In a Knicks season strewn with disappointment, there is still no better place, no more comforting space, than the day after.
Hope stubbornly thrives on the days the Knicks gather here at their training center, no matter what manner of despair they endured the night before. They gathered Saturday afternoon to set about fixing what went wrong on Friday in Orlando, and insisted once more that there was still time to turn that work into something productive.
After all, mathematics and the calendar remain on the Knicks' side in early March. There are 24 games left, more than a quarter of the season, so there is ample time, in theory, for Coach Herb Williams to wring something productive from a jumbled, undersized roster.
Yet the fragile alliance between math, time and the Knicks' playoff hopes may soon be strained. They are eight losses short of a guaranteed losing record, and probably the same number from ending their shot at a playoff berth.
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