blkexec wrote:Martin, I want thibs to be himself. I didn’t know he was politically savy when it comes to protecting his players.

Not sure how you turn a positive comment on thibs protecting Randle into a negative on thibs. Just said I finally get thibs now. The old accountability comment is dead. This is handled behind closed doors. So I respect that.

I think everybody needs a gold star and some weed. 😂

I literally don't understand what you are typing. No idea what situation you are talking about - last night or the ejection or whatever. You barely ever make sense to me and you doubleback and say the opposite things routinely.

General question: What does holding Randle accountable look like?

blkexec wrote:Keep in mind please. I use my phone to chat most times. And apple likes to auto correct. Sorry if that sends people into a tale spin. If it sounds crazy it’s a typo 😜

The way you are typing I pictured you as a flip phone guy who was doing the multi-tap thing just for 1 letter lol

martin wrote:

blkexec wrote:Keep in mind please. I use my phone to chat most times. And apple likes to auto correct. Sorry if that sends people into a tale spin. If it sounds crazy it’s a typo 😜

The way you are typing I pictured you as a flip phone guy who was doing the multi-tap thing just for 1 letter lol

Can you finish the topic at least sir, in-between your confused state. Whats your way to hold Randle accountable, since you started this question. I gave my specific answer based on the ejection scenario and how Thibs said it's the team to blame. If you agree with Thibs, then that's fine. For arguments sake, lets say you disagree with Thibs and it was Randles fault for being ejected (not his teammates), then how would you hold Randle accountable?

I'm now on the computer in case you want to compare my flip phone post and computer post.

I thought it was a little gimmicky with the prime objective being to take away his dribble. Celts have used that trick w M.Smart too.

My suspicion is if we see that Friday we might see some kick it out re-post type stuff and punishing that crap

blkexec wrote:

martin wrote:

blkexec wrote:

martin wrote:

blkexec wrote:Keep in mind please. I use my phone to chat most times. And apple likes to auto correct. Sorry if that sends people into a tale spin. If it sounds crazy it’s a typo 😜

The way you are typing I pictured you as a flip phone guy who was doing the multi-tap thing just for 1 letter lol

Can you finish the topic at least sir, in-between your confused state. Whats your way to hold Randle accountable, since you started this question. I gave my specific answer based on the ejection scenario and how Thibs said it's the team to blame. If you agree with Thibs, then that's fine. For arguments sake, lets say you disagree with Thibs and it was Randles fault for being ejected (not his teammates), then how would you hold Randle accountable?

I'm now on the computer in case you want to compare my flip phone post and computer post.

So you got Thibs quote wrong, he did not say that it's Randle's teammates to blame. Go look it up, it's a nothing burger statement.

I am asking you how YOU think Thibs should hold Randle accountable. This ejection quote thing is a non sequester.

I guess I'm not the only one who got Thibs quote wrong. Jordanna Clark was the author of the following article.

"Tom Thibodeau doesn’t blame Julius Randle for getting ejected but instead faults Knicks team"

https://dailyknicks.com/2022/12/12/knicks-tom-thibodeau-right-place-blame-julius-randle-ejection/

So I'll ask you again, how would you hold Randle accountable, regarding this ejection scenario? I gave you my answer several times and put it in bold. All I hear from you is the same question over again. lol

"that doesn’t mean that Randle should be without blame. He continued to jaw at officials and that took him out of the game entirely. It’s not as if Randle is a rookie. He’s one of the Knicks’ leaders and his actions didn’t reflect that. Like Mike Breen said, Randle’s frustration was understandable, but he can’t go as far as to get himself thrown out of the game." -Jordanna Clark

martin wrote:

blkexec wrote:

martin wrote:

blkexec wrote:

martin wrote:

blkexec wrote:Keep in mind please. I use my phone to chat most times. And apple likes to auto correct. Sorry if that sends people into a tale spin. If it sounds crazy it’s a typo 😜

The way you are typing I pictured you as a flip phone guy who was doing the multi-tap thing just for 1 letter lol

Can you finish the topic at least sir, in-between your confused state. Whats your way to hold Randle accountable, since you started this question. I gave my specific answer based on the ejection scenario and how Thibs said it's the team to blame. If you agree with Thibs, then that's fine. For arguments sake, lets say you disagree with Thibs and it was Randles fault for being ejected (not his teammates), then how would you hold Randle accountable?

I'm now on the computer in case you want to compare my flip phone post and computer post.

So you got Thibs quote wrong, he did not say that it's Randle's teammates to blame. Go look it up, it's a nothing burger statement.

I am asking you how YOU think Thibs should hold Randle accountable. This ejection quote thing is a non sequester.

I guess I'm not the only one who got Thibs quote wrong. Jordanna Clark was the author of the following article.

"Tom Thibodeau doesn’t blame Julius Randle for getting ejected but instead faults Knicks team"

https://dailyknicks.com/2022/12/12/knicks-tom-thibodeau-right-place-blame-julius-randle-ejection/

So I'll ask you again, how would you hold Randle accountable, regarding this ejection scenario? I gave you my answer several times and put it in bold. All I hear from you is the same question over again. lol

Jordanna Clark is like intern level writer who works for a low level blog. Why are you getting your info from her?

By now we should all realize that article titles are pure clickbait and you fell for it hook line and sinker.

“When he got the first [technical foul], we have to do a better job of helping him walk away,” the Knicks’ coach said after his team’s 112-99 win over the Kings. “As a team, staff, all of us.”

