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Remember when the Knicks won the NBA championship?
Yeah, that was more than four months ago, so maybe it’s about time someone starts getting back down to earth and hooping again.
Here’s the latest from the latest embarrassing loss in an early season full of them.
On evaluating the season in five-game segments for his own sanity:
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“We break the season into five-game segments. There are marks that we like to hit in those five games and it kind of gives us a good feel of where you were, in a fair amount of games, and to see if you can make progress in the next five.
“Obviously you want to go 5-0, you’ll take 4-1, and then maybe you have to take 3-2. But if you’re doing anything less than that, you know that nobody is reaching their potential.”
On coaching the Knicks through their 0-3 start and holding players accountable:
“The biggest thing is to coach them and to continue to tell them the truth. When I talked to them, I said, ‘Hey, we were great in transition in the second half.’ We were. But now, we have to continue to try and embrace the little things. We have to make sure we’re doing it in practice so that it carries over into the game. I’ll really jump their a– if I see the effort is not there. To me, that’s a whole different thing. If we’re trying, and trying the right way, sometimes you have to fight through stuff like this to get yourself on track.
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“But games like this will tell us, and I’ve said it before, our crap stinks. It does. We’re the only ones who can do something about it.”
On the Knicks’ excrement:
“Games like this will tell us, our crap stinks. It does. And we’re the only ones who can do anything about it. There’s no light switch we can just turn on and go and win the ballgame. Nobody’s giving us anything, so we have to be better with the little things until we start shooting the ball.”
On the Knicks allowing a nonsensical fourth-quarter offensive explosion to Orlando:
“Giving up 40 points in the fourth quarter is way too much.”
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On benching Andre Drummond for James Wiseman:
“I felt our transition defense wasn’t good during that time, not just because of [Drummond],…
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Publish date : 2026-10-26 14:15:00
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