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Knicks Bulletin: ‘That evolution will continue to happen throughout the rest of the year’

There are never too many unbelievable quotes to share, are they?

Not when it comes to your 2026 New York Knicks.

Here’s a bunch more content to worry about while the Bockers gear up to face the Bucks on Friday.

Mike Brown

On adjusting the Knicks’ style of play and still evolving the system with 20 games left:

“We have a brand of basketball or style of play that we’re focused on, we’re trying to get better at. We’re playing different offensively, not a lot different, but we’re playing different offensively to a certain degree from the preseason up until this point we’ve made some changes. And we made some changes defensively. That evolution will continue to happen throughout the course of the rest of the year.”

On failing to help the offense from the sidelines in the loss against the Cavs:

“No matter what we did, we either turned the ball over or we had a tough shot. And so we made some play calls tonight, but we didn’t generate anything from the calls that we made.”

Josh Hart

On the difficulty of maintaining Brown’s demanded pace late in the season:

“It’s what? Game 55 [actually it was the 59th game]? Sometimes it’s tough. Guys are banged up. So sometimes playing with that pace is difficult at times.

“I think that’s when we really have to focus on the execution, calling plays, calling sets, and executing those, getting guys in position to be successful… Obviously, you want to play fast, play with pace. Sometimes it’s difficult, and we’ve got to adjust to it.”

Jalen Brunson

On the team not being a finished product yet:

“We’re still becoming a better team every single day. We’re not trying to be a final product by Game 60… I know how good we can be.”

Karl-Anthony Towns

On tuning out the noise before the playoffs:

“I’ve seen teams come together pretty late and win a chip. I think for us, we just gotta continue to have our head down, block out the noise and just continue to find ways to improve every single day. Because at the end of the day, when playoff time comes, and the ball goes up, there ain’t no more time.

“We gotta have it figured out. Not hearing all the noise and having it distract us, and we lose games trying to impress people or whatever the case may be, or trying to please the noise. We just gotta keep our heads down and focus on everyone in this locker room, this organization, and how we can help each other win.

“And be the best version of ourselves so that when it comes to playoff time, we have no regrets where we stand.”

On whether the plan was for him to shoot less after attempting five shots vs. Cleveland:

“Nah, we had a game plan that we wanted to try to execute. You’ve seen this all year: we wanted to move the ball, hunt mismatches, do what we do. We just didn’t execute today to get the job done.”

On taking only those five shots:

“We’re trying to run our offensive game plan that we had coming into today. We wanted to execute it at the highest level possible. We just didn’t do a good job of making the plays needed to win the game.

“That’s fine. It happens like that. Yeah, we’re just trying to do what we talked about at shootaround, what we game-planned offensively, what we wanted to get done.”

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