When you follow beat reporters for your favorite teams, there’s this unwritten rule that you are looking for optimism. Sure you want the most up to date inside information, but you also want to hear something favorable. The star player is returning from injury sooner than expected, that awesome free agent out there will definitely consider joining your team, your team definitely has a good shot of making the playoffs. Along with reality, you want at least a dose hopefulness so you can dream. Frank Isola provides the opposite effect for Knicks fans.
Isola blunt, honest and ultimately very negative compared to the other writers that cover the Knicks on a daily basis.