David Fizdale shrugs off Knicks’ point-guard glut with one word

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Among the bazillion and a half topics David Fizdale was asked to discuss at his Knicks introductory press conference at the Garden on Tuesday was the subject of the team’s three young point guards… “Guards,” he said. OK, so… “Guards,” Fizdale said with even more emphasis. Don’t think point guards or shooting guards or off-guards or lead guards. Just think guards. And that was one of the appeals of Fizdale, according to the guys who hired him, team president Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry. They like — no, make it love — his ability to step and think outside the box. “He doesn’t put the game into a box,” Perry said. “You hear him talk a lot about position-less basketball, not being

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