Thibs management of the team has become the opponent's game plan

[CyKnickal]

This whole minutes police nonsense....it's not just about how many, it's how many consecutive.

If Brunson plays ten minutes then ten minutes in the first half, and then plays 20 consecutive minutes in the second half, yeah, 40 doesn't sound that bad, but do you really think he's gonna have the legs to finish off the game?

Also, they track miles ran now, and 6 Knicks are like in the top ten or something.

It's not just about minutes, it's how they're utilized, and Thibs is horrible at it. I don't even care about injuries, what will be will be, but it affects how they play at the end of games.

The horrible thing about this is that Thibs management of the team has become the game plan for opposing teams.

After Orlando’s victory on Monday, two key Magic players told the Daily News they predicted the Knicks’ rotation would not stretch irregularly deep into the bench even with injuries mounting.

“We kind of already know Thibs is one of them coaches that plays his players until the buzzer ends,” 12-year veteran Kentavious Caldwell-Pope told The News. “We kind of know that from previous coaching, other teams, stuff like that.”

“Those dudes play super hard,” added Orlando’s defensive irritant Anthony Black. “Honestly, they play a lot of minutes. Yeah, other teams know that, of course.”

Perhaps this was the message Suggs passed along to his teammates. After all, he’s a shark, and sharks can smell blood in the water.

In this case, the “blood” was the fatigue creeping into a Knicks starting unit that’s been grinding through heavy mileage, showing wear with every passing game.

Asked if the Knicks are, indeed, fatigued, Thibodeau attributed their slump to “a compilation of a lot of things.”

His solution was cold plunges, rest and recovery.

You fool...they're tired in the game, at that moment, they can't go to the locker room for a refreshing plunge to come back in the game fresh. If there's any reason this guy is going to get fired, it's when more opponents mock him for what he's doing and word goes around and the media catches on. He already has a bad reputation, it's going to get worse.

Basically other teams are putting in fresh guys to press and fatigue the starters, which is most of the game, going ten deep, even 12 like I think Boston did. Then it's pedal to the metal in the fourth.

This is exactly what OKC did at the end, too. The writing is on the clipboard, this dude is getting exposed.

[dakomish23]

There’s already multiple thibs threads going