Knicks’ PJ Tucker relishes extremely rare playing time

Detroit – Pj Tucker I didn’t know what to expect.

He received a text message on Thursday morning that was part of the rotation of the game against the Pistons, and then, to his surprise, Tucker was the first player from the Knicks Bank in a defeat by 115-106.

In the end, Tucker had registered 27 minutes by far, a high season, while mixing it physical and scored the first regular season points in exactly one year in a triple of the corner of the registered trademark.

“Once I overcome my first wind, it was really good,” Tucker said. “I start to open a little. I begin to feel good, I began to get involved with the game and it’s like a bike.”

Tucker even closed the game closed in the last quarter in an alignment with headlines.

Even so, there is no guarantee to see the court again.

Josh Hart and Og Anunoby, who rested on Thursday, should return for Friday’s game against the Cavaliers.

Tucker enjoyed the opportunity and felt at home being physical.

“The plays like that, the box, the 50-50 balls, that thing is that feeling,” Tucker said. “Getting offensive rebounds, it’s like,” yes, I’m back. “He felt good.”

The evidence shows that Tom Thibodeau does not wear out his players.

With the reputation of Thibodeau to destroy bodies with a lot of minutes like Impetu, The Guardian Tok A Dive Dive the data from 2010 (the first -year coach of Thibodeau) and discovered “there is no clear or consistent pattern of Tibodeau training that nobody.”

The graphic supplied with the story showed three of the five seasons of Thibodeau in Chicago correlated with a large number of injuries, but its subsequent years with the Timberwolves and Knicks were approximately average or healthier than the majority of the NBA.

Thibodeau, who rested to two headlines in Thursday’s defeat against the Pistons, moved away from the findings because he will not stop the opposite opinion.

“I don’t worry because there are always opinions,” said Thibodeau. “Every time there is science for this, there is science against. And then opinions. And there is the trained eye. And there are many things that they understand. I always say, you prepare for what you want to do and you have mentality, mentality and mentality and mentality that I have learned from them, I have learned from different people that I have been around.”