Earlier than the Knicks Face the Pistons de Detroit in match 3 of their collection of first rounds within the playoff collection Thursday night, the provoke of Sny, Ian Begley, solutions a few of your most pressing questions surrounding the group whereas the collection of the collection in Detroit was 1-1.
Here’s a complete re-creation within the playoff collection, Knicks Mailbag.
Assume that you simply subscribe an vital factor; How did he reply questions on changes and patterns? Certainly one of his best (respectable) criticisms is that the offensive lacks creativity, particularly given the expertise. Is there something in his solutions to notice? – @ ThirtyseANTY12
It was in response to a job About one of many head coaches Tom ThibodeauThe solutions in a post-pratical press convention on Wednesday. I promise, @ ThirtySysey12, that I’d not break something outstanding that comes out of a press convention. Thibodeau, like nearly all of the coaches of the NBA to which I’ve gone, won’t converse to the media of the precise changes that he plans to make earlier than a match. He doesn’t do it throughout the common season and he definitely will not do it throughout the playoffs.
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If Thibodeau mentioned one thing vital / concrete on changes, I will surely have included it. I’ve listened to Thibodeau’s solutions in press conferences for nearly 5 years – he hardly ever has intimately when he has requested for changes.
Primarily based on the final response to this submit on X, previously referred to as Twitter, plainly individuals learn it as a result of Thibodeau was not going to make changes earlier than match 3 on Thursday. I can assure that there shall be changes between the sport. Will they work? We’ll uncover it in just a few hours.
Like us Famous prior to now two weeksThibodeau’s challenges are raised on this collection. So its changes between the match earlier than match 3 are important.
Did they ask them questions in regards to the involvement of the second half of Karl-Anthony Cities? Or in regards to the protection of Decide and Roll? What different questions did he reply Ian? – @Atlaspharaon
Yeah, he was requested in regards to the pictures, the rebound and the cities changes Cade Cunningham. I don’t assume that he was particularly questioned on the protection of the Decide and Roll. The entire interview is on Sny YouTube web page.
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Right here is Thibodeau on the pictures of the cities: “Properly, I feel that a part of that is, if they’re dedicated to 2 and three individuals on him, I do not need him to pressure photographs. However there are issues that he can do too, and we will do, to make him a second and third look. So that is what we’ve got to strive.
Right here is Thibodeau on Tobias Harris Defend cities throughout Jalen Duren protection Josh Hart::
“We have now seen that each one 12 months spherical, so it is nothing new. Match 1 was 123 factors. So we’ve got to take every match, every sport is totally different; what do you be taught from the sport after which transfer it ahead.”
Another notes on potential changes:
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As OG Anunoby Famous, the pistons projected it extra typically within the ball in match 2 in an effort to advance Cunningham. Cunningham clearly had a huge impact in match 2. How do the Knicks counter Match 3?
The Knicks collected 15 assists in match 2. As Steve Popper from Newsday famous it, the 15 assists have equaled the bottom they’d in any match since January 2023.
Right here is Anunoby’s response when requested if the offensive was too stagnant in match 2:
“It was a little bit stagnant however even in a few of our greatest video games, the ball typically stagnates. It is simply how the sport typically occurs, the way it flows. We’re simply making an attempt to appropriate this and perceive find out how to stop it as a lot as potential.”
What’s the temperature of the group once we head to the playoffs? It seems to be just like the vibrations are irregular and the inconsistencies make it tough to measure what to anticipate within the coming weeks. THANKS! – @nilegirl (March 24)
This query got here earlier than the tip of the common season, but it surely stays related, I feel. I believed for a lot of the season that this group didn’t have the identical tight connection because the 2023-24 group. Even with that, it’s logical to imagine that the knicks will move by this piston collection. The hole of abilities between groups strongly promotes New York. However the strain of the playoffs is all the time an excellent stress check for the cohesion of a group. These subsequent two video games in Detroit will inform us one thing vital within the chemistry / connection of the Knicks.
Whereas the common season is coming to an finish, do you’ve gotten an outline of how the group considers every of their 4 recruits? Who do they assume essentially the most able to be a bit of rotation subsequent 12 months? Who will most likely nonetheless be on a 2 -way or buried settlement on the bench? – @ jayb8418 (March 24)
That is one other from the tip of the common season, however it’s nonetheless related in the present day. I can say that many within the group are excessive Ariel Hukporti. That is primarily based on conversations with individuals in touch with the group throughout the season. I feel New York is optimistic about the way forward for Hukporti. Simply to make clear: it doesn’t imply that they aren’t as excessive PACOME DOTIETTE And Tyler Kolek. I assume they’re. However I simply relate what I gathered in conversations throughout the season on Hukporti.
