Important question for Jeff Hornacek: Have you been waking up to the same song every morning? Was Wednesday’s newspaper on your front porch yesterday?
It may be a few months early for Groundhog Day, but on Friday night, Hornacek’s Knicks did a fairly spot-on recreation of their game two nights earlier. Again, they played the Timberwolves. Again, they were staked to an early lead and looked primed to cruise to an easy victory. And again, it disappeared in a frenzied fourth quarter that would have the most even-keeled coach questioning his sanity.
It wasn’t quite what it was Wednesday night, when Carmelo Anthony’s basket with two seconds left saved the Knicks, but it certainly was headed that way.