New York Knicks fans might be getting to their breaking point, if they haven’t already. The Knicks are 4-13 and currently dead last in the Eastern Conference.
Any regular basketball team wouldn’t even begin to think about next year’s draft or tanking 17 games into the season, but the Knicks are. After all the talk players did this off-season, their play hasn’t backed it up. All the optimism the players and fans had for this season has quickly vanished.
Is it time to root for a tank?
Last season, the Knicks did their best to tank to Zion Williamson without saying they were actually tanking. Look how that turned out. However, RJ Barrett has been a great consolation prize and shows that he could be someone special.
Knicks players will say that they’re going to continue to battle and there will be no talk about a tank. Coach David Fizdale addressed the tanking last season and should be ready for those questions again as the season is getting to that point already.
Wayne Ellington and Taj Gibson also spoke on trying to turn the season around. Players will say all the necessary stuff to please the media but let’s be realistic. This team seems like they get down on themselves too much. The idea of ‘tanking’ will be in the back of some players mind. It will definitely be in the minds of Knicks fans.
Yes, it’s way-too-early to talk about tanking. But with the New York Knicks, it’s constantly brought up each season. This feels like it was brought up extremely early as compared to last season. The Knicks aren’t a team that can turn around despite what the players say. They’re a team that will give fans a few exciting victories in front of the Garden faithful to appease them and that’s about it. The way it’s looking currently, the Knicks might lose 60+ games again.