New York Knicks center Enes Kanter is a hopeful guy. He knows his team has been struggling this season, but he has maintained a positive attitude about their chances to make the playoffs.

But with star Kristaps Porzingis out for the season with a torn ACL, and the team six and a half games back of the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference, even Kanter is being beginning to see the writing on the wall, per Fred Kerber of the New York Post.

“It’s tough. We are in 11th spot right now. I’m probably going to stop looking at it because it would just kill me to see us not in the top eight,” Kanter said. “So I’m going to just stop looking.”

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Those are the words of a man who has just thrown in the towel on the Knicks season. But in true Kanter fashion, he at least was not saying the playoffs were a completely impossible goal, per Kerber.

“It’s never impossible,” said Kanter, who likely thinks you also can carve the complete works of Shakespeare on the head of a pin. “First of all, we are the team that’s not going to back down. It’s not going to be like, ‘Oh, we’re on vacation now.’ We’re just going to keep playing hard.”

There are less than 30 games to play in the NBA season, and the Knicks are without their best player after a devastating injury. There truly does not seem to be any hope, but it's good for Knicks fan to see that at least Kanter isn't all the way out on the season just yet.