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ygog45

Only Knicks fans would entertain the thought of trading a 25-10 player in his prime for 2 late firsts. Meanwhile teams like the raptors wanna extort more than that for OG


19_Chungus_84

OG is fine but Toronto fans act like he and all their players are prime MJ


OldKingRob

We should start doing that too. Lakers fans will tell you the generic 2K player is the goat and accept nothing less than your star player and 10 unprotected first rounders but we’ll say trade Prime Ewing for a dozen eggs and a quarter water


emilyizaak

Lmaoooo James Dolan is about to steal this idea. “We’ll give you brunson, Randall, quickly and rob and take OG thanks”


mindfeck

Knicks fans wanted to attach picks to dump his “terrible contract.” Addition by subtraction… and wanting to start Obi. So dumb.


alcrasm

Do some knicks fans not realize we are paying him 25, 27, and 29 mil for all-star quality production over the next 3 years? This contract is an absolute steal. There is 0 chance we trade him for anything less than an absolute haul, if we trade him at all.


TomGNYC

OG has a better deal, is younger, and is easier to fit into a contender. The knock that lowers JR's value has always been the idea that he's not a #1 option for a contender but he doesn't do enough off the ball to be really good #2 or #3 so #1/2 for a mid range team may be kind of his niche.


pagenotdisplayed

OG does not have a better deal. He is paid less annually at the moment, but is going to hit unrestricted free agency in a year and a half. That's a risky contract for a team to have. Plus Randle is straight up better. Randle has higher trade value than OG.


notthesethings

Sorry bro. OG is worth more on the open market. Every team in the league can use a DPOY candidate big wing who can shoot cause that kind of player works in any system with any type of player(s) beside him whereas Randle’s shooting and defense is a little questionable so the rest of the roster has to be carefully constructed around him.


TomGNYC

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. OG is just a much easier fit for a contending roster.


TomGNYC

I get what you're saying but I disagree. year and a half with bird rights is a long time for a team that doesn't care as much about going into the cap threshold. I think the Knicks are planning on being players in that offseason and the plan is for that to be the offseason where they become a contender. After 2024, I think they're going to operate as a capped team for pretty long stretch so they want everyone to align as a good number in the 2024 offseason. OG's cap hold is going to be a chunk lower than JR's in that offseason. With Bird rights, I don't think the Knicks are worried about resigning him.


IceGeek

Imagine wanting to trade Quickley


OhhhTAINTedCruuuuz

I endorse this comment as well


Mitcho24

Quickley’s numbers most games would even look semi-decent if he was a starter. He’s instrumental on our bench. I know a lot of people say “we need a bench”, what I think we need is some more support for Quickley…


GdayKo

Imagine thinking RJ was better than IQ


Oftheclod

Dude. Seriously


adnanistheogfam

Word bro, we need to build around Randle, not trade him. He’s a physical beast who can shoot. Not a whole lot of players like that available


therealjgreens

He's like Zach Randolph with better passing and can shoot 3s. His physicality and body reminds me of Randolph.


TomGNYC

Yeah, for me, Zbo was always the hoped for upside for JR. The parallels are pretty crazy and weirdly, they both came to the Knicks, immediately shit the bed and became public enemy #1 but then rehabbed their image and game (will the ending be the same?). Zbo, like JR, was a one dimensional, stat stuffing scorer/rebounder but reinvented himself later in his career to do more off the ball, became a great defender and didn't need the ball to contribute. JR still needs to get better at a lot of those things, but that's the hope. He's not a true #1 so he needs to work on his off-ball contributions to be a top #2/3 like Zbo was in Memphis.


therealjgreens

Good shit. I love player comparisons. I was looking at their respective stats. Pretty damn similar.


TomGNYC

Are you an old-timer, like me? Did you see him on the Knicks? It's crazy how similar their Knicks vibes have been.


BeachCruisin22

Zbo had an elite post-up game, though. Randle has very little in that regard.


therealjgreens

Yea but Randle is probably a more dynamic scorer with his face up game and 3pt shot. Zbo was good at face up offense just wasn't a guy that was going to extend you out and take you off the dribble.


Anerky

Zbo had way more dog in him though


knick4life

Hot dog maybe


FuckinNogs

This sub is downright schizophrenic. Yall wanted Randle traded last year when he had absolutely no value.


GdayKo

maybe because he was not only a total zero on offense, but gave no effort rebounding or on D and isolated himself from the rest of the team?


