Wait a minute. What was going on here? Jeff Hornacek was talking in Westchester on Monday about the Knicks style, and the word “triangle” never was used? By anybody. Guess change really is in the air around the Knicks.
So Hornacek spoke more about “defense” than geometric figures. Defense. It’s enough to bring the old timers back to the Garden in throwback jerseys.
“We want to try to establish an identity. The identity has to become defense first,” Hornacek said.
“We have to also try to develop a mentality for them, that desire to get a stop.