Tom Thibodeau on Wednesday defended the heavy load of minutes for the Knicks’ top players, calling those questioning his substitution patterns the “minutes police.”
The Knicks coach, when asked about sticking with his nine-man rotation, pointed to the team’s record since he went to that rotation — they were 15-7 entering Wednesday’s game against the Wizards — and how well Julius Randle, RJ Barrett and Jalen Brunson have performed. The flip side is the Knicks had lost seven of their last 11 games decided by single digits, and recently had struggled as a team down the stretch.
“What did he do in practice?” he said. “Maybe he didn’t have any contact in practice, maybe it was a recovery day, or if he did do something in practice, you had a sub with him, and he did very little in practice. So there’s a lot of different things that go into pacing the team.”at the end of regulation or overtime of the Knicks’ 123-121 loss to the Raptors on Monday. After that game, Thibodeau was critical of the officiating, saying, “it was hard to tell what a foul was.
Knicks guard RJ Barrett slams the ball with 1.2 seconds left in the second half forcing overtime at the Madison Square Garden on Jan. 16.On Barrett’s game-tying dunk with 0.6 seconds left in regulation, on which Scottie Barnes made contact with the “upper off-arm” of Barrett, the league said a no-call was the correct call because the contract did “not affect the speed, quickness, balance and/or rhythm of his shot.
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