After Sunday’s blowout loss to the Orlando Magic, New York Knicks head coach David Fizdale teased changes to the starting lineup, but said this five will never be set in stone. That became the case ahead of Wednesday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Per Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic, Emmanuel Mudiay and Kevin Knox will replace Frank Ntilikina and Damyean Dotson in the starting lineup.
Why remove Ntilikina?
Ntilikina started all 14 games for the Knicks and seemed of interest to Fizdale from training camp. Being experimented with defensively and placed in a ball-handling role after the fifth game, the 20-year-old covered his opponents fine, but struggled everywhere else.