
These Knicks go from scintillating to aggravating and back again
NY Post
The Knicks can be scintillating. They can be fascinating. They can look like the most advanced form of basketball geometry some nights, when the passing is on point, and when the defense produces fast break opportunities. They can be electric. They can be a delight to watch. They can make you dream big, crazy dreams.
The Knicks can be agitating. They can be aggravating. They can sometimes get bogged down on both ends, the ball too often staying in one place, and there are nights when it seems they do little other than allow wide-open 3s. They can be dull. They can be a chore to watch. They can make you wonder if they can even get out of the first round.
The Knicks, in short, are impossible to pigeonhole.
And that makes them an anomaly in a sporting time when we legislate all seasons on a game-by-game basis. Time was, only football received this treatment, and that was natural since it has the fewest games and the shortest season. A two-game losing streak in football in a 12- or 16- or 17-game season is a potential calamity.

He had just delivered what was — may still be — the forever money performance in the Nets’ NBA history. Jason Kidd had played 51 minutes, 38 seconds of a 120-109 double overtime win against the Pacers, do-or-die Game 5, 2002 first round at the Meadowlands. Reggie Miller had made another of his gut-punch shots to extend the game, a 35-footer that made Tyrese Haliburton’s Game 1 prayer against the Knicks seem like a routine layup.