Where are the minutes police now?
Tom Thibodeau’s tendency to give his starters heavy workloads was frequently one of the biggest outside complaints during his Knicks tenure.
He ran his players into the ground, his critics yelled, which much of the league has moved away from.
Subsequently, a big part of Mike Brown’s reputation before the Knicks hired him was that he prefers smaller workloads for his stars, instead giving more minutes to his bench and keeping the bigger picture at the forefront of his decision-making.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
