Tom Thibodeau appeared nervous and irritated talking about the Julius Randle-Obi Toppin couple. Notably, the nervousness for Tom Thibodeau increased when he was pointed out that the two had a positive rating when they shared the pitch last year.
“It’s not just the numbers, I actually watch the games,” Thibodeau said Thursday after the team’s third training session. “If you eliminated the games that were explosive, there were one or two in particular that probably canceled those numbers.
“I want to be careful because it was a very small sample size. So you look at it, what your eyes tell you in close and meaningful matches when we tried it, what happened and those were very negative.”