Yahoo Senior NBA analyst Kevin O’Connor and Tom Haberstroh note the Knicks late swoon and wonder if the team is able to get out of the 1st round of the playoffs.
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Playoff race in the Eastern Conference as a team that, A, could be a first round loss.
They could be out soon.
What would that mean for them entering the off-season?
And then even if they do win a round, I don’t, I don’t have much faith at all in this team to go far at all in the playoffs, especially when you see them fall 29 to 12 in the first quarter.
Just inexcusable, disgusting basketball performance against the Rockets, and that has happened time and time again this season for New York.
I, I don’t even know if they like playing with each other.
Do you get the sense that these guys like playing?
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It- it They’ve played so many minutes over the last couple years, and especially since the Mikal Bridges trade.
There’s a lot of pressure on them to perform, but it never feels like the sum of their parts is greater than the whole.
And Karl-Anthony Towns with the one game that Jalen Brunson sits out, he has 11 assists, almost as, like, as a statement.
Like, “I need the ball in my hands a lot more.”
And he’s not been a playmaker over the last month until this game.
And it feels like, I don’t know, we, we tend to think that more minutes together breeds more chemistry and it’s additive that they get more reps together.
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I, I feel like it’s the opposite.
I, I With the New York Knicks, it almost feels like they need some m- new blood in there, some new energy, because it just seems so sterile right now.
And the Knicks, I think they’re Is this one of those teams?
It feels like more than any other team in the NBA, I just think they wanna get to the playoffs.
I think they just wanna flick that switch ’cause I think they’ve played with each other for so long, tired of each other, they’re bored.
I just think the New York Knicks just need to fast-forward to the playoffs because this is Th- they just been not unwatchable, but they just look so bored with each other.
They look bored with each other.
I just don’t know if they can flip that switch, and even-