Every now and then it is very enjoyable to play a game like this and to welcome a team like these Sacramento Kings into your home because, in many ways, they are like the perfect opponent for the homecoming game. It’s fun to watch with lots of dazzling young stars.
That way, a team that can never be mistaken for Paul Westhead’s old Loyola Marymount teams can score 140 points in a single basketball game like them Did curtsey before a satisfied gathering of nearly 2,000 fans Thursday night at Madison Square Garden.
There were times when Tom Thibodeau, the defense whisper’s coach, looked like he was obscuring the Knicks surrender, but only coaches really care about such games. As long as the home team ends on the left side of the dash, customers are happy. And the Knicks crawled for the third time in a 500 game in the last 10 days.
At 16-17, the Knicks are also slowly approaching the half-time mark of the season, three games to 36, and we’ve officially hit the point where we can ask ourselves with dates and information and 33 testimonials what exactly our recalibrated standard should be for this time of year. « I would say just as important, » Thibodeau had said about 90 minutes before the game . « I don’t want us to get lost and too far ahead. I just want us to focus on what is ahead of us. I think you start the season by looking at [playoffs] and all the things that are You have to.
« You want to consistently build these habits. Practicing well is important to knowing your opponent well. If you start to distance yourself from it and look too far down the road, you will be cut off and fall . «
All right. Even so, the victories made far more habit than anyone in Thibodeau’s first year thought was realistic. You have been assigned an over / under number of 22.5 wins by Vegas virtual consensus, remember. They are way ahead of this pace. You are indeed in the middle of an Eastern Conference that currently appears to be divided into three distinct castes: Teams that have wrestled but insist on logic and common sense will straighten up and take a comfortable step toward that Make top 5: Celtics and Heat.
And this is where this Knicks season is going to be terribly fascinating, because on Friday morning they wake up with the Raptors for fifth place and will almost certainly get into a rock fight with seven teams for the last five playoff places in the east involved. Right now, the Knicks, Pacers, Raptors, Bulls, Hornets, Hawks and Magic are within three defeats of each other in the standings. Five of those seven will get in (assuming you don’t think the recent turnaround in Washington is permanent; if you do, five out of eight will).
All of these teams have flaws and flaws much like the Knicks. Neither of these teams has a decent chance of making any noise in the playoffs, provided things probably go together, as they did in the second half. And so everyone will ask the same thing:
« Just think about what helps to win every day and develop the right habits, » Thibodeau said before the game.
Where to finally? Saturday the Pacers come into the garden and suddenly there are a lot of interesting things in the game. Another crack at .500. A chance to beat a team in this overcrowded bunch of pretenders and competitors waiting to be sifted for one side or the other in the next few months.
And of course: working on the process, which means the Keeping an eye on price, which means not getting too far in front of yourself. It’s still better to think about the playoffs that only exist in feverish dreams. Maybe they can coexist after all.
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