The fact that the Knicks got blown out by a far superior Celtics team in Boston is not the issue fans should be concerned with. The issue is coach Jeff Hornacek’s thought process in deciding who plays and who doesn’t. There seems to be no consistency to his decision making, and fans are being forced to watch uninteresting veterans play poor basketball.
Far more than a few times during the summer both general manager Scott Perry and team president Steve Mills stressed two things in how they wanted the Knicks to play this year: They wanted them to develop a great work effort that would translate into playing consistently hard on defense, and they also wanted to build the team around a young core of players whom they would develop throughout the season.