Minutes Police Rejoice! Mikal Bridges Asked Thibs To Play The Knicks Starters Less Minutes

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NY Post- Mikal Bridges asked Tom Thibodeau to back off a bit on the starters’ minutes because the bench deserves more.

“Sometimes it’s not fun on the body,” Bridges said. “You’ll want that as a coach but also talked to him a little bit knowing that we’ve got a good enough team where our bench guys can come in and we don’t need to play 48 (minutes), 47.

“We’ve got a lot of good guys on this team that can take away minutes. Which helps the defense, helps the offense, helps tired bodies being out there and giving up all these points. It helps just keeping fresh bodies out there.” Bridges said Thibodeau was receptive but “sometimes I think he just gets in his ways.”

“I think he’s not arguing about it. Sometimes I think he just gets in his ways and he gets locked in. He just wants to keep the guy out there,” Bridges said. “Sometimes you’ve got to tell him, like Landry (Shamet), for example or somebody, keep him out there, they’re playing well.”

Holy shit, someone on the Knicks actually confronted Thibs about running his starters into the ground! Not only that, but the guy who did it is a fellow basketball sicko who hasn't missed a game in the NBA or college. That's like the unstoppable force telling the unmovable object to just think about scooting a little bit because it's hard to never stop. Our ironman has iron balls.

I know a lot of Knicks fans are sick their team traded the Nets a shitload of draft picks to get Bridges. But this trade can actually come out as a W for the Knicks no matter how well Bridges plays or how good all those high schoolers and middle schoolers that were traded to Brooklyn end up being because maybe the Knicks won't be falling apart by the playoffs, bench players will be able to improve by actually playing in games, or at the very least things like this won't happen anymore.

There is also a decent chance that this is how Thibs reacted to Mikal's request:

Nonetheless, Bridges has gone from making himself the face of underachievement with the Knicks to the face of the Minutes Police with the Knicks, which should improve his standing with the fanbase immeasurably. So thanks Mikal for speaking up about the thing fans of Thibs teams have been complaining about since he was with the Bulls and good luck playing all 48 minutes in Portland tonight just because I'm not going to believe Thibs is willing change until I see it.

Update: LMAOOOOOOOO