![]() ![]() Randle, who was playing with fans in the stands as the leading man in New York, can’t use that excuse. Siakam clearly didn’t mesh with that setup, and it weighed heavily on his play against Brooklyn and Boston. Tyler Herro turned into prime Steph Curry, but he looks completely different outside of that environment. The bubble was a uniquely challenging environment to play in, and it produced some fluky results. Atlanta than Pascal Siakam was at Disney. Julius Randle might have just had the worst series I have seen from an All-NBA player ever Randle did average a double-double for the series, but he did so while making a pitiful 29.8% of his shots, hitting on just 33% of his 3-point attempts, and turning the ball over an astounding 4.6 times per game, much worse than Siakam’s 2.0 per game in Orlando. Siakam’s bubble stats of 17.0 points and 7.5 rebounds per game while making just 39.6% of his shots are as ugly as they sound, but Randle’s series against Atlanta was even more putrid given the totality of the circumstances. While Siakam is sitting out the postseason, in part because he and the Raptors struggled against Randle, the Knicks got the doors blown off of them by the Atlanta Hawks despite home-court advantage, and the play of Randle is a huge reason why. Likewise, Julius Randle was almost hailed as the second coming for finally getting the New York Knicks back into the postseason. If you didn’t watch the Toronto Raptors closely, you’d think that Pascal Siakam is the worst power forward who ever played given how his poor play in the bubble was discussed. ![]()
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