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Knicks' amateur Frank Ntilikina talks about his aboriginal approved division bold at Madison Square Garden. Steve Popper/NorthJersey.com
["845.84"]New York Knicks bouncer Frank Ntilikina.(Photo: Julie Jacobson/AP)
Frank Ntilikina was administration the brawl abreast the top of the key with a minute and a bisected larboard in the aboriginal division Friday night and he looked a little bit nervous. No one would accept abhorrent him for a bit of jitters, authoritative his Madison Square Garden approved division admission at 19 years old, the additional youngest amateur in the NBA and possibly the amateur saddled with the accomplished expectations and pressure.
But if he seemed afraid for a second, it was an act. He calmly floated a canyon beyond the cloister to Courtney Lee in the bend for an accessible three-point acreage goal. A few account after on a fast break, he dribbled to the abhorrent band and cautiously delivered a canyon after anytime acrimonious up his dribble. He acquired Timofey Mozgov to about comically circuit about as he slipped the animation canyon amid two Nets’ defenders to a acid Kyle O’Quinn for an accessible dunk.
In his aboriginal NBA actualization he accursed two jump shots that soared over the rim after affecting it - his drillmaster acquainted that he was on band with the shots, but aloof too bashed up. HIs aboriginal few shots Friday he accepted were, "Terrible."
But again he said, "I aloof told myself I’ve been alive on my attempt so there’s no acumen I accept to stop cutting it. I was aloof aggravating to shoot it with aplomb and my teammates aloof told me, 'Keep cutting the brawl with confidence.' Maybe I was a little tight. I was aloof blessed the brawl went in tonight. I’ll aloof get added reps to accomplish added shots."
["388"]The calm address Friday admitting alike bent the eyes of his adept teammates.
“I saw him booty a abysmal breath, calm down, aloof relax and accept fun,” Courtney Lee said. “Once he did that you saw the playmaking ability. He was able to get to the spots, accomplish jump shots. His cloister eyes is crazy. he was able to accomplish plays.”
By the time the bold was over - the Knicks’ aboriginal win of the division - Ntilikina had nine credibility and bristles assists and had won over the agnostic New York crowd.
“I didn’t apprehend things,” he said. “I was aloof aggravating to accompany what I can accompany to my team. That’s what I did now I’m aloof absorption on alive added and aggravating to accompany more.
“It was great. (The atmosphere) was great. We had a abundant bold and I anticipate the admirers admired it. arena in this atmosphere area everybody is together, players, coaches and admirers it’s aloof great.”
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A ablaze atom in an contrarily black alpha to the Knicks season, all Ntilikina has to do now is adapt for the man who is administration point bouncer duties appropriate now for the Cleveland Cavaliers - LeBron James - who the Knicks booty on Sunday night on the road.
This was a footfall advanced for Ntilikina, who had been afflicted by a alternation of acrimonious injuries - a abscessed knee that alone him for the absolute summer alliance schedule, a aching appropriate knee that kept him out of the final four preseason amateur and the sprained larboard abate that had him abeyant for two of the Knicks’ aboriginal three games. While debates are already underway about Jayson Tatum, Lonzo Ball, Ben Simmons and Dennis Smith Jr. about who is the aboriginal frontrunner for amateur of the year honors, Ntilikina aloof capital to get on the floor.
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“Of advance I was sad to be off the cloister these aftermost games,” Ntilikina said. “Come in actuality I aloof capital to accompany what I can accompany to my team. Like I said I’m activity to assignment added for the abutting game, for the abutting brace games, to drag our akin and that’s what we’re all activity to do aloof to improve.”
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Beyond the glossy passes he did what he was accepted to as a amateur - played solid defense. With a 7-foot wingspan the 6-foot-5 point bouncer addled Nets playmakers and helped absolute what had been the NBA’s highest-scoring breach to aloof 86 points.
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The claiming absolutely increases Sunday aback the Knicks face the Cavaliers. Derrick Rose is ambiguous for the bold and after him - and Isaiah Thomas, who is not accepted aback until at atomic January - the Cavaliers accept been putting the brawl in James’ hands. But the Knicks accede that annihilation new.
“He’s been accomplishing that his accomplished career,” Lee said. “He’s played at atomic three or four positions night in and night out. It’s activity to be a altered attending for us. … We aloof accept to accomplish it a claiming for him, accomplish it boxy for him collectively as a group.
“They’re arena small, they’re agreement the floor. They’re putting Kevin (Love) at the 5. It’s absolutely a altered look. But that’s appealing abundant how the NBA is activity now, arena baby brawl and arena fast. Aloof LeBron, we got to key on him and apathetic him bottomward as abundant as accessible and everybody try to aloof advice anniversary added out on the arresting end.”
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