“Every year, it’s the same thing. We do the same thing as always. We have a couple bad games, a couple losses in a row and all y'all cry about minutes, be the minute police and all that,” he said. “That’s all outside noise. We’re gonna play the game the way we’re supposed to play it. We’re gonna play as hard as we can when we’re out there.
“I want to be out there (playing big minutes), myself personally,” Hart added. “So it’s just noise.”
Towns was also asked about the minutes issue on Wednesday.
“It’s great when you can get the reps up…I’ve already played for Thibs. So we all are very aware of the way he likes to play basketball, we respect him and we know he’s going to give us the best chance to win every single night,” Towns said after putting up 27 points and 13 rebounds against Toronto. “So I don’t think it’s new to us. For us we’re new as a cohesive unit, but playing for the mastermind of Thibs, we’re in a good comfortable place.”
Towns was also asked about criticism of Thibodeau over minutes load when he was in Minnesota.
“I feel like y’all give him flack all the time. No matter where he’s at. The one thing about it, y’all keep talking about him so that means he keeps getting a job so that means he’s respected and you know what he can do for a team,” Towns said. “He’s done it in Chicago, he did it with Boston, he did it with us in Minny and he’s doing it here even before I got here. So say what you want about Thibs, he gets the job done.”
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