For me, it was a conscious effort watching the game, watching the other teams play and making that adjustment myself.” “We have been playing up tempo all year and haven’t really been able to figure it out. “I just had to adjust to the way the game was being played, and adjust to how we were trying to play,’’ Randle said. Subject of trade talk, Randle has primarily faced double teams in the halfcourt. Julius Randle has looked like his old-self during the Knicks’ road trip. They can finish the five-game trip 2-3 if they beat the lowly Trail Blazers on Saturday. The Knicks stand at 25-31, in 12th place - two games out of the play-in tournament. And right now, there’s optimism the upset win over the mighty Warriors can turn the season around after brass stood pat at Thursday’s trade deadline. (Nerlens Noel, the backup center, occasionally misses the anthem to warm up, as do assorted other players around the NBA.)Īs Randle goes, so go the Knicks. Randle is always present at the Garden for both the anthem and player intros but has missed some road anthems in the past. The NBA has a policy that players must appear for the national anthem, but it is not enforced. Randle is trying to push the pace to get easy baskets, and this is perhaps a strategy to get his blood pumping before tip-off.Īcross this disappointing season, the Knicks’ starting five have habitually gotten off to slow first quarters. Leon Rose raising fresh doubts he knows what he’s doing in charge of Knicks So nobody is complaining about this unorthodox manner of being late onto the court if it’s his way to stay limber and get off to fast starts. On the trip, Randle has averaged 29.5 points, 12 rebounds, 6.3 assists on 48.3 percent shooting - 35 percent from 3-point range. In the four games, Randle played with a lot more hustle and less bad body language - outside of that computer altercation with a Knicks assistant. Julius Randle stretches prior to a Knicks game. In each city, Randle emerged while the home team was being introduced, but he bounded onto the court energetically, fist-bumping and engaging with several teammates. When Randle’s name has been called, he has been absent. In addition, in the last three games, at Utah, Denver and Golden State, Randle has stayed back and missed the traditional introductions of the starting lineups. Randle has played out west like the All-Star he was last season.ĭuring the first four games of the five-game Western trip, The Post has observed that Randle has been in the back near the locker room during the playing of the national anthem while his teammates have been lined up on the court. Julius Randle has found a new, unconventional way of preparing for tip-off at road games - and it’s not being political or dissing his Knicks teammates. Knicks among favorite LeBron James landing spots if he leaves LA New York sports’ most coveted gigs finally have worthy successors
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