Tom Thibodeau | New York Knicks Postgame Press Conference | January 29th, 2024

Tom Thibodeau | New York Knicks Postgame Press Conference | January 29th, 2024

OG out of the line just kind of find yeah you know like we just talked you you’re not replacing those guys individually so you got to you have to count on your defense and you’re rebounding and then creating advantages for each other and I thought I thought

We got great games out of you know the we got the usual from jayen but I thought Josh was terrific and Dante was fantastic I thought Precious first time playing you know at the power forward Jericho gave us really good minutes as well uh and then I thought uh Deuce’s

Defense was was big too but the third quarter yeah I don’t know it was 44 or something 24 I think and uh but that gave us a cushion there do you know I don’t I I think it’s it’s going to be dayto day so it’s you know

Inflammation so you know we’ll see we’ll see where where it is tomorrow in that Ro he went through shoot around and he went through you know he was planning on playing so it was just it was a late scratch in the world of the Dante place

Um how important oh in Quinton too I’m sorry I thought he gave us good minutes um how important is it to have I guess that much confidence in your shot well you guys have seen it all all season like and the thing I like about it is he

Doesn’t like all all the 50-50 de he doesn’t hesitate you know he very confident puts a lot of work in he worked extremely hard all summer like to to make sure he was ready for for the start of the season and so that’s and it sets up everything else for him like if

They start flying at him and they then can put it down on the floor um but he’s I thought he had good activity defensively as well and he’s good in the open floor you know so uh there’s no hesitation and you know we needed I think it took 15 threes but you know

Like that you need that we want we need obviously need the volume threes how much of an emphasis you guys put on that that characteristic just like really really quick decision making seems like you have a lot of yeah you know like and and the thing is it’s like to you want

To try to attack the defense before it’s set but then you know once you you get down if the third defender’s back and you move it to the second side get downhill into space and try to create advantages for each other so I think moving without the ball and making quick

Decisions is important it’s what I like really like about Josh like he keeps it going you know and there’s and there’s really not a a St for that because a lot of it is you know it’s not only the movement but it’s the screening off the ball and they’re quick decisions and uh

OG’s really good at that too moving without the ball making quick decisions and as is uh Dante so I think that’s important for us given you guys are are missing guys is it is it extra important to be able to to make those quick decisions get out yeah you know like the

Thing is so what we have to obviously you’re not replacing Julius with any one player same thing with OG so for us it’s got to be our you know the the collection of everybody working together everyone’s capable of playing great defense everyone’s capable of rebounding the ball well everyone’s capable of

Taking care of the ball and not turning it over but sharing the ball like guys if you’re open shoot if you’re not open make a play for your teammate and when we do that we can beat anyone there quite scene out there with Nick what you think of the crap that’s great that’s

The bad you know you guys hear me like not only do we have the Good Fortune of our Arena and our fans at home which I think you know are the best there’s nothing like it but every city you go to there’s always a a a huge fan base and

You feel it and I think it brings energy to us you know so certainly appreciate it you got you got a nice hand in introduction did you hear that I didn’t notice that but I think Josh pointed it out to me he asked me if it was my

Family um Quint Quinton didn’t shoot a great but he’s been seems like the last four games or so much more aggressive putting on yeah you know and that’s like he’s not hesitating you know like it’s and that’s what I like like he’s at his best when he plays like that and he put

It down and like he attacked the rim the one time and I loved it you know like there was no hesitation the guy made a good play but when he’s aggressive like that he that’s when he’s at his best he he and uh dudes had a great defensive

Sequence that was like when you make plays like that that gives your team a lot of energy League just you know like it’s you know it’s really the way it is today it’s positionist and you see Josh oftentimes will initiate the offense and I like the like the other it’s interchangeable so

Sometimes our point guards are on the weak side so we can let them play off the ball as well um but I like when we interchange because I think it’s it’s a different thing for your opponent to defend are you defending you know catch and shoot uh you know or are you

Defending off the dribble and I think the more situations and decisions you put them in the more advantages you can create from that and so um you know and dece is a really good screener so sometimes he’s handling sometimes he’s screening and then the what they’re doing on the weak side is they’re

They’re playing off each other which is and I think oftentimes those are the hardest place to defend because they’re not scripted you know you can’t lock into okay this is what they’re doing and now they you know their point switch and then there’s a slip and then next thing

You know you got to lay up how how long you guys beit yeah just you know like he’s you know just let him work his way through it like you know his timing is not quite there but you know the thing that I love love love is that precious has

Really played well and Jericho’s really played well you know so we got quality depth and as as we did at the beginning of the season when we had Mitch and then Isaiah and then Isaiah went into the so like everyone is functioning well and and you need everybody you know so get

In there and that I think the rebounding part of it is so important so I the offensive rebounds were big and you know like I think that that’s critical and Josh is unique like when Josh went to the four he he rebounds the ball great in traffic so um you know our rebounding

Is going to be huge you you lose Julius we need we have to gang rebound we need everyone in there fighting for it

Coach Thibodeau addresses the media after Knicks’ win over the Charlotte Hornets.

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