Mike Brown was not a contented man with the best way his New York Knicks gamers carried out in opposition to the Washington Wizards.
Regardless of it being the preseason, it was an enormous shock to see the New York Knicks lose to the Washington Wizards.
Knicks head coach Mike Brown rested Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Cities, and the remainder of the Knicks’ starters for the sport, and paid the value for it.
New signings like Malcolm Brogdon and Guerschon Yabusele didn’t put up displaying within the beginning function, displaying why they’re the place they’re within the pecking order.
Mikal Bridges’ early verdict on Mike Brown was that he held gamers accountable for all choices. And the coach’s post-game feedback show Bridges is totally proper.
Mike Brown spoke after the Knicks’ 120-103 loss to the Wizards, and didn’t maintain again on the gamers who received the beginning nod.
Whereas he did like what the bench gamers introduced, the Knicks didn’t constantly have the proper power. Nevertheless, Brown ended issues on a optimistic observe, calling it an ideal expertise.
“Our starters didn’t carry the power. That is in all probability a worse basketball sport total, and we did it in spurts. We weren’t superb to begin the sport, and we weren’t superb firstly of the third quarter.
“I assumed the fellows coming off the bench did an ideal job. Tyler (Kolek) gave us nice minutes. Garrison (Matthews) and Trey (Jemison)… even Tosan (Evbuomwan) have been good for us out on the ground.
“They didn’t actually do something tough. They have been simply in the proper spot defensively. They tried to play the best way we’ve been taking part in all through the preseason and day-after-day in apply.
“It confirmed at instances to be superb basketball. Offensively, once more, we didn’t do something totally different. When that second group got here in, they tried to area the ground and play with the tempo.
“It wasn’t there on a regular basis, however they tried to do it… Now we have to do higher collectively as a unit in relation to doing the little issues…
“Defensively, we weren’t nice in our shifts. We’ve been fairly darn good in these two areas thus far… A fantastic movie to be taught from. We made lots of errors which were uncharacteristic of who we’re thus far.
“Even in apply, we’ve performed quite a bit higher than this, by way of understanding what we’re attempting to do offensively and defensively. A fantastic studying expertise, we’ll all develop from it…”
A loss in preseason actually doesn’t matter, whatever the opponent. Particularly if it’s a loss the place none of your beginning gamers performed.
To date, when the Knicks have had their starters on the court docket, they’ve performed properly and gained video games. So one loss the place their bench gamers began the sport gained’t preserve any Knicks followers up at night time.
The Knicks have only one extra preseason sport remaining, as they play the Charlotte Hornets this weekend.
Closing out the preseason with a win might enable them to construct momentum heading into their season opener subsequent week in opposition to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
