Quickly almost had a successful PnR . Those are promising signs.
BRIGGS wrote:Julius needs to play better
Game 1, okay, he had nerves…
How did he get worse for game 2? Ugh
PresIke wrote:TPercy wrote:Thank you Randle. It shouldn’t take you until the 2nd Q to realize that you need to attack the rim.
I love Randle but the truth is we're seeing that when he faces tough defending from tall/long armed athletic players he really does seem to struggle
And a zone'ish defense that make him make decisions he is not ready for.
Whatever the game plan they have to stop Randle it's working like a charm
It’s way way to early to tell but I’m praying Julius isn’t another Derozan/PG
Randle is playing worse than he did last season right now.
Randle has to slowdown he’s rushing everything
To many jumpers by Julius. Get him closer to the hoop and get the ball going through the hoop.
We might have to rethink that max deal for Randle.
Let's see if Thibs makes any adjustments or decides to wait until we're in a 3-0 hole?
How about we sick Frank on Trae simply so it disrupts Trae's walk up 35 foot 3s? It's one thing to lose - but I'd rather go down swinging and accept if the other players step up. If we disrupt the engine/Trae - it will impact things in some way. Let's make them adjust since they're doing that to Randle.
Randle is just doing what he was told to do - not fair to place too much on him. Even if he was hitting 50% of those iso shots - Thibs calling the O
Any maybe pick up the pace? It's embarrassing we look like we're JV playing the Varsity
Can we get 80% of the crowd to leave?
Clean wrote:We might have to rethink that max deal for Randle.
martin wrote:PresIke wrote:TPercy wrote:Thank you Randle. It shouldn’t take you until the 2nd Q to realize that you need to attack the rim.
I love Randle but the truth is we're seeing that when he faces tough defending from tall/long armed athletic players he really does seem to struggle
And a zone'ish defense that make him make decisions he is not ready for.
Yeah. It's completely throwing our team into a tailspin.
We look utterly lost and are overcompensating while the Hawks are exploiting this.
It's really sad and frustrating.
Hard to blame Thibs when his star player is effectively a zero.
How do you adjust for that?
We will probably wait until elimination game to give Frank minutes on Trae
This is a must win, this early in the series.
TPercy wrote:It’s way way to early to tell but I’m praying Julius isn’t another Derozan/PG
I was thinking Nick Anderson.
In fact, because he's such a sensitive nice dude I hate to say it but he's absolutely a risk from what I sense.
He was so bad the year before that you can see him being possibly being almost entirely a confidence player that could also really fall apart.
I REALLy hope I'm wrong as I really like him and want him to succeed.
Thibs shouldve took Barrett out the game 5 min ago, and replace him with Frank ....
Randle & Barrett was awful in the first half .. the two have to do a 360 in the 2nd half
ramtour420 wrote:This is a must win, this early in the series.
This half is our entire season and maybe more.
That's how big it is.
If Randle doesn't do better or we don't win it might set us back more than just this series.
We overachieved during the season , and have now over the span of a like 2 weeks forgot how to play defense , and Randle forgot how to play the game of basketball..........I am depressed AF , Hawks players showed up our stars have not .If I am the Knicks org I hold off on any Randle extension do not even discuss it you can't max out a PO bust like that. Hope he comes back and makes me it crow but I don't see it ...
