*“Emotion and passion lead to better play, but a lack of emotional control and poise lead to lesser play,” Jeff Van Gundy told The Post in a phone interview Saturday morning. “To play well in the playoffs, to play well in hard-fought, highly-contested, close games, ultimately you have to have your best players have a level of poise that leads them to be able to play through rough patches of games or a tough loss in a playoff series and to bounce back. Poise is so very critical to be able to handle late-game pressurized situations. I think a couple of years back in the playoffs [Randle] had some issues with that. I think he’s had to close games this year, had some challenges with that.”*
Edit: dang, I thought we had a better sense of humor in here lol
teknomatic
I mean, he isn’t wrong. But he also coached a group of guys who were ready to fight people at the drop of a hat to the NBA finals
Squamply
Yeah no shit
gnitsuj
Damn, did he also say the sky is blue and the sun is hot?
GdayKo
He’s probably never going to be a winning player. He’s a lazy angry dude who belittles his teammates while he stands around on defense. And he self combusts under pressure.
The_Notorious_Donut
I agree
SnakeHoleBI
Captain Obvious ova heeeere 🕺
TheRealMetal
And this sub will still go “anyone who says Julius isn’t built for this is fat and never played basketball”
JerseyNaijaBoy
I wanna eat crow so bad but he’s 100 percent right. If Julius was that guy he, let’s put it like this. He wouldn’t be a Knick.
The9thChamber
Not could, will.
Randles a good player but he’s not built for the big stage.
Come playoffs and when he’s constantly double teamed, it’s gonna get to him and he’ll throw a hissy fit.
Katsu-Shintaro
Truth hurts. But he’s got time to turn this around
joorral
Brunson is the only one that can stop bad Randle from showing up
Teewrecks7
Well we know teams are going to double him n especially try to get in his head now…hoping he responds well to being heavily game planned for
j3rk-face
If he can flip that switch, we’d do some damage in the playoffs
WearSomeClothes
Sorry i have been out of the loop for a few days. What did Randle do ?
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*“Emotion and passion lead to better play, but a lack of emotional control and poise lead to lesser play,” Jeff Van Gundy told The Post in a phone interview Saturday morning. “To play well in the playoffs, to play well in hard-fought, highly-contested, close games, ultimately you have to have your best players have a level of poise that leads them to be able to play through rough patches of games or a tough loss in a playoff series and to bounce back. Poise is so very critical to be able to handle late-game pressurized situations. I think a couple of years back in the playoffs [Randle] had some issues with that. I think he’s had to close games this year, had some challenges with that.”*
Kind of a funny quote coming from someone who was [hit in the face by Marcus Camby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxTrm1aRWFg), and on a separate occasion was [dragged around on the floor as he desperately held onto Alonzo Mourning’s leg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoTTCeLhLDA).
On the one hand, he’s right.
On the other hand, Julius played great in the second half.
This likely comes from Thibs
Mr obvious over here
Could? It will.
Replace “could” with “will”
It’s obvious. Don’t know why some people get mad whenever this is said.
[recent picture of JVG](https://imgur.com/a/M0dXWqr)
Edit: dang, I thought we had a better sense of humor in here lol
I mean, he isn’t wrong. But he also coached a group of guys who were ready to fight people at the drop of a hat to the NBA finals
Yeah no shit
Damn, did he also say the sky is blue and the sun is hot?
He’s probably never going to be a winning player. He’s a lazy angry dude who belittles his teammates while he stands around on defense. And he self combusts under pressure.
I agree
Captain Obvious ova heeeere 🕺
And this sub will still go “anyone who says Julius isn’t built for this is fat and never played basketball”
I wanna eat crow so bad but he’s 100 percent right. If Julius was that guy he, let’s put it like this. He wouldn’t be a Knick.
Not could, will.
Randles a good player but he’s not built for the big stage.
Come playoffs and when he’s constantly double teamed, it’s gonna get to him and he’ll throw a hissy fit.
Truth hurts. But he’s got time to turn this around
Brunson is the only one that can stop bad Randle from showing up
Well we know teams are going to double him n especially try to get in his head now…hoping he responds well to being heavily game planned for
If he can flip that switch, we’d do some damage in the playoffs
Sorry i have been out of the loop for a few days. What did Randle do ?