Monty Williams, the Detroit Pistons coach, was dissatisfied with New York Knicks forward Donte DiVincenzo’s franchise-record 11 3-pointers on Monday night.
DiVincenzo accomplished it against Williams’ Pistons in the Knicks’ 124-99 victory at Madison Square Garden.
“I don’t care about their team at all,” Williams said reporters after the accomplishment. “I couldn’t care less. I don’t want to be a part of that story.
So, Knicks wing Josh Hart heard the remarks and responded.
“If you don’t want to be part of the story he should’ve told his guys to defend better, what else is there to say?” Hart stated. “We have a person that is hot, and we are going to try to find him. This is common sense in basketball.
“He is a head coach in the league.” I believe he has the intelligence to recognize that if someone is attractive, you should approach them since they will be involved in the plot.
For the record, DiVincenzo scored a career-high 40 points.
“Impressive, and he’s been doing it all year,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. “I thought his teammates helped create good shots for him, he knocked them down and played hard the whole game.”
The Knicks (43-28) are currently in fourth place in the Eastern Conference, half a game behind the Cleveland Cavaliers for third.
Meanwhile, the Pistons (12-60) are back to having the NBA’s poorest record in Williams’ first season with the team.
Anyway, some have speculated that Williams was furious because Thibodeau left his starters in the game too long in a blowout.
“This touches on those unwritten rules of basketball, where if you’re already beating a team badly you don’t leave key players in the game to run up the score or get a record,” Jasmyn Wimbish, an analyst for CBS Sports, “In this situation, the Knicks already had the game in hand, thus there was no reason for DiVincenzo to stay in the game. But, to Hart’s point, the Pistons could have defended better to prevent him from breaking the record or forcing Tom Thibodeau to pull him out of a game they had already won.”
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