New York Knicks president Phil Jackson is both remaining patient with the team's struggles to learn the triangle offense while ensuring that his charges understand that the clock is ticking to show what they're made of.
“There’s still quite a ways from their execution capabilities as a team,’’ Jackson said, via Marc Berman of the New York Post. “This is going to happen, all part of the process. We think in terms of basketball-wise, Thanksgiving, December, it’s time to really say, ‘If you haven’t gotten it by now, maybe we’ll have to think of you as a learner or not a learner as a ballplayer at that time.’ ’’
On Monday, head coach Derek Fisher said that some members of the team were playing too "passive" while not staying true to their "basketball instincts."
Jackson seems to be indicating that the time is now for the New York Knicks to shed some of that passivity, pushing their games to the next level while keeping the team around in the Eastern Conference standings.
Whether this added push will aid the team's growth process forward when it comes to the triangle offense remains to be seen.
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