In analyzing the change from Tom Thibodeau to Mike Brown, a lot of debate has centered on the new Knicks coach relying on his bench much more.<\/p>\n
Thibodeau was well-known for riding his starters, and the Knicks added quality bench pieces in Jordan Clarkson and Guerschon Yabusele to give their new coach a deeper roster.<\/p>\n
But there is some thought that Brown could unlock more out of two key players: Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns.<\/p>\n
It was an up-and-down first season as a Knick for Bridges. There were some bright moments, particularly in the second-round upset of the Celtics. But also not nearly enough consistency, particularly on the offensive end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In analyzing the change from Tom Thibodeau to Mike Brown, a lot of debate has centered on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[15517,36782,36784,6043,355,361,4892,99,358],"class_list":["post-64967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-inside-the-knicks","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-mikal-bridges","tag-mike-brown","tag-nba","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}