Game thread: New York Knicks vs Los Angeles Clippers 1/23/2022 1:00pm [Game #46]

Julius Randle struggled with his shot again, scoring 18 points on 6-of-17 shooting and adding seven rebounds, four assists and three steals.
Randle also committed four turnovers. For the second time in three games, he finished with the worst plus/minus on his team, ending Monday?s loss with a minus-22. He?d shot just 40.3% in January, and Monday's performance certainly didn't help to improve on those inefficiencies. Randle's been in a major slump as of late, shooting poorly and coughing up the ball far too much. He's ranked outside the top-70 in 9-cat on the season, which is a far cry from his top-40 ADP. At this point, it will be hard to trade him for more than pennies on the dollar, so fantasy managers will have to hope that he turns things around.
 
Without D.Rose the Knicks don't have a closer leadership on the court to take the ball out of Randle & Barrett's hands on every other offensive possession going down the 6 min stretch of a game.

The Knicks Randle & Barrett's 40 minute offense has way to much dribbling, from ISO Randle, ISO Barrett, ISO Kemba, and ISO Burks, which has everyone standing still waiting on a shot or pass. Instead of players creating a play by picking for each other while moving without the ball.
It looked bad for the starters early in the season because the 2nd unit bench players had lots of ball movement, and player movement on tempo-offense.
At the start of the Knicks season, I thought before we get into the midseason games .. Thibs would've been working steady on a (3-Balls) perimeter-shooting lineup, he could spend the season working on their defensive STOPS, plus able to hit four or more 3-ballshots in 4 min.
Especially, when we added perimeter shooters Kemba & Fournier to the rotation.
Thibs never got around to working on a lineup with the teams top 6 perimeter-shooters this season .. Players: D.Rose, Kemba, Fournier, Burks, Randle, and Obi would make a nice perimeter lineup opponents couldn't double-team. .
 
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