Mike Brown singles out Karl-Anthony Towns’ laziness

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New York Knicks head coach Mike Brown returned to Sacramento for the first time since being fired during the season last year, and the only thing he probably wanted was to walk out of the arena with a win. Unfortunately, the Knicks didn’t come close, as they lost 112-101. It felt like yes The Knicks never gave themselves a chance to actually make the game competitive, and there were sequences that show it.

There was one sequence in the first half where Karl-Anthony Town went down and turned the ball over but didn’t get back on defense, leading to an open shot for the Kings. After the game, Brown talked about the play and basically implied that Towns had to be better.

“When you’re down, you’ve got to get up, you’ve got to sprint down the floor,” Brown said. “Even if you’re the last one on the floor, you’ve got to go down in case there’s a long rebound … there was no sense of urgency … it was a 5-point swing.”

“We were watching the game at halftime, he didn’t even cross half the field. That sums up our night.”

Besides, the Knicks didn’t seem to have it last night, and neither did Brown he doesn’t think they were ready.

“This is one of the worst if not the worst I’ve seen us play all year in terms of following the game plan … I have to give the Kings credit … We were out there, we went through the motions, you go through the motions in this league, you’re going to get hit,” Brown said.

There will be games throughout the season where you just don’t have it on those nights, but it can’t be a thing that becomes consistent. There was nothing better than Jalen Brunson had to leave the game early with an ankle injury, hopefully not serious, as they play the Golden State Warriors for the second game of a back-to-back.





2026-01-15 15:15:00

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