Now and again throughout the countless basketball winter, you get one it is advisable to circle, the higher to remind your self in a while. So circle this one. Use your brightest purple pen. Circle it once more. Put it away in a drawer someplace.
And possibly come again to it in a few months, when it’s 30 levels hotter outdoors, when it’ll really feel 80 levels hotter inside Madison Sq. Backyard, when possibly there’s a dire second that someway turns delirious, a vexing setback that morphs into an invigorating success.
“We have been in a funk,” mentioned Karl-Anthony Cities, “after which we discovered a option to combat, combat, combat. And located a option to win.”
The Knicks have been 0-8 at residence when shedding on the half, after which discovered themselves down 11 after three to the electrical, elastic Rockets. The Backyard was disconsolate. The Knicks had gotten comparatively excellent news about OG Anunoby’s foot a couple of hours earlier than, however the reality is he was nonetheless absent, and certain will likely be for a bit. The Rockets have been brief, too. However after a foggy no-show by the Knicks Saturday in opposition to the Lakers on nationwide TV, this seemed like a bookend buzzkill of an evening on the huge fitness center on prime of Penn Station.