00:00Julius Randle has settled into a perfect spot with himself in Minnesota.
00:06Because to me, it's not just of the fact of Julius in regards to his scoring,
00:13but for him to be shooting every game besides game one at 44% or higher,
00:19three games at over 50%, he took away this iso ball, fade away,
00:26falling out of the bounds, 20-foot jumper on the baseline.
00:30So to me, I just thought Julius Randle just finally looked comfortable, Tom, in big moments.
00:37This might be the best basketball he's ever played.
00:39This stretch of games has to be up there with the best basketball he's ever played.
00:43Last week we were talking about different star players,
00:46and I think you used the phrase holding star players accountable.
00:50Where Anthony Edwards, not just that one, he looked bad at a lot of the first halves,
00:54like three points, one point, really getting it going.
00:56Now, there is something to be said on the other side of that coin
00:59where he has three, four, five points in the first half,
01:03and then he comes out and he closes and he has 20 points in the second half alone.
01:06There's something to be said, okay, he can get it going when he needs to.
01:09We always talk about what we want to see.
01:11I always like to see a far higher level of consistency.
01:14If he ends the game with 28 points, I would want to see 10 in the first,
01:1812 in the first, whatever it might be, have that spread out,
01:20knowing that he's a consistent threat to score.
01:22Because we saw a clear lack of that from him at times.
01:26To Golden State's point, we were here last week,
01:28and I remember saying there's no way this series goes past five games.
01:32Steph wasn't going to be playing.
01:33The rotation for Golden State was a mess.
01:35Who's starting?
01:36What are we going to be getting?
01:37Is it Moody scoring?
01:38Is it going to be Kaminga?
01:39Is it going to be Buddy Heald shooting?
01:41Is it going to be pods?
01:42We just didn't know what they were going to get.
01:43They were dead in the water.
01:45It's good to see Minnesota back here for the second season in a row.
01:48Let's go.
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