The Knicks are playing better than they did last year but that still isn’t saying much. It doesn’t take much to improve on a season where only 15 games were won all year. Although Melo has been solid and Kristaps Porzingis has set the city on fire with his play early on, the fact remains overall they stink. Last night against the Bulls they hit a new all time low and coach Derek Fisher called them out for being quitters after.
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The Knicks scored eight points in the final period, the lowest output in a fourth quarter in franchise history dating to 1946 in being outscored 31-8. Happy New Year, Derek Fisher.
Fisher was expectedly upset with the performance and questioned the heart of the guys on the team.
“We don’t want to be front-runners — guys who can play hard when things are going well,’’ Fisher said. “We don’t want to be a team when it starts to rain a little bit, we give in. I thought we gave in a little bit there in the fourth quarter.
“We had shots that didn’t go in in the fourth quarter, and I thought we got discouraged and the energy turned around the other way and it snowballed from there. There should’ve been enough left in the tank.’’
To be fair to the Knicks, some players still might be in a funk after the news of teammate Cleanthony Early being shot but the inconsistent play has been a problem all season, not just now.
