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New York Knicks head coach Mike Brown, left, talks to Mohamed Diawara (51) during the second half of a preseason NBA basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in New York. AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II<\/p>\nThe champions lost their third straight preseason game Monday, 122-104 to the Timberwolves at Madison Square Garden, as Mike Brown said he\u2019s challenging his players by coaching simple and predictable.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth of the matter is I\u2019m kind of hamstringing our guys offensively,\u201d the head coach said. \u201cReal generic with what we\u2019re running offensively because I want to see if they can execute when a team gets rhythm and they start denying or putting pressure on us because they know what\u2019s coming. Can we execute our counters? Can we still get to our spots offensively and execute our actions? Can we play fast doing it? Those are little things I\u2019m looking at offensively.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson dropped a team-high 20 points, shooting 6-for-13 and just 1-for-4 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n
New York Knicks head coach Mike Brown, left, talks to Mohamed Diawara (51) during the second half of a preseason NBA basketball game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2026, in New York. AP Photo\/Frank Franklin II<\/p>\n
The captain and the rest of the starters each played about half the game and lost their minutes, as Minnesota\u2019s Anthony Edwards (26 points) and Jaden McDaniels (22) combined for nine treys.<\/p>\n
The Knicks have been outscored in preseason play by 43 points. <\/p>\n
Brown seems unconcerned.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, it\u2019s more about the process, not necessarily the end result. \u2026 Defensively, are we making sure we\u2019re playing with next-play speed? And, for the most part, I thought we did,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had some breakdowns execution-wise in terms of what our assignments were, but those things can be cleaned up in time. We\u2019ll keep watching film and keep drilling it and all that other stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tony Bradley (10 points in seven minutes, 5-for-5 from the field) and Pac\u00f4me Dadiet (seven points, 2-for-3 from long distance) were efficient for the Knicks off the bench.<\/p>\n
None of the starters are expected to play Tuesday in Toronto, which is the second half of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n
Brown said the individual players will decide if they want to travel.<\/p>\n
Most of the starters didn\u2019t stick around to speak with reporters after Monday\u2019s game. <\/p>\n
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For the Timberwolves, Edwards declined postgame interviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The champions lost their third straight preseason game Monday, 122-104 to the Timberwolves at Madison Square Garden, as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1556,21,9,11,1104,10,319],"class_list":["post-371830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-mike-brown","tag-nba","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-new-york-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}