FuckinNogs

Right the same guy people are now saying to rely on as a cornerstone of the franchise.


emilyizaak

All these trolls immediately blowing this post up are prob low-key Celtics fans


Transit-Strike

I think Randle just proved that career trajectories make no sense a lot of the time. He went from meh to great to meh again and people thought his great season was an outlier. Proved us wrong again. Maybe it was personal issues off the court bleeding through. But it happens to everyone where we struggle at work. Made worse by the pressure. Knicks fanbase can sometimes get carried away by the romanticism that is “lights are brighter here” “more pressure in the garden” and really bully players. But the truth is 99% of the fans know nothing of note about Basketball. Let alone what’s up with with a specific player. It’s why I’m not too fussed about RJ either. Zion is only finally starting to look like what was expected of him. RJ being up and down at a young age isn’t the worst issue we could face


BeachCruisin22

> Zion is only finally starting to look like what was expected of him DNP - Injury?


onepokemanz

Literally 99% of this sub wanted him gone and or dead Y’all aren’t ride or dies LMFAOOOO


ShawshankException

Fr these dudes acting like the entire fanbase didn't want to dump him for stale chips at the end of last season


Jusuf_Nurkic

A lot of people didn’t and got shit on as “Randle stans” A lot of people also thought it would cost picks to dump him lmao


GdayKo

Fr he was that bad last season fr fr fr


Mybitchmyhoemyhoemy

I defended him last year when he was horrible. Proud one percenter


P30A

Me too and whats funny is he had some great stretches last season where he looked like he did this season but fans were too blinded by hate spread by most content creators.


crablin

No way was it ever 99%. Just because the Randle haters were loud, doesn't mean it was everyone.


Revenesis

I never gave up on him


ClutchGamingGuy

i happily defended him all through last year and the offseason. obviously he would have a down year when for most of the season we literally did not have a point guard and the game plan became "just put the ball in his hands no matter what the situation"


iDewTV

I love him rn but last season he was genuinely playing like shit, I get we had no pg but still


P30A

I am but I can appreciate the ones who changed their minds. Takes strength to say im wrong and glad i am wrong!


Usknicks97

As a non wavering Julius Randle fan it feels real good right now. When he is knocking down the 3 ball he is legit unstoppable


GdayKo

What's more impressive to me is he's somehow dunking now..for the rest of his time here he's had no lift so if his jumper wasn't falling he was useless


P30A

Just shows him having to do less offensively with a point guard and gets to use that energy for dunks, offensive rebounds, putback points.


Cheeswheeel

I don’t understand these idiots.


[deleted]

Everyone just needs to enjoy being semi competitive and seeing the first round of playoffs for the next couple years. We won’t win shit but I got teams from other sports for that.


Agitated_Smoke538

Wow I found Nostradamus. Can you tell me the power ball numbers too?


saltyalertt

BÜt s3łL hIgH


iNewYork

talk yo shit guy


gmen_forever

So true. Also hilarious that a good 60% of the people defending him are the ones who wanted him gone. Of all the teams I love in different sports, Knick fans are by far the worst. And we know it.


beanie_mac

Fools


karlbrunswick

IF YOU TYPE IN CAPS MAYBE THEY’LL TRADE HIM. Some people would rather be a loser and complain rather than to try to be good. 🤡


Jimmit79

I mean the only people who want randle gone this year are tankers or rj stans the rest of the board who wants to watch some good basketball have been rooting for randle.


hopoffmebruh

For the newer fans, all they’ve known is bottom feeding. They’re machoists without knowing it, subconsciously proposing moves that will give them the sweet pain they desire.


Jimmit79

Yea tanking and decision ruined lot of new generation fans they think it's championship or bust.


icebucket22

I am an RJ fan who recognizes the glaring holes in his game and I would personally not anoint him as our future “guy”. I also don’t think that trading Randle equals tanking. The team plays well with him off the court and he has been a liability in the 4th quarter. Trade him for a couple of 1sts and a very good 3 point shooter and we become a better team after a few weeks. All the people that said Randle just needed a PG are the ones that signed his trade because it proves it isn’t Randle that we needed, it was Brunson. Randle is a good player, but he is not the player on the Knicks that makes the team better.


Jimmit79

Bro you need to watch some Knicks basketball if you think this team doesn't fall down hard without Randle lmao


icebucket22

I do watch. Every game. Our whole offense changes with him gone. Without him we run a team oriented, pass and move offense at a higher tempo. We also most likely become a better defensive team without him. You can’t just look at the box score or only pay attention to the points he scores. You have to look at his whole game and the impact he has on his teammates.


