Well, Randle received all the awards he could get out of the regular season, now Randle is ready to go on vacation to celebrate with family and friends.
ISO-Randle needs to know it takes same-page TEAM-BALLIN to win in the postseason games! Even Lebron learned he needed 3 facilitators in his rotation to win a CHIP.
Coach Nate & Trae Young has the Hawks team on the same-page on both sides of the court having one easy goal on defense (take the ball out of Randle hands), and speed up the tempo to get inside scoring, and give the ball to Trae on every half-court offense.
Some of us got it twisted bout the Knicks 2020-21 regular season.
Randle & Barrett's 40 minute performance were on its way to bring us a .400 season, the February addition of a veteran scorer combo-guard D.Rose mentoring the 2nd unit bench-players gave the Knicks a .569 regular season.
We had a 11-15 record when D.Rose joined the Knicks.
Thibs get BIG Props for starting the season with the same starter lineup he finished the regular season with, the exception of MitchRob injury were replace by Noel.
From the Knicks first game of the season till the last game of the season Thibs gave Randle the green-light to be the main facilitator of the ball on offense for 40 plus minute per game. Payton, Rivers, DSJ, and Frank had no say-so to facilitate the ball when Randle were in their lineup. Having Randle running the point and calling all the plays, plus having a bad decision-making (3rd draft pick) Barrett always moving out of position on both sides of the court those guys (Payton, Rivers, DSJ, Frank) didn't have a chance.
And Thibs experimental rotation with the 2nd unit bench lineup were not doing well, until D.Rose joined the Knicks, and refuse to be in the starter lineup.
Thibs postseason coaching hasn't change since becoming a head-coach.
Will head-coach Thibs ever make it out of the first-round ???
