To have come so far and to see it all disintegrate.
It felt like the sky was the limit when the final buzzer sounded at Madison Square Garden on May 16, when the Knicks slayed the defending champions in six games and secured a rematch with the Indiana Pacers in their first Eastern Conference Finals since 2000. After beating the best team in basketball that you were carefully constructed to conquer, who can’t you beat?
Unfortunately, the Knicks learned the downside of designing your team to beat a specific opponent, it can leave you compromised against a team with a different playstyle.