With his team stumbling out of the gate and badly needing a win in Sacramento, D'Antoni took the struggling Randolph out of his bench rotation Wednesday night before the Knicks broke their six-game losing streak against the dysfunctional Kings.
"I told him, right now, this is all about the team and I've got to go with my gut and he might play and he might not," D'Antoni said. "Right now, it's all about the Knicks. We'll worry about individuals after we get out of the hole a little bit. And then we'll start talking about long-term strategies. But right now, it's just to win today."
That last comment indicates better than anything else that D'Antoni can't afford to invest minutes in a 21-year-old project when the Knicks are losing. In the limited time Randolph has been getting (about 11 minutes a game), he invariably has followed his mistakes by looking over to the bench to check D'Antoni's reaction, just as he did playing across the Bay for Don Nelson.
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"I told him, right now, this is all about the team and I've got to go with my gut and he might play and he might not," D'Antoni said. "Right now, it's all about the Knicks. We'll worry about individuals after we get out of the hole a little bit. And then we'll start talking about long-term strategies. But right now, it's just to win today."
That last comment indicates better than anything else that D'Antoni can't afford to invest minutes in a 21-year-old project when the Knicks are losing. In the limited time Randolph has been getting (about 11 minutes a game), he invariably has followed his mistakes by looking over to the bench to check D'Antoni's reaction, just as he did playing across the Bay for Don Nelson.
Read more: HERE
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