Tuesday night’s loss to the Brooklyn Nets was a frustrating defeat for the Knicks on several levels.
Maybe if Tom Thibodeau hadn’t challenged an obvious foul called on Derrick Rose, the Knicks would’ve had a timeout they could’ve used to draw up a much better final shot than the one they got. Maybe if Mitchell Robinson didn’t reach in to try and steal the ball from James Johnson in the final seconds, he could’ve forced a missed and kept the game knotted up.
There were a lot of hypotheticals. But the biggest revelation from a game the Knicks certainly could’ve won came after the fact during the postgame press conference.