The Knicks aren’t winning it all this season.

Assuming they finish the regular season with a top-three seed, they’ll only meet the Pistons in the ECF.

That’s it, that’s where everything will end. The season won’t last past that.

Mike Brown

On Towns’ comfort in offense:

“He’s comfortable. We’re continuing to try to do different things to help free him up. And we’ll continue to search to try to do different things to free him up throughout the course of the year.”

On choosing Shamet over Bridges to close the game:

“Landry had hit a couple shots. We needed to score. They’re both really good defenders. And so I just stayed with Landry. But it wasn’t anything where, ‘Oh, I’m going to sit Mikal because he’s not doing this, or he’s not doing that.’ We were looking to score points and Landry was the only one to make a shot from behind the arc.”

On the Pistons’ defensive adjustments:

“In the first half, too, [the Pistons] switch a lot. So, with [Mitchell Robinson], they’re going to blitz or double-team the ball. With KAT, they’re going to switch, especially if they create separation. And so we tried running some of the same actions they switched, and he didn’t get as many good looks as he did in the second half. We opened it up and tried to set the screen a little bit higher and a little bit quicker in that second half, so we can get right to it, which freed him up at times.”

On defending Cade Cunningham’s size:

“He can do a lot for a guy his size and puts teams in predicaments with the stuff that he’s doing because really your guy is [6-foot-2], 6-1 and is on a guy who is 6-7 doing it. And you’re putting a small forward on him. Most of the time the small forward isn’t used to navigating the stuff that he does on the floor.”

On failing to keep ball out of the middle:

“We want to try to keep the ball off the middle of the floor. And we didn’t do a good job of it. We allowed him to get to the middle of the floor often. And when he got to the middle of the floor he hurt us. So we have to do a better job of trying to keep the ball on the sidelines and not allowing it to get to the middle of the floor.”

On the three-point shooting struggles on Thursday:

“We did a great job of generating some wide-open looks, especially from the 3-point line. They just didn’t go in tonight.”

On Sochan’s debut minutes:

“I thought his minutes were pretty good. It gives us the ability to give a guy like Cade [Cunningham] a different look. You know with his length and his strength and his athleticism, and we want to be physical.”

On Sochan’s physical defense:

“He hadn’t played in a while, but most of the time that he was on the floor and guarding Cade, there was a physicality to it, and we liked that. We need it.”

On overall debut evaluation:

“I thought for him, not having played in a while and him only being here for a couple of days, I thought he did a pretty good job.”

On the locker room disappointment following another lose:

“Nobody wants to lose. And everybody is disappointed. And I’m sure everybody is trying to figure out how they could’ve played better to help the team win. So it’s not a fun feeling. It shouldn’t be a fun feeling for me or anybody else in that locker room. But for sure it’s not the end of the world. We got to regroup, watch the film to see how to get better and get the next one.”

On Adam Silver’s tanking fixes:

“Definitely trying to make somebody fight for it at the end of the season. Whether you have a small tournament before the playoffs start or something like that to where it’s not just guaranteed that the team with the worst record gets the best odds. That may change it a little bit.

“Adam’s a smart guy and he’s figured out a lot of really good things for this league, so I have a ton of faith in him that he will figure it out.”

Jose Alvarado

On the Pistons’ regular season sweep:

“Playoffs is a whole different ballgame. We’re not going to sit here and say, ‘Oh, they beat us in the regular season.’ We’re not thinking like that.”

Jalen Brunson

On Pistons’ regular-season dominance:

“It’s a new year.”

On another loss to the Pistons:

“They play great against us. I think today was not as bad as the first two losses. But it’s just not up to our standards.”

On failing to slow Cunningham:

“We just didn’t slow him down fast enough, or even at all.”

Karl-Anthony Towns

On yet another loss to Detroit:

“It builds a confidence going into a series. You also have great film to see what did work.”

On his role on the Brown’s offense:

“I mean, our offense is our offense. It’s been that way all year. So we have our system and we’re gonna — regardless of who’s in the game or not in the game — we run the system that we have implemented for our team to the best of our abilities.”

On his third-quarter aggressiveness:

“Just trying to make a play, be aggressive with play-making. Got a chance to get a shot up and wanted to capitalize on those opportunities. And hopefully get us a spark, start the third quarter on a strong note. What I definitely wanted to, if I could control anything in the third, was get us off to a quick start. I’m happy I was able to do that and find chances to impose my will in the game.”

On no moral victories in losing to Detroit by fewer than 90 points:

“There’s no moral victories or one New York wants to see. But we got a lot of film and we’ll see each other in the playoffs, and we got to be ready.”

Mohamed Diawara

On his role uncertainty after Sochan’s addition:

“I’m just gonna continue what I was doing. Keep working and being ready for each opportunity that I’m gonna get. I’m not worried about that. I know the coaching staff and the team is gonna do whatever is good for the team, and that’s what I’m trying to do.”

On his mindset amid his rookie season:

“I’m a rookie, rookie year, first year in the league. The league, anything can happen, so I’m just gonna take what I have to take and not take anything for granted and just keep working until I’m gonna be that player [I want to be].”

On where he’s improved the most in the NBA:

“I think my 3-point shot. I think my 3-point shot became a little bit more consistent. I think that’s the biggest thing, and maybe my defense too, a little bit.”

Cade Cunningham

On his MVP candidacy:

“It comes from doing the things I said, what I needed to do to be in that conversation. Now that we’re getting closer, there’s more [talk] like ‘What is your case? You should speak on it.’ I don’t really care to speak on it. I want the people that vote on it to be smart enough to look at the game for themselves.”

On sweeping the Knicks:

“To sweep a team as good as them, they play high-level basketball. To beat them, we’re trying to win tiebreaker and stuff, that means something. Just competing against the Eastern teams, beating a good team, means a lot.”

On making a statement on Thursday:

“What is it? I mean we’re the best team in the East, I don’t know what statement. The statement is coming to play every night, and we’re going to compete until you lay down for us.”