Still not sold on Precious (has anyone actually seen him jump?).

“I was awful. I was terrible. I’m not going to lie, I was terrible.”

No one ever accused Randle of being a liar. Too much ball holding, dribbling, waiting for the double to come, and driving to nowhere. That kind of stuff is ultimately going to lead to TOs or bad shots by someone. Without Brunson we are going to get more of the Atlanta Hawk version of Randle where all his bad habits come out. We were fortunate he wasn’t very inefficient.

Knicks won but Julius Randle (six turnovers) wasn’t happy with his play:

“I was awful. I was terrible. I’m not going to lie, I was terrible.”

His shooting numbers are 🔥, it’s everyone else I’m concerned about

Basically the offense ran smoothly with him in, at least until people threw the ball to the Grizzlies.

I mentioned above, but clearly the Grizz had a game plan to full-court press the “new kid” to see if he fell apart, using a 6’9″ long-armed defender. But Deuce played through it.

But I gotta say since the trade if you told me we had to trade one of McBride or Grimes for an upgrade to the roster, I’d probably trade Grimes. I feel like McBride has stepped up more than Grimes and tonight being able to start and play well with Brunson out was a really positive sign (even if it was agains the griz). McBride just seems to play with more confidence and has really improved his three point shooting. Yeah he’s undersized but you could play him as a back up SG if you had another PG and get away with it bc of his defense. Grimes still seems kind of passive to me.

But how did he look, PG-wise?

McBride always performed well in Westchester. He probably felt very comfortable going up against his former nemesese “J. Gilyard”, “G. Jackson”, “V. Williams Jr”, and “J. LaRavia”.