{"id":519038,"date":"2022-12-01T07:39:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/knicks-keep-finding-ways-to-lose-the-tight-games\/"},"modified":"2022-12-01T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T04:39:15","slug":"knicks-keep-finding-ways-to-lose-the-tight-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/knicks-keep-finding-ways-to-lose-the-tight-games\/","title":{"rendered":"#Knicks keep finding ways to lose the tight games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a245a5c94a93\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a245a5c94a93\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/knicks-keep-finding-ways-to-lose-the-tight-games\/#%E2%80%9CKnicks_keep_finding_ways_to_lose_the_tight_games%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Knicks keep finding ways to lose the tight games&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CKnicks_keep_finding_ways_to_lose_the_tight_games%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Knicks keep finding ways to lose the tight games&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/mike-vaccaro.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Mike Vaccaro\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/mike-vaccaro.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/mike-vaccaro.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Here is the problem with professional sports: The Knicks\u2019 recent play simply hasn\u2019t been good enough.<\/p>\n<p>If an outmanned college team had turned in three straight home efforts the way the Knicks have during their last three <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s at Madison Square Garden, there would be a discernible consolation prize attached to them. Effort matters. Playing up matters. Pushing good teams to the brink matters.<\/p>\n<p>In the NBA, 0-3 is 0-3.<\/p>\n<p>In the NBA, losing, at home, to Portland (second place in the Northwest Division), Memphis (first place in the Southwest Division) and Milwaukee (first place in the Central Division), all in the final minute or in overtime, means one thing: You couldn\u2019t win a winnable game. You weren\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>You aren\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no medals for trying,\u201d Bill Parcells once famously said, six words that summarize all professional sports, NFL or NBA, MLB or NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said after his team\u2019s latest gizzard-grinding loss, 109-103 to the Bucks on Wednesday: \u201cIt was a hard-fought game. It\u2019s a make or miss league. We missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Giannis-Antetokounmpo-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Antetokounmpo, who scored 37 points, grabs a rebound away from Derrick Rose during the Knicks' 109-103 loss to the Bucks.\" class=\"wp-image-24851642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Giannis-Antetokounmpo-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Giannis-Antetokounmpo-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Giannis-Antetokounmpo-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Giannis-Antetokounmpo-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Giannis Antetokounmpo, who scored 37 points, grabs a rebound away from Derrick Rose during the Knicks\u2019 109-103 loss to the Bucks.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Are the Knicks looking better than they did a few weeks ago, when they took off for the West Coast on the brink of watching their season tumble off a cliff? Sure they are. They went 3-2 on that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>, and in the nine games since allowing 145 points to the Thunder, they have shown significantly more effort on that side of the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Are there encouraging elements to take away from these three backbreaking losses at the Garden (sandwiched around a stomping of the Pistons on Tuesday night in Detroit)? Sure there are. The Knicks have to believe they can run with these teams, and have shown that they can hang with them. There were moments late in all three games where they seemed prepared to seize the day.<\/p>\n<p>But they left the day unseized all three times.<\/p>\n<p>In the NBA 0-3 is 0-3.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Jalen-Brunson-5.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Jalen Brunson drives on Jevon Carter during the Knicks' loss to the Bucks.\" class=\"wp-image-24851645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Jalen-Brunson-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Jalen-Brunson-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Jalen-Brunson-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Jalen-Brunson-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Jalen Brunson drives on Jevon Carter during the Knicks\u2019 loss to the Bucks.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is the league,\u201d Thibodeau said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s annoying,\u201d RJ Barrett said. \u201cNo one likes it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday was another example of the Knicks doing just enough to lose in agonizing fashion. They played some of their fiercest defense of the season. They got a monster game from Mitchell Robinson (15 points, 20 rebounds), came back at the Bucks after falling behind by seven in the fourth, fouled out Giannis Antetokounmpo (though not before he scored 37 points and grabbed 13 rebounds).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did a lot of things well tonight,\u201d said Barrett, who finished with a team-high 26 points. \u201cWe\u2019re getting better.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Julius-Randle-5.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Julius Randle, who scored 18 points, goes up for shot during the Knicks' loss.\" class=\"wp-image-24851652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Julius-Randle-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Julius-Randle-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Julius-Randle-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Julius-Randle-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Julius Randle, who scored 18 points, goes up for shot during the Knicks\u2019 loss.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Sabo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Said Thibodeau: \u201cI like the way we competed. I thought we did a lot of good things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But they also missed four murderous free throws down the stretch. When they finally tied the score at 103-all with 47.6 seconds left \u2014 and with Antetokounmpo watching from the bench \u2014 they allowed a 3-pointer by Grayson Allen that ultimately doomed them. Barrett actually played Allen well, Allen just made the shot.<\/p>\n<p>But that has been the story these past few games:<\/p>\n<p>Whenever a shot needs to be made, it\u2019s Allen. Or it\u2019s Ja Morant. It\u2019s almost unfair to point this out because he has been so good this year, but Jalen Brunson had both the Blazers game and the Grizzlies game in his hands, and both times took good shots he normally makes. He just didn\u2019t make those shots.<\/p>\n<p>And those shots are ones the Knicks are going to have to start making, especially at home. It\u2019s almost bizarre to think that the Knicks are a better road team (6-6) than they are at the Garden (4-6). All three of these games have featured raucous, pleading crowds that did everything imaginable to drag them to the finish line, and almost did.<\/p>\n<p>Almost.<\/p>\n<p>But in the NBA, 0-3 is 0-3<\/p>\n<p>It simply isn\u2019t good enough.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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