, we have to learn about the status of our players from national reports as our local guys are in the dark.

I can't say I'm happy he's out, obviously, but to be honest I'm slightly relieved. Every day one of our players doesn't get hurt is one day closer to an injury. At least this resets the timer and we shouldn't have another until after we've played some games.

Ugh

Well there goes 18-25% of our games. Still confident we'll make the playoffs? Sure if Clark can step up and play a good point guard role which I think he is capable of bringing the ball down the court and initiating the offense but no one on the team is anywhere close to Rondo when it comes to getting players wide open shots or even placing the ball in a good position for a teammate to score. Guess we'll have to be a great defensive team until he's back.

when was the last time this team has all starters healthy at the beginning of the season?

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when was the last time this team has all starters healthy at the beginning of the season?

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1528.

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1528.

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yeah, something like that

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I can't say I'm happy he's out, obviously, but to be honest I'm slightly relieved. Every day one of our players doesn't get hurt is one day closer to an injury. At least this resets the timer and we shouldn't have another until after we've played some games.

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As true as this is, it's sad that our mentality as a fanbase has come down to this. But I agree. We gotta take every day of health as a blessing.

I'm just happy he had it now. Hopefully he comes back in 4 weeks, he'd probably miss 12 games or so which isn't the worst.

I guess the good in this is that it's non of our "Big 3". As long as they are ok we have a chance to win on most nights. With Rondo still on the sideline and Tony Allen in the game we will still have that veteran leadership presence on the team.

I think we need jrue to play close to that precall star break level from last season...if that happens I think the team will be fine.

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I think we need jrue to play close to that precall star break level from last season...if that happens I think the team will be fine.

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Gentry needs to beat it into his head that he needs to find a way to give the team 20 points a night for the next month and a half.

If Jrue is not consistently scoring game to game, with at least passable efficiency, that means you are going to be asking Cunningham, Moore, Crawford, Clarke, Diallo, and Tony Allen to pick up the scoring slack for you.

The only nights that should happen is if Jrue notices one of them is really having a hot night.

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I can't say I'm happy he's out, obviously, but to be honest I'm slightly relieved. Every day one of our players doesn't get hurt is one day closer to an injury. At least this resets the timer and we shouldn't have another until after we've played some games.

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That's kind of brilliant really -- if you can just have all of your players out with injury, then nobody else can get hurt! True nirvana is within reach!

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Gentry needs to beat it into his head that he needs to find a way to give the team 20 points a night for the next month and a half.

If Jrue is not consistently scoring game to game, with at least passable efficiency, that means you are going to be asking Cunningham, Moore, Crawford, Clarke, Diallo, and Tony Allen to pick up the scoring slack for you.

The only nights that should happen is if Jrue notices one of them is really having a hot night.

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I agree it hurts that jrue doesn’t consistently get to the line tho. Hopefully he can capitalize from ad and boogie getting the team in the penalty early in games.

It’s misreable being a Pelicans fan. You can never get your hopes up with this team.

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It’s misreable being a Pelicans fan. You can never get your hopes up with this team.

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Someday, when everything starts going right and all the bandwagon fans show up, we'll be able to say we were always fans. I sure as hell help that day comes before I'm old and gray. Lol.

Well, a lottery pick and possible Dell and Alvin not getting extensions. I'm excited guys...

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Someday, when everything starts going right and all the bandwagon fans show up, we'll be able to say we were always fans. I sure as hell help that day comes before I'm old and gray. Lol.

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Welcome Rel and love the signature.

I just keep telling myself we started last year with:

PG- Tim Frazier
SG- E'Twaun Moore
SF- Solomon Hill
PF- Anthony Davis
C- Omer Asik

Having Jrue Holiday and Demarcus Cousins is a massive difference to that at least.

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Someday, when everything starts going right and all the bandwagon fans show up, we'll be able to say we were always fans. I sure as hell help that day comes before I'm old and gray. Lol.

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It worked for me with the Saints, why not the Pels?

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Welcome Rel and love the signature.

I just keep telling myself we started last year with:

PG- Tim Frazier
SG- E'Twaun Moore
SF- Solomon Hill
PF- Anthony Davis
C- Omer Asik

Having Jrue Holiday and Demarcus Cousins is a massive difference to that at least.

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Yeah true! It makes Rondo missing a month not so bad. We all know that pelicans players are going to get hurt. It's just a matter of how long lol.

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Gentry needs to beat it into his head that he needs to find a way to give the team 20 points a night for the next month and a half.

If Jrue is not consistently scoring game to game, with at least passable efficiency, that means you are going to be asking Cunningham, Moore, Crawford, Clarke, Diallo, and Tony Allen to pick up the scoring slack for you.

The only nights that should happen is if Jrue notices one of them is really having a hot night.

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I hope Gentry reads this forum

We play 22 games between now and 12/1, I'm being slightly pessimistic with the return date as 4-6 weeks should put him back somewhere between well before Thanksgiving and the week of. The Pels play 8 games they should be favored in regardless of Rondos status: let's say they go 5-3.

They play 7 games against contenders. These are games we would be solid underdogs even with Rondo. I'm grouping the Raptors on the road and Minny on the road in this subset. Let's say they go 2-5.

The last group are toss up games in my opinion. How we fare here will determine how bad the Rondo injury was. Can they go 3-4 or better? If they can that'll be .500 ball.

