who is really more like Draymond Green (mentally)

I was reading your post and writing in my head my objections to it until I read this part, which really resonated with me.

Dray is the emotional leader of that team. But Steph is the leader leader. Or to put it another way. Steph is the brains and Dray is the heart. And good teams have that dynamic usually. Maybe Randle is more of the heart guy. A guy who plays tough, gets boards, punishes teams with his brutal offensive game and gets the team pumped up with his overall play. But maybe RJ (or a future star that we acquire somehow) is the brains. The calm and collected guy on the court who is unflappable and can hit that dagger shot or make that play under pressure. Draymond is an amazing player but he did cost the Warriors a championship in 2016 with his emotional play. But I’m sure all warrior fans are fine with that because of all the other championships he helped them win.

Early Bird: I don’t know if our international crowd completely understands how satisfying it is for a New York team to beat a Boston team. It doesn’t matter if it’s baseball, basketball, football, hockey, or a bunch of toddlers in a crawling race, when it comes to Boston vs New York there will be yelling, cursing and an absolution of all other sins if New York wins. Biiiiinnnnnngggggg Boooonnnnggggg!!!!!!!

When i started to follow the Knicks, in 1991, the Celtics weren’t good, so i didn’t have any animosity towards them. I had animosity towards the Pacers and the Heat. Pacers has waned since then, except for Miller, i hate that guy. To win against the Heat always cheers me up, so this one stayed. And since i read this blog, i think i started around 2014, the “love” for the Celtics has been growing up, so now i’m like a new yorker on this, it’s the most important games of the year. 😀

The other night against The Pacers people were chanting “RJ BARRETT” while Randle was shooting a free throw! I don’t even think that was meant as a slight against Randle, people were just pumped RJ was having a good game. But still, I’d be like “STFU while I shoot a free throw!” I’ve always found even the “MVP” chants while you’re own player is shooting a free throw to be beyond stupid. Like you yell and make noise when the opposing team shoots a free throw. When its your player, be quiet so they’re more likely to make it!

But that’s NYC for you and hopefully Randle can just process that and eventually not be bothered by it. I mean, fans used to give Ewing so much shit and he was literally a hall of fame player and led the team through a decade of really good basketball.

But still…I think booing individual players on your own team is kind of lame. Like boo the whole team when they play like garbage. Fine. But singling out one player. I don’t know. It seems petty and mean to me for no reason. Especially when Randle did so much last year and resigned at a good price.

Alan: Picking fights with the fans is never a good idea, but if Randle puts together a consistent stretch of basketball, nobody is going to care.

GHenman: As long as he doesn’t do anything obscene, who cares? He is a human being. He’s going to react. If it makes him play better, great!

Bo Nateman: That said if he channels his anger into bully ball best mode like he did in the second half last night ( with 0 turnovers!), let him rage on.

Exactly, exactly and exactly. We just want him to care, to play hard, to do whatever is needed to make the team better. If he does that, all will be good.

Early Bird:
I don’t know if our international crowd completely understands how satisfying it is for a New York team to beat a Boston team. It doesn’t matter if it’s baseball, basketball, football, hockey, or a bunch of toddlers in a crawling race, when it comes to Boston vs New York there will be yelling, cursing and an absolution of all other sins if New York wins.

I’m into it like a born newyorker 🙂
Eli Manning shitting on the Pats’ undefeated season AND kicking their asses in the rematch,
Boone’s and Bucky’s homeruns,
Bernard defending our turf in the 1984 playoffs, are all on my shortlist of best sports moments,
The 2004 ALCS’s in the top-10 worst…

And Randle got paid. But he also didn’t really get paid, paid.

I’m not so forgiving (or adult, or calm) and I’ll gladly give him other motivations to play better every time he’ll play like shit.

The best thing in Randle’s game last night were the zero turnovers, in the second half he played exactly how we want him to do, bully ball and open threes.

But this game would never be won without Fournier’s resurrection, IQ and Gibson.