When Knicks coach David Fizdale shuffled his starting lineup, inserting a pair of players who had not even gotten off the bench in the first two games of the season, and sending out five players with an average age of less than 23 years old, he knew he was taking a chance.
Oh, and he was putting them out there against the Golden State Warriors, the two-time defending champions with a lineup arguably as good as any in NBA history. Any hesitation, coach, to doing this?
“No, nope. Not even a little bit,” Fizdale said before the game.