In a season like this with a team this bad and young, you start to talk yourself into losses to numb yourself. The 20-point beatdowns are probably the easiest once the initial anger of being down 20 in the first place fades.
The Knicks’ previous outing against OKC was enjoyable in that sense. They went down 20 in the blink of an eye and then just bounced around that margin five or six points in either direction the rest of the way. It was a comfortable loss, but not an embarrassing one, of which there have been plenty.