How the Knicks getting healthy could be dangerous for teams | The Hoop Collective

How the Knicks getting healthy could be dangerous for teams | The Hoop Collective

All right Bon Temps uh let’s swing over to the Eastern Conference where you saw the Knicks tonight Nicks got some guys back coming out of the All-Star break they badly needed it after I would say was a Soo injury report uh from the injured players from the Knicks um specifically Julius Randall

Who well you say you know the Knicks were being purposely vague about his his situation and acting like everything was probably be okay and Julius comes out on Wednesday and says yeah I could it’s possible I still could need surgery yeah that wasn’t good news well I would say I

Mean just to just to be clear about it the reason I’m saying that is because it’s really what we’ve been saying the entire time is what Julius said right and frankly it’s what the Nicks said the whole time because the Nick all the Knicks would say was because he got Hur

At the beginning of February all the niick said at the time was he’s going to be re-evaluated in two to three weeks didn’t say like he’s not going to have surgery didn’t say he’s going to have surgery just said he’s going to rehab we’ll see where he’s at later this month

And every time Tom tho got asked about it or every time the Knicks was supposed to give some sort of update about it it was just well Julius is progressing he’s looking good TBS will get asked directly is he gonna have is he definitely not going to have surgery no can’t say that

And then Julius to his credit just sat there on Wednesday and talked to the media and said hey look I can’t really know for sure how this is going to go until I start contact and hitting people and seeing how this goes and as we know

Julius is a freight train and kind of has to play that way and we’ll see if his shoulder will hold up I was only saying that because I just to me it’s this has been the story from the moment he got hurt it was we haven’t really

Been sure if he’s going to avoid surgery or not and we might not know until he all the way is back on the court again well his co-star went through something similar in Dallas his second year uh Jaylen Brunson didn’t go to the bubble cuz he had shoulder surgery when he and

That was something where he came back and tried to play through it and then you know finally just like okay I’ve got to get the operation because it never got right until that’s that’s why so many of these shoulder surgeries go especially for big guys they come back

And they reag gravate it they redis J so Julius is so physical and how I mean he’s one of the most physical players in the league I mean he’s probably right up there with Giannis in terms of how much he’s using his size and strength to maneuver around and you know create

Space on Defenders and stuff so that’s going to be a significant thing but oan and Obi progressing well Mitchell Robinson progressing well and they got back Isaiah hartstein buam bonovich who had a great game hit six for six from three at 22 points and Dante dienzo who’s been fantastic for a couple of

Months now in the starting lineup uh he got back as well and they played very well against the Knicks and got back on track after having a four game slide going into the break yeah look they’re on the road in Philly uh and Brunson goes 58 it was hardly a banner night for

Him I know hartenstein was back but he didn’t play that well well he only played it was interesting he only played 11 minutes um before the game because he’s been dealing with a Killy soreness which as we all know that’s a scary thing to be hearing especially for a guy

Who’s played great is going to be a free agent in five months um but Tom Tibido said he was going to play in short stints tonight uh and did he played a short stint to start the game and a short stint to start the third quarter and

That was it didn’t play after that right but anyway they got the win uh and by double digits and so that was a I needed one like you know it’s one thing if Brunson comes out and scores 37 but they win on a night where Brunson is a little

Bit off and that’s one of the reasons why you know getting buan bonovich was so important is that he gives them Firepower um especially Off the [Applause] [Applause] Bench

How the Knicks getting healthy could be dangerous for teams | The Hoop Collective
Brian Windhorst, Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon discuss the New York Knicks inching towards getting healthy.
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