Everyone in their right mind had an inkling the preseason cheering of the dawn of a third “NBA Superteam” — in the form of the helpless New York Knicks, no less — was an unrealistic joke, mere hyperbole to entertain and tease the loyal faction of Knicks fans dreaming their team was actually a well-functioning organization built to succeed.
Everyone other than team president Phil Jackson, of course.
The 2016-’17 Knicks are plagued with the very same issue holding back Knickerbocker teams of the past 15 years — not quite good enough to “go for it,” yet still doing anything to make it work.