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Knicks head coach Mike Brown discussed significant in-season changes made to both the offense and defense during his first year. He noted the resilience of his roster, highlighting their ability to adapt and succeed in late-game situations.
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Knicks head coach Mike Brown elaborated on Thursday on his Wednesday comments regarding the number of changes his coaching staff made in-season his first year on the job.
âYou always evolve over the course of the season,â Brown said after practice in Tarrytown on Thursday. âBut to change as much as we did on both sides of the ball. We made some pretty sizable changes to our offense and defense throughout the course of the year.â
After practice on Wednesday, a reporter asked Brown what heâs learned about his roster with a regular season as head coach at Madison Square Garden under his belt.
âThat theyâre resilient. Thatâs probably the biggest thing. You donât really get that feel until youâre around them. I say that for a lot of different reasons â some of the wins that weâve had coming back, especially late in games,â he said. âWe started off the year playing one way on offense and one way on defense, and we made some pretty big changes throughout the course of the year. I donât know if Iâve ever gone through a season with a team, as a head coach or as an assistant coach, making the changes that weâve made with a group of guys.â
On Thursday, another reporter revisited the question, and Brown invoked Kenneth Chenault, the third-ever Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company as American Express CEO from 2001 to 2018.
âHis definition of leadership was real easy: Itâs to give your group hope while defining reality, and thatâs what a leader does,â Brown said. âAnd part of giving your group hope is to give them ownership of the process. Because when people have ownership of the process, theyâre probably more engaged or they want to buy in more.
âSo Iâm not gonna come in and say, âHey, weâre gonna play our offense this way. Weâre gonna play our defense this way. And you guys are veterans, you adjust and figure it out.â No, if I think that it could be a little better with hearing what they have to say â now I canât listen to all 18 guys, but the top guys: if your top guys have input, and theyâre saying, âHey, what about this? Or Iâm not sure about that?â Then Iâve gotta listen, and I gotta think about making adjustments. Thatâs what thatâs all about.â
âThis is a partnership. At the end of the day, though, when you have as many people involved with this, I have to make the decision thatâs best for everybody, so at the end of the day, Iâm gonna make the decision, and I chose to change some things up because I felt it would fit the group better on both sides of the basketball.
Brown reiterated the Knicks will look to use their advantage at center against the Hawks, though he fell short of calling it a shortcoming for the Eastâs No 6 seed.
âThose guys [the Hawks], theyâre all long, theyâre all athletic. So is that a âquote unquoteâ edge for them, their versatility? I donât know,â he said after practice in Tarrytown on Thursday. âI do know I like our bigs. I like KATâs size. I like his ability to play outside and inside. I like what he brings to the table when youâre comparing him to Mitch.
Mike Brown implemented sizable changes to both the offense and defense throughout the season to adapt to the team's needs.
Mike Brown described the Knicks' roster as resilient, emphasizing their ability to come back in games and adapt to changes.
He learned that the team is resilient and capable of evolving, especially in response to late-game challenges.
Kenneth Chenault is the former CEO of American Express and was mentioned by Mike Brown as an example of leadership and adaptability.

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Robinson also talked around the perceived advantage the Knicks will have at center in their first-round playoff series.
â[The Hawks] are a great team. They got some good bigs over there, stuff like that,â he said on Thursday. âCome out of this and play hard.â
Robinson finished with eight points, 12 rebounds, three blocks and two steals in the Knicksâ victory over the Hawks on April 6. He is averaging seven points, 11.8 rebounds, 2.2 steals and 1.8 blocks over his last five games against Atlanta.
âMitchellâs size, his athleticism, his ability to be a vertical threat, it gives our opponents different looks offensively, just by substitution,â Brown said, snapping his fingers. âAnd so, from that standpoint, itâs pretty neat. And then, you know, like I said, defensively [Robinson and Towns] both bring different things to the table.â
Eight of the core nine players are back for another playoff run, this time under Mike Brown, not Tom Thibodeau. Robinson joins Towns, Hart, Jalen Brunson, OG Anunoby, Mikal Bridges, Miles McBride and Landry Shamet as holdovers from the Knicks roster that made it to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in the last 25 years.
The Knicksâ defensive anchor said the approach remains the same.
âWe put in the work,â he said. âOut here grinding, getting gritty and ready to go.â
Hart echoed a similar sentiment.
âPreparation is the same. Theyâre going to know us inside and out. You have to do the same thing,â he said. âWeâve got to know their tendencies, what they like to do as a team, as individuals, matchups, those kinds of things. So preparation is always the same.â