Tom Thibodeau critical of Knicks defense in win over Pistons | SNY
Like the start of the first quarter, I thought was pretty good then, you know at the end of the first started as well. We just give tough shots and files hurt us and then you know, they play really hard, you know, and I knew they wouldn’t go away so, you know, and then we were in for you know dogfight so our defense wasn’t very good tonight. The rebounding wasn’t Needed to be you know in the end in the end though, we found a way to win and that’s the bottom line is to find a way
to win. So sometimes you have to win we want with our offense, you know, so just win games different ways, but you know, we obviously we got to have to do a lot better than we did. But as I said the important thing is getting the win and just a second season Jalen became number two on the list of Nick’s gods of score 40 points. I mean, I know it’s becoming complicated. What do you say about this performance? Yeah, you know in the thing is it’s not like they say this for all our players it
you know it you have to win as a team chose the individual stuff if we’re doing the right right things and we win everyone gets recognized
know, Josh gave us in Dante, you know, like the bench play gave us a lift in the end and you know, Julia’s was Julius and you know, I thought like RJ, you know, we got out into the open for was great, you know, and that’s just Dude, he got some easy buckets that way and then you know down the stretch. We were just trying to find a group that they were going good. So that’s why we finished the way we did but you know it we got to get our defense right and look there’s the
there’s challenges like in this league that you’re always going to be challenged. That’s the beauty of this league. It could be early start late start back-to-back. It could be a longhorn stand over a holiday, you know, like there’s A lot of things that go in and you got to make sure that you stay on track. You can’t let anything get in the way of your concentration level to get yourself ready to fly. So if you show up and you haven’t put the work in or you’re not concentrating the way you need to you can you
know, it’s easy to say well my bad my bad now, it’s not like you can’t win like that going win as a team. And so, you know, that’s where we need to put our focus and you know, like I said for the most part like I think we’ve steadily improved since the start of the season but there’s a long way to go in this league. You start feeling good about yourself. You only get knocked down.
