Tom Thibodeau | New York Knicks Postgame Press Conference | March 3rd, 2024

Tom Thibodeau | New York Knicks Postgame Press Conference | March 3rd, 2024

Tonight yeah and it’s been really the story of the Season you know we’ve been fighting short-handed since December so just keep fighting and that’s all we can do each and every day you know just get out there go as hard as you can did you

Get word yet on what the injury is yeah a knee contusion so he had X-rays the negative so that’s where it is he collided with I didn’t see the play so I know it’s he he bumped knees that’s what happened uh did he have to go on

MRI they just did x-ray everything was negative so encouraging I mean because it looked at least from we were and it could be scary the way he like yeah I think anytime someone goes down like that you you have concern you know so uh but then you know he felt a little

Better he got the x-rays he was examined by the doctors and so you know that that news is good did you have any idea time I don’t like just see where he is tomorrow is that is that possible like as Tuesday possible I guess you know you got to see

It’s a knee contusion and everything was negative so we’ll see where he is tomorrow do you know what changed when like he was questionable and then he was ruled out did something happen with him different I I don’t know so I I was unaware like they just told me he was

Being examined him back so we wanted to make sure we did the X-ray so I don’t know what transpired we were waiting on that and then we just thought it was best to you know sit him out the rest of the game cuz he had been sitting for

Quite a while how about the play of Duce tonight he ends up going 47 minutes and didn’t have a sing turnover and he hit a huge huge shot for us uh and chasing Garland around not easy to do uh but we had a number of people step up and just

Play as hard as they possibly could I thought the way Josh played the way Dante played Duce gave us great minutes filling in bogie came off the bench Isaiah was huge down the stretch precious had a number of big plays for us so it was a it was a good team win we

Had to play we knew how hard we were going to have to play to have a chance to win the game and I think our guys did that I thought the rebounding was terrific uh I thought the unselfishness guys making plays for each other uh 31

Assists a big time number and then the defense and and they’re big you know so when that Ball’s up on the board and then the game changes when they put shooting on the flooor so we have to have had to have an awareness as to what

Was going on and I thought our guys did a really good job with that how about Josh’s ability just kind of take over in every single part of the game yeah I mean you could it’s one big play after the next whether you want to talk about

A loose ball a hustle play flying around a rebounding traffic a timely shot you know uh he got the ball moving real real well for us like his penetration and then his Rim reads were unbelievable and I think that set the tone for the team

Uh but it was one big play after another throughout the game we saw those traits of physicality we saw a lot last year and in the previous two matchups how would you assess you know overall your group’s performance you know given the circumstances losing Jaylen well I think

That you know for us that’s how we have to play when you’re short-handed your marginal error is really small so you have to play with great intensity great concentration on every play and so uh that’s the one thing I’m proud of these guys have been you know we

Haven’t had our starting front line for a long time and so now you add in jailing and then put the guys who who were in there got the job done so and that’s why you have a team and you know Deuce was fantastic you mentioned you thought the

Fight they have is the story of the Season where where does that come from from our players you know like it’s the makeup of the players so uh you know I think that that’s important I think uh Leon and his staff have done a good job of identifying

Those guys you know and uh I love our team I love how hard they work I love how they care about winning how they’re willing to sacrifice for each other I said that that stuff goes a long way and and unrelated to the actual game but there was you know you followed the

Whole leag there was was news in in Detroit where uh they they weaved Shake Milton and I was just wondering in your time coaching against Shake Milton what you thought of him well I think that would be a leon question

Coach Thibodeau addresses the media after Knicks’ win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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