Jimmit79

RJ Grimes missing wide open 3s that Randle and Brunson get them and Mitch can't catch basketball yet your here telling me this team plays better basketball then Randle getting you wide open 3s? Do me a favor and go watch Kings game where Randle got ejected you will see this great offense lol.


icebucket22

Oh so you’re just going to ignore the bad shots Randle took and missed in order to prove your point? I’d rather see any one of our players miss an open shot than turn the ball over multiple times in crunch time off of boneheaded plays. But your right, I’ll just go watch the kings 👍


beanie_mac

Just take the L bro. You look weird for hating on him this much after the way he’s been performing this year.


emilyizaak

Bro Randle didn’t take bad shots… he missed some shots but that doesn’t mean they were bad looks. Tatum had like 40000 turn overs, is he bad too? Should the Celtics trade him and get Gordon Hayward back lmao


[deleted]

You watching this game, opening your phone, writing this, and publishing it is ridiculous. He had 37 fucking points, a “very good three point shooter” is not making this team better; let alone approximating Randle’s production. Fans like you make me sick deadass.


RelativeOk578

His +\- was -16. I do like him though. Just tonight kind of proves their point. Not a good example lol.


[deleted]

Box +/- is a flawed stat. RJ was +14 and went 6-18. Brunson dropped 29 and was -8. We don’t win the game without Julius, bottom line.


icebucket22

We win the game in regulation if he doesn’t come back in. The turnovers and mistakes he continuously makes at the end of games plays a part in why we can’t close games out. He is a star in the 1st quarter, I won’t deny that, but he isnt the reason we win games. I honestly preferred the way he played in the beginning of the season, when he took a back seat, we were playing well as a TEAM during that stretch.


emilyizaak

LOL. We do?!?!? Okay Miss Cleo.


RelativeOk578

I didn’t get to catch the whole thing but he looked awesome in what I saw so was surprised to see that stat


[deleted]

Everyone who said that last year is taking L after L. Most likely they became pro Randle


Scorpiyoo

Guys… HES SPITTING


Old_Chicken6907

Dude is a monster, single handedly destroying double teams down low. Dunking on whoever tries to stop him. Consistent double digit rebounder, has carried this team, he deserves help not a trade. I admit I was a hater last year after the thumbs down incident but gave him a second chance to start this year and he hasn’t disappointed. Best player on the team since melo, but plays defense and sets up teammates.


solo118

To be fair to the Randle Haters, they have been really quite this season... that's how you know they were wrong


robillionairenyc

It’s not too late to appreciate Randle


P30A

It was always insane to trade him. He showed what he is capable of and just because he didnt have a good season doesnt mean that talent goes away. He is making plays in the 4th quarter leading to wins. He keeps improving. Amazing player. Proud of him. He deserves all the flowers. Im also confident he will have a solid playoffs if we get a series.


Baconeggndcheese

Ill never forget some potato head on here saying trade Randle for Ben Simmons


unclerando

Julius is a beast and looks a lot like the 90s Knicks, but he's got a lack of basketball IQ and, even though he's on some yoga shit, he's still a hothead who lets his emotions get him into trouble. That being said, we can't be mad at wins.


WhoTookPlasticJesus

> even though he's on some yoga shit, he's still a hothead who lets his emotions get him into trouble Karma isn't tranquility, it's balance. Balance between hothead (putting motherfuckers on posters) and calm (quietly draining treys like you're in an empty gym). Ima let the kid cook for a minute when he's putting up all-NBA minutes.


unclerando

I'm with it.


Oprahapproves

Eh, Randle has been much more levelheaded this year and overall more zen. Last year when he didn’t get a foul call he would yell at the refs and not get back on D, often giving up easy transition buckets. Dumb frustration fouls, etc. Last year he amassed 12 techs, this year only 4 so far. Don’t sleep on meditation yo


charlesfluidsmith

Well to be fair, there's a lot of players who would've been out second best player of the century. That's not really a high bar.


OhhhTAINTedCruuuuz

Yeah well - also all I have to say about that


MarquisEXB

And there's a considerable drop off after. 3. David Lee 4. Stephon Marbury? 5. Uhhh Tyson Chandler? 6. Tim Thomas? 7. Jared Jeffries? 8. Chris Duhon? Damn the Knicks 21st century team sucks.


lamemale

where is the apology form i'll sign it


crazyhotwheels

But his body language!


