On the Knicks beginning lineup – NBA Weblog

Through the New York Put up:

Knicks followers desperate to see change seven video games into the season are going to have to be affected person.

Tom Thibodeau doesn’t sound able to make any alterations to his beginning lineup but regardless of the unit’s early struggles.

“We’ll see the way it unfolds,” the Knicks’ coach mentioned, when requested how a lot of a pattern measurement is required earlier than contemplating a change. “So, you wanna just remember to get a superb take a look at all the pieces.”

When the starters points had been identified, that the quintet of RJ Barrett, Jalen Brunson, Mitchell Robinson, Evan Fournier and Julius Randle has a minus-9.2 ranking per 100 possessions and a defensive ranking of 116.9, which might be twenty seventh within the league, Thibodeau identified how nicely the group began in Wednesday’s loss to the Hawks. The staff’s third straight defeat, wherein a 23-point, second-quarter lead grew to become a noncompetitive 13-point loss, he felt was on everybody.

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