The Knicks followed up Sunday afternoon’s fourth quarter collapse with a Monday night first quarter capitulation. An evergreen sentence, in an evergreen season.
Losing by 44 is never a great look. But, to be fair, Giannis Antetokounmpo isn’t human. He’s a Grecian Demigod. The burden of proof is on the entity doing inconceivable basketball things, and Giannis is the best player on the best team on course for one of the best individual seasons in NBA history.
My bar for the Knicks is not that high, and the parameters of my mind not broad enough to dissect the nuts and bolts of exactly how Giannis — and a team enviably coached and painstakingly created in his impossible image — solved the Julius Randle-led Knicks.