Knicks’ Tyler Kolek thinks skillset is ‘little closer’ to Jalen Brunson’s than ‘lazy’ comparison
NY Post
LAS VEGAS — Tyler Kolek isn’t the biggest fan of the T.J. McConnell comparison.
“It’s all right,” said the second-round pick acquired on draft day by the Knicks last month. “I think it’s a little lazy.”
Left unsaid was that McConnell, like Kolek, is a white player, and white players tend to get lumped together when projections are thrown around (Next up is Cooper Flagg to Larry Bird).
It’s not that Kolek is upset by a comparison to a nine-year NBA veteran — “I admire [McConnell],” he said Sunday — but the point guard feels his methodical offense is more akin to another second-round pick, Jalen Brunson.
“His game, I feel like that’s a little closer to what I like to do than T.J. McConnell: play at my own pace, getting in the paint, getting guys involved,” Kolek said. “I can really learn from him in the midrange, in that short area when I’m coming off ball screens or isolations. I’m just really excited to learn from him and watch him and take as much as I can.”
Kolek was the most impressive of the Knicks’ three rookies in their summer league opener Saturday, a close defeat to the Hornets that became a struggle for first-round pick Pacome Dadiet, in particular.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.