duetta wrote:If Randle were healthy and playing, Philly would be incapable of defending Brunson the way that they are. Both Brunson and Randle are capable of putting up 40 and dominating the other team's defense. We're better defensively without Randle but much worse offensively. If you want to argue that the ball moves better with Randle off the court, you can't use the last two games as an illustration - because the ball wasn't moving nearly enough out of Brunson's hands, and into the hands of his extremely capable teammates. This is not a knock on Brunson but simply an acknowledgment that no team can devise an effective defense against an offense with multiple players capable of putting up 30-40 game-in and game-out.
Our ceiling is higher with a healthy Randle. You guys saw us dominating with our full squad when OG got here. Regular season, sure, but you could see that we were really good on both ends. Dominant rebounding, defense, and a hard to stop offense.
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