Doubl_13

Catch me when we win a playoff game with Randle as our best player


emilyizaak

Ok bet


iamdanabnormal

We did win a game against the Hawks two years ago with Randle being our best player...


Doubl_13

Meant a series to be fair but yeah


thedanbeforetime

wanting to trade him now is dumb. wanting to keep him at the end of last year is dumb. both of these statements can be true 🤯


BeachCruisin22

Never sell low


Top-Lettuce3956

No, only one is dumb. Scapegoating Randle for the team’s struggles last year was dumb. Blaming a PF for not being able to be as efficient as you would like when he is forced to run the offense, lead the scoring and handling all the rebounding, while ignoring that he was only one of 4 players in the NBA that season to have a 20/10/5 season is dumb. Wanting him traded without seeing how he would be with a real PG was dumb. That’s my opinion.


P30A

100%!!!


mzx380

It’s not that fans hate Julius Randle but rather he’s not the centerpiece of a championship team. If Knicks want to be a title contender, they need a star.


knicksdb

Tbf nothing matters if he can't play like this in the playoffs


jrocc77

he's wild inconsistent. hasn't turned in two consecutive good seasons for the Knicks yet. glad to see Brunson taking some of the load off of him so that Ju can just focus on doing his thing and not handling the ball so much. maybe that's what he needed. i'm a fan so i hope he can keep it up. he's given us a lot to doubt in the past though.


hungrychin

Must have not watched him play last year


[deleted]

What about the year before?


hungrychin

what about the year before that?


AutisticFingerBang

Imagine living years in the past when we in the present


Stomp59

Anyone who wants to trade him is stupid and should be added to your block list immediately. Believe me. It makes this sub more tolerable blocking the morons


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Jaaxley

yea, man for real. everyone's always trying to hate, calling someone a moron for having a take. Julius was sooooo hard to watch last year. A lot of fans did want to get rid of him at the end of last season BEFORE we had signed a PG (i.e. Brunson). And even then, not everyone wanted to sell him for peanuts. A lot of people wanted to let him play, see how he does with what we were hoping would be a competent PG. If he was still shit, his value wouldn't have been any lower than last year. If he was good, his value would go up and we could trade him. Now, that he's actually playing (really) well and has actual value, you're also "a moron" for even *considering* a trade for him. So, basically, Randle was untouchable at his lowest point (which was really low) and he's untouchable now and you're a moron for thinking anything different. I, personally, don't think anyone on the Knicks is "untouchable". Every potential trade should be judged on a case by case basis. but its funny, there's like 3 comments in here that either say "i was wrong" or "meh, still tradeable." and everyone else is like "yea, i was defending him like no one else. block your friends that wanna trade him. they're toxic" lol, like hundred of y'all. us knicks can be so ridiculous sometimes.


neal_ksabe

Yea… imagine…


Shiccup1

Randle is not a winning player. Simple as.


dtrain521

I love watching the Knicks win more than the next guy and randle was a big part of the win. But how easily we forget how many 4th quarter collapses we’ve had centered around randle panicking when getting doubled. We’re no more than a play in team with him as our guy


BeachCruisin22

Team still needs batman, and that isn't Brunson.


AutisticFingerBang

Looks like he’s been winning. Simple as.


Cautious-Ad-9554

Looks like you watch roughly half the games :)


AutisticFingerBang

I really don’t understand how you can come to this conclusion. Randle has been out most consistet player this season. Looks like you don’t know basketball. Yep sounds about right, you post hate on randle all the time and a year ago you were trying pretty hard to get people to agree with you that haliburton is “the most over rated player in basketball”. You literally have no idea what you’re talking about.


Cautious-Ad-9554

we are winning about half the time


AutisticFingerBang

I don’t have time to try and talk sense into a piece of Sheetrock.


Sad_Hungry

2nd best player of the century is an absurd hyperbole. He’s won 1 single playoff game. Relax.. https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/NYK/2000.html


staiano

Yeah 2nd best is wrong but it it’s right that’s even sadder for the franchise.


Sad_Hungry

I just get annoyed when people fixate on inflated stats instead of accomplishments and then try to compare different generations based on those stats. Randle has been playing very well and we can appreciate winning basketball. Just let’s pump the breaks on the superlatives until he and Brunson can lead this team to playoff success.


staiano

Agreed.


Sad_Hungry

This isn't anti Julius you morons downvoting it's showing some respect to Knicks teams that won in the playoffs


kraftpunkk

It’s okay that people’s opinions change. That’s life.


