Stan Van Gundy lauds Mike Brown for checking his ‘ego’ after taking over Knicks from Tom Thibodeau
NY Post
LAS VEGAS — Fresh off meeting with Mike Brown as part of the NBA Cup coverage, Stan Van Gundy applauded the new Knicks coach for checking his ego in the locker room and not reinventing what Tom Thibodeau set in motion.
“I give Mike Brown a ton of credit because he knows that Tom is a helluva coach,” Van Gundy, the longtime coach and current analyst for Amazon Prime, said in an interview before Brown’s Knicks faced the Magic in Saturday’s NBA Cup semis. “He said that in our meeting today. So he didn’t try to change everything. He tried to tinker a little. And then he came back to a lot of the stuff (that Thibodeau did).
“But he’s taking advantage of the continuity they have with their roster rather than throwing everything out, trying to do it differently.”
Brown started his Knicks tenure pushing the importance of pace and depth, but recently the squad has adopted more similarities to last season. Brown went back to the same starting lineup, with Josh Hart’s inclusion sending Mitchell Robinson to the reserves.
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