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Karl-Anthony Towns played it coy when pressed about the injury to his shooting thumb, repeating four times in the postgame locker room, \u201cIt is what it is,\u201d with his hand tucked in his pocket.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s as simple as that,\u201d the center said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Still, Towns was clearly bothered for much of Monday\u2019s loss to the Pistons after banging his hand in the opening half on the backboard during a drive. <\/p>\n
A couple of his subsequent shots were way off, but Towns still managed 26 points and 12 rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At one point late in the third quarter, Towns was swiped on a drive and ran into the crowd grabbing his hand in pain. <\/p>\n
He declined to reveal whether there was an X-ray and coach Tom Thibodeau gave his usual non-update of \u201cI haven\u2019t talked to medical yet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey hit shots when they had to,\u201d Towns said about the Pistons. \u201cWe could sit here and talk about all the things we could\u2019ve done. We just didn\u2019t do it. Cost us in the end.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Towns has missed three games this season, including one last week with knee soreness.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the second time this season, Thibodeau called out the Knicks for arguing with the referees and failing to defend because of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t complain if you feel like they missed a call. If you jog back and you\u2019re talking to an official, it could be three points [on the other end],\u201d Thibodeau said, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s a long season. No one\u2019s perfect. The officials, it\u2019s a tough job. Very tough. There\u2019s emotion in the game, there\u2019s frustration, but you also have to understand the pace that the game\u2019s being played at. You can\u2019t afford to complain. You can make a point on a dead ball to an official. They\u2019re usually pretty good with that, but if you\u2019re doing it when the ball\u2019s live, now you\u2019re at a disadvantage on the other end, it becomes a five on four and it becomes an open 3 or a layup, and then at the end, maybe it\u2019s a one possession game. You have two or three of those in a game, that can be the difference in winning and losing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Karl-Anthony Towns played it coy when pressed about the injury to his shooting thumb, repeating four times in the postgame locker room, \u201cIt is what it is,\u201d with his hand tucked in his pocket.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s as simple as that,\u201d the center said.\u00a0 Still, Towns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-164899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164901,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164899\/revisions\/164901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}