If playing 38 minutes and 40 minutes in games that count is wildly reckless, but Tatum playing 40 minutes followed by 46 minutes in games that don’t mean anything is fine I don’t get it.

Armando Bacot has some 90’s Knick energu I guess….

Hubert the Knicks had 3 days off between those games, you’re doing the thing you’re claiming nobody would do.

No, it was a back to back. 41 mins on Jan 17, 39 mins on Jan 18. Left the next game with an achilles injury on Jan 20.

This was the same stretch of games where he played OG (one of the most fragile players in the NBA) in 135 out of 144 possible minutes over four days

21 mins
28 mins
26 mins
0 mins (rested for load mgmt)
34 mins
40 mins (overtime game)

To suggest that we’d be killing Thibs for this kind of load management is disingenuous.

I think Thibs plays some guys too many minutes, but iHart is not one of them. Thibs either understands he’s fragile or is under orders that he’ll follow to not play him heavy minutes.

Thibs played iHart 40 mins in back-to-back games in January and he injured his achilles in the very next game and we never had the kind of threads you’re talking about.