David Fizdale likes to say that none of his players ever should feel as if they are in the “dungeon” or the “doghouse,” and he did that again Sunday in reference to Frank Ntilikina’s benching for the entirety of the Knicks’ overtime win over Milwaukee one night earlier.
Fizdale cited another second-year guard, Damyean Dotson, as one example Ntilikina should look to concerning the need to stay ready for whenever he’s called upon to return to the rotation.
“I would just say every day that we were coming back in here, [Dotson] never changed the way he went about his business.