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

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

You the first turn you guys corrected in the second half turn yeah and they’re very good at turning people over uh real active steel strip team and I thought we were trying to thread the needle and then once we got off the ball earlier uh second half much better uh

Just hitting the first open man and let that guy make the play um then I thought we were were a lot better and then our defense got going a little bit in the second half isah yeah he playing really really well um thought our our starters had good

Rhythm we started you know the the first half one of the things uh OG getting in foul trouble probably h of some and then uh uh the turnovers put them in the open floor L and and gave them a lot of confidence and you know D Roan’s a load

To deal with so uh but I thought our rebounding was really good yeah I mean I think we’ve seen that you know like but it’s like now it’s trying to also find the rhythm of for the second unit as well so um I think they need a little bit of time and then

You know we’ll we’ll figure that out but uh you know you go on the road and your margin errors is tight so we just got to make simple plays right now keep it basic trust each other um let the offense work for you and then create advantages for each other when we do

That there good things are going to come from it I thought uh Jaylen read the game really well they were trying to get the the ball out of his hands and then we had we started making simple plays and when we do that pretty good offensively some of it matchups you know

Like they downsized so uh we we’ll we’ll see how that goes it might be situational I like both guys doing it you know I think um you know and again the challenges to get everyone playing well together and a lot of the guys are comfortable playing with both groups

So uh you know I think you know deuce needs a little bit of time I think OG will get better as as time goes on uh you know so we just we got to keep working at it precious you know and uh you know sometimes I think you have to

Read the game too like and it was coming from a good place but we’re trying to do too much and thread the needle instead of like just keep it simple hit the first open man make the second pass and now you’re putting them in Long close

Outs and now there’s going to be easy opportunities so when we did that was a lot better they were real active off the corners right so you put your head down and you got to anticipate that they’re coming you got to get off the ball early

When you are when you are playing games the day like this time you’re trying to rework the roster like this and figure out rotations what goes into trying to well you try to ship y it you know so like there’s a basic package that you have then there’s stretches where you

Have everybody that been here so you can get into other stuff when they’re in but each day you’ll add a little bit but I don’t want to overload those guys either so um just get the base of the offense the base of the defense and then we’ll

Continue to add and then trust each other just you know it’s read and react it’s fiveman offense fiveman defense be tied together um I always think like the more we communicate the more we talk and everyone thinks it’s just talking on on defense but it’s talking on offense as

Well uh when you do that I think it helps eliminate mental errors and so if we do that we’re we’re going to function at a much higher level of a back and forth game for a while they got to within a point early in the fourth and

Then you guys took off what what changed there in the fourth quarter yeah just you know and again we started the fourth I think we had an eight-point lead um and then we gave up some second shots we we took a couple tough shots and you know an 8 10-point lead can dissipate

Very quickly you know in this league you you get they make a couple threes and the next thing you know it’s two-point game and and you’re fighting and no no lead you see it every night there no lead is safe in this league that eight point lead dissipated while Jay was on

The bench and back to that kind of 40 minute games is there any concern over there it’s might have take because of quick yeah no he’s I think he prepares himself well for whatever he has to do as does Julius that you know that’s one of they’re great traits both guys

They’re they they take great care of themselves and they work you know so if they have to play more they’ll play more and you know but I have a lot of confidence in the guys that we have I I think we just need a little bit of time

To like we’re going to you know hopefully we’re better tomorrow then at the end of the week we’re better and the end of the month we’re better I just want us to keep improving long you know I he’s fine you know 38 minutes you you know that’s what you

Guys play you know all right thanks yeah

Coach Thibodeau addresses the media after Knicks’ win over the Chicago Bulls.

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