As a whole, Saturday night was not a good look for head coach David Fizdale and the New York Knicks. The Brooklyn Nets were coming off a back-to-back so in theory, the Knicks should have had fresher legs.
They didn’t. In fact, Fizdale mentioned that his team was in the “mud” for most of the game. In other words, there was no energy on the floor.
But the youngest guys on the team made the biggest impact on Saturday’s game. They couldn’t overcome the 17-point lead the Nets built up after three quarters. But they pulled it to within five at one point and had the Nets sweating another fourth quarter.