CrushAlot wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Randolph scored 10 points with eight rebounds in 15 minutes in Wednesday's loss to Utah.

Recommendation: After struggling with an illness the prior week, Randolph looks healthy and is getting about 15 minutes per game off the bench. His role could grow the final few weeks as Minnesota looks toward next season.

lol. he got that crap in garbage time. let it go.

Did you just post in the game thread that Turiaf and Jeffries could be a decent center tandem? Randolph was +6 in this game and also had a block and 2 assists. The point of this thread to me was that he was discounted as barely an asset. Now the Knicks are playing Jared Jeffries at center. Turiaf played 13 minutes tonight. The kid is 21, was wanted by Walsh and was never given a chance by the coach.

key difference - jeffries and turiaf won by 20, AR lost by 20.

i wanted AR here, too, but he didn't work hard while here. end of story.

crzymdups wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Randolph scored 10 points with eight rebounds in 15 minutes in Wednesday's loss to Utah.

Recommendation: After struggling with an illness the prior week, Randolph looks healthy and is getting about 15 minutes per game off the bench. His role could grow the final few weeks as Minnesota looks toward next season.

lol. he got that crap in garbage time. let it go.

Did you just post in the game thread that Turiaf and Jeffries could be a decent center tandem? Randolph was +6 in this game and also had a block and 2 assists. The point of this thread to me was that he was discounted as barely an asset. Now the Knicks are playing Jared Jeffries at center. Turiaf played 13 minutes tonight. The kid is 21, was wanted by Walsh and was never given a chance by the coach.

key difference - jeffries and turiaf won by 20, AR lost by 20.

i wanted AR here, too, but he didn't work hard while here. end of story.

crzymdups wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Randolph scored 10 points with eight rebounds in 15 minutes in Wednesday's loss to Utah.

Recommendation: After struggling with an illness the prior week, Randolph looks healthy and is getting about 15 minutes per game off the bench. His role could grow the final few weeks as Minnesota looks toward next season.

lol. he got that crap in garbage time. let it go.

Did you just post in the game thread that Turiaf and Jeffries could be a decent center tandem? Randolph was +6 in this game and also had a block and 2 assists. The point of this thread to me was that he was discounted as barely an asset. Now the Knicks are playing Jared Jeffries at center. Turiaf played 13 minutes tonight. The kid is 21, was wanted by Walsh and was never given a chance by the coach.

key difference - jeffries and turiaf won by 20, AR lost by 20.

i wanted AR here, too, but he didn't work hard while here. end of story.

If his team is +6 when he is on the floor they are not losing because of him. I will say it again. Imagine if this 21 year old lottery pick was Dan D'Antoni's pet project and got the attention given to Moz.

His minutes came in garbage time in a blowout loss. i submit to you that his plus/minus numbers are completely meaningless in that context.

babyKnicks wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:

crzymdups wrote:

CrushAlot wrote:Randolph scored 10 points with eight rebounds in 15 minutes in Wednesday's loss to Utah.

Recommendation: After struggling with an illness the prior week, Randolph looks healthy and is getting about 15 minutes per game off the bench. His role could grow the final few weeks as Minnesota looks toward next season.

lol. he got that crap in garbage time. let it go.

Did you just post in the game thread that Turiaf and Jeffries could be a decent center tandem? Randolph was +6 in this game and also had a block and 2 assists. The point of this thread to me was that he was discounted as barely an asset. Now the Knicks are playing Jared Jeffries at center. Turiaf played 13 minutes tonight. The kid is 21, was wanted by Walsh and was never given a chance by the coach.

key difference - jeffries and turiaf won by 20, AR lost by 20.

i wanted AR here, too, but he didn't work hard while here. end of story.

If his team is +6 when he is on the floor they are not losing because of him. I will say it again. Imagine if this 21 year old lottery pick was Dan D'Antoni's pet project and got the attention given to Moz.

His minutes came in garbage time in a blowout loss. i submit to you that his plus/minus numbers are completely meaningless in that context.

He has set minutes. He is in the rotation. I am several fantasy b-ball leagues and I have him on a team and watch when he plays. I am not sure why you would say it was garbage time. He is in the rotation.

It was garbage time. Sorry.

CrushAlot wrote:I am not a fan of D'Antonis. One of the reasons is it appears that he does not want to play young players that need guidance and coaching. Randolph at 21 was the youngest guy on the team. D'Antoni decided his fate in the Milan game which was a shame. The guy has tremendous talent, is 21 and was coming off of an injury. He needed to be treated like Moz,Dan's pet project, if he was going to thrive, not like an outcast that could do nothing right. His career is just beginning but he was a lot more than a throw in in the Melo trade. He was the key acquisition in the Lee trade and a guy Walsh wanted and almost drafted ahead of Gallo. I will keep updating this thread until the mistake that was made when D'Antoni was hired is corrected. I think keeping this topical might make some D'Antoni fans aware of just how F';d this guy is. Look at Jeffries, how he performs, rate his upside, and compare him to Randolph getting minutes in Minny and see who you would prefer.

This guy is no longer on the team. Therefore I don't care what he does.

markvmc wrote:Bull****. Whatever D'Antoni's fault, he's fine with playing young players if they earn the time. Douglas, Fields, Moz, Gallo, Chandler, Nate. All of them got playing time, none of them over 23.

It's currently a tied game with the Lakers in the 4th quarter.

AR has played NO MINUTES.

He is not in the rotation - he gets garbage time. End of story.

He's one of the few lotto picks I can remember to come from a losing team - his team was 14-18.

To even start to compare him to Marcus Camby, who was a consummate competitor at UMass and beat Tim Duncan in college and had Umass in the Elite Eight is an insult to everything about winning basketball.

The coaching staff here tried to get AR to buy in and he wouldn't. So he left. Now he is in Minnesota where he won't buy in. He'll always be in the league because of his size and athleticism... but I question whether he'll ever get it.

I think Darko was more of a missed opportunity than AR at this point. AR just seems like a dumb player on the basketball court. Like he really doesn't get how to play.

nyk4ever wrote:ill update this for you tonight crush.. randolph played in place for the injured kevin love and had 13pts 4rebs and 7to's in 24mins

nyk4ever wrote:ill update this for you tonight crush.. randolph played in place for the injured kevin love and had 13pts 4rebs and 7to's in 24mins

... and the T'Wolves lost by 32 to the equally horrible Kings.

AR doesn't understand how to play basketball. He was -18 today.