The New York Knicks are once again battling for the worst record in the league, though unwillingly, as most of their losses have come by means of crumbling down in crunch time. Ten of their 17 losses have been by single digits, and while they've been blown out twice in their last four games, Marcus Morris insists the Knicks must get out of their own heads to pull off wins.
“The last five minutes we get tight. We just got to let it go. We got to play together and let it go,” said Morris, according to SNY's Ian Begley. “Expectations is nothing. We're just putting too much pressure on ourselves to win games instead of just competing in games.
“If you do what you are supposed to do, the game will take care of itself. Once you get tight, since we've lost a lot of close ones down the stretch, we're kind of like ‘We don't want to lose this one. We don't want to lose this one.' We can't be that way. We have to keep playing the same as we've been playing the entire game and let it fly, win lose or draw.”
Morris leads the Knicks in scoring with 18.9 points per game, now bound to return after missing the last two games with an injury to his neck — one that happened oddly enough by his 1-year-old son jumping on top of him while the two were in bed.
The Knicks will be looking to snap out of a seven-game skid against the Denver Nuggets, though they stand a better chance to do so by playing freely and avoiding pressure-wound mistakes at the end of the game — assuming they're still in it by then.
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