Out rebounded on the offensive glass 17-5... Lost turnover margin 21-8, as well as the FT disparity 36-17...
We played well... A balanced effort... Affalo, Seraphin, Thomas and PORZ solid on offense... But no Melo, and Calderon-Lopez-Langston were awful.
Still, it took a miracle 3 from Ariza, a fortunate bounce for another 3 from Thornton, then an illegal screen for another 3... Took all that yo beat us.
let me ask you this, other than the howard pick which was questionable I agree, how do you see the other plays as miracles or luck? do you not think that ariza isn't good enough of a player to hit a wide open three? ariza would easily be one of the best starters on the knicks right now if he were on the team. thornton is a gunner and he has survived in this league doing one thing... gunning and making baskets, he is good at it..
Now look at the knicks, they got a career game from aflalo, a near perfect shooting game from thomas and another solid game from williams.. now here are three guys who played better than they normally do on any given night, yet you call shots from proven players like ariza and thornton lucky shots..
lets be honest, teams catch breaks, knicks got away with some things as well, but in the end, very average teams were playing one another, the problem with the knicks right now is that they are developing a trend of blowing leads, and just don't know how to put games away..
that is not a good sign.
