“Hell is empty,” Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest, “and all the devils are here.” The Knicks probably felt that way Friday as the Oklahoma City Thunder stormed and swarmed Madison Square Garden like a pack of ring wraiths. But just as the Thunder are a problem the Knicks have yet to come close to solving, the Knicks have become the nut the Milwaukee Bucks just can’t crack, with Sunday’s 140-106 win their fourth straight over the Bucks.
Normally being down 13 at the half is a disappointment, but the last time these teams met in early November that deficit was 19, so the Bucks could take that as a measure of progress.