I love you Julius Randle. Give him more minutes. Been on that bandwagon since day 1. Ride or die with my dude.
Great game from Julius! Been critical of him, but he made me eat my words tonight and last game as well. He was switching on Wall and did a great job staying in front. Made some huge plays defensively. He set good screens, rolled hard, and finished with authority. He won us this game tonight.
Great blocks on Wall...put his body on Gortat...guts on that trey. Just played within the flow of the offense. Loved Nance cheering him on after the game.
Look, I’m critical of the guy when he plays poorly, makes stupid out of control drives, doesn’t try on D, so I’m gonna praise him when he plays well. That wasn’t him tonight, tonight he was a freakin beast on defense and he was gobbling up every board that came his way, played his a** off. He hit a huge 3 in the 4th too. MVP of this game for me, despite Ingram’s 10 4th quarter points. Randle was defending anyone who stepped in front of him, Wall, Beal, Gortat, anyone. :Headbang:
Says a lot about his "poor attitude" to not sulk all game when Luke was playing everyone and their mother over him to come in and put on that performance. There is minutes for all three (Randle/Nance/Kuz), Luke just needs to stop messing around.
Randle had a pair of rebounds where he took it upon himself to bring it up. One resulted in a turnover but the other he was under control, stopped and re-set. Gives us another open floor playmaker if the opportunity is there.
There has been a scapegoat for every season we sucked ... Julius has been the designated one since the beginning of the current one
That was 16 tons of balls on that block on Wall. Jules had no regard for his own face there and took that whole elbow knowing damn well what he was doing. That should shut people up at least about Jules' attitude about D.
Easily the MVP of this game. He WON us this game with his defense and timely buckets. Get this man more minutes Luke. No excuse for him to play less than 20mpg....just stagger the minutes like you did tonight Luke, and you'll find time for all 3 of Nance, Randle and Kuz.
As Randle's biggest critic, I gotta give credit where it's due. He's played great the last 2 games. Came up huge tonight.
Brilliant! So many times he could have sulked, but he kept fighting. His D on those switches with Wall were money!
There were some absolutely bizarre, random type lineups at times tonight. I didn't get it at all. But Luke at least stayed with what got him there at the end and I am beginning to love Randle at small ball 5.
