Julius Randle Is In Health and Safety Protocols.

[Garbagelo]

[Monk1718]

Where Kendall Gill at?

[WajaBawl]

Wish Julius a speedy and painless recovery insha Allah.

That being said, happy to see Obi hopefully get an opportunity.

[KnixtapeH20]

Julius will come back healthy in a week or so, there is no doubt in my mind about it. I actually think this break may do him much more good than bad.

For the Knicks it will be an interesting stretch, also in regards to Thibodeau. He has been very loyal to Randle. After the Kemba fiasco, has his judgement on Randle been right? Or is he wrong on this one as well? Will he finally play Obi 30+ minutes? Or is Taj now gonna get 30 minutes while Obi continues to get less than 20 ?

I'm not a Randle fan at all as his play has been extremely poor this season. However I do think that out of the despair resulting from Randle's regression along with his contract extension, some wish or expect from Obi much more than he can deliver. If he plays around 30 minutes during the upcoming games, I expect 14/7 type numbers out of him, not much more. Still I am looking forward to this stretch without Randle simply because some important issues will get (at least somewhat) addressed:

1) Can Obi handle playing big minutes and staying effective?
2) How does Barrett fare without Randle? Is he going to step up? Or are defenses going to focus more on him and diminish his lacking efficiency even further?
3) Kemba is going to have the complete green light and freedom now to construct the offense---what is he going to make out of it?

Overall I expect a much more free flowing and watchable offense---maybe even some slight improvement on defense. The ball movement should be much better. Overall I do not expect a huge difference in the outcome of games as I genuinely believe the talent level on this team is just too low to win games consistently. A team without a true all-star caliber player is only going to get that far.

However, if this team does all of a sudden show much improved efficiency, then things will get really spicy in that locker room---almost a nightmarish scenario for the coach and FO if you think about it. After almost everybody viewing the Kemba and Fournier signings as problematic or even clear cut mistakes---can you imagine what this situation may potentially turn into if the upcoming games suggest that this team is better off without Randle? It would look exremely poor on Thibodeau as well---after the Kemba benching and Kemba's eastern conference player of the week award already putting Thibodeau's judgement into question---the team doing better without Julius would likely put many more question marks on his judgement and also create an untenable situation in upcoming home games againt Randle.

Great post

[DE FENSE]

Julius will be fine of course but I'm hoping his infant at home stays safe and healthy. I have a 5 month old and I'm only afraid of getting covid because I could then give it to him.

[Lord Commander]

My niccas. Y’all are fuqed up, but I can dig it!!! RELEASE OBI!!!!!

[Marty McFly]

Where Kendall Gill at?

lmao

[Clyde_Style]

I sure didn’t wish that

Nobody did. People just have agendas.

EVERY poster in here has an agenda. What are we saying? You don't have one?

I am here to represent the Way of the Rabbit Fist

Yield!

[Zenzibar]

Nobody did. People just have agendas.

EVERY poster in here has an agenda. What are we saying? You don't have one?

I am here to represent the Way of the Rabbit Fist

Yield!

Was Bruce Lee in that one?

[whocares1]

Im guessing Taj will start but we will see Obi a lot sooner into the game with a longer leash which is the bare minimum but it’s what I am expecting from Thibs lol.

[Clyde_Style]

EVERY poster in here has an agenda. What are we saying? You don't have one?

I am here to represent the Way of the Rabbit Fist

Yield!

Was Bruce Lee in that one?

I was his tutor on the set of Enter The Rabbit

[nyczlegacy]

Some serious low lifes in here. I get you dont' like Julius but cheering that he got covid is some ****.. i bet yall would make a thread saying thank you if he blew out his acl smfh awful fans

[K_ick_God]

Sign Tom Chambers.

One of the 1st lethal 3pt shooter at the 4-5.

Barkley wanted no part...lol



Who's this Mark Jackson being posterized?

Still remember sitting pretty close at MSG and watching him drain 3's and go to work. Great player.

[NoDopeOnSundays]

I'm anti Randle from a basketball standpoint and wanted him traded or benched, this is not how I want him to lose playing time. Covid is too serious a thing to wish on anybody. I hope he has a mild case and beats it easily.

[BKlutch]

Sign Jorts or Jimmer Fredette.

I was waiting for someone to say Jimmer. But seriously, where is Jeremy Lin?

Just signed with Beijing Ducks

Thanks - hope he does well there.

[K_ick_God]

Y'all are getting worked up. He is vaccinated and safe as far as we know. It's just the NBA following protocols. They've been doing this for a while and our whole team went down. He probably doesn't have Covid-19.

[K_ick_God]

I'm anti Randle from a basketball standpoint and wanted him traded or benched, this is not how I want him to lose playing time. Covid is too serious a thing to wish on anybody. I hope he has a mild case and beats it easily.

H&S protocols do not mean he has Covid.

[Clyde_Style]

Some serious low lifes in here. I get you dont' like Julius but cheering that he got covid is some ****.. i bet yall would make a thread saying thank you if he blew out his acl smfh awful fans

Was there a mob chanting for Randle or any player to get sick?

No

If there had been then maybe you’d have a case

People are happy because they get to watch basketball without him in the line-up and giving the kids some more time to play

Those are two completely different things

Know the difference

[K_ick_God]

Where Kendall Gill at?

Sign Tina Fey Mosgov.

[K_ick_God]

Trust this ... whoever the Knicks sign has about an equal chance of getting PT as Obi.