One other recreation, one other tight loss. The Knicks couldn’t rise from demise after the Thunder took the lead with just a few seconds left in Saunday’s affair and wrapped up March with back-to-back losses to the Spurs and OKC.
Jalen Brunson may or may need not been fouled late within the recreation and Tom Thibodeau may or may need not blasted the referees, however the one true factor is that New York might want to flip the web page in a rush in the event that they beat the Warmth on Tuesday.
Here’s what a few of the protagonists from Sunday’s tilt needed to say concerning the recreation.
Tom Thibodeau
On the no-call on Jalen Brunson’s late-game layup…
“Write what you see.”
On dropping the final two video games by a mixed 5 factors…
“We’re a basket away from profitable the ball recreation, and so (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s) shot goes out, we’re sitting right here speaking about an entire totally different narrative. And so, it didn’t.”
“We’ve gotta regroup, go right down to Miami and we’ve gotta prepare for that. And that’s the mindset I need us to have.”
On how he’s coping with the fixed missed calls on Knicks video games this season…
“Yeah, we ship clips, nevertheless it doesn’t appear to be doing any good.”
On Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks early stragglers following their commerce to New York…
“They’ve gotta discover no matter they’ll on the market. They must play off individuals, they usually had been flying at us. And that’s the place we’ve gotta learn that, shot pretend, put it on the ground and make one other play, or we’ve gotta pretend the move.”
On the potential for not having OG Anunoby return in any respect this season…
“We simply take care of actuality. You take care of it day-to-day. When he’s robust sufficient, he will get on the market.”
On Julius Randle’s ongoing rehab scenario…
“Simply preserve doing what he’s doing, day-to-day. You by no means know when it turns. That’s mainly the method we take.”
“Rehab is basically your recreation, so put every thing you’ve got into that. And ultimately, you’ll get there; you may’t get discouraged; simply preserve working at it. The opposite guys, they’ve a job to do.”
On Mitchell Robinson’s final damage forcing him to overlook Sunday’s matchup…
“He simply tweaked (his ankle). We’ll see the place he’s tomorrow.”
Josh Hart
On not anticipating to have Julius Randle and OG Anunoby again any time quickly, if in any respect…
“I’m it like that is the group we’re going to have. I believe that’s how we’ve to method it, that these guys aren’t coming again and clearly we’ll be pleasantly stunned if they arrive again.”
“I’m not in these medical conversations or something like that, so I don’t know s–t from s–t. However we’ve obtained to method it each recreation and the top of this season that these guys aren’t coming again and in the event that they do, be pleasantly stunned.”
Jalen Brunson
On the reason concerning the no-call the refs gave him after the sport…
“They mentioned it wasn’t a foul, that’s actually, to place it into long-story quick, that’s what he mentioned. I don’t suppose it’s going to influence something going ahead.”
On how the younger Thunder beat the Knicks and what New York has to do higher…
“They got here out able to play within the fourth. They’ve been taking part in nice all yr, so we knew we couldn’t simply stroll into the fourth with a lead and suppose it’s gonna be simple. Clearly, we’re in a good place however we are able to’t get comfy. That needs to be our mindset going ahead.”
Isaiah Hartenstein
On dropping shut video games on back-to-back contests…
“It hurts. We’ve (had) two video games the place we had nice pictures. That’s sort of the extra disappointing factor.”