SAN FRANCISCO — Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek and associate coach Kurt Rambis hopped from player to player Monday after practice, sitting with many of them, looking at video on a laptop one day after the Lakers feasted on the Knicks defense.
The attention to detail was at its highest during a two-plus-hour practice at the Olympic Club. If the depleted, rebuilding Lakers could score 127 points on the Knicks, imagine what the defending NBA champion Warriors might do Tuesday at Oracle Arena if things don’t change.
Hornacek said despite it being past the season’s midpoint, Sunday’s defensive fiasco stemmed from players forgetting their defensive rotations.