via NYPost.com
So just how patient are you willing to be?
Is it enough, this early in the season, for Madison Square Garden to feel the way it felt last night late in the fourth quarter, for it to sound the way it sounded, a 19-point deficit erased, the Knicks two points to the good, the Garden thick with electricity? Is it enough that the Knicks somehow made a game out of what promised to be a massacre?
Are you still at the point where you’re willing to forgive a 122-117 loss to the Warriors, where you are willing to overlook the fact that there still are wide swatches of games in which the Knicks essentially refuse to play defense; that they still are far too reliant on the 3-pointer; that Raymond Felton — for all the positive energy he has brought — still seems to have no earthly idea how to run the pick-and-roll with Amar’e Stoudemire?
Are these still forgivable offenses? How patient are you willing to be?
“I think we all believe we’re better than what we’ve been showing the last week,” guard Toney Douglas said. “Now it’s a matter of showing it to ourselves and proving it to ourselves. We need to close these games better at home.”
The Knicks are 3-5, have blown three winnable home games, and are staring at the kind of West Coast trip next week that has carved the guts and the soul out of teams of recent vintage.
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