with trophy and prize-money stakes<\/a> on the line, the Knicks will look to avoid a letdown when they get back to normal regular-season games. But they\u2019ll likely begin that mission without a few key pieces.<\/p>\nIt will be the Knicks\u2019 first time back at Gainbridge Fieldhouse vs. the Pacers, where they were eliminated from the playoffs. The Pacers, with Tyrese Haliburton out (torn Achilles), have struggled through a miserable start to the season, owning a 6-20 record and sitting second-to-last in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
OG Anunoby has never shot better. It has come after getting a few pointers from one of the best-ever shooters the NBA has ever seen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been able to talk to him a little bit,\u201d Dirk Nowitzki, now an analyst for Amazon Prime\u2019s NBA coverage, said during the broadcast of the Knicks\u2019 win over the Spurs in the NBA Cup final Tuesday night at T-Mobile Arena. \u201cHe wanted to know more about shooting. Last year he reached out to me and wanted to know a few details.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anunoby is shooting a career-high 40.8 percent from 3-point range this year. In Tuesday\u2019s win, he was 5-for-10 on 3s and finished with 28 points.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just wanted to know every little detail \u2014 about feet, about positioning of the hands, of breathing, of where the eyes go,\u201d Nowitzki said. \u201cHe asked me all sorts of questions.One main thing that I told him about is the finger position on the ball. When I shot the ball, I liked to spread my fingers as wide as I could. The pointer and the middle finger were the last two to touch the ball. That way you almost build like train tracks, and the ball should always go straight. You should never miss left or right. If you shoot over one finger, the ball can go left or right. If you put the ball over the train tracks, good shooters should only miss short and long and not left and right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before answering the question that was actually asked of him during postgame celebrations on Tuesday, Jalen Brunson went out of his way to credit Tyler Kolek, Robinson and Jordan Clarkson.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThat\u2019s why he\u2019s our captain,\u201d Josh Hart said.<\/p>\n
Brunson later said he \u201chad to give them their props and a shout-out. It\u2019s important for me to make sure that the guys who come out and compete and play well and help us win, they\u2019re acknowledged, too, especially if it\u2019s not maybe on the stat sheet.\u201d<\/p>\n
That leadership is not taken for granted.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s an unbelievable competitor, but an unbelievable teammate,\u201d coach Mike Brown said. \u201cI\u2019ve been around those guys. You\u2019re talking about Tim Duncan, Steph Curry, those guys. [De\u2019Aaron Fox], [LeBron James]. Those guys all mention their teammates because bang, bang, bang, they know this is a team sport at the end of the day. That\u2019s why he is not just the MVP when it comes to hooping, but he is the MVP in a lot of different ways. I\u2019m just lucky, fortunate, blessed, however you want to call it, to be able to work with a young man like that.<\/p>\n
Victor Wembanyama was emotional after Tuesday\u2019s game, revealing that he lost someone close to him. According to The Athletic, he found out that his grandmother died in France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quite a few Knicks players might be getting the night off. After winning the NBA Cup against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4778,1555,1557,21,9,11,1104,10,6474,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-74111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-josh-hart","9":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","10":"tag-mitchell-robinson","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-og-anunoby","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74111","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=74111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Og Anunoby of the New York Knicks looks to pass as Tyler Kolek falls during the fourth quarter against the San Antonio Spurs in the Emirates NBA Cup Championship. Getty Images<\/p>\n