After falling to Pistons, Josh Hart laments Knicks losing games ‘we shouldn’t be losing’

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Playing on the second night of a back-to-back and against a plucky team riding a decent run of form, the Knicks expected a tough test against the Detroit Pistons.

“We got a tough team [Monday], a young team that’s gonna run,” forward Josh Hart said from the locker room after Sunday afternoon’s blowout win over the Milwaukee Bucks. “We gotta make sure we come out with attention to detail and intensity.”

Around 30 hours later, Hart was back in the locker room at Madison Square Garden after a 124-119 defeat to the Pistons, a game which saw the Knicks fall behind by 11 early when they committed six turnovers in the first quarter.

“We gotta find a way to bring energy, to execute. We can have all the excuses in the world, we gotta go out there and play,” said Hart, who finished with 12 points on 3-for-5 shooting with 14 rebounds, five assists and just one turnover for a plus-6 in 38 minutes against Detroit.

“We gotta have a sense of urgency, attention to detail, have to communicate better, we got things that we gotta start figuring out,” he added.

“You have a challenge every night in this league,” head coach Tom Thibodeau said. “You’re playing a team that is very hot right now and they’re shooting the ball very well… credit to them they’re playing great basketball. We’re on a back-to-back, [but] just find a way to get it done.”

“You know defensively we gotta be better,” Hart said, before taking a long pause, looking past the assembled reporters and adding, “Yeah, we just gotta be better.”

With the loss, New York fell to 26-15 as they reached the season’s midpoint losers of five of the past seven games. When asked to reflect on playing the 41st game of the campaign, Hart’s frustration over the latest loss was apparent.

“We’re losing games I feel like we shouldn’t be losing,” he said. “We gotta figure it out. We’re halfway into the season now at this point. Nothing we can do about the first half now. Now all we got to do is focus on the second. But, if we want to be the team that we want to be at the end of the year, we gotta start correcting these [mistakes].”

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Publish date : 2025-01-14 05:20:00

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