{"id":59263,"date":"2025-07-12T09:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T09:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/59263\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T09:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T09:47:10","slug":"knicks-fail-first-test-to-implement-mike-browns-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/59263\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks fail first test to implement Mike Brown’s vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS \u2014 Mike Brown didn\u2019t reveal much in his introductory news conference<\/a>, but he notably mentioned his desire for a speedy offense.<\/p>\n

And he also relayed that to the coaching staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve communicated foundationally on what we want to do on both sides of the ball. A huge part of it \u2014 and he talked about it with you guys in his presser \u2014 is just playing fast,\u201d Jordan Brink, the Knicks summer league coach, said.<\/p>\n

As Brink noted, Friday night\u2019s 104-86 loss to the Pistons quickly became a bad example of Brown\u2019s vision. <\/p>\n

They started poorly \u2014 failing to take care of the ball \u2014 and never recovered.<\/p>\n

With Brown and the front office sitting courtside in Vegas, Tyler Kolek, the second-year point guard, struggled with 10 points and five turnovers. <\/p>\n

The shaky performance, permeating through New York\u2019s roster, can be easily tossed away as just a meaninglessly sloppy opener.<\/p>\n

But it also wasn\u2019t pretty.<\/p>\n

Tyler Kolek drives to the basket during the Knicks 104-86 loss to the Pistons in their Summer League opener. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it took us a while to get adjusted to the game,\u201d Brink, an assistant under Tom Thibodeau last season, said. \u201cAnd we played fast and played with pace all week in practice. And then the first five minutes today, we didn\u2019t really have that. So that was the biggest thing from an offensive standpoint of how we wanted to play. I don\u2019t think we did a good job of executing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Success in summer league carries no big-picture significance, especially since zero players on New York\u2019s roster project as major contributors to the rotation. <\/p>\n

Still, at least three players \u2014 Kolek, Ariel Hukporti and Pac\u00f4me Dadiet \u2014 are guaranteed roster spots. <\/p>\n

Pac\u00f4me Dadiet drives to the basket during the Knicks\u2019 Summer League loss to the Pistons. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Another roster spot and three two-way contracts are also up for grabs.<\/p>\n

And they all struggled Friday. The Knicks shot a combined 40 percent from the field and 22 percent (6-for-27) on treys.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s tough to play fast while committing 16 turnovers in 40-minutes.<\/p>\n

Karl-Anthony Towns shares a laugh with Mike Brown during the Knicks\u2019 Summer League loss to the Pistons. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201c(Playing fast) doesn\u2019t just mean up and down. It doesn\u2019t just mean we got to get out in transition,\u201d Brink said. \u201cThe fast part is all of our stuff in our actions. So we get the ball up the floor quick, and if we don\u2019t have anything, we\u2019re on to the next action quickly. So fast is really just decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n

The good news is there are four more games in Vegas to produce a better version of Brown\u2019s ideal offense.<\/p>\n

Kolek is looking forward to another chance to display Brown\u2019s philosophies.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe hasn\u2019t addressed the whole team. He just got here last week,\u201d Kolek said. \u201cBut from what the coaches have been emphasizing in summer league, and I\u2019m sure what he\u2019s relayed to them, it\u2019s just play faster, get the ball out, we want to sprint up the floor, move the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2014 Mike Brown didn\u2019t reveal much in his introductory news conference, but he notably mentioned his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3129,1260,35848,3122,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-59263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-detroit-pistons","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-summer-league","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\/114839633619864791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59263","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=59263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}