Allowing that one’s feelings about NBA coaches are akin to one’s taste in lovers — deeply personal, liable to change over time and different strokes for different folks — I’m comfortable sharing that Tom Thibodeau is the first Knicks coach I’ve trusted in 10 years. When you go that long without knowing the touch of a skilled paramour and then meet someone new, at first it’s all fireworks and cresting and crashing waves of pleasure. Inevitably, at some point, you have a day or a night where the magic doesn’t happen. Then what? When I started dating my fiancee, she’d frequently ask “How could any of your ex’s have let you go?
Mavericks 99, Knicks 86: “Worse than Swiss cheese”
