Shaquille O'Neal: "Chris Paul Is Not Better Than Rajon Rondo"

[BGriffin's Dad]

Rondo is hard to gauge because he's so unique as a player. Fans tend to overrate him badly and haters tend to make him look like a glorified defensive Jose Calderon.

I agree that CP3 is getting overrated at this point. He didn't have a great season (nor did Rondo), and he was usually ranked away from the number one spot. But after one good playoff series against the Lakers, he jumped back into the conversation like it was sealed.

Purely as a basketball fan, there's something really different about watching Rondo when he's hot, compared to CP3. Definitely more exciting to watch, imo.

[HurricaneKid]

How do I feel about this quote? I feel I finally understand his Kobe is LA Goat comments...

[Smoke117]

Shaq should probably just stop making comments about ANYTHING basketball related at this point.

[ballsohard247]

Yeah, Shaq has no idea what he's taking about here. Paul and Rondo are basically the same player, but Paul is an excellent shooter and Rondo might as well shoot with his left hand.

[kNIOKAS]

Well he might be just on point with Rondo being big part of celtics team. I think he truly is... And I like his character. I like Rondo... I'm not sure about Paul

[Rolando]

Paul is better but he strikes me as a whiney flopper.

[InspiredLebowski]

This is one of the handful of times I'm fully confident in saying one of the best players in the history of the game is being a moron. And that's counting Jordan's post-playing career. The ONLY thing Rondo is better at is defense, which I realize is oversimplifying, "defense" isn't just an all encompassing thing, but I digress. It's not like Paul's a bad defender. The defensive downgrade from Rondo to Paul is immensely less than every other facet of the game.

It's just a completely stupid statement.

[Kyle_korver]

only reason why shaq like rond0 is cause they got the same free throw precentage lol

rondo is garbage
not an offensive threat
overrated defender ask rookie derrick rose and i recall mo williams having 20 in the first half on him
name a time cp3 got torched by another pg in the playoffs??

[Kevin_Gamble]

only reason why shaq like rond0 is cause they got the same free throw precentage lol

rondo is garbage
not an offensive threat
overrated defender ask rookie derrick rose and i recall mo williams having 20 in the first half on him
name a time cp3 got torched by another pg in the playoffs??

Tony Parker and Chauncey Billups. But since CP3's only faced 4 teams in the playoffs in his entire career, and two of those 4 were Lakers and Dallas with 40 year old Kidd, you can safely say that CP3 gets torched every single time he plays against a PG capable of scoring.

[shootingcomets]

Shaq should have his own talk show and talk about politics

[Knicks101]

People actually want to see this unfunny dumb ass on TNT?

[jcyrus10]

Shaq, STFU. Rondo is good, but CP3 is better.

[bluechox2]

rondo's value with garnet/allen/pierce atm >>>>> rondo's value when the other 3 are on crutches

that is why they are looking for trades

[jlip]

This is a classic example of why the argument, "Even the players, themselves said <insert player's name here> is better", is not always valid.

[Disaprine]

Shaq being Shaq, nothing new at all.