Knicks guard J.R. Smith got some slack for saying the Knicks can win a championship this year but he isn’t alone. Knicks latest pickup, Beno Udrih also has high hopes for the team and thinks they can at least make it to the Finals. Read more after the jump.
Credit Beno Udrih for his optimism. [Udrih], the Knicks 31-year-old backup point guard who signed as a free agent last month, won two titles with the Spurs. Now he wants his new teammates thinking title from Day 1 of training camp, which begins Sept. 30. “I believe our team can go as far as going to the Finals,” Udrih told The Post at Ashe Stadium in his first remarks since signing. “We have to think like that from the first practice. We can be very good. It all depends how seriously we’re going to take it. “We all believe we can go really far. And our goal from the beginning has to be win it all because we know we’re going to be in the playoffs. Our mentality from the first practice has to be: we want to win a championship.”
