Willy Hernangomez was back in Madison Square Garden with his new team, but not much has changed. He’s played sparingly for the Hornets.
Charlotte coach Steve Clifford said Hernangomez has some work to do to make the regular rotation. He had played just 44 minutes in nine games with the Hornets before Saturday.
“If you were one place and you didn’t play much, I think that if you want to play more in the next place,” Clifford, a former Knicks assistant under Jeff Van Gundy and Don Chaney, told reporters at the morning shootaround. “I would work harder, do more, kill myself, that’s the way I would see it.