Football players have said it before. Hockey players, too. Basketball players also have said it, most recently Julius Randle after the Knicks’ second consecutive disturbing loss in Miami to put their season on the cusp of ending as soon as Wednesday night.
It truly is one of the more inexplicable admissions we’ve heard over the years in sports, and exactly zero fans of this usually hard-working and likable team should be happy — or encouraged about the rest of the series — after Randle made that startling admission when asked after Monday’s defeat by The Post about the Heat essentially beating the Knicks at their own game, with a decided edge on the offensive boards while beating them to one loose ball after another in their victories in Game 3 and Game 4.
Randle could have been talking first and foremost about himself in that regard.
