Big Perk would TRADE Julius Randle for ‘a fried catfish & a pot of gumbo!’ 😬 | First Take

Let's go back to Friday when the Spurs closed out the Timberwolves in advance to the Western Conference Finals.Minnesota specifically, they lost by 30.Julius Randle was only 1 for 8, he finished with just 3 points.Anthony Edwards shot 9 of 26, not good, but he still finished with 24 points.Speaking of Ant -Man, there was a strange moment with eight minutes left in the game.During a timeout, you can see Ant head over to greet the head coach of the Spurs, Miss Johnson.

He's like dappin' up all the players as well, including Victor Wemenyama.And we're questioning why is this happening right now?Well, here was Anthony Edwards on that extremely early handshake in the Pleasant Trees Exchange.

I mean, at that point, you know you ain't going back in, so you're just trying to get them the respect they deserve.So, yeah.

Kind of brushing it off a little bit.Any issue with this perk?

Hell no.Hell no.Issue for what?Why?Why?He just highlighted it.

We were getting smoked.He knew he was coming out the game.And by the way, I don't believe that Anthony Edwards after the game stayed around.He walked straight back to the locker room.So he just got it out the way early.Anybody that is questioning Anthony Edwards' leadership, his heart, his mentality, because of that moment, because he's just showing respect, because the better team won, and they kicked they ass, they got a problem.

I don't see no issue whatsoever with what Anthony Edwards did, because he was going to the bench.Like, we gotta stop.This is a guy that came back early.This is a guy that was out there playing like an offensive lineman, when I say playing with two hurt knees, that had two knee braces on.like out there giving it his all he left it all out there on the floor that wasn't nothing but a sign of respect congratulations we know we don't have a chance of coming back i'm not gonna wait around to dab you guys up i'm about to go sit on the bench soon as this game over i see thefans exiting the building.

Damn, I'm going to be exiting the building.That's it.

Let me say this to you.Let me try to impart these words of, hopefully, of wisdom to you.Two things can be true.Anthony Edwards, under no circumstances, should be questioned as a leader, his greatness, his commitment.He's my favorite player in the NBA to watch him and Steph Curry.I say that religiously.

I love the brother.I love the brother and he is a showstopper.He is a superstar in this league, you know more often than not.He answers the call all of those things could be true and he could very well have been doing what you said and I believe him showing respect to the San Antonio Spurs who kicked their ass and and elevated his level of frustration because as Jay pointed out on get up this morning.I'm not going to steal his Thunder when he pointed out at Julius Randall because my God the lack of effort that Julius Randall showed defensively on several occasions.Jay, I'll leave that to you to bring up because you were all over it and the world deserves to hear again.

What you said on get up this morning, but Big Perk, there's still a time and a place for everything.And the reality is that giving love to my brother, Udonis Haslam, who was on Friday night when this happened, he pointed out how that's not something you do with eight minutes left in the game.You could have waited till the end of the game and then walk down there and did the exact same thing at that particular moment in time.That's just the that's just not the greatest looking where it's not the end of the world people.You're absolutely right.Big Perk people shouldn't be overreacting and condemning Anthony Edwards and all of this other stuff, but whether it wasn't just about the respect for the San Antonio Spurs.

It was also about his disgust with the results has discussed with his teammates his disgust with the outcome and how thesecats didn't show up the way that they were supposed to on their home turf, you know, which Jay again will get into it could have been all of that.But when you go out there with eight minutes left in the game and you shaking hands, you know with the opposition at that particular moment in time, there is a better way to do that.I'm not going to go any further than that.But it's not something you normally see Steve Nash, you know, Dirk Nowitzki were right on the set with them, you know, when you did you D said what he said, there's a way to do things and there's a time and a place for everything.The place was obviously the you know, correct, but the timing of that you wait until the end of the game to do that, bro.

You didn't have to do it at that particular moment in time.That's only by saying I have seen.

LeBron James.I was sitting on this.I was sitting right down the bench, you know, and maybe I can't remember if he caught the same type of heat.The Anthony Edwards is but he did that but everybody on the court minutes left.Eight minutes, eight minutes, eight minutes left or minutes left for me. I mean they were getting smacked, right?

I was sitting right down the bench at a nice suit on maybe.

Maybe it was a visual like him going into the bench.But I mean to me dapping up everybody on the court.So I have seen something similar before.Um, the only thing I'm going to say to me, that's not similar.

By the way, by the way, that's not similar to me.You dabbing off the court basketball court is entirely different than going down to the visiting bench.That's entirely.That's an entirely different.Look guys.

I can't, I can't.Oh, I can't argue all the way against that Steven.I guess what I had talked about earlier goes to, I still think we're watching the evolution of Anthony Edwards as a leader.I think it's safe for us to say that for as dynamic as he is for as competitive as he is, there's still room forto continue to grow into the player we know he can ultimately be.And, you know, showing these clips of Julius Randle, I think the level of disgust that he felt was something that other players on their roster felt as well.

I Dante DiVincenzo Nas read.I know they made comments about after game, but just look at these three clips.I'm going to show y 'all.This is a closeout scenario at get at home.Y 'all Julius Randall garden.The ball just leaves the ball doesn't even pay attention to the ball.

