It was an historic night at Madison Square Garden, but there was no celebration for the home team.
On the night that Stephen Curry broke the all-time three-point record, the Knicks lost their fourth in a row and fell to four games under .500 after starting 5-1.
They are now 7-15 in their last 22 games.
Tom Thibodeau knows things can change quickly, but it's one thing to know it and actually do it.
“We gotta work," he told reporters after Tuesday's 105-96 loss. "Sometimes, there’s gonna be ebbs and flows. Things, sometimes, they’re going great, sometimes, they’re not. Usually, the way you work your way out of that is with great effort. Cut hard, screen hard, defend hard, get to lose balls, get a couple layups, and then all of a sudden, you get going. Things can change very quickly, and we gotta make them change.”
No matter how you slice it, it's been a disappointing season for the Knicks after last year's playoff campaign.
“Numbers don’t lie. It’s all in the numbers," said Derrick Rose. "However you want to break it down, we just gotta figure things out.”
And despite this now being a prolonged slump, rather than a bad fluke, the Knicks still don't have answers to fix things.
“I can’t put a finger on it," added Rose. "If I knew the answer... s—t, I’d be screaming it. But I really can’t put a finger on it.”
“We have to figure things out," he added. "If we say that we want to achieve our goals, our goals is to be better than last year. We have to find a way. We just gotta figure it out.”
Despite struggling to find solutions to get back on track, Julius Randle is confident they will find them. Maybe his 25 second-half points on Tuesday night are a sign of things to come for him and the Knicks.
“We’re gonna get it done, and we’re gonna figure it out," Randle said. "But we just gotta take it a game at a time and just get out confidence and juice flowing...
“We have no choice. We have no choice. It’s either we do it or we don’t. And if we don’t, the season’s not gonna be the way we want it to do. And if we do, things will start to turn and we’ll move on.”
