Julius Randle

It's all blends together now.

Like when you also had a manual quickly and you're larger bear and you're Julius Randle and you admit to Robinson, you're Isaiah Hardenstein, you're Josh Hart, you're Jalen Brunson and you're Dante DiVincenzo and you'd Quinn Grimes.

You're like, all right, it's just, it's too many dudes.

Like all those guys are NBA players and that's fantastic, but we need to find a way to turn two of these players into one player who can do everything.

So they're a team that certainly I could hear the case for.

They have a lot of stuff that could go wrong because I think, you know, as much as Donovan is not a Julius Randle guy, he also offers, like, a different element that they ...

You know, situationally in the regular season to win some games, sometimes it's just Julius Randle's bigger than this guy or faster than this guy, who's more of a, you know, a, a slower player.

He'll get you 20, 25, and they win on a given night.

And it's gonna look different this year.

They lost O'Shea Baggi, Nick Claxton, Zyre Williams, and Jalen Wilson, a bunch of end-of-roster guys, too.

They added Julius Randle, Mo Wagner, Keon Ellis, and two more first-round picks.

That makes seven, I believe, in the last two years.

Mikael Brown Jr., kind of a quick combo guard.

think they're going to miss him in Minnesota.

I thought they was going to, like, when they traded Julius Randle, I thought, okay, he's going to step up now.

Like, okay, I'm the starting four now.

Like, let me show y'all what I can do as a starter.

He has to be a one or a two because he has to have the ball in his hands.

You see what I'm saying? So if he don't have the ball in his hands, Jules is not going to be as effective.

You're not going to get the best Julius Randle.

How we got to this? Don't know, but.

They lost O'Shea Igbaje, Nick Claxton, Zyre Williams, and Jalen Wilson, a bunch of end-of-roster guys, too.

They added Julius Randle, Mo Wagner, Keon Ellis, and two more first-round picks.

That makes seven, I believe, in the last two years.

Mikael Brown Jr., kind of a quick combo guard, and then Joshua Jefferson, who's actually one of the more fun players I scouted this summer.

So, like Porter Jr., because the element is very relevant in this regard.

Julius Randle now on this team, I think...

I think you look to Randle and Porter to be kind of just the more...

That's who can know how to run an offense, know how to play an offense.

And with Jordy Fernandez there, I do trust him to manage the offense.

And we saw Porter Jr., frankly, have a career year last season.

Could we see that for Julius Randle? I don't think it's crazy to say that.

Maybe others think it's crazy.

Yo, how come you didn't shout out any of the, the new Knicks, the current Knicks?" And I said, "Because players get traded every day." And he was like, "Ah, I get it.

That makes sense." When I made the record, Julius Randle was still on the team, [laughs] Immanuel Quickley was still on the team, RJ Barrett.

So if all of those players would've shouted out in the record, the record wouldn't exist right now.

The record wouldn't make sense.

It was about the Knicks as a legacy, as a team, as the theme for the city and for the team, and not about the individual players.

And if I'm gonna shout out players, they're gonna be players who retired so there's no moving and shaking and trade.

I mean, imagine if the record was based around Julius Randle and RJ Barrett and all of them, and they're gone.

And Obi Toppin, and you know, 'cause they were on the team when I made the record.

Taking that real step.

Julius Randle doing exactly what Brooklyn brought him in to do.

Michael Porter Jr. playing well, assuming he's still a Brooklyn net.

And suddenly you're looking at the standings and thinking, wait, wait a minute.

We've talked about the young players.

We've talked about MPJ's con.

We talked about Julius Randle saying the Nets are going to exceed expectations.

We talked about MBJ saying the Nets are going to win 50 games.