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"I'm frustrated," Randle texted. "I just want to play basketball."

"Patience," Kobe Bryant responded to him.

"I'm 19 years old," Randle wondered. "How do I have patience?"

"It's the only choice," Bryant told him.

"You'll see."

Now, Randle is sitting in a corner booth of Don Chuy's in Playa Vista on a sunny September afternoon and laughs, "I do see it now."

Randle is forever grateful about the way his boyhood idol climbed down from the posters on his bedroom and into his basketball life.

"The biggest person to help get me through this was Kobe – by far," Randle says.

After World Peace didn't like the way Randle was stopping the ball in a practice facility pickup game, he shot him a text later in the afternoon. "Go watch how the Spurs move without the ball," World Peace instructed Randle. So, Randle turned on his laptop and started watching the simple genius of the Spurs.

As Randle proudly remembers, "The next week, [Metta] said, "I can see you've been watching the film.'" He goes out of his way to make things easy for me."

Mirjalovic wrote:Can't wait !

we talk about a 6'9 skilled,strong, athletic PF that play like a true PF.

Dr Aki wrote:

Mirjalovic wrote:Can't wait !

we talk about a 6'9 skilled,strong, athletic PF that play like a true PF.

define true PF?

Mirjalovic wrote:

Dr Aki wrote:

Mirjalovic wrote:Can't wait !

we talk about a 6'9 skilled,strong, athletic PF that play like a true PF.

define true PF?

define undersized PF?

tugs wrote:For Kobe and Metta to go out of their ways to reach out to Randle tells me they see something we can't.

For someone as aggressive as Kobe to preach patience and someone like Metta who does questionable things on and off the court and told Randle to emulate the Spurs shows how much these two matured.

So much knowledge being imparted to a player, at a young age, that has the same drive as they do. Don't want to jinx anything, but Randle is going to be very special.

Kilroy wrote:Mitch basically said today that MWP is great in 15min scrimmages in practice, but he's probably not up to full games and a full NBA season.
Didn't completely close the door, but didn't leave it open very wide either.
Sounds like they'd like to use that roster spot for more than a tackling dummy.

Kilroy wrote:Mitch basically said today that MWP is great in 15min scrimmages in practice, but he's probably not up to full games and a full NBA season.
Didn't completely close the door, but didn't leave it open very wide either.
Sounds like they'd like to use that roster spot for more than a tackling dummy.

Jody Smokz wrote:Negative...he's never done anything questionable off the court...

tugs wrote:For Kobe and Metta to go out of their ways to reach out to Randle tells me they see something we can't.

For someone as aggressive as Kobe to preach patience and someone like Metta who does questionable things on and off the court and told Randle to emulate the Spurs shows how much these two matured.

So much knowledge being imparted to a player, at a young age, that has the same drive as they do. Don't want to jinx anything, but Randle is going to be very special.

Slava wrote:

Jody Smokz wrote:Negative...he's never done anything questionable off the court...

tugs wrote:For Kobe and Metta to go out of their ways to reach out to Randle tells me they see something we can't.

For someone as aggressive as Kobe to preach patience and someone like Metta who does questionable things on and off the court and told Randle to emulate the Spurs shows how much these two matured.

So much knowledge being imparted to a player, at a young age, that has the same drive as they do. Don't want to jinx anything, but Randle is going to be very special.

He beat his wife, applied for a job at Circuit City for employee discounts while listing Larry Bird as a reference and drank Hennessy in the locker room. Nothing more than that I suppose.