"First of all, he's a great runner. Not a good runner, a great runner. And he's got, like all of us, to play at this pace all the time. We just don't want to do it most of the time. We want to do it all the time. Having said that, you know Mitch is a vertical threat. I'm guessing off the top of my head that he might be the best vertical threat I've been around."
"Antonio McDyess was a tremendous vertical threat. You could just close your eyes and throw it up and he'd go get it. That's something you can do with Mitch. Some of the passes - I'm like, dang, that's a bad pass - and he just like catches it even with one hand sometimes and throws it down. So with his ability to be a vertical threat, it's going to help us in a lot of ways, but it is definitely better than what I thought coming in."
Mike Brown is leaning toward Mitchell Robinson as a starter for the opening of the regular season, likely replacing Josh Hart. Josh Hart has missed practices with back spasms and an undisclosed illness and remains day-to-day. Robinson has started the preseason games and previously started the Knicks' final four playoff games against Indiana. Brown praised Robinson’s conditioning, elite running ability, and extraordinary vertical threat that turns even poor passes into dunks. Robinson worked on conditioning and free-throw shooting in the offseason to fit Brown’s fast-paced style and to expand his role.
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