CHICAGO – Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau has never met Jeremy Sochan’s mother, Aneta, who played at Panhandle State in Oklahoma. But it sounds like they’d get along quite well.
The Baylor freshman 6-foot-9 combo forward feels he’s the best defender in June 23rd’s draft – which is all his mother cared about.
“My mom used to play basketball and she always used to tell me, defense comes first,’’ Sochan said in his British accent Thursday at the NBA Draft Combine in Chicago. “She used to tell me, if I had a bad game, defense comes first, and the offense will come as...