Unless Julius Randle can practice full bore on Thursday or Friday, it would be wise for the Knicks coach to keep Randle in street clothes Saturday for Game 1.
Coaches and managers can overthink these things sometimes. Buck Showalter, as sharp as any knife in the drawer, was guilty of that last autumn, guilty of profound overthinking, when he held Jacob deGrom out of Game 1 of the Mets’ wild-card series against San Diego, hoping to save him entirely for an NLDS he ended up only watching on television.
“He’s been cleared for parts of practice, but he hasn’t been fully cleared yet,” Thibodeau said. “But he’s making good progress.” Erring on the side of caution is erring on the side of wisdom in this case. Randle will surely be resistant, unless his ankle is still barking at him Saturday like an angry Westy. There are a lot of things you can criticize about Randle’s game if you really want to do that, but the man wants to play. Before the ankle betrayed him, he’d played all 77 games. In four seasons as a Knick, he has played 285 of a possible 302 games.
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