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Just when I thought we were hunting for the No. 1 overall pick in the 2027 NBA Draft…
…Mike Brown and the lads decided to get their excrement together and remind us the Knicks are actually a title contender.
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Here’s the latest before we turn the page quickly to this evening’s affair against the Chicago Oxen.
On facing the Pistons despite Detroit dominating the Knicks last season:
“We have to concentrate on the next opponent in front of us, and Detroit happens to be that opponent. And, they had our number last year, you know. It is what it is, that’s kind of how the NBA is [and] it works. I said this before, one of the years we won it when I was in Golden State as an assistant. We lost the season series to Utah, I don’t know, it was 0-4, 1-3. One game, we got I think, beat by 40.
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“So, you know, I don’t necessarily take a ton of [stock in it]. Obviously, you want to win, you want to be in good position for a playoff run, but I don’t take a ton of stock in, they won this series or they killed us in this [regular season] series because playoff season is a different ballgame.”
On experimenting with Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns’ minutes and rotations during the first games of the season:
“No, no, no, no. You can always get better. You guys probably don’t notice, you probably never picked up on it but in Games 1 and 2 [of this season], my big experimentation was playing [Karl-Anthony Towns] and Jalen in two stretches together. And so the middle of it, I had both KAT and Jalen off the floor. We didn’t really do that last year.
“Watching it, I didn’t like it. So last game was the first game that I went back to [keeping one on the floor]. So there’s some things that I’m looking at or messing with that may or may not stay the same.
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“That’s part of what you’re trying to do to figure out what’s best for your team long term. In the short term, it might not turn out good, like it didn’t turn out good not starting Josh, we took our lumps. But it was good to go through it last year. So, it’s something we’ll continue to try to figure out early on.”
On challenging Karl-Anthony Towns at…
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