Gallin Bronson's return brought an important sub -question about Og Anunoby, specifically if KNICKs can still get offensive production from their wing if he waives the ball to the point goalkeeper.
I felt naturally concerned because Bronson is very dominant, and he traveled the rate of use of Anunoby to the top last month. But Tom Theopodo pushed the idea that it is worth discussing.
“These things, they are a white noise,” said Thibodo on Saturday after Nix hit the hawks. “The game tells you what to do. Who is a shot in a transitional stage? The open man. If there are two defenders of someone, there is their shot?
“The team must come first. What is the best for our team? What gives the team the best chance to win? This is all that anyone should think. He shouldn't think of who does that, and whoever does that. This is not the way this game works. If you are interested in winning these things.”
The reporter continued that Anunoby spent longer in the corner in a group with Bronson, who started on Sunday against Sanz after the absence of 15 games.
That led to the exit from the coach.
“This idea is a group of garbage … it is all over the earth. This is how it is recorded. This is the way everyone is scored.” “So, if you have a motor pass, it is assumed that it is in the corner? It is the motor of the car and kicking, and if you are cutting while you are moving without the ball, which is supposed to do, true, if the ball pushes up to your first responsibility in creating a pace.
“Your second responsibility is to create a movement. It is assumed that everyone will read the man in front of him. If you read the man in front of you and cut it, you are replaced in the foreground. So this is the way this game works. This is a group of making excuse and this is the way I see it.”
Usually, Thebodo spoke in general without naming the players. But the reasonable interpretation of the emotional response is that TIBS is expected that Anunoby still gets points of transition with the sacrifice of Halfcourt's chances but still participates with the movement outside the ball. With the coach repeated hundreds of times since he took over on the sidelines of Nix in 2020, the game tells you what to do. ”
Most often, Bronson is in a position that allows him to give answers.
According to NBA.com, the point goalkeeper entered on Sunday in the first place on KNICKS in 29 %. Anunoby, when playing with Brunson, ranked fourth among beginners by 18.1 %.
Bronson was also the first place in the touches for each game in 85.2 – more than one dual Anunoby when they play together. Easy to understand the equation: Give the best player, bronson, ball.
But in 15 games before Sunday – all the games that Bronson missed – the use of Anunoby increased nearly 6 % to 23.9 %. His touches went from 42.4 per game with Bronson to 53.9 without it.
Perhaps easier to understand: the average number of Anunoby reached 16.5 points in 13 rounds in games with Bruunson. When Brunson did not play, Anounobi's average reached 23.2 points at 16.8 rounds.
Mikal Bridges underwent a similar transformation, albeit less dramatic, after Bronson was injured.
But now the point goalkeeper has come back, and as it is clear from the past two years, KNICKS is the best answer to the assembly of the qualifiers.
If there is an adjustment to accommodate the last scoring explosion of Anunoby, then Thibodeau did not want to discuss it.
