{"id":55237,"date":"2025-05-25T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/55237\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T06:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T06:32:09","slug":"knicks-benching-josh-hart-for-mitchell-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/55237\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks benching Josh Hart for Mitchell Robinson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       Even with the comeback, Brunson and the Knicks spent most of their postgame interviews talking about how their lack of focus on defense did them in. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45293266\/knicks-frustrated-lapses-defense-put-2-0-hole\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Read more on ESPN\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cObviously they do a really good job of moving the ball and forcing you into mistakes, and we have to be more sound defensively to guard the first action, second action, but also the third action,\u201d Knicks wing\u00a0Josh Hart\u00a0said.<\/a> \u201cWe\u2019re down 0-2, and now we\u2019re going to a tough place to play \u2014 Indiana \u2014 so we\u2019ve got to go and fix it. We can\u2019t have blown coverages, no matter how late it is in the shot clock.\u201d Hart said the team\u2019s defensive breakdowns late in the game were especially costly because they happened while the Knicks tried to mount their comeback. \u201cIn the playoffs, a lot of games are determined by a possession or two,\u201d he said. \u201cTwo games in a row, we [made those mistakes]. We\u2019ve got to figure it out.\u201d -via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45293266\/knicks-frustrated-lapses-defense-put-2-0-hole\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> ESPN<\/a> \/ May 24, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with the comeback, Brunson and the Knicks spent most of their postgame interviews talking about how their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,1364,304,1363,6,1136,191,3810,3806,1416],"class_list":{"0":"post-55237","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-coaching","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-main-rumors","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks","17":"tag-tom-thibodeau"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114567075947573768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55237","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=55237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}