500 and with the odds of qualifying for the postseason seeming quite remote, in that regard, he certainly isn’t alone. In other words: Doc can’t help but to look at this year’s Knicks and wonder what happened.Īt 11 games below. And when you lose it, you don’t know why you’re losing it sometimes.” Sometimes you don’t even know why you have it, but you know you want to try to protect it. “Chemistry is a very fickle thing, as we all know.
“When you make changes, sometimes that goes well for you and sometimes it doesn’t,’’ the coach said to the New York Post. His Los Angeles Clippers teams that couldn’t get over the hump? Not so much.Īfter his Sixers beat the Knicks on the front end of their home-and-home series on Sunday, when asked what changed for the Knicks since last season, that was the first thing Rivers brought up.
Rivers coached the Boston Celtics to a 66-16 record in Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen’s first season there and won the 2008 NBA Finals. Sixers head coach Doc Rivers might even have a theory. New York is nowhere near the likes of a Sixers team that has one player who won MVP and another who might win it this season, and it showed on Sunday. They need to be honest about that truth and confront it. Truth be told, no player should be considered untouchable if the likes of Bradley Beal, Damian Lillard or Donovan Mitchell happened to find themselves on the market - because as currently constituted, the Knicks simply can’t compete with the conference’s playoff contenders, much less its upper-echelon. RJ Barrett probably deserves more repetitions. Walker was not the answer at point guard, and upgrading that position has to be the team’s No. Unless something crazy happens, assuming the Knicks don’t pull off the improbable, after two years on the job, the challenge for Leon Rose will be to admit mistakes and learn some lessons. It would appear that Kyrie Irving could soon be permitted to play at Barclays Center (although not a guarantee), while Kevin Durant and Ben Simmons figure to return to the floor within the next few weeks. Unlike the Knicks, though, things are looking up for Brooklyn. In fact, according to, the Knicks have the fifth-toughest schedule remaining, with only the Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics and Bulls having tougher opponents.Ĭonversely, the Nets’ schedule ranks as the 19th-most difficult (or 11th-easiest). There aren’t many “gimmes” in that stretch. For New York, 12 of the remaining 21 games are on the road, and 5 of the 9 home contests are against the Bulls, Nets, Raptors, Utah Jazz and Cleveland Cavaliers.
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