LivingLegend wrote:martin wrote:LivingLegend wrote:martin wrote:LivingLegend wrote:Clean wrote:It's amazing how every night its a different young player stepping up.
Saw a blip comment that Mo has now started more games than OBI/IQ combined in rookie years. Ouch Thibs.
I kinda don't get these posts. Randle played 71 games that year. And Mitch/Noel started.
Given how timid Obi was during his first year, why do you think Obi should have started?
IQ got a solid 20mpg all year long.
Do we memory hole these kinda things just to get the Thibs infatuation on?
Never a Thibs brasher or hater and maybe I imagined there would have been more opportunities for Obi/IQ. Also may have my rosters mixed up but was never a Julius guy (wanted him gone) and wasn’t Elfrid ahead of IQ in rookie year? If being honest wasn’t a IQ guy either.
My comment was more geared towards Brown clearly experimenting more often and— was watching last night and think at 1 point it was OG out there with Kolek/Clarkson/McCullagh/Yabu in a tight game in 2nd half.
Obi and IQ were rookies during the year where Randle played at an MVP level. Ouch LivingLegend
I said I never liked Randle - stand by that. I remember his all time low playoff %s, his quitting during games and constant pouting. Still view him the same way —- didn’t say Obi was better but I preferred the style of play we might end up- with Obi (like Pacers).
Obi on the other hand never expanded his game the way I thought he would.
We could have drafted a better fit than Obi. It was the one time I saw Rose acting like a fan boy when he picked Obi.
That said, I'm with you about Randle. It's our opinion of him, not cherry picking to say he had a terrible attitude and gave up on the team at key junctures. I could care less about a player's high points vs. low points. When you show you're a quitter I quit on you. And he was a front-running quitter who played for his stats and not the team. So many times we had a rousing victory that he didn't play well in and you always saw Randle moping on the sidelines while his teammates celebrated. I hate guys like that.
Randle was not equipped to deal with NYC. He's a much better player not playing in a big market. Took so much pressure off him playing in Minny. His mental health was always going to be at risk playing in NYC so it was better for him and better for the Knicks to move him.
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