{"id":377831,"date":"2026-10-20T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377831\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:00:08","slug":"how-nets-are-empowering-julius-randle-to-orchestrate-the-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377831\/","title":{"rendered":"How Nets are empowering Julius Randle to orchestrate the offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nets have spent three first-round picks on pure point guards over the past two years and a couple more on backcourt mates.<\/p>\n<p>But a nearly 32-year-old bullyball forward they acquired in a summer salary dump led them in assists this preseason. And Julius Randle might be the Nets\u2019 best playmaker in the regular season, too, as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/17\/sports\/three-bold-predictions-for-the-nets-2026-2027-nba-season-one-star-will-be-dealt-away\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he\u2019s poised for a career year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really excited,\u201d Randle told the Post. \u201cThis is probably the most diverse I\u2019ve been used in an offense as far as just using all my skills, not just posting up or whatever. It\u2019s just like playing all over the floor: DHOs [dribble handoffs], screens, cutting, back screens, using me to initiate offense. There\u2019s many different ways coaches use me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026I\u2019m still getting the rhythm of it, understanding the timing of things, like what I\u2019m looking for, angles, all the different types of stuff. But I\u2019m getting more and more comfortable with it every single day. And I\u2019m excited. Once I really get the hang of it, it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets have spent three first-round picks on pure point guards over the past two years and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,31506,4570,17661,21,9,24,63,4780,319,428],"class_list":["post-377831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-inside-the-nets","tag-jordi-fernandez","tag-julius-randle","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}