Isiah Thomas made an interesting comparison between former NBA player and coach Mark Jackson and Los Angeles Lakers guard Rajon Rondo.
Thomas, a two-time NBA champion and Hall of Famer, believes the basketball IQ of Jackson and Rondo is ‘at a genius level’.
“Believe it or not, I put Rondo and Mark Jackson in the same category as far as basketball IQ at the genius level. Because, you look at both of these guards both of them maximize not only their talent, but they maximize their brain capacity for the game.
Neither one of them ā both of them came into the league with severe deficiencies of what they couldnāt do. But what they could do most times out on the floor was to outthink their opponent in difficult positions so that opponent could not capitalize on their deficiencies, but they could capitalize on their opponentās deficiencies.
And when you look at Rondo and you look at Mark Jackson from an IQ and intellect standpoint, I donāt think thereās been two point guards in the game of basketball that has gotten more out of their talent in their limited capabilities than these two have,” Thomas told Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson of Heavy.com.
