Hey, we couldn't execute in the final frames, but I thought we played a really tough, competitive game.
Like so many games that have slipped away as on a stray banana peel, it was winnable, and we played well enough to win...but. THAT's what a point guard is there for.
Even if Rose comes back, he is going to be rusty, but hey, Knicks haven't given up, on themselves, the season, or Coach Thibs.
A little late in the season, but our bell cow Julius sure has come around, simplifying his game, more decisive and zeroing in on his mid and long jumpers, though not settling so much.
Something I think Doris Burke pointed out, which is part of our problem offensively, besides being so methodical, and she was using The GOD Durant as Exhibit A, which is...and I am paraphrasing...
"If you give the ball up, once, twice, you are going to get it back, and for a better shot." This is a faux pas which JR inevitably makes in crunch time. If we were to follow this dicitum, and add some cutters and movement, we could get better shots.
As for everyone here playing a chorus of oh woe is me, it was a gritty competitive game, and we lost by a basket.
ON The +/- Side, our leaders were:
Sims, a +20 [6-10-2-1] in 23 minutes.
McBride, a +13 [2 assists] in 11 minutes.
Obi, a +7 [8-4] in 8 minutes.
And as a team, we were 18-21 from the FT line.
So, all might be lost, but are building something for the future.
I mean, Dallas beat the Celtics in Boston, and we destroyed them on their home floor, for fuck's sake.
So, yes,
TO BE A KNICKS FAN IS TO SUFFER. But it ain't grasping for straws to accept whatsoever scraps from the table fall our way. We are competing, with some significant contributors MIA, due to injuries, right? Rose, Noel, Reddish, Grimes.
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