New York Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau thought last night’s 107-98 road win vs. the Cleveland Cavaliers was a total team effort (Jalen Brunson went down with a left knee contusion in the first quarter).
(via BASKETMAN):
“We had a number of people step up and just play as hard as they possibly could. I thought the way Josh [Hart] played. The way Donte [DiVincenzo] played. Deuce [McBride] gave us great minutes filling in. Bogey (Bojan Bogdanovic) came off the bench. Isaiah [Hartenstein] was huge down the stretch. Precious [Achiuwa] had a number of big plays for us. So, it was a good team win. We knew how hard we were gonna have to play to have a chance to win the game, and I think our guys did that. I thought the rebounding was terrific. I thought the unselfishness, guys making plays for each other, 31 assists is a big time number. And then the defense, and they’re big, so when that ball’s up on the board, and then the game changes when they put shooting on the floor. So we had to have an awareness as to what was going on, and I thought our guys did a really good job with that.”
