Almost immediately after the Knicks’ playoff run ended on Saturday night in Indianapolis, the fan discourse in New York began to closely resemble American politics: hyperbolic, binary and allergic to nuance. But the truth about this team – and Tom Thibodeau’s coaching – lies somewhere in the messy middle.
The Knicks are out. They were eliminated by the Indiana Pacers for the second straight campaign, bowing out from the Eastern Conference finals in six games instead of last year’s seven-game loss in the East semis. As the franchise’s best season in a generation comes to a close, the Knicks are trying to figure out how to feel.
