What a fun game. Wright + Randolph are sick at PF. Wright's offense is coming along amazingly well, don't think any of those step back 8-10 foot J's even hit iron. Really spaces out well on the pick and roll, knows when to slip the picks. 12 pts and 5 boards in 15 min for him. As good as he was Randolph was even better; 14 pts, 7 boards, 3 ast, 3 stl, 3 blk, 0 TOs, 6 PF on 5-10 shooting and 4-6 FTs. These two guys have come along very well after Nellie's refusal to play them for so long. Plus we still get to play small ball but we also get to play two 6'10 PFs out there. The result was beating a hot Mavs team and outrebounding them to boot! Monta and Jack were also great. Turiaf did really well after Biedrins left the game.
Did you guys see the interview at the end with Randolph and Barnett? Barnett asked him if his time on the bench has served him well. He emphatically said "YES." That should put the debate whether or not Randolph should have been playing earlier in the season to rest. It seems Randolph has a lot of respect for Nellie now.
Point taken. However... I'm still not a fan of small ball all the time and don't want to see AR play the center position, albeit AB was injured. I think Randolph can deal with the PF position (still think he's more a SF), and would like to see what a more traditional lineup of AR-Beans/Turiaf-BW can do.
Biedeins/Turiaf, Wright, and Randolph all playing together should be a sick front line to contend with in a year or two. That's a lot of tall athleticism for a team to deal with all at once, and oh yeah, you have Monta keeping them busy too. I like it, now we just need a real PG and more PT for Wight and AR.
Yep, that's what great coaching does for you, see the spark from BW and AR and promptly forget about it against a small team.
