MILWAUKEE — Former Knicks shooting coach Dave Hopla worked the Garden during more prosperous times — two seasons with Mike Woodson during which the club won 54 games in 2012-13 and lost out by one game for a playoff berth the following season.
That playoff miss was considered a travesty back then, and former president Phil Jackson fired Woodson and his staff. The Knicks haven’t been heard from since and it looks like Steve Mills’ Knicks will be out of the playoff race by March 1 for a seventh straight season.
The only thing loud about the 2019-20 Knicks is the clanging of their free throws.