PHILADELPHIA — Mikal Bridges might construct a home in his native metropolis with the various bricks he put up there.
The Philadelphia product and Villanova alumnus shot a brutal 3-for-16 from the sector and 1-for-9 from 3-point vary within the Knicks’ 112-109 win over the 76ers on Saturday afternoon.
He additionally sat the final 5:24.
As an alternative, coach Mike Brown determined to roll with Landry Shamet and Miles McBride down the stretch over the struggling Bridges and Karl-Anthony Cities, who had fouled out earlier within the quarter. It was a small lineup — with Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and OG Anunoby totally on the ground with Shamet and McBride.
That meant Anunoby needed to guard Joel Embiid.
“We will’t do something like that should you don’t have a man like OG,” Brown mentioned. “OG permits us to play the basketball recreation in loads of alternative ways. So, we had been capable of do it.”
Shamet and McBride — and Mitchell Robinson — stuffed in admirably for Bridges and Cities. The Knicks had a 17-point benefit in factors off the bench.
“Some nights, that [bench scoring] goes to have an enormous onus on it,” Shamet mentioned. “Some nights it’s not. Some nights it’s simply going to alter. I’ve been saying that your entire time I’ve been right here as a result of we’ve that group, it’s a carousel. Some nights, it’s going to be a heavy bench night time the place we are available in and choose it up. Different nights, our first 5 have it going and the ball doesn’t discover us as a lot. That’s the great thing about our workforce. We’re constructed that means. We’ve obtained to be adaptable and discover methods to win video games as difficulties and challenges throughout the recreation are introduced to us.”
Cities managed to foul out in simply 16 minutes on the ground and was minus-6. The Knicks had been truly higher when he was on the bench.
“We gotta simply produce other guys step up,” Brown mentioned. “We will’t management the fouls referred to as, so if any person is in foul bother, hopefully the following man can step up and play the fitting means to assist us get a win.”