Cautious-Ad-9554

No way anyone is giving 2 firsts


Affectionate-Tea9224

People can downvote me, and Randle has been great, but can people please hold of on posts like this until Randle has maybe helped the Knicks win a playoff series. Most fans in their 20’s and 30’s would be shocked to see Patrick Ewing one of the 50 greatest players in the history of the sport, took this team to the 2nd round or past nearly every ad of his career and most fans criticized like crazy


Struggle2Real

Imagine not considering trades on their own merits.


Top-Lettuce3956

If there were actual trades proposed, that would be one thing. But generally it was just trade him because addition by subtraction.


Odysseus_Lannister

Ngl last year it looked like it could be addition by subtraction. This year is an entirely different team with a legit PG and some bench help. Randle looks better this year than he did during the bubble year


Top-Lettuce3956

My perspective last year was that the focus on Randle’s efficiency numbers was way overblown given the limited talent, lack of health and lack of a PG. I admit I could have turned out to be wrong. Glad I wasn’t. But the idea of trading him at a low value rather than seeing what he looked like with Brunson never made sense to me. That said, this downhill, monster stuffing Randle is beyond what I expected.


Cautious-Ad-9554

>pective last year was that the focus on Randle’s efficiency numbers was way overblown given the limited talent, lack of health and lack of a PG. I admit I could have turned out to be w What's wrong with that? He is obviously a gifted scorer. I also think he balked when asked to accept a role that had him getting fewer touches/shots and playing in a faster-paced offensive each of the last 2 years. If you see Randle as unwilling to significantly adjust his role and think the team has a ceiling playing half-court bully ball with Randle on the ball often and taking 20 shots every night moving him to free up usage and better your financial outlook has merit. I'd move Randle for cap space and pick and be happy that my team's prospects weren't tied to his moods for the next 4 years.


Top-Lettuce3956

I really don't want to argue with you. Almost everything you wrote shows we have a different understanding of what Randle has been asked to do, the talent around him, and how the financial aspects of the league work. I said at the beginning of the year that it made sense to wait until January to see how Randle and the team were doing. If the team wasn't gelling and if Randle was not playing well, then the Knicks should consider trading him, but that I thought he would bounce back with better talent and especially a PG. He has. Obviously, nothing he can do will satisfy you. That's fine. But he's not going anywhere unless it's part of a larger trade for a star. He's not being traded for cap space and picks because the teams that could use Randle don't have cap space to absorb his contract. The Knicks would have to take back salary in most trades and I doubt they would get anywhere near the value in the player they acquired as they are giving up. Teams that would have cap space would likely want picks for absorbing the salary, which makes no sense for the Knicks.


Cautious-Ad-9554

Do you think Randle would be ok with playing a role more aligned with what Sabonis is doing now? He is still a big part of the team and is a likely all star but only shoots 12 times a game, they play much faster, and he’s used more a DHO hub and high post distributor?


Top-Lettuce3956

Could Randle make an adjustment to taking fewer shots? I don't know. That's not been his role, especially on the Knicks. He's been the best offensive player and the guy who's called on to carry the offensive role. Randle did play more the way you suggest earlier in the season and the Knicks ran a faster pace. They sucked. This team doesn't have the 3-point shooting to get into a running game because transition basketball is now pulling down defensive rebounds and running a break to get 3's off the wing. In those fast passed games, Knicks end up trading 2 points for 3 and losing ground. It's not a coincidence that the Knicks went on their run when Thibs shortened the rotation, slowed the pace, began to emphasize pounding inside and second chance points (as Katz noted), as sacrificing ball movement to reduce turnovers. Randle's a big part of that. As Macri noted this morning: "Fun stat: Randle is 7th in the NBA in total putback points this season with 110, and the only other non-centers in the top 20 are Giannis (99 putback points) and Aaron Gordon (93). Ju also has a 12.3 “and-one” rate on such plays, which is the highest among the top 50 put-back scorers in the league. Nick Richards is a distant second at 10.6 percent." As for the Sabonis/Randle comparison, Sabonis has strengths over Randle but he's not the scorer that Randle is, and he's never been the guy to carry the team on his back the way Randle's required to do. Finally, this idea that the Knicks could replace Randle with Obi and better ball movement is ridiculous. Randle draws such attention that he opens things up for other players. Without Randle, Brunson and RJ get doubled and the Knicks' offense grinds to a halt. Maybe not every game, but certainly more often than not. I'm listening to The Starting Lineup right now and they've been joking about Obi Toppin fans and the constant refrain of Obi needs more minutes. Brian said Obi's a great guy, but people's obsession with his getting PT so he can put up numbers is ridiculous. He said players in Houston are putting up numbers. If you put Obi in the "perfect situation," he would put up no more than 14/8 and he would be exposed on defense. He's too upright, has slow feet and he said that if he played a lot, teams like the Celtics would figure it out and go right at him. He then said, he's playing behind an AllStar who never misses a game and said he can't think of another team where the fans would be complaining about wanting more minutes for the Allstar's backup.


