It looks like the Knicks just can\u2019t get things quite right, can they?<\/p>\n
Phoenix made New York eat their four L in five attempts, and the folks won\u2019t have it any easier going forward with a few more West Coast games on the horizon.<\/p>\n
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Here\u2019s a little of what was said on Friday night.<\/p>\n
On turnovers costing New York and the tiny margin for error on the road:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have 17 turnovers for 22 points off turnovers, compared to their 10 turnovers for 11 points off turnovers, on the road, it\u2019s going to be tough to overcome.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the Suns as an opponent:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been playing good basketball. They have some veteran guys that have been through the fire, you have a guy in Dillon Brooks who has shown that he can obviously defend and bring an edge to this basketball team and get it done on the offensive end of the floor. Booker is obviously an All-Star player. They get out and run, crash the glass. They do a pretty good job defensively overall, trying to put pressure on you. They\u2019ll pick up full court. They can attack in a lot of different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On expanding the rotation with Josh Hart out:<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, we\u2019re trying to give some young guys an opportunity and some guys that aren\u2019t in that situation an opportunity. And they\u2019ve just got to do the best they can.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Josh Hart\u2019s injury progress and potential return:<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know. I know he\u2019s progressing every single day. He\u2019s doing controlled scrimmaging right now. So we\u2019ll see, but he\u2019s definitely getting close.\u201d<\/p>\n
On adjusting schemes during practice:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got to keep trying to find ways to help them. So on both ends of the floor I\u2019ve got to continue to do that even now. That\u2019s what my job is. We made some changes on both sides of the ball. We\u2019ll see how effective it is and see if it can help us combat that \u2014 quote unquote \u2014 problems that we may be having technically at times on both sides of the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On Mikal Bridges\u2019 skill set:<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a guy here who shot the ball well, moved well without the basketball, got out in transition. Obviously, defended a lot of times at the point of the opponent\u2019s attack. But he\u2019d really get in the passing lanes, and those are things we definitely rely on him to do for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
On late-game execution and his final turnover:<\/p>\n
\u201cI just feel like I need to execute and be better towards the end of the night. That\u2019s when I\u2019m at my best. That\u2019s what I pride myself on. I just need to be better down the stretch and be more sound and be more fundamental.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his final turnover costing the Knicks:<\/p>\n
\u201cThat turnover at the end\u2026 that\u2019s just good defense by Oso. Hands up, not letting me create enough space. Just a careless pass, and that was the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his expiring contract:<\/p>\n
\u201cI tell you this every time, brother. I let my agent handle that. That\u2019s what you got an agent for. Let them do your s\u2014.<\/p>\n
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\u201cJust continue to play hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
On conditioning work doing him good:<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, we do a lot. Too damn much.\u201d<\/p>\n
On progress with his conditioning:<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, for sure. You didn\u2019t see that last game when I was sprinting down the court? I got tired, obviously. But I ran down like seven times, then rolled, came back, set a screen. I did alright. So it\u2019s getting better.\u201d<\/p>\n
On returning to Phoenix to face the Suns:<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, man, being drafted here and being here for so long, being embraced by the culture here and the fans and everybody, yeah, it\u2019s always amazing coming back here. It always feels like home. No matter how many times I come out here or when I come out here.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On adjusting to Mike Brown\u2019s system in New York:<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a little mixed. I think offensively when I was in Phoenix, it was kind of a no-brainer, the movement. I think we\u2019re still figuring out what we\u2019re doing here offensively because it\u2019s still a new system. But yeah, you could say that.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his ongoing rehab and impending return from injury:<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be back at some point. We\u2019ll see. Pretty good little sprain. If this is my left ankle, I\u2019m back by now. Because I\u2019ve had some good ankle sprains on my left ankle. But I haven\u2019t had many good ankle sprains on my right. This was a good one. After this, I won\u2019t have any ligaments to sprain. So I\u2019ll be solid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like the Knicks just can\u2019t get things quite right, can they? Phoenix made New York eat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,4346,3628,1195,288,327,304,1260,3357,1247,6,1136,2065,472],"class_list":{"0":"post-527292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-booker","10":"tag-carmelo-anthony","11":"tag-dillon-brooks","12":"tag-jalen-brunson","13":"tag-josh-hart","14":"tag-knicks","15":"tag-mikal-bridges","16":"tag-mike-brown","17":"tag-mitchell-robinson","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-phoenix","21":"tag-phoenix-suns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115871558145110530","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527292","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=527292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}