New New York
Quiet Storm
Statistically speaking it has been a rough Pre Season for AR and a lot of Knick fans are begining to doubt him and question as to if there was a better package out there for David Lee that Donnie passed up on, especially with Azabuike looking like he may never suit up for us and Ronnie T looking like he is just a bit player at best.
But you gotta believe the best is yet to come for this kid.
Remember when Marcus Camby came to NY for Oakley? He sucked horribly!!! I think he got a string of DNPs to start the Pre Season off with, if I'm not mistaking he only played in 1 of the 4 Pre Season games (lockout forced a shorter season) that year.
But eventually he caught on and was a key player for us and the rest is history.
I see the same thing happening for Anthony Randolph, the talent is there he just does not know how to use it yet!
I put a lot of that on our coaching staff tho!
There is a lot of emphasis put on his shot selection and I hear that, but every player in this offense has horrible shot selection!
He is not a step back jump shooter, yet I saw video of the coaching staff working on it, when in fact giving him some more reps in the post would be most beneficial to his game
Another encouraging sign is despite him struggling he is still averaging 10 pts 4 rebs and 1 blk off the bench.
We have to be patient with him....consider this.....we all love Mozgov's game and his upside despite concerns with him being foul prone and still very raw, now consider Randolph is 3 years younger and has an even bigger upside!
Toney Douglas too has impressed most of us, but he is actully shooting the ball worst than Randolph and only scoring 1 more point despite more minutes!!! And Randolph has a bigger upside than him too!
I think Randolph will come on strong (probably somewhere around December or so) and we will see why he was traded for!
But you gotta believe the best is yet to come for this kid.
Remember when Marcus Camby came to NY for Oakley? He sucked horribly!!! I think he got a string of DNPs to start the Pre Season off with, if I'm not mistaking he only played in 1 of the 4 Pre Season games (lockout forced a shorter season) that year.
But eventually he caught on and was a key player for us and the rest is history.
I see the same thing happening for Anthony Randolph, the talent is there he just does not know how to use it yet!
I put a lot of that on our coaching staff tho!
There is a lot of emphasis put on his shot selection and I hear that, but every player in this offense has horrible shot selection!
He is not a step back jump shooter, yet I saw video of the coaching staff working on it, when in fact giving him some more reps in the post would be most beneficial to his game
Another encouraging sign is despite him struggling he is still averaging 10 pts 4 rebs and 1 blk off the bench.
We have to be patient with him....consider this.....we all love Mozgov's game and his upside despite concerns with him being foul prone and still very raw, now consider Randolph is 3 years younger and has an even bigger upside!
Toney Douglas too has impressed most of us, but he is actully shooting the ball worst than Randolph and only scoring 1 more point despite more minutes!!! And Randolph has a bigger upside than him too!
I think Randolph will come on strong (probably somewhere around December or so) and we will see why he was traded for!