The Knicks are a Joke

“Amar’e and Melo need time to learn how to play together.”

“They haven’t had a practice yet since the trade.”

“They have no size.”

“Fire D’Antoni!”

“This trade wasn’t made for this season.”

Really?

Knick apologists are hilarious.  They’ve been making excuses for the past ten years.  But there’s no excuse for how the Knicks are playing right now.  This team is playing with no heart.  We all know Melo isn’t Lebron, but he can at least turn up the level of his game in the last five minutes.  When other teams kick into second gear late in games, the Knicks sit back and play with no sense of urgency.

And don’t blame the coach.  Yeah, he sucks, we know.  But in the end it comes down to the players to play defense and make shots.  Yeah, a good system helps, but that’s not why the Knicks are playing so poorly.  I’d love to see him fired, but he’s not the problem right now.  And who else would you hire?  Sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know.

The Knicks have lost six out of their last seven.  There are no excuses when you have two superstars.  And Dolan is raising ticket prices?  Are you kidding me?  The Melo trade doesn’t even look good right now.  It may be a long time before the Knicks hang a banner at the newly transformed MSG.  And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I wholeheartedly believe they’ll be beat to a championship once again by the Rangers.