RJ Barrett of the Knicks celebrates a basket during the first quarter against the Los Angeles Clippers with teammate Julius Randle at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 23, 2022. Credit: Jim McIsaac
The Knicks have their problems and Tom Thibodeau likes to focus on the immediate ones — the next game, the next practice — and hold a tunnel-vision approach for himself and the team.
So he won’t discuss the potential death march the Knicks (23-25, 11th place in the East) are in right now in the midst of eight of 10 games on the road. But as the Knicks weave their way through that test which began with a loss in Cleveland Monday and resumes Wednesday night in Miami, it’s hard to avoid the reality that this portion of the schedule will overlap with the Feb.