So does Julius Randle just get to advance the ball now? Does Walton think that D’Angelo Russell will operate better off-ball or do they actually think that Randle has some point-forward him? Or both? Maybe it’s both.
All I know is that Randle was the initiator on offense for pretty much every clip in this video. That’s the sort of thing that doesn’t happen by accident no matter how much a dude begs for the ball. That’s the sort of thing that has to have been planned out beforehand. It was a conscious decision. And you know what? He looked okay doing it. I am absolutely not the world’s biggest Randle believer. If he sucked at it I would happily tell you about it in all kinds of florid language.
Last year Randle thought he had handles but he didn’t really and everybody thought it was really cute/sad when he tried to do things with the ball. Does he have those handles now, thus allowing him to be the primary distributor on offense? Does he have, dare I say, Randle Handles?
I swear that pun wasn’t intended from the beginning. I came up with it just now. Pretty good, right?