{"id":285960,"date":"2025-10-08T07:35:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/285960\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T07:35:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:35:19","slug":"mike-brown-has-plans-for-knicks-starters-with-season-growing-nearer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/285960\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Brown has plans for Knicks starters with season growing nearer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Brown plans to increase the minutes for his starters when the Knicks host the Timberwolves on Thursday for their third preseason game, trying to get them time in the second half while continuing to ramp up workloads ahead of the opener Oct. 22 against the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n

No Knicks starter played more than 18 minutes during either of the games last week in Abu Dhabi, with most logging 17 in each. <\/p>\n

Mitchell Robinson played 18 and 13 in the first and second game, respectively, while Pac\u00f4me Dadiet filled in for an injured OG Anunoby during the first exhibition against the 76ers and collected 15.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting closer to the season, getting closer to the real thing, we\u2019re still preparing as well as we need to be,\u201d Jalen Brunson said after practice Tuesday in Tarrytown. \u201cSo we\u2019ll just continue with that preparation and that focus, and yeah, obviously minutes aren\u2019t what they would be in a regular-season game, but everything matters what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The increased minutes will also allow the Knicks to keep working through the adjustments of Brown\u2019s new system, with Brunson saying the \u201cpotential is getting there.\u201d <\/p>\n

Each preseason game, with both ending in Knicks wins, contained flashes and signs of need for continued growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And after Thursday, the Knicks will have two more exhibitions \u2014 Monday against the Wizards and Oct. 17 against the Hornets \u2014 before the regular season begins.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re learning and how we\u2019re playing as a team is definitely improving,\u201d Brunson said. \u201cSo still a long way to go, but getting our basics down.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NewKnicks coach Mike Brown REUTERS<\/p>\n

Josh Hart (back), who exited the preseason opener and missed the second game, didn\u2019t practice Tuesday and is day today, Brown said. <\/p>\n

Brown didn\u2019t sound overly concerned about the spasms or about the Knicks already needing to navigate a pair of injuries this preseason \u2014 with Anunoby missing the first exhibition against the 76ers due to a sprained hand.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"JalenKnicks point guard Jalen Brunson REUTERS<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why you have 15 guys and three two-ways,\u201d Brown said. \u201cSomeone goes down, it\u2019s the next man up. \u2026 That\u2019s how it\u2019s gotta be all year, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s extremely important for everybody to make sure they\u2019re mentally locked into what we\u2019re doing because your number can be called any time and our guys are extremely professional and they\u2019ll be ready when their number\u2019s called, even if they haven\u2019t played in a game or two.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Brunson and Malcolm Brogdon acknowledged sleep still being off and jet lag still existing since arriving back from Abu Dhabi, but Brunson said it was good the Knicks traveled to the Middle East for the pair of games.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the only thing different [from typical team bonding on a road trip] was obviously the length of travel,\u201d Brunson said. \u201cBeing able to do the dinner in the desert that we did, getting to try different things out there that\u2019s within their culture that obviously we don\u2019t really do out here was interesting. But I\u2019m glad we were able to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Brown plans to increase the minutes for his starters when the Knicks host the Timberwolves on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":285961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[24114,24282,1260,3122,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-285960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-jalen-brunson","9":"tag-mike-brown","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york-knicks","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115337398201379191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}