The No. 5 seed would be a terrific accomplishment for the Knicks whose consensus ceiling coming out of preseason was qualifying for the play-in tournament.
The grind was getting to them and maybe, for the first time, something else: in a season when the Knicks have played every game as if they had everything to prove and nothing to lose, suddenly the equation was much different.The Nets had hung on by their fingertips across the river, but they’d hung on nevertheless,by a point.
We may look back on the seven days past as a critical gauntlet for the Knicks. When last Monday dawned the Knicks were reeling a bit, losers of three straight, with a concerning mojo around them that could easily have gone sideways and nudged them closer to the play-in subset. And Sunday, they shook off the diminished Wizards. The Knicks were missing Randle and also RJ Barrett , and they seemed vulnerable until they weren’t. The fact is they needed to win this, and found a way to win it, and in the final week of an NBA season you don’t worry about how you pile up the wins, just that you stack them as high as you can.“The bottom line,” Thibodeau said, “is to find a way to win.
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