![]() The thing about Julius is he works very hard so he can handle these minutes and play these games. “And so there’s a lot of different ways to give him a day off. “The thing is, you can give him a day off when you’re not playing, too,” Thibodeau said. Randle has played every game this season, leads the NBA in total minutes played and participated in All-Star Weekend last month rather than take a breather. Thibodeau didn’t seem concerned and dismissed any thought that fatigue had anything to do with it. Randle exited quickly Saturday after discussing his technical foul and on-court actions but before being asked about his shooting difficulties without Brunson. We’ve got to figure it out somehow, try to get easy ones.” Every game is intense now from start to finish. We’ve got to figure out how to get these wins. Definitely miss having him on the floor, but while he’s out, we’ve got to figure it out. “He’s a great player for us,” RJ Barrett said of Brunson. If we’re getting stops, we can get out into the open floor and get some easy buckets and then the game is different.” We got to get easy baskets for each other and we got to help create rhythm for each other. “There’s going to be ups and downs and you just work your way through it and oftentimes, the way you get out of it - and when I say ‘you,’ I mean ‘we’ - is we have to do it together. “You’re going to have the ebbs and flows of the season,’’ Thibodeau said. Randle shot 5-for-24 against the Clippers, making him 18-for-63 in his last three games - games in which the Knicks were without Brunson for all but one half. While the Knicks maintain that nothing should change, the absence of Brunson has placed pressure on Randle to carry the offense in ways very different from how he has played during an All-Star season. The loss to the Clippers was the third straight for the Knicks as they try to find a way through the absence of point guard Jalen Brunson, who again was ruled out Sunday. But his recent struggles might be related more to current frustrations than any bit of geographical history. With another night in Los Angeles on Sunday - the Knicks played the Lakers as part of a back-to-back set in the city - Randle had a chance to change the narrative. ![]() So maybe it was just another part of his odd history here that Randle found himself being bear-hugged by Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau and shouting at teammates and team security personnel Saturday as he melted down in anger and frustration as the Knicks lost to the Clippers.
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