Knicks Insider REVEALS Julius Randle Timeline…

Knicks Insider REVEALS Julius Randle Timeline…

New York Knicks Insider Ian Begley may have just given a timeline on Julius Randall as it appears that he has talked to people in randle’s Camp or something aligned with that as he said that Julius Randle should be returning to the court this season which probably means before

Playoffs which is definitely a great sign for the New York Knicks and also we are going to have some Donovan Mitchell stuff to talk about in regards to his injury so let’s jump right into it guys welcome to Nick’s digest it’s Chris here let’s do this so as SNY reported last

Week all this is written by Ian Begley mind you there was some initial concern regarding that Randall hadn’t been cleared for contact as of the Kings game Randall also wasn’t cleared to take full contact and it’s unclear if he’s been cleared for contact in the ensuing days

On top of that Randall has been able to do everything else on the court as he tries to play through this shoulder dislocation three people who he spoke to who are familiar with the situation Express confidence that Randall would ultimately return to the court he has been sidelined since late January with a

Shoulder ailment obviously as we know that shoulder ailment was the dislocated shoulder and then also as Tommy beer mentions just from wge the other day WJ confirmed that it became apparent in recent days that the Knicks did not know the status of Julius Rand moving forwards and obviously mentioned that

That could be a problem now so obviously that’s a lot of news to throw at you guys that WJ didn’t believe that the Knicks kind of knew what was happening with Julius Randall but today Ian Begley has said he spoke to people who know the situation who do believe Randall’s going

To return and that makes me think two things one this is not some horrible shoulder injury that’s going to derail any real time for Julius Randall next season the other thing is Julius Randall is clearly injured cuz here’s the deal Steph Curry dislocated his shoulder and I understand they’re different players

Randall uses his shoulders a lot but he dislocated his shoulder and was then back in around a month Julius has now been out since January 27th when Hai hakz Jr kind of cut him off awkwardly and Randle shoulder popped out as of filming this it’s Mar it’s late March

19th is coming out on March 19th at night Julius Randall is yet to return he’s yet to be confirmed that he’s doing full contact and that’s going to show one thing his shoulder is not okay he’s going to need some sort of operation on his shoulder to keep keep it intact and

Keep it in place but he can also work around it I’m going to guess that he’s been doing a lot of work on his shoulders so the surrounding muscles can kind of keep the shoulder in place but this also feels like it’s going to lead to one of those things like when Randall

Started the year abysmally because he was playing through ankle pain and couldn’t drive the same way if Randle can’t get to the hole and be physical there’s a real chance of him not becoming a full liability on the court but being such this shell of himself and

The Knicks won’t care they’ll still run a ton of isolations through him and that could obviously be a bad sign now also again what Ian Begley saying is that Randle should ultimately return to the court this season that’s what I mean by like it might not be that bad I’m

Talking worst case scenario with the last stuff I was saying there’s also a chance he comes back and he’s fine and he plays through it and maybe it pops out once and it really sucks and it hurts but you just pop it back in and everything’s good I mean if Randall was

At risk of serious damage I do believe that the New York Knicks front office would sit him down and be like look we understand you want to play we understand that you are the one of the second most important player to the New York kns roster we understand that if we

Actually want to go to the Eastern Conference Finals we’re going to need you on the court this is not our year it has been shown through injuries we can regroup next season we might make another trade over the off season we’ll kind of figure the question marks out outside of you in

This playoffs will maybe to the second round but brunson’s going to get doubled a lot and then they’re going to force other guys to score the ball who can’t do it as efficiently as you if Brunson were to get double teamed regardless which he probably would now because of

All that being the case Julius Randle would probably take that and be like okay it makes sense we can turn around we’re getting more playoff experience it is what it is I’ll sit I’ll get a surgery now so I’m totally ready for next season so everything runs smoothly but they

Haven’t told him that if they knew his shoulder was so damaged to the point where they would have to shut him down he would have gotten surgery and been recovering already so clearly that’s not what happened he would have gotten surgery pretty soon after so the Knicks

Would hope he could return if they make a deep enough playoff appearance but they didn’t do that which shows that Julius Randle could come back and he could be good enough like 75 80 85 90 95 even percent of Julius Randall despite the shoulder injury again it’s his right

Shoulder it’s not his left one so it’s not the lead one though he does use his entire body weight to force his way to the hole so regardless one of his shoulders being hurt is a problem but it might not be the end of the world the

Knicks obviously need him back if they want to make a run to the Eastern Conference Finals so hopefully they make the right decision here I I don’t want to punt on the season either and it’s not fully punting it’s not like we’re shutting down Jaylen Brunson no we’re

Shutting down Julius Randall and seeing hey how far can Brunson take this team without another Allstar just so we know just so we know how far can this or how what can this team do without Julius Randle if they’re fully healthy otherwise like will we see something better in the playoffs because

