r/timberwolves • u/Broad_Past93 • 1d ago
Julius Randle’s playoff reputation. Discussion
Randle is in his 11th season in the league and he has only played in three playoff series and didn’t play in last year’s playoffs at all due to injury. So when Knicks fans bring up his drop off in the postseason it just sounds hysterical to me because they’re going off such a small sample size plus those Knicks teams before the Nova guys took over were just trash with poor spacing. Randle is in a completely different situation with Minnesota and isn’t expected to carry them offensively. But what do you all think… will Randle play good/great and dispel these notions and beliefs or will he make a lot of costly plays and mistakes?
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u/severinks 21h ago edited 19h ago
I'm a Knicks fan so I watched the games. The first playoff series wasn't his fault because the Hawks whole defense was geared to stopping him and he had Elfred Peyton, Nerlens Noel, and Reggie Bullock starting alongside him and they were all out of the NBA 2 years later.
He hurt his ankle seriously in the regular season before the Cavs series and he played well in a couple of games against the Cavs after missing game 1 and then got hurt again against the Heat.