Mike Brown Calls Out Karl-anthony Towns For Lack Of Hustle After Latest Knicks Loss

Mike Brown's return to Sacramento did not do thing to spark his New York Knicks, who were thoroughly controlled correct from nan opening extremity to nan last whistle. As nan last seconds ticked away, Brown took a speedy time off from nan tribunal without exchanging galore pleasantries pinch his erstwhile team. He past shared immoderate very honorable assessments of nan Knicks' effort pinch nan media.

"This is 1 of nan worst, if not nan worst, I've seen america play nan full twelvemonth successful position of executing pursuing a gameplan," Brown said. He besides added that nan Knicks were going done nan motions, which is simply a surefire measurement to suffer successful nan NBA.

Brown besides addressed a unusual play minutes earlier halftime erstwhile Karl-Anthony Towns took rather a spot of clip peeling himself disconnected nan level to get backmost connected defense. The shorthanded Knicks yet allowed a three-pointer to Russell Westbrook that extended nan Kings' lead to 17 points.

“He drove. Something happened wherever he fell down. He drove, he fell down,” Brown said. “When you autumn down, you sewage to get up and sewage to sprint down nan floor. And moreover erstwhile you’re nan past feline down nan floor, you sewage to get down location conscionable successful lawsuit there’s a agelong rebound. But location was nary urgency. That wasn’t nan only play. There were a fistful of plays that we did that. But location was nary consciousness of urgency connected that peculiar play to get back. And it was a five-point swing.

“If he astatine slightest gets down nan floor, agelong rebound, he’s going to get it because he’s trailing nan play. We watched nan play astatine halftime and he didn’t moreover transverse halfcourt. That sums up what our nighttime was.”

New York has now dropped six of its past 8 games and trails Detroit by 4 games for nan apical spot successful nan Eastern Conference. The lackluster agelong has allowed nan remainder of nan decent teams successful nan East to dress up crushed and bunch up overmuch person arsenic nan play officially reaches nan midway point.

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