New York Knicks forward Marcus Morris is confident his stint in The Big Apple will turn out a lot different than his recent stay with the Boston Celtics, with their most recent season mired in turmoil and mood swings that crumbled down a talented roster.

Morris was slated to join the staple of team unity in the San Antonio Spurs, but he balked on the chance after the Knicks restructured Reggie Bullock's contract and opened up enough salary cap to sign him to a more lucrative deal.

The 6-foot-9 power forward is hoping that this stint with the Knicks is easier when it comes to team chemistry, and he's already encouraged by what he has seen in training camp. Morris hinted that the presence of Irving was indeed an issue in Boston:

“The teams are different. We don’t have that one guy where it’s like, okay, he’s first,” Morris said, according to Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News. “It’s a team thing. No knock on Ky, but obviously he’s a superstar, he’s first. Sometimes his emotions were put in front of the team. I think here, we’re all transparent with each other. We can all go up to each other and be honest with each other. That’s the biggest thing, when you can go out and speak to your brother.”

The Celtics were under the leadership of Irving, whose roller-coaster-like cycle of emotions generally transferred into the rest of his teammates and made for some poor locker room chemistry.

The Knicks don't really have that alpha-type player and have yet to find that lone leader, mostly making use of veteran voices to sail the ship through the course of the 2019-20 season. There has reportedly been some early grumbling about playing time, but that kind of stuff often happens and might not mean anything as the season begins.