New York Knicks · 5 notes
Minnesota's Jaden McDaniels says teams put smaller players on him because they can't on OG Anunoby or Jonathan Kuminga: "they can put them on me. I don't care. I'm gonna take advantage of it every time." No timeline on Donte DiVincenzo: "we just can't wait to have him back."
"It kind of makes life easy. I don't got to take 1,000 dribbles to go score." AJ Dybantsa on being the Wizards' third option. He had 4 steals and held his own guarding OG Anunoby one-on-one. On his college defense: "It was just kind of me just being lazy in college."
"Those 5, they gonna play... everybody else in this gym, you fighting." Knicks coach Mike Brown told his team Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby, Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart will play; everyone else is fighting to make the team or for minutes.
Brown wants more Karl-Anthony Towns at the elbow and more pick-and-roll for OG Anunoby and Mikal Bridges, but warned what worked in the playoffs "may not work during the regular season." He floated Andre Drummond as an elbow passer too: "Maybe Andre is too. I don't know."
With Mitchell Robinson gone, Andre Drummond is the backup center, but Mike Brown said: "We're not expecting Andre to come in and be Mitch... everybody else has to step up and box out a little bit harder." Brown added OG Anunoby may play center more than last year.