Jalen Brunson missed the Warriors matchup<\/a> after sustaining a right ankle sprain five minutes into the first quarter in Sacramento.<\/p>\nThe Knicks can\u2019t replace everything their All-Star point guard brings to the lineup, but getting their reserve sharpshooter and three-and-D wing back softens the blow.<\/p>\n
He played 15 games, and started in six, through the first portion of the Knicks\u2019 season and averaged 9.3 points on 45% shooting from the field and 42.4% shooting from deep to start the year. Those numbers marked his highest-scoring season since 2021 with the Brooklyn Nets, and the second-best three-point shooting season of his career since 2019.<\/p>\n
Brown said the Knicks are going to be \u201cpatient\u201d as Shamet, 28, returns to form. He injured the same right, shooting shoulder that he dislocated during the preseason last year and stepped back onto the court on Thursday for the first time in nearly two months.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was in a great rhythm before he got hurt, and he\u2019s been out for a while, so it\u2019s gonna take some time for him to get back and it\u2019s exciting for him to be back,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna be patient with him while he\u2019s fighting his way back to where he was before the injury.\u201d<\/p>\n
A-PLUS<\/p>\n
Brown said rookie Mohamed Diawara has passed a number of tests as a rookie second-round pick who\u2019s been thrust into the fire on a veteran team with championship expectations.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny opportunity you get, you throw him out there, and sometimes you might throw him out there for 15 minutes and sometimes you might throw him out there for two minutes, and you just kinda watch and see how he responds to it. And there may be stretches where he doesn\u2019t see the floor at all, and you see how present he stays with it, and then the times that you do throw him out there, does he get shook or is he rattled?\u201d the Knicks\u2019 coach said pregame on Thursday. \u201cMo, for a young guy especially a second-round pick that probably wasn\u2019t expecting to play at all this year, he passed a lot of tests. He\u2019s gonna continue to be thrown into the fire from time to time.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he\u2019s young, he\u2019s growing, he\u2019s learning, there\u2019s no need to rush him, so he\u2019s gotta stay patient while growing with every experience that he gets when he gets on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Knicks selected Diawara with the 51st pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. He has shot 12-of-30 (40%) from downtown and is averaging 12.8 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.8 steals and 0.9 blocks per 36 minutes this season.<\/p>\n
DRAYMOND COACHING?<\/p>\n
Warriors star Draymond Green expressed an interest in coaching when his playing career is over. Brown believed Green can serve in any capacity for a basketball organization.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne thing: He\u2019s extremely intelligent. His feel for the game is second to none. I\u2019ve been around a lot of players and he\u2019s gotta be up there Top-3 in terms of basketball IQ because he\u2019s been doing it at a high level, has got a great feel, and has had success at it,\u201d said Brown. \u201cHe\u2019s won. It wouldn\u2019t surprise me if he transitioned into coaching, front office, whatever, because I think he\u2019d be able to impact the game in a positive way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Landry Shamet \u201cworked his tail off.\u201d Now he\u2019s back in the rotation following a nasty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,200,304,4988,6,1136,191,3810,3806,255],"class_list":{"0":"post-539927","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-draymond-green","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-landry-shamet","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks","17":"tag-warriors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115902988403395117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539927","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=539927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}