{"id":255136,"date":"2025-08-28T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/255136\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T10:26:10","slug":"the-overdue-knicks-changes-in-play-under-mike-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/255136\/","title":{"rendered":"The overdue Knicks changes in play under Mike Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coaching change brings with it with an expectation that the product will look different. You <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/02\/sports\/why-mike-brown-makes-a-lot-of-sense-for-win-now-knicks\/?utm_campaign=nypost_sports&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;sr_share=twitter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">don\u2019t fire a coach to maintain the status quo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Tom Thibodeau\u2019s dismissal, the reasons were more rooted in managing relationships and personalities than the Knicks\u2019 on-court product.<\/p>\n<p>But these things are often intertwined.<\/p>\n<p>Theoretically, players and staff are happier and produce when their roles are defined, when they\u2019re playing more often, when they have the ball in their hands, when they feel appreciated, when their problems are acknowledged and addressed, when they identify as an important part of the plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coaching change brings with it with an expectation that the product will look different. You don\u2019t fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,20219,288,327,563,304,1260,3357,2715,6,1136,191,3810,3806,741,3823,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-255136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-inside-the-knicks","10":"tag-jalen-brunson","11":"tag-josh-hart","12":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","13":"tag-knicks","14":"tag-mikal-bridges","15":"tag-mike-brown","16":"tag-miles-mcbride","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-knicks","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkknicks","22":"tag-og-anunoby","23":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115105915440141309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}