There is never a good time for a 44-point loss, after which a coach says his team did not believe it could beat its opponent.
But David Fizdale sees otherwise, perhaps because his job depends on it. And the Knicks will have an immediate chance to prove him right that it was just one bad night — not an indication that this is just who they are — when the Nuggets visit the Garden on Thursday night.
“It’s a perfect thing, actually, that you can challenge exactly that thing that you felt like you were weak in,” Fizdale said Wednesday after practice.