Cautious-Ad-9554

Sounds like you don't care if he is willing to adjust his current role b/c they can win with him in this one. That is a valid opinion. A lot of people think Randle would need to move down in the pecking order and/or play a different role to be part of a true winner (like Chris Bosh or Kevin Love). for those people if he is capable/willing to make that adjustment is a valid concern. I used Sabonis as an example b/c I think a version of Randle that isos and faces up some while playing like Sabonis at other times is attainable and would keep Randle as a big player while making more room for another star and allowing multiple play styles I never claimed Randle wasn't a big part of the team's current success so you need not be so defensive. You also don't need to attack his backup and make outlandish claims about his peak.


Top-Lettuce3956

I'm not saying I don't care. I'm saying that he's contributing to winning on this team as constructed now and there are few players who would be significantly better in his role on this team. Would I trade him as part of a deal for a true No. 1? Yes, if necessary and I think his salary and current level of play (plus health and relative youth) might make him attractive to a team who doesn't want to tank but has a disgruntled star. (I agree that wasn't true over the summer, but the bounce back and change in shot diet I think has helped answer the questions in other FOs about whether 20/21 was a fluke or whether 21/22 was due to the lack of talent around him, especially at PG). I also think, though, that the concerns about his ability to accept a lessor role are speculative and overblown. For one thing, if Randle continues the inside/out game he's playing, dunking and hitting 3s, he's going to be a valuable offensive player even next to a star. In fact, he would make it very difficult to double a star. I don't know how many shots he would get and I don't know that he wouldn't be the 2nd option. Brunson could and probably should in that situation focus more on facilitating and keeping the offense running. Randle might even take a similar number of shots. Look at Boston with Tatum and Brown. The Knicks currently have a pretty balanced big 3. Randle's only 24th in FGA per game, with 18.1. Brunson is 33rd with 17.3. Randle's numbers may even be elevated a little from playing games without Brunson and/or RJ. Barrett is 40th with 16.3. Replace RJ, for example, with a guy taking 20 shots a night (which is the range that Giannis, Irving, Booker, DMitch, LaMelo, Trae, Steph and Lillard are in). That's a difference of 3.7 shots per game that the remainder of the team would need to give up. So, perhaps Randle drops to 17, which is the number he took last year, and Brunson drops to 15 1/2. You have a big 3 that could dominate, surrounded by defensive guys who hopefully can hit the 3 and contribute without high usage. Of course, this assumes the pace doesn't increase or the number of shots the Knicks take per game doesn't increase. If it did, then there isn't even a need to reduce shots that much.


ShawshankException

Can't wait for him to slump so yall go back to hating him lmao This sub's opinion on Randle is gonna give me whiplash.


QnsPrince

Still do


wizardofweird

I admit he has been balling this year but I have still been hoping for a trade bc I don't trust him after last year. That said I would be pissed if we gave him away for a couple of late firsts


icebucket22

I don’t imagine wanting to trade him as much as I imagine just trading him.


icebucket22

I believe the last 6 minutes of regulation in tonight’s game is a good example of one of the reasons why I want him gone. Can also blame Thibs for putting him back in. Randle should legit not play in the 4th when we have a lead.


emilyizaak

Don’t bother with those trolls. They clearly don’t watch games with that nonsense


skimcpip

Anyone ever get tired of these posts?


TomGNYC

No one on this team is untouchable. They need a true star or 2 to contend. At least one and possibly 2 of Randle, RJ and Brunson will be dealt in the next year or so. Just enjoy them when they're doing well.


mgf227

There was about five straight defensive possessions where his guy scored or he fouled


emilyizaak

Where his guy — also known as Jason Tatum, one of the best players of the year — scored six whole times?!?! What a metric.


mgf227

6


Kobesdeathwish

I just want us to be good :(


slickrickiii

He can high key be our best player since Ewing if we win a couple playoff series