On occasion throughout the limitless basketball winter, you get one it’s good to circle, the higher to remind your self in a while. So circle this one. Use your brightest crimson 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 by some means turns delirious, a vexing setback that morphs into an invigorating success.
“We were in a funk,” stated Karl-Anthony Cities, “and then we found a way to fight, fight, fight. And found a way to win.”
The Knicks had been 0-8 at house when dropping 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 had been brief, too. However after a foggy no-show by the Knicks Saturday towards the Lakers on nationwide TV, this seemed like a bookend buzzkill of an evening on the massive fitness center on high of Penn Station.
