For a sports activities group to achieve success, not to mention win a championship, it must have a definite id, and that helps give it one thing to hold its hat on, particularly when issues aren’t going nicely.
One group that began to develop that kind of distinct id final season within the NBA was the New York Knicks, who grew to become a drive after buying and selling for 3-and-D wing OG Anunoby and almost superior to the Japanese Convention Finals.
They traded for Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Cities this summer season, main many to contemplate them a respectable championship contender, however they began this season with a dismal 4-5 file coming into Tuesday’s sport towards the Philadelphia 76ers.
On TNT’s “Inside the NBA,” Shaquille O’Neal stated the Knicks have misplaced their id.
“I think the Knicks are in trouble. I think they lost their identity…They have no rim protector…”
“I think the Knicks are in trouble. I think they lost their identity…They have no rim protector…”
–– Shaq pic.twitter.com/3yI0ZZwHQm
— New York Basketball (@NBA_NewYork) November 13, 2024
New York created an id final season as a group that performs nice protection and kilos opponents on the boards, and it reminded a few of these memorable New York groups from the Nineties that had been typically title contenders.
However they at the moment rank twenty first in defensive score and have regressed to merely a middle-of-the-back group on the boards, and though they’re second in offensive score, it hasn’t been sufficient to choose up the slack.
Fortuitously for the Knicks, solely two groups within the Japanese Convention are over .500 proper now, which suggests in the event that they get issues going proper now, they’ll nonetheless end with a superb file and provides themselves an actual shot at successful all of it.
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