Traveling to Michigan to challenge the Pistons, the Knicks were able to rely on a Julius Randle of the big nights, author of his best game of the season. Chance or coincidence, he celebrated his 28th birthday yesterday.
For the rest of the stats of this one-sided match, it’s here.
For most people, celebrating a birthday is all regarding buying a cake, getting a hundred messages in a day, bringing family or a few friends over, or even both, and then having a good time. The basis what. And then some choose instead to fuck up an NBA franchise. We remember that Shaquille O’Neal, in his time, had decided to destroy the Clippers (61 points!) for the occasion. Julius Randle also obviously wanted to mark the occasion with an ultra-solid match and the cape of mayor of New York. Aggressive from the start and author of several award-winning shots early in the first quarter, Randle set the tone for what was going to be a pretty cool evening. 36 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 14/24 shooting and 6/13 from afar, in not even 31 minutes, the kind of stats that we no longer had the opportunity to see attached to his name but the MIP 2021 remains a player capable of coming out of the woods any night and he proves it.
Julius Randle tonight:
36 PTS
7 REB
5 AST
6 3PTop 10 all-time in threes by a Knick. pic.twitter.com/xfcG0ICgiv
— StatMuse (@statmuse) November 30, 2022
In this case it is the weak team of Detroit who toasted. Still deprived of Cade Cunningham but also Jaden Ivey, she only lasted half time, sinking straight back from the locker room once morest a Randle who continued his mess in the racket. Barely time to go put a few last throws on the line that it was already necessary to return to the bench. The money time will be experienced from the sidelines. There is +30 on the scoreboard and Tom Thibodeau has no reason to burn his executives while New York must play a second match tomorrow once morest… Milwaukee and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Another opportunity to celebrate its 28 years with dignity? We’ll see next night.
Julius Randle offered himself the Pistons for his birthday and he gave no quarter. Big game, big win, just missing the cake actually.
