Thibodeau UNDER FIRE After Rushing Anunoby Back From Injury… | NY Knicks News

Thibodeau UNDER FIRE After Rushing Anunoby Back From Injury… | NY Knicks News

Could Tom Tibido be under Fire after rushing OG anobi right back into the fire after he came off of his elbow surgery that’s what we’re here to talk about today so what’s up guys welcome back to Nick’s digest it’s Chris here and we’re going to waste no time jumping

Right into it as we always do because there’s a chance that we could see some fans and some reporters and analysts alike maybe putting Tom Tibido under some fire after tibs kind of rushed to ogan anobi back into his normal minutes and right back into the fire after

Coming off of an elbow surgery and basically this is kind of a big deal because we’re going to see potentially Tom Tibido under some scrutiny for the thing that he’s gotten the most scrutiny for in his career could that be back to bite him again let’s break this down so

Look as Tibido said when he was asked if OG came back too early he said you can’t work backwards there’s many steps he had to go through he met all the markers he was cleared this is a possibility whenever you come back from surgery this is what you’re looking at we feel good

About where he is so look clearly tibs kind of gave the same tibs answer he always gives where he’s not going to drop some major news to the media or anything like that the craziest part is that he actually did inform the media that OG went back to New York got an MRI

It came back clean and by the way that’s the only reason why he mentioned that OG got an MRI it’s because it came back clean so it could just be kind of damage control in a way and then that he might probably won’t play in Denver now here’s

The thing OG’s not going to play in Denver that’s not going to happen so we are looking at ogan anobi coming back at the very closest to the very end of the week but here’s the deal he came back and basically instantly went back to his

Old minutes he was hardly on a minute restriction and that is worrisome and we know that tibs is riding these guys hard with the injury to Julius Randall with the injury to Mitchell Robinson we see that he’s not really going deeper into the bench despite that being an option

And also we do have to talk a little bit about the fact that the Knicks have another open roster spot and Leon Rose has to use this because I understand tibs is not playing Shake Milton even though he should and we’ll get back into that in one second

But can we just use these roster spots when we have injuries like Leon let let’s go here let’s go we kind of we need players we can’t just be riding the same guys in eight-man rotations in March at the end of March playoffs are in a month we need these guys healthy

And we kind of need to aware that if we keep over playing then there’s a chance of burnout and we can’t have that in the NBA playoffs cuz we don’t want to lose in the first round because we’re way too good for that so look here’s the deal

They signed Shake Milton and nothing happened he’s hardly replayed he’s gotten one or two games of garbage time minutes where he’s played like three total minutes with the Knicks I don’t understand why look I get he didn’t have his best season this has actually been his worst statistical season in his NBA

Career I don’t care we know shake Milton can be a good role player for basketball team we’ve seen him start on playoff 76ers teams so I really don’t think that shake should be just relegated to zero minutes it doesn’t make sense especially when we’re looking at stuff like this

With Josh Hart who’s playing 48 minutes 39 minutes 42 minutes 39 minutes 43 minutes 42 minutes 43 45 47 and 40 Josh Hart is playing Non-Stop and at some point he is going to burn out it’s just physically impossible to keep this up I mean look it’s not like this is a week

Apart it’s not like it’s the NFL where you get a week’s rest if you look it’s two days apart almost exclusively outside of one or two threed day breaks in that span Josh Hart is playing a lot of basketball he’s playing more basketball than anyone else’s in this

Stretch of time and it is something to be worried about because we’re looking at OG and now he’s hurt after coming back and playing fairly heavy minutes now Mark Burman had a theory on this and we know how everyone kind of feels about Mark Burman the man loves his hot takes

And the words of Mitchell Robinson Burman relax but what his theory is is that the Nicks brass so Leon Rose and Co are protecting OG on anobi from tibs over playing him and then obviously so OG could be great for the playoffs OG was on a minute restriction in the last

Sting against the Portland Trailblazers Tom Tibido still played him 33 minutes I mean we’ve seen this with Jaylen Brunson too Brunson clearly is not been fine with minutes wise in total I believe he played 35 36 minutes last night and that was considered kind of light for Brunson

