NEW YORK — Tom Thibodeau has been thinking deeply about basketball for the better part of his 66 years. But it didn’t take a coaching lifer and genius defensive coordinator to come up with an explanation for why his Knicks quickly found themselves in a hole on Saturday night.
“[Joel] Embiid got going on us pretty good,” he said.
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He got going, and he kept going, to the tune of 29 points, eight rebounds, six assists, a pair of steals and at least a dozen shots altered or snuffed out altogether.