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August P&T mailbag: Julius Randle at the 5, relative greatness & current ceilings

Related Topics: Julius Randle, Luke Kornet

It’s been a while. Let’s dig in.

Can Julius play the 5 effectively? Will Thibs use it if so?

— rf5

Here’s Randle’s career breakdown of minutes played at the 4 and the 5. You can see the Lakers played him at center a lot, though they sucked when they did, so who knows what to make of that. His years playing for Tom Thibodeau feature numbers highlighted in yellow. The year that’s all yellow was the David Fizdale/Mike Miller season, which deserves having a line drawn through it for all sorts of reasons.