Conversing with the enemy: A Sixers-Knicks preview with Tom Piccolo

Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty ImagesAhead of most games, Liberty Ballers conducts a question-and-answer session with someone possessing in-depth knowledge of the Philadelphia 76ers’ imminent opponent. Up next is Tom Piccolo, who covers the New York