The Anthony Randolph Thread

Post #1 » by **Klomp** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:28 am

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Foye · Post #2 » by **Foye** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:45 am

Lets hope he completements well with Love, Milicic and Pek. I think Tolliver is almost gone now, though.

Post #3 » by **Klomp** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:48 am

Foye wrote:Lets hope he completements well with Love, Milicic and Pek. I think Tolliver is almost gone now, though.

Did you hear in that second video that he was born in Germany?

shangrila · Post #4 » by **shangrila** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:00 am

I think Tolliver stays. He's the perfect role player and I don't think he's the kind of guy to complain about minutes and stuff like that.

Good that this finally happened though and I'm interested to see what he can do on this team.

Foye · Post #5 » by **Foye** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:04 am

Klomp wrote:
Foye wrote:Lets hope he completements well with Love, Milicic and Pek. I think Tolliver is almost gone now, though.

Did you hear in that second video that he was born in Germany?

That's cool. That woman in that interview is terrible, though. She asks way too many unimportant questions way too fast and the background music is horrible as well.

southern wolf · Post #6 » by **southern wolf** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:22 pm

I don't know what to expect from him, it's obviously going to take a while for him to get up to speed after warming the bench in New York all season. I just hope fans aren't calling for his head after 5 games because of a bit of rust.

Foye · Post #7 » by **Foye** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:41 pm

southern wolf wrote:I don't know what to expect from him, it's obviously going to take a while for him to get up to speed after warming the bench in New York all season. I just hope fans aren't calling for his head after 5 games because of a bit of rust.

Why would they? They didn't do that with Darko last season so they won't do it to Randolph. At least in theory.

funkatron101 · Post #8 » by **funkatron101** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:50 pm

I heard he is 8 feet tall now.

Casperkid23 · Post #9 » by **Casperkid23** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:52 pm

Foye wrote:Lets hope he completements well with Love, Milicic and Pek. I think Tolliver is almost gone now, though.

Seeing that Tolliver is the 2nd best player (and value) on that list, I don't see how you could be correct.

Krapinsky · Post #10 » by **Krapinsky** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:00 pm

A neat fact is that with the cap space made available from the Jefferson trade Kahn was able to get two of the prospects the team originally targeted.

Beasley, Randolph, Memphis 1st, Utah 1st (minus 2 seconds, minus Brewer)

That's a pretty good haul.

Esohny · Post #11 » by **Esohny** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:06 pm

funkatron101 wrote:I heard he is 8 feet tall now.

And 370 lbs of pure muscle.

Foye · Post #12 » by **Foye** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:08 pm

Casperkid23 wrote:
Foye wrote:Lets hope he completements well with Love, Milicic and Pek. I think Tolliver is almost gone now, though.

Seeing that Tolliver is the 2nd best player (and value) on that list, I don't see how you could be correct.

Might look at the roster.
Kevin Love PF
Anthony Randolph PF
Michael Beasley SF/PF
Anthony Tolliver PF

So unless we mystically decide to play full time small ball with Love as the center Tolliver is redundant. I like his effort and defense but acquiring Randolph points towards letting Tolliver walk. Love might get some C minutes against smaller teams but then you still got Beasley occasionally and Randolph taking away minutes from him. If he doesn't decide to outplay Anthony Randolph we'll see him moving on. It would actually be sad because he put in effort and I like the guy but it's just a likely option IMO.

Ridnour/Flynn/(Rubio)/Telfair
Webster/Wes/Wayne
Beasley/Wes/Webster/Hayward
Love/Randolph/Tolliver/Beasley
Darko/Pek/Love/Koufos

And even if we're going with Love as a center Randolph seems like a better compliment down the road because he's got the size that Tolliver lacks. I'm not a fan of making Love our center, though. We've had that problem already with Jefferson.

Foye · Post #13 » by **Foye** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:10 pm

Krapinsky wrote:A neat fact is that with the cap space made available from the Jefferson trade Kahn was able to get two of the prospects the team originally targeted.

Beasley, Randolph, Memphis 1st, Utah 1st (minus 2 seconds, minus Brewer)

That's a pretty good haul.

I'm not a cap specialist but didn't we have enough cap space to absorb Beasley before the Jefferson deal was done?

Post #14 » by **C.lupus** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:13 pm

Esohny wrote:
funkatron101 wrote:I heard he is 8 feet tall now.

And 370 lbs of pure muscle.

Nah, now that he's in 'Sota, his potential is down to zero.

Casperkid23 · Post #15 » by **Casperkid23** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:32 pm

Foye wrote:
Casperkid23 wrote:
Foye wrote:Lets hope he completements well with Love, Milicic and Pek. I think Tolliver is almost gone now, though.

Seeing that Tolliver is the 2nd best player (and value) on that list, I don't see how you could be correct.

Might look at the roster.
Kevin Love PF
Anthony Randolph PF
Michael Beasley SF/PF
Anthony Tolliver PF

I stopped reading here. Nice bias you're trying to insert into your post. Randolph is only a PF? Tolliver is only a PF? Okay.

teven_1 · Post #16 » by **teven_1** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:48 pm

AR could be a much better version of Tolliver (if he fulfills his potential).
At the end of the day Beaz and Love are our starting forwards so AR could play minutes behind both of them (the way Tolliver is right now) and a little bit at C (again, the way Tolliver is right now) so I can see why having both of them could be an issue.

teven_1 · Post #17 » by **teven_1** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:48 pm

Honeslty, AR's gonna get minutes, or else this trade was pointless, he was already warming the bench in NY, we brought him here to play him and see if we can do one better.

teven_1 · Post #18 » by **teven_1** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:57 pm

ARGH! triple post! does AR suit up 2nite?

Devilzsidewalk · Post #19 » by **Devilzsidewalk** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:01 pm

i doubt it, all the players have to do physicals and crap first I think

Foye · Post #20 » by **Foye** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:02 pm

Casperkid23 wrote:
Foye wrote:
Casperkid23 wrote:Seeing that Tolliver is the 2nd best player (and value) on that list, I don't see how you could be correct.

Might look at the roster.
Kevin Love PF
Anthony Randolph PF
Michael Beasley SF/PF
Anthony Tolliver PF

I stopped reading here. Nice bias you're trying to insert into your post. Randolph is only a PF? Tolliver is only a PF? Okay.

That's what these players are best suited for.
So you want to tell me that Tolliver could actually play SF when we already complain that the handles of Beasley and Wes are too bad? Or do you want to tell me he should play C? Certainly not. :crazy:

And Randolph could possibly play some C, too, but in that case it would be for the sake of keeping Love at PF then opening minutes for your backup PF. With Beasley and Wes Johnson on the team Randolph won't see many if any minutes as a SF.