SALT LAKE CITY — After a troubling performance Sunday at home the Knicks flew immediately to Utah and Monday after a practice session, Julius Randle called for a players-only dinner, providing an opportunity for players to talk through their problems and try to hold things together.
So they gathered without coaches or front office personnel, spending time together and trying to salvage a season in danger of heading off the rails. They also readied for an arduous five-game road trip. Good in theory, but Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, who has absorbed much of the blame for the team’s struggles, shrugged at the notion of changing their fortunes at the dinner table.
“To me I go more by the actions,” Thibodeau said before the Knicks took on the Jazz. “I want to see it in practice. That’s where you get it done.”
