Run, Knicks, run.
That’s how Tom Thibodeau plans to roll out his young and athletic New York Knicks beginning in the preseason against the Detroit Pistons on the road Friday.
“I would assume that’s the plan. Every day we do a lot of transition drills, guys getting up and down. Everybody work super hard to get into shape to play that way. That’s the plan so let’s see if we can execute tomorrow,” Dennis Smith Jr. said on zoom call Thursday after the Knicks wrapped up their short training camp.
Tough cookies, fit rookies
To be able to sustain an up-tempo game, they need to be in their best shape.