Knicks Bulletin: ‘If you skip steps doing that, you’re going to die’

You know what will happen today…

…as the Knicks face the Nets.

Anyway, here’s the latest.

On Jose Alvarado’s availability for Monday’s game after practicing on Sunday:

“I have not talked to our medical people.”

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On Tyler Kolek’s role while Alvarado remains sidelined and going forward:

“Tyler is definitely going to keep playing while Jose is out. When he comes back, we’ll figure it out.”

On finally having a full practice over the weekend amid early-season issues:

“When you have an opportunity to practice, you hope that you can address some of the things that bothered you and get a little bit better.”

On failing to deal with opposing bench players getting hot:

“I’m OK with that because sometimes guys are going to get hot and make shots. Now, are there little things we can do to correct it? Yes.

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“But what I was concerned with is our first half inability to control the dribble-drive, OK, and then how bad our turnovers were. Those were the two biggest things that I had concern with.”

On the need for rebuilding chemistry after the championship season:

“You’re starting all over. It’s like climbing a mountain. We’re climbing a mountain as a team and we conquer the mountain, then you gotta come back down, take some time off, then you gotta climb another mountain. It’s the same thing. And when you climb that mountain the second time, you’re starting from base camp again. And if you skip steps doing that, you’re going to die. It’s not that tragic for us. When you’re sitting at 2-4, people equate it to that sometimes, but it’s the same thing, taking each step the right way and embracing it and trying to get a little better.”

On why the Knicks must experience growing pains again despite having won the title:

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“If we don’t go through our growing pains and we can’t get through our growing pains, for whatever reason — because we don’t want to go through it being that hard again or we think we know or whatever it may be — if we can’t get through our growing pains, we have no chance.

“It’s like anything you do in life. When you complete something and you have to do it again, you’re not just…

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