Rondos injury lowers the ceiling on what we CAN BE, but him being out doesn't fundamentally change our baseline in my opinion.


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It all depends on if we get 1st half Holiday (awful), or 2nd half Holiday (good).

This team doesn't really need Rondo if it gets 2nd half Holiday in most of those games. But you just never know. Dude has mental issues with being assertive annd avoiding lazy turnovers.

The first 20 games will tell the story for the season !

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The first 20 games will tell the story for the season !

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Really this is truer than I want it to be. We need to get a .500 team to start the season and not get behind again. Last year we played 500 ball once Jrue got back but we were already too far in the hole. Can't let that happen again.

I expect AD and Cousins to come out extremely hard at the first Grizzlies game to set the ton for the season. They are going to want a win really bad and I think we will get it.

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Welcome Rel and love the signature.

I just keep telling myself we started last year with:

PG- Tim Frazier
SG- E'Twaun Moore
SF- Solomon Hill
PF- Anthony Davis
C- Omer Asik

Having Jrue Holiday and Demarcus Cousins is a massive difference to that at least.

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This is so true, whenever I worry about our injuries I just look at our team at the start of last year and quickly realize our team is significantly better now even with injuries

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Welcome Rel and love the signature.

I just keep telling myself we started last year with:

PG- Tim Frazier
SG- E'Twaun Moore
SF- Solomon Hill
PF- Anthony Davis
C- Omer Asik

Having Jrue Holiday and Demarcus Cousins is a massive difference to that at least.

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Hey there, thanks! FlyGirl was my mom. I decided to join the board after all those years of hearing her talk about it. :)

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Hey there, thanks! FlyGirl was my mom. I decided to join the board after all those years of hearing her talk about it. :)

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Wow! Welcome!

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Hey there, thanks! FlyGirl was my mom. I decided to join the board after all those years of hearing her talk about it. :)

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That is so awesome. Flygirl was literally my favorite poster. You are going to fit in great.

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Hey there, thanks! FlyGirl was my mom. I decided to join the board after all those years of hearing her talk about it. :)

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Welcome! Your mom meant a lot to all of us here on the board.

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Hey there, thanks! FlyGirl was my mom. I decided to join the board after all those years of hearing her talk about it. :)

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Literally one of the coolest and amazing posts ever. Welcome! So much love and respect to your mom!

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Well, a lottery pick and possible Dell and Alvin not getting extensions. I'm excited guys...

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Dell will trade the pick for 3 extra wins if it saves his ******

Jrue will be fine. I feel like we are prepared to win a lot of games. Jrue was hurt most of last season. He's back fully recovered and he's going play great with Moore. I expect great defense from our team. If we are consistent and play smart all 4 quarters we will beat a lot of teams. Jrue and Moore with AD and Boogie will be VERY difficult for teams to face. Just give Cousins the ball if you get stuck in a rut. We need Rondo and Hill. It sucks but I trust we will figure it out.


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HunnyB was legit.

And this injury might mean instead of the two or three seed we get the fourth. No diggity. Just take the red pill and chill, fellas. It's going to be a fun season.

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Hey there, thanks! FlyGirl was my mom. I decided to join the board after all those years of hearing her talk about it. :)

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That's awesome. Pretty sure everyone here loved having her around. It's good to see you here.

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Hey there, thanks! FlyGirl was my mom. I decided to join the board after all those years of hearing her talk about it. :)

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Welcome to the board!

She was such a sweet woman. We loved having her here. Great to have you here :)

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Hey there, thanks! FlyGirl was my mom. I decided to join the board after all those years of hearing her talk about it. :)

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Glad to have you here she made it a better place, like for real. Enjoy it here.

Rondo now doing shooting drills: https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/ba...ooting-drills/

This is a great sign that the surgery went well and no snags came up. Hope to have him back by end of next week :)

Somehow missed all those posts directed to me. Thanks a lot! She spent more time on here (and another forum) than anywhere else on the web. It was pretty funny to my dad and my brothers actually lol. I vividly remember the name-change dilemma when she felt she could no longer be HunnyB since the New Orleans Hornets were becoming a thing of the past. She always was an NBA fan, and her love for the sport seemed to grow even more after my high school career ended (I played girls b-ball at a tiny private school in N.O. East) and she couldn’t get her basketball fix as often anymore. I’m glad she found this place and could share good times and fun facts with all y’all

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Somehow missed all those posts directed to me. Thanks a lot! She spent more time on here (and another forum) than anywhere else on the web. It was pretty funny to my dad and my brothers actually lol. I vividly remember the name-change dilemma when she felt she could no longer be HunnyB since the New Orleans Hornets were becoming a thing of the past. She always was an NBA fan, and her love for the sport seemed to grow even more after my high school career ended (I played girls b-ball at a tiny private school in N.O. East) and she couldn’t get her basketball fix as often anymore. I’m glad she found this place and could share good times and fun facts with all y’all

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It was like having a Pelicans twitter. The word Pelicans couldn't be typed on the internet without her finding out about it. Was amazing.

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It was like having a Pelicans twitter. The word Pelicans couldn't be typed on the internet without her finding out about it. Was amazing.

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It’s funny you said that. I would always tell her she needed a twitter account. She refused. She would bounce around from twitter page to twitter page. I said “why don’t you just create an account, follow all those people, and then you can see everything on one feed?” But no, she had to make it hard. Hahah.