He followed that up with:

“There are going to be some miss-calls. That’s part of it,” Thibodeau said. “Just keep competing. But when a guy gets frustrated, we got to make sure [to] help. … Just [have] an awareness. Go grab him. It’s a dead ball.”

Get your information from better places and then actually, you know, read the quote.

I have never espoused that Randle needed to be held accountable, especially in this situation, so it's not even necessary.

I keep asking people who spaz out and just reiterate that "Thibs needs to hold Randle accountable" and I just want to know from them how that works.

"that doesn’t mean that Randle should be without blame. He continued to jaw at officials and that took him out of the game entirely. It’s not as if Randle is a rookie. He’s one of the Knicks’ leaders and his actions didn’t reflect that. Like Mike Breen said, Randle’s frustration was understandable, but he can’t go as far as to get himself thrown out of the game." -Jordanna Clark

With the above statement, I don't care if a child wrote that. I agree with that child.

You are correct about getting better sources, but that doesnt negate the discussion. What I would expect Thibs to do, I answered that. Thigs could've said what Randle said about himself. It was a selfish act and Randle knows better.

If you are looking for a general action on how to hold Randle accountable for all of his actions, out burse, etc.....Not even Thibs can answer that.

But if you bring up a scenario like I did (Kings game ejection when he was killing first half), I bolded my answer. What else are you looking for so we can close this topic and move on to the bulls and making the playoffs.

martin wrote:Jordanna Clark deserves a gold star

Now thats funny.

Below is a copy and paste of what I said, in the post reply to bigred. I thought that statement put this topic to bed, unless you didn't read this.

This is why I starting saying thibs doesn’t hold Randle accountable. He uses pillow talk and gives a politically correct response with the intention to not throw Randle under the bus. This is an example of my original thought.

Now I’m seeing another side of thibs I didn’t know existed.

For me, I like to hold players accountable. Talk to them and make sure they understand what they did wrong and how to improve on that. I'm going to assume this is done behind closed doors and in the press Thibs will give his best answer without throwing Randle under the bus or cause a divide amoungst the team.

blkexec wrote:

martin wrote:Jordanna Clark deserves a gold star

Now thats funny.

Below is a copy and paste of what I said, in the post reply to bigred. I thought that statement put this topic to bed, unless you didn't read this.

This is why I starting saying thibs doesn’t hold Randle accountable. He uses pillow talk and gives a politically correct response with the intention to not throw Randle under the bus. This is an example of my original thought.

Now I’m seeing another side of thibs I didn’t know existed.

For me, I like to hold players accountable. Talk to them and make sure they understand what they did wrong and how to improve on that. I'm going to assume this is done behind closed doors and in the press Thibs will give his best answer without throwing Randle under the bus or cause a divide amoungst the team.

I mean, she has probably been in and out of Marbury's truck so many times now, she got all the gold stars

BigDaddyG wrote:

ToddTT wrote:

martin wrote:Jordanna Clark deserves a gold star

She has stolen minutes of my life I’ll never get back.

Minutes!!!

We need an ignore feature for Jordanna.

Provide a pic of Jordanna first and then, maybe, I'll consider your request.

HofstraBBall wrote:

blkexec wrote:

blkexec wrote:

martin wrote:

blkexec wrote:

martin wrote:

blkexec wrote:Keep in mind please. I use my phone to chat most times. And apple likes to auto correct. Sorry if that sends people into a tale spin. If it sounds crazy it’s a typo 😜

The way you are typing I pictured you as a flip phone guy who was doing the multi-tap thing just for 1 letter lol

Can you finish the topic at least sir, in-between your confused state. Whats your way to hold Randle accountable, since you started this question. I gave my specific answer based on the ejection scenario and how Thibs said it's the team to blame. If you agree with Thibs, then that's fine. For arguments sake, lets say you disagree with Thibs and it was Randles fault for being ejected (not his teammates), then how would you hold Randle accountable?

I'm now on the computer in case you want to compare my flip phone post and computer post.

So you got Thibs quote wrong, he did not say that it's Randle's teammates to blame. Go look it up, it's a nothing burger statement.

I am asking you how YOU think Thibs should hold Randle accountable. This ejection quote thing is a non sequester.

I guess I'm not the only one who got Thibs quote wrong. Jordanna Clark was the author of the following article.

"Tom Thibodeau doesn’t blame Julius Randle for getting ejected but instead faults Knicks team"

https://dailyknicks.com/2022/12/12/knicks-tom-thibodeau-right-place-blame-julius-randle-ejection/

So I'll ask you again, how would you hold Randle accountable, regarding this ejection scenario? I gave you my answer several times and put it in bold. All I hear from you is the same question over again. lol

"that doesn’t mean that Randle should be without blame. He continued to jaw at officials and that took him out of the game entirely. It’s not as if Randle is a rookie. He’s one of the Knicks’ leaders and his actions didn’t reflect that. Like Mike Breen said, Randle’s frustration was understandable, but he can’t go as far as to get himself thrown out of the game." -Jordanna Clark

A blogger whose "experience" is girls HS basketball. Makes total sense now.

So you disagree with her, no problem. Insults not necessary. I’m sure she has more basketball knowledge than you would ever have. Along with anybody else who wants to call her out. Such a weak move but very telling about you and others.

So I’m assuming you agree with thibs. its the teammates responsibility for Randle being ejected? Gotcha and thanks for joining the discussion. I can always count on the Hofstra police to come lurking.