struggling in a reduced role<\/a>. He was averaging just 2.7 points in 10.5 minutes heading into Wednesday\u2019s game against the Hornets, shooting a paltry 34.9 percent overall and 27.6 percent on treys.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/new-york-knicks-forward-guerschon-116169713.jpg\")
Guerschon Yabusele (28) reacts in front of Tyrese Martin during the Knicks\u2019 road win over the Nets. Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
Before OG Anunoby\u2019s hamstring injury, Yabusele had consecutive games of playing six minutes or fewer.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Against the Nets in Brooklyn on Monday, for instance, he logged just 12 minutes despite the absences of Anunoby and Mitchell Robinson. His shifts on the court lasted between roughly 2-4 minutes, and he never played more than 17 total before Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brown draws up a predetermined minutes sheet before each game and tries to stick to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a difficult reality after Yabusele averaged over 27 minutes last season and then captained the French national team in the European championships over the summer. It\u2019s also not what the Knicks envisioned after using almost their entire midlevel exception to sign Yabusele.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course it is [hard]. I can\u2019t lie about it,\u201d Yabusele said. \u201cToday is a different situation. Of course I was playing more minutes last year, too. I\u2019m just trying to fit in my new role and be the best I can.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, Yabusele isn\u2019t doing himself any favors with his misfiring jumper. He went from shooting 38 percent on 3.9 3-point attempts per game last season, to 27.6 percent on 1.9 attempts with the Knicks before Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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At least he can point to a recent upswing with a 4-for-11 conversion rate in the six games heading into Charlotte.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShots are always up and down, especially in the season,\u201d Yabusele said. \u201cIf you look back at last season, some games I was making more than other games. Sometimes it\u2019s not going in and sometimes it goes in. So I\u2019m going to keep working every day, coming to the gym and make sure to get those shots. And when I get in the game, try to be prepared.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Regardless, conditioning isn\u2019t the problem, Yabusele said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel good out there on the court. I feel like I\u2019m in great shape right now,\u201d he said. \u201cSo just try to stay the same and work on my body and be as prepared as I can when I\u2019m on the court.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE \u2014 Guerschon Yabusele has seen the discourse about his weight. He chose to ignore it.\u00a0 But it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,9,11,1104,10,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-53762","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-knicks","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53762","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=53762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}