It was easy to get involved in what the Knicks have done in their first 10 games this season. Many nights were worth the price of admission – hungry, resilient, fun to watch, easy to cheer on, delivering unexpected wins, providing unexpected hope.
Then comes a night like Sunday night, coupled with a night like Friday night, and it’s a bucket of cold water falling from a tall building. The Nuggets walked in and pulled the Knicks 114-89 two nights after Oklahoma City beat them, and for all the nights in the early stages of this season where it felt like a calamity so terrible that fans couldn’t be there to testify, this weekend it seemed that those same people had been spared.
Like the Knicks. At least they could suffer in silence.
“We are not playing well,” said Knicks manager Tom Thibodeau, “and we have to make up for it.”