For two ¹/₂ minutes of essentially the most essential a part of this recreation, Jalen Brunson wasn’t on the courtroom.
And for many of that point, Brunson stood on the scorer’s desk — side-by-side with Josh Hart — ready to examine in as Tom Thibodeau clutched too lengthy to his remaining timeout.
It was the defining determination of Tuesday’s 106-103 Knicks defeat to the Pistons, confounding because it unfolded as silence hit the Backyard crowd. Thibodeau defined it afterwards as, merely, “coach’s decision.”
“A lot goes into it,” he added.
