The New York Knicks faced yet another loss, this time a 110-89 shellacking at the hands of division rival Boston Celtics, pushing the team even further into the cellar, now 0-3 to start the season.
The Knicks allowed the Celtics to have their way on offense, at times looking lost on both sides of the ball, shooting an errant 1-of-11 from deep and allowing Boston to sink 14 of their 29 shots from beyond the arc.
“Obviously Boston is much more talented than us and they have more weapons,” Kristaps Porzingis conceded, according to Stefan Bondy of The New York Daily News. “But that’s why we as a group – we have to play the right way and execute our stuff and do everything almost 100 percent right to win these type of games.”
But Tuesday's loss to the Celtics was a different problem altogether, the apocalypse of what every hopeful rebuilding franchise looks forward to see.
“Everything (went wrong),” Tim Hardaway Jr. said after totaling six points in the game on 2-of-11 shooting from the floor and 0-for-5 from deep. “We couldn’t get anything offensively. We’re all out there just running like we don’t know what’s going on. It can’t happen.”
“You guys see it out there. It’s no secret. We’re turning the ball over, lackadaisical out there. Nothing seems crisp really.”
Hardaway has shot the ball awfully to start the season and this comes after plenty of preseason moments in which he's pledged to justify his four-year, $71 million contract over the summer. The 25-year-old has shot an awry 24 percent from the floor and 23 percent from deep, averaging a mere 9.3 points per game during his first three games with his new-old team.
“When the ball’s in my mind and I feel like I have daylight I feel like it’s leaving my hand really good, just like it did in preseason. It’s just either too long or too short, but they’re all on line,” Hardaway Jr. said. “And some rattle in, some rattle out, but I’m not going to stop shooting. Keep on shooting the ball. That’s what I’m here for. That’s what I do.”
The Knicks trailed by 23 points with six minutes to go with most starters wanting no part of the fight, looking like most employees do in the last half hour of an eight-hour shift on a Friday.
“It’s one of those nights where you flush it down the toilet,” head coach Jeff Hornacek said.
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