Los Angeles Lakers forward Julius Randle has had an up-and-down season in the team’s rotation. Head coach Luke Walton chose to bring him off of the bench to start the year before ultimately deciding to move Randle into the starting lineup.
Randle took all of that bouncing around in stride and has become one of the Lakers’ best players this season, averaging a career-high 16 points per game to go with 7.9 rebounds while shooting 56.6 percent from the field, which is also a career high for the fourth-year forward.
Randle has also made massive progress as a defender, and no one sequence has better displayed all of his growth on both ends of the floor than a sequence in Los Angeles’ loss to the New Orleans Pelicans.