robillionaire wrote:Wildcat wrote:HerSports85 wrote:Randle looks more like a team player and under control with a real coach.
That's how he was playing last season. Especially after I-Hart became the starter and the OG trade. It is funny where they are now, because earlier in the season, Finch was being compared to Thibs.
It’s just a matter of him having more experience, not needed to carry a team as the first option through double teams like 2021, more playoff games under his belt, his own fanbase not ready to kill him every day, and not being injured like he was in the playoffs 2 years ago. If it’s coaching I guess maybe we should be concerned why Towns got benched by Finch for over 8 minutes to end a game they ultimately lost. While he just dropped 31 in a win here. Finch sucks
I do agree with Randle probably becoming more mature.
After many years with the Knicks FO letting him get away with everything, without disciplining him once and the fans even wanting to re-sign him after years of Randle acting like a fool, Randle must have realized that “if even the Knicks FO doesn’t want me anymore, I must have taken things too far.”
Then he looked at his contract and realized, I better get a new contract before I start acting entitled again.