Star's Lack of Composure Costs Him a Game But Could Cost His Team the Series

Any time one of your stars can’t play it’s bad news for your respective club. Any time the reason for their absence is due to their own hot-headedness it becomes much worse. This was just the case when Celtics star point guard Rajon Rondo was ejected from Sunday’s game and subsequently suspended for the C’s next playoff game with the Atlanta Hawks, following Rondo’s contact with a referee.

I mean looking at the replay he hardly touches referee Marc Davis but the rules of the league are in place to protect officials and Rondo clearly makes contact. The Celtics ended up losing the game after Rondo’s ejection and now he’ll watch the entire second game of the series from the bench. Rondo is a passionate player that is constantly giving 110%. He’s one of those guys who only has one gear, and it will be a huge loss for the Celtics to have him watching from the sidelines when they play game two in Atlanta on Tuesday.

In an interview done today, Rondo said that the contact was unintentional and that he tripped on his way to argue his foul call. In the first video, you can see right at the end that he does indeed trip on Davis’s feet when he ran into him, but Rondo still shouldn’t have been all up in the ref’s business in the first place. Only down four, with 4:10 left in the game is not the time to be accosting referees. It is the time when star players should be composed and show true leadership. Now the Celtics will have to play an already strong Hawks team without one of their best players. I definitely feel for Rondo, but he should know how to better conduct himself in such an important situation.

If the Hawks go on to win this series will Rondo’s actions in game one be targeted for a source of blame?
Clearly those who write for  Celtics Town  won't be very pleased.