Mikal Bridges BENCHED! Knicks Make HUGE LINEUP CHANGE… | Knicks News
The New York Knicks finished off their road trip with a win against the Charlotte Hornets. However, it wasn’t without significant effort, even though the Hornets were missing several key players. They pushed the Knicks and turned this into a competitive game. But we also saw a major problem develop with Mikal Bridges. NY chose to essentially bench Mikal in the 4th quarter for another player with more impact, Miles McBride. NY continues to have defensive issues but no one thought that benching Mikal would make that better during certain stretches… Troy Mahabir breaks all of this down!
SHOW CHAPTERS:
00:00 – Intro
02:21 – Knicks Escape Charlotte With A Win
03:53 – NY Narrowly Beats Hornets In Last Road Game On The Trip
05:26 – Mikal Bridges Has Been AWFUL
06:49 – Deuce McBride Replaced Bridges In The 4th Quarter
10:11 – Jalen Brunson Main Reason NY Won This Game
12:28 – Towns Getting Too Many Easy Fouls
15:03 – Shot Chart Shows How Bad Knicks Defense Is
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40 Comments
Not even 20 games here y’all go again this is y for a long time nobody wanted to come to the Knicks we gotta stop bro let them figure it out
Last year we had players that want to play with the knicks..when you have a players like bridges lose in the game and barely makes any points is better to trade him before is to late and get players that wants to play to win. like donte he loves new york and he has chemistry with the players…I love bridges but the trueth is he has to be trade it dor donte a daniel in minnesota..
Chill out dude before you have a heart attack….Stupid Knicks coaches are playing Bridges out of position. Blame the coaching staff …. why are player wide open on the 3 point line ….
Against the wall
Bad deal
Bring donte back
Bridges will play better coming off the bench with the second unit.
Bridges trade is a major disaster
It’s all now in Bridges head. The pressure of playing in NY has gotten to him.
I’m sure his offensive game will eventually pick up when he takes care of his shot, but how do you forget how to play defense?
There may be more to it , but Mikhal is tired. Reduce his , OG and Harts minutes, to about 32, and he will become the player we traded for .
When Mitch finally returns…
Brunson, hart, OG, KAT and Mitch
Payne, deuce, Bridges, achuiwa, sims
Super deep 9/10 man rotation
When Mitch come back and the other 4 that we got on the bench. All that's gonna change everybody. Calm down. Man wait to Mitch, come back, cat could go to his regular position. Mitch got the middle, you wait. Everything's gonna get locked down, d*** we Russian is early in the season. Calm down, guy calm down. We're gonna be OK the next OK wrong as we when keep winning even if we got to pull out. Even if you gotta pull him out of the skin and lot of teeth games when Mitch come back, we're gonna be alright cause Mitchell's dub big Dick.You need to finish that rim and plus move Uber and help other people.When they're man , get passed them and get back to the ground
Men to hell with Bridges knicks need to trade his bitch ass
Didn't he score 20 a few games last week.
If Bridges keeps this up, and gives the slightest hint of hesitation with contract talks, we have to cut our loses and move him for someone who is a better fit, or at least gives SOME effort.
I unsubscribed to this channel and I still see the videos popping up on my feed. This channel basically repeats every other Knicks podcast on YouTube and doesn’t have anything original to add except countless trade proposals that never happens.
i feel like half the time he plays with no emotion and no energy! Is it just me or does HE seem lost?
Leon Rose has to go…5 number 1 picks for this?
I thought bridges should’ve came off the bench from jump. Not cause he’s not better than Ragu but because I thought that made our bench that much stronger. Of course that never came to be but maybe we can go get Ragu again
5 picks isn’t on him. 3 1st rounders would be an over pay. But make no mistral Bridges will be more than good as the season goes on.
Fleeced come on he could’ve been more than what we expected and it still would’ve been fleece
Thibs needs to gooo
Like I said MB need to come off the bench until he get his groove back
HC Thibs does the right thing to bench Mikal Bridges. Mikal is not paying attention and slacking off on the court. He deserves to be on the bench.
Bridges needs to come off the bench until he figures things out. Defensive energy isn’t there. His shot selection has been poor. He struggles to knock down open shots. I think he will eventually play to the level he’s supposed to, but right now he isn’t there. Something has to change.
Would the Knicks and TWolves reverse the trade? Kat for Randall and Divo? Who would do that? The TWolves probably wouldn't do that, because of Kat's deal. Otherwise, considering how both teams are doing, it might make sense.
The Knicks don't just have a Bridges problem, theyh also have a coaching problem. Thibs is a solid, but highly overrated head, coach. Maybe there's a reason his teams have never won anything. I'm not crazy about his rotations or his limited offensive sets. I love my Knicks but never thought this was a championship contender. They gave up all of their assets for a player in Bridges, who i thought wasn't going to elevate this team even at his best
The Knicks starters played in the backup for the hornets played except for one so stop it bro the Knicks did not stop anybody they played against the second team not the A-Team lamelo ball was on the floor the other three starters were on the floor just one starter and the rest were backups😂😂😂😂😂 Bridges got benched he didn't even start
Thibs is the problem, there’s no way we can able to reach the finals with his coaching style. Please check all the previous loss game. He run 8 man rotation with tiny minutes for 7th & 8th place guys, so basically he only run 6 man rotations and thats the reason why our starters are so tired. If you notice all the NBA team’s stats per game, majority of them are running 10 mans rotations…Another one, the last game against Mav’s, Thibs burned out all the starters till the last seconds of the game. He could’ve rest all of them in the last 3- 2 minutes of the game knowing there’s no way we can win the game with that amount of lead. Bottom line is, with Thibs style of couching now every single key players are prone to injury !
Ugly game, sweet victory.
Direct your Energy towards positivity for Bridges.
He still has to find his way as does the team
Yes hold him accountable, set to simmer not boil.
Your energy is vital and you know it👈🏿🫡💯
I’m so disgusted with this defense, I’m down to at least TRY something drastic! I need all defense, I don’t care about cute high scoring offense… Starting Five: JB, OG Achuwa, KAT and Mitch.. We can get our scoring on the backend with Deuce, Payne, Hart and Bridges coming off the bench
Never seen you this passionate! No worries, it will get resolved!!!
We always let unknown players get busy.
We don't need to resign Bridges. Because he's not the present he ain't the future.
Thib put Deuce in the fourth quarter because Bridges was pathetic. Looks like something is bothering him . He's not himself.
Do we have to resign him 🤔 i would rather trade him. Because we cannot win with this guy.
There ain't no guarantee he is going to be good from the Bench.
Dadiet the rooky may out perform him. Because he's more aggressive more proactive.
I seen Bridges stepped aside letting guys knocking down jumpers after jumpers. Don't like Bridges body language.
To be honest with you Bridges mays get boo at the Garden.