His playoff appearances have left something to be desired because of the injuries and the fatigue and the fact that the Knicks had no game plan for the Hawks in 2021 or will we just be in clear lack of isolation scoring because now we’re down to one guy who can really create his own

Shot at an elite enough level to try to have a few different scoring options to win a championship because brunon can’t do it alone no one can and we clearly need Julius renle back the Knicks will still get to learn what they need because they know what Julius Randle

Provides this is his fifth season with the Knicks he’s made three All-Star appearances he’s made two all NBA teams they know what Julius is going to provide for the team they know what he’s going to provide for this team because they saw it in a short enough amount of

Time that they understand what he is going to provide taking that short amount of time and all the other years prior especially the years since he’s been an Allstar especially last year so we can kind of take this and understand and then you can go into free agency and

Look and kind of say look we need a trade we obviously know we need to trade for another star this is the type of player we need the type of players XYZ and we learned that from the playoffs we learned that from we know what Julius randle’s going to provide us regardless

So we need this type of player whatever that type of player is I’ll be honest none of us really have a great idea the reason because we have not been to the playoffs with this unit yet we were only at the playoffs with a much different team that

Involved RJ Barrett and emanu quickly not ogan anobi and precious atua and Burks and donovich like things have changed I get they’re not going to play too many minutes but still and Duce McBride being an actual rotational player in the playoffs these are stuff that we’re just not going to have the

Answers to until this team plays in the playoffs and because of that we’re probably not going to win the NBA Finals because this team doesn’t fully know everything about itself yet and usually it takes a few or at least one top seven game series to understand what your team

Is and what your identity is the Knicks don’t know their identity as of today because of these injuries since the trade they’re going to have to learn that in the playoffs even if they’re not fully healthy they’ll find a way to learn it now just quick note Julius

Randle 24 points per game nine rebounds five assists shoots 47% from the field 31% from three obviously all those numbers were going up as the season went along he started slowly so if you’re thinking oh we don’t need Julius he sucks in the playoffs give it a rest

Who’s played injured or who’s been fatigued or he’s been getting double teamed by the Hawks the entire time because the ncks had one scoring option in Randle pretty simple to me now also something else to mention just in regards to the next placement is that Donovan Mitchell is out of the lineup

For at least another week as he did get a nasal fracture which sounds painful to the Houston Rockets on March 16th and missed the team’s next game obviously had a medical procedure done and then now will be reevaluated in approximately one week you never like to see a guy go

Down with an injury especially Donovan Mitchell because I think most Knicks fans really like Donovan Mitchell I know I do and it’s terrible but don’t get me wrong the Knicks need to win these games now because what the Knicks did to the Cavs was hey we’re going to make Darius

Garland become a shot Creator and guess what Darius Garland can’t really do at an elite level like Donovan Mitchell create his own shot so pretty simple you just hopefully see the Cavs kind of fall in the standings because they clearly need Donovan Mitchell to be good that’s

Been proved before it’ll be proved again in the playoffs because Donovan is really that good he’s that guy but we might now have a chance to take this third seed and as we just kind of move on and look more into this the Knicks maybe without a combination of vobi and

Randall for at least a few more games also great sign side note about Randall just you know only a few more games we know that about OG probably their strength of the schedule on the year is 14th and Cleveland’s remaining strength of schedule is 17th so Cleveland does

Have the easier schedule by a tiny bit and then also the Cavs will obviously have to navigate life without Mitchell for two games against Miami one against Minnesota and one against Charlotte so that’s three tough games and then one of the worst teams in basketball so that’s

A bummer for us but it’s okay three tough games is good the Knicks face Denver Brooklyn and Detroit in that span a pivotal one in the race for third place now obviously Denver’s Denver and obviously the Nets we’re just going to beat because there’s one New York team and we

Just prove that every time and then the Detroit Pistons are well the Cade cunninghams the Detroit Cade cunninghams featuring Jaylen Duren also Oar Thompson solid but whatever um not whatever great for OAR but yeah no look obvious ly that’s what we kind of know with this situation is that we do

Need to move up in the standings avoid boss in the in the second round the best we can then we can go to the Conference Finals we could be a good good match up against the Milwaukee Buck if we’re healthy and if you look at the seating

Right now the New York Knicks are still projected to end in the fourth or fifth spot 34% goes each ways for that and then outside of that we will also see the 16% chance to get the third seed which is this really the second highest after those 34% splits so the Knicks

Obviously can do it though the Cavs do have a 20% chance to do better so it’s really still up for anyone I think is the moral of this story The Magic can still get it the East is close man so we’re going to see this one come down to

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Ian Begley has given a major update on Julius Randle’s timeline in regards to his return from injury, Chris Gallagher breaks down what this means and discusses the effect Donovan Mitchell’s injury has on the Knicks.

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