Castle just has a wide open dunk in transition.Don't even look at him.And then he looks at his teammate.He throws his hands up the next play ball again, leaves the ball again, close out scenario.And then the last play of this replay, the same one before, right?Dunk and one finishing opportunity.

Then the last play in transition, the last one back in the scene, doesn't even go.KP, that's a half -ass block.Has to have chance for a block.Not even in the play.So, look, we can all have our opinion on what Anthony Edwards should have done.We all know who this dude is. I say, I've heard you talk about him on national TV.

Reminds you a lot of MJ.We all know how psychotically competitive this dude is.So all I'm going to say is even though we may not have seen it before, there has to be something brewing inside of him that got him to the point where he can go inside and dap up a team that is playing more together than his team can be.Now, maybe you could say that's a little bit on end.

I'm not saying it's right, but it has to be something to get him to that point.We're got regardless of my decades of covering the sport.Let me defer to y 'all by asking y 'all both this question.Let me read exactly what you Donna's Haslam said.And let me get y 'all comments about that quote as a leader.I would not have walked down there and shook their hands as a leader of my troops and my guys.

I would not have shown that weakness.The game is not over.I've goteight minutes left.I still got smoke coming out my ears.Let me calm down for those eight minutes since I'm not in and then after those eight minutes, I'll go down there and I'll congratulate them and their coaching staff in the middle of the game.

When I got guys that have sat on the bench and cheered me on going into the game for garbage time.No, I'm not.I'm going to sit there and cheer those guys on.I'm going to put that energy back into those guys.And then when the game is over, I'll go over there and shake their hands.That's just the way I handle things.

That's what Udonis Haslam said.What is y 'all comment about that?

And that's the way that you de -handle things.And guess what?That was some of the ways that we had in 2008.If your name if you if you didn't have on the Celtic jersey, we wasn't messing with you So I get it ud from the old school.That's him and i'm not saying he's wrong I just i'm what i'm saying is I didn't see nothing wrong with anthony elvis, but that's a J will let me get to your point because there was a a great point And clips that you brought up about julia's rush She was let me see if your listening skills been around for the last three weeks since i've been on this show Moody the one thing the one thing that i've been highlighting essay is that I'm big on watching what?Body language.

Okay, and I was talking to Julius Randall.I said that he had never got over the fact, since the trade deadline, go look at his numbers.It was a drop off.Because his name was mentioned in trade rumors when they were trying to get Giannis Antetokounmpo, he couldn't be professional enough to say that this is a business.By the way, we saw this same Julius Randall doing the last part of his stint with the New York Knicks.Listen, right, I'm telling you, before I do anything.

with the draft, I don't even know off the top of my head if they even have a draft pick.I would trade Julius Randall, I don't give a damn if it's for some fried catfish and a pot of gumbo.I would get him out of my locker room.Because listening to what those guys were saying, he had become a cancer.He had become a cancer.He had made it uncomfortable.

in that locker room for Coach Finch to even do his job.And you saw the disconnect because you just showed it in 4K.And this is supposed to be your Robin.Your Robin to Anthony Edwards.This is a guy, last but not least, they traded Karl -Anthony Towns for him.That they drafted with the number one pick.

Dad, I believe if they had Karl -Anthony Towns right now, we would be looking at that series a lot different.

That's what we did.Let me say this real quick, because I want you to close it out with your final thought on this.But just to tie it back to Anthony Edwards and that, right?And UD's comment.To me, that was a sign of this has been brewing for a while, right?If everything is going well, and you get smacked that way, and your expectations of your band of brothers are together, you don't do something like that.

But to me, that's a sign of y 'all ain't really together.No, you've been trying to hold it together for a while.And for the way do is played at the end.You like now, I'm so out of this.

Here's here's the deal.You're right.You're both right because Ant -Man in the postgame conference when he pointed out about how a championship culture is lacking here, but here's the problem.Yep.He gave the impression that it was about the coach as well.as a but he didn't say that he said all of us and he said he put it on him first.

But the point is is that it was like collectively or whatever.Soall know based on what we've seen from Julius Randall, as Big Perk pointed out, since the traded deadline, he's got to go.There's no question.You got to trade him.I think that's, I think that's fair.

And I think that's, it's safe to say, but the way Ant -Man sounded, it was like, it wasn't just about him.It was about how he was dealt with or how he wasn't dealt with.And Ant said, I've had enough.Again, That's why you look at what he did with eight minutes left and you say that wasn't just about respect to the San Antonio Spurs.Yeah, that was about that's about what the hell I'm dealing with down here, you know down on this sideline.It's bad.

Y 'all is bad.Y 'all kicked our ass.Y 'all deserve it.I applaud y 'all for being a team because damn it.I wish I had that.Yep.

That's what he was saying, which is why I'm saying there's a time and a place to do it because by doing it with eight minutes left, we knew it wasn't just about respect No, y 'all kicked our ass and y 'all with a better team.It wasn't just about that.It was about an elevated level of frustration that's going on in his own damn locker room and organization.And Minnesota had better fix it before Ant -Man gets really, really demonstrative.