Teachers ALWAYS pick on their brightest students. Pushing them to be the best they can be (in the army). Randolph will get the message, and I have every confidence that he’ll make it big time too. But we really need our players to stop listening to the stupid national media:

1. “Monta & Curry?!?!? They’re way too small! It won’t work!”
2. “Anthony Randolph!!! He’s a stud! It’s a travesty that Nellie’s not playing him!”

Both statements have some root in truth or probability, but people in the media go around proclaiming them like they’re two of the ten commandments. Monta & Curry won’t work all the time (neither do prototypical guard pairings), but they’re both very good players that can learn to complement each other. Randolph certainly looks like a stud and can do a lot of great things, but at this point he hasn’t remotely learned to control himself and take good shots, not make stupid fouls, and make the plays that are there instead of trying to make ones that aren’t. He wants it all right away, and he’s not ready for it yet.

I got home from dinner, checked the box and adthe, saw Randolph sitting there at 1/9 with a few few turnovers and 4 fouls in 16 minutes, watched for a few minutes, and then tuned out. He’s not ready for the big time. Can people please stop putting undue expectations on the guy.

Inbounding the ball after a basket was even a problem, what with him scooping it up off the floor and heaving it several feet over the guards’ heads. And while it’s nice that he has some handles for a big man, his insistence on taking it up himself after a rebound is getting out of hand. This ain’t summer league. He is Exhibit A for what coaches mean when they say a player needs to slow his game down.