The with the amount that Brunson hits the floor I don’t want him playing more than 36 minutes in a regular season game so look there’s truth to this there’s a potential chance that this is actually true that when they’re looking at it they’re like yeah we need OG healthy for

The playoffs because he is going to guard the best player on every single team that the Knicks face in the playoffs what that’s one team whether it’s two whether it’s three whether it’s four and they go to the NBA finals obviously the latter is not the most

Likely scenario but they very much can be an Eastern Conference Finals I mean on first take today they were talking about how if the Knicks get healthy yeah they’re a massive threat Stephen A believes that they would go to the Eastern Conference Finals JJ reck said that it would be close between the

Knicks and the Bucks though he gave the Bucks The Edge Shannon sharp said the same thing as reck clearly the Knicks are being respected as a top three team in the Eastern conference right now and because of that they need their guys healthy and I understand that Josh Hart

If all goes well and everyone is okay by the playoffs Josh har is going to go to the bench but he’s probably going to be this team sixth man at the time I think we all figured it might be Buy on bonovich but he has not played well

Enough Josh Hart would be the New York Knick six-man for a starting lineup of Brunson D venzo Ana Noby Julius Randall and Isaiah hartenstein with the major bench pieces being Josh Hart Mitchell Robinson and then obviously Duce McBride also known as Duce mcgoat because he’s the greatest player in NBA history and

Better than everyone ever except for Jaylen Bronson which is why he’s not the starting point guard in the Knicks but in all seriousness when we’re looking at a guy like Duce McBride when we’re looking at a guy like Josh har when we’re looking at a guy like Mitchell

Robinson the only thing that we’re seeing there is we could use a bit more shooting but that probably means we’re only going to get bu on bonovich for like at most 10 minutes a game and outside of that just going to ride the starters I understand the way the modern

NBA works that’s kind of what happens you just ride your starters in the playoffs they play the majority of minutes and that you can’t put on tips like oh why is he doing this everyone’s doing it so it’s fine enough it’s fine it it works out it’s okay but really it

Is worrisome to wonder about how OG’s going to come back though the stats might not jump out these 14 and a half points five rebounds and two steals in the 17 games played have been massive for the Knicks I mean first of all it’s good shooting you’re getting 36% from

Three you’re going to 50% from the field and on top of that you’re getting a 15-2 record when OG plays because the man is just efficient to the gets so he’s a perfect player for this team again to reference first take today what JJ reck said is the second that they made that

Trade for OG anobi they became an elite team in the Eastern Conference so it’s kind of just this situation where they do need OG healthy so if the brass is kind of taking it easy I think that’s fine but I do wonder if tibs is going to

Get some scrutiny for it and as we see here OG looked to aggravate something in the first half against the Portland Trailblazers as he didn’t look like himself in the second half he was wincing through pain and even worse on Saturday night against the Kings did not look great obviously and then also

Against the Trailblazers something to be noted is a few times when he felt in pain he looked towards the bench and they didn’t sub him out you got to know that if players looking towards the bench after getting in pain it means they want to come out of the game and

That they’re hurt and they want to make sure they’re okay you can’t just keep them in that was a mistake on tips’s part outside of that tibs has probably had his best year coaching in the NBA if you ask me I know he’s won two Coach of

The Year Awards but I think this is the best I’ve ever seen Tom Tibido coach from my perspective definitely with the New York Knicks so I am curious to see what happens next and as we know he’s going to be out more than just tonight as W mentioned because the right elbow

Flared up they needed to calm down how long he’s out is unclear but it’s certainly a concern I mean the way that they keep talking about saying it flared up I am convinced it’s just something with the stitching like you’re getting some stitches this is my left elbow so

It’s not exactly the same but if you get stitches on your elbow and then you know you shoot you defend you’re moving like this a lot you’re passing it’s going to be a lot of stuation on your elbow I don’t even know if Str stuation a word but it should be

So guys let me know down below what you guys think like this video subscribe to Nick digress turn on post notifications I’ll catch youall on the next one have a great day and go Nicks

After OG Anunoby is once again out due to his right elbow he recently got surgery on, Chris Gallagher speculates if we could see Tom Thibodeau under some real fire due to potentially rushing Anunoby back.

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