It’s fitting, the Knicks reaching their most challenging point of the season in March. March is the most volatile of months, said to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb; after a dominant October through February the Knicks are 1-3 this month and play five of their next six on the road. It hasn’t exactly been the MGM roar from the MSG cats of late.
Jalen Brunson is out a while with an ankle sprain, and if he does show up for the playoffs and doesn’t look like himself — the way Julius Randle hurt his ankle two years ago, came back early for the playoffs, struggled, hurt the ankle again and came back anyway — maybe focus more on what he did that he could and not what he didn’t that he couldn’t.