The team has been hilariously bad for two decades and fans’ emotions range from naive hope to grave disappointment. It certainly doesn’t help the front office, despite Steve Mills and Scott Perry’s collective presence, often seems a captain without a ship.
And all Fizdale can do, really, is make the best of a bad situation. He gets flashes of competitive fire out of his team, but those moments are always fleeting.
The Knicks won a measly 17 games last year and while nobody expected the playoffs in 2019-20, being 4-18 at this point was certainly unexpected.