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<\/p>\nThe New York Knicks are in fifth place in the Eastern Conference Standings. When asked if she sees improvement down the horizon for the Orange and Blue, Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon isn\u2019t too optimistic.<\/p>\n
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Hammon made a guest appearance on NBA Today and explained why she thought the Knicks don\u2019t have enough to hang with the big boys in the East.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re not getting to that tier. They don\u2019t have enough personnel, they don\u2019t have the manpower that they need to hang with those guys. I think they\u2019re gonna be a consistent team like they\u2019ve been. They\u2019re a pretty good team, they\u2019re well-coached, they\u2019re gonna be on their defensive game.<\/p>\n
But at the end of the day, they don\u2019t have a dude. You gotta have a dude, you gotta have a 1A dude and they\u2019re missing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Becky Hammon on the New York Knicks<\/strong> \u201cNo, he\u2019s too small. I got a philosophy, can I say my philosophy? If your best player is small, you\u2019re not winning. John Stockton, Allen Iverson, Steve Nash, you can go down the list. Steph Curry is the only dude, but the\u2019s the greatest shooter to ever walk this planet. He\u2019s in a different class.\u201d<\/p>\n Becky Hammon on Jalen Brunson<\/strong> But then again, the NBA has seen small players lead their teams to the promised land. Besides Stephen Curry, the first guy on the right did it twice. Isiah Thomas is only six-foot-one but was the best player on the Bad Boy Detroit Pistons teams that won the titles in 1989 and 1990. After Thomas, one can argue that Tony Parker was the San Antonio Spurs\u2018 best player in 2007.<\/p>\n Of course, as Hammon may agree, these guys are the exceptions to the rule. Basketball has always been a tall man\u2019s sport, and that\u2019s not going to change anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New York Knicks are in fifth place in the Eastern Conference Standings. When asked if she sees improvement down the horizon for the Orange and Blue,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhen Kendrick Perkins pointed out that Jalen Brunson is that dude, Hammon quickly shot the notion down.<\/p>\n
\nIs Becky Hammon Right?
\nHammon is going somewhere with that philosophy. She led the Aces to back-to-back championships in 2022 and 2023. The team\u2019s best player was Candace Parker, a do-it-all six-foot-four forward. A\u2019Ja Wilson, the 2023 Finals MVP, is also six-foot-four.<\/p>\n