Porzingis believes that he is 100 percent healthy, but the Knicks are bringing him along slowly because he has battled several different ailments in training camp so far. However, Knicks fans fail to realize that the top players don’t want to play for a bad team just because they play in the bright lights of New York City.
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If and when Porzingis does get back on the court Derek Fisher has said he has a chance to start at power forward to start the season.
Watching Wiliiams: The second overall pick in the 2011 draft has averaged just 9.3 points playing for Minnesota and Sacramento, but looked comfortable while providing a few surprising scoring punch during his first preseason with the Knicks. How steadily they recover is important for both Knicks and Sixers. Kaminsky backed up Ewing’s words last night with a superb 11 point, 8 rebound performance off the bench, outplaying Porzingis, in the 97-93 Charlotte win.
“I saw aggression. I saw him going to the rim strong. So I have to be smart with the minutes I give him”. I didn’t meet him.
Nevertheless, Porzingis said he wasn’t pleased with his shooting.
“I can’t wait for the season to start”, Porzingis said. Outside of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks, there really isn’t a championship contender in the East. The Chicago Bulls are constantly dealing with injuries to Derrick Rose, and they have a new coaching staff this season. This is about he third or fourth time Porzingis has suffered a little injury in a non-contact situation that his kept him out of either practices or games. There was a lot of trouble in Compton, but my mentality was straightforward: Just focus on yourself and what you can control, and you’ll go wherever you want to go.
“Hopefully, I’ll play on Saturday”. Chris is a great guy, very good friend.
Ewing is working as an assistant in Charlotte for head coach Steve Clifford and owner Michael Jordan. “We’re trying to make sure they understand that”.
Second-year players Cleanthony Early and Langston Galloway had 17 and 15 points, respectively.
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The obvious disclaimer is the Knicks are facing teams with disjointed lineups and the three games are not a true indication of future success but there are a few adjustments we did not see from last year’s team. Obviously not clearly out of danger. “People were saying “was” too many times over those days”.
