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[Bondy] Julius Randle had ankle pain, resisted Knicks’ attempts to rest him



[Bondy] Julius Randle had ankle pain, resisted Knicks’ attempts to rest him

by machphantom

6 Comments

  1. You are going to have many people saying they smell bullshit here

    I honestly am in the camp of if you do not feel 100% fucking sit it out. If this is true, I would hope that Randle has the sense to take it easy as opposed to risking further injury that can put him out of commission.

  2. baddumbtsss

    To me, it was obvious he wasn’t going to be 100% a few months from ankle surgery, and after only starting practice 1 month before the season started. He looked slower and awkward until the Clippers game, when he started to look like his old self. Thankfully, our next game is on Sunday so our big 3 have time to rest up a little bit.

  3. asapfetty

    Regardless of how much he was in pain people should give him leeway coming off of an injury but it seems that Randle doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt.

    We see players coming off lower body surgeries take half a season to get into shape. Even though it was minor Randle was just cleared for 5 for 5 it’s going to take a while for him to get into form

  4. beanie_mac

    “*Randle, who underwent arthroscopic ankle surgery in the offseason, was operating at about “70 percent,” a source said.*”

    Wait…so you mean to tell me a player coming off two bad consecutive ankle injuries that required offseason surgery needed time to regain his rhythm and strength??? What an insane concept.

    This is what some folk in here have been trying to tell you weirdos that spent days on end shitting on Randle. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that he wasn’t playing well in the first few games of the season….but the non-stop hate and castigation after 6 games was just so over the top. Just because a guy has a slow start to the season after ankle surgery doesn’t mean he’s a bum that deserves to be traded.

    And now that it comes out that the dude was still recovering and still in pain, a lot of y’all look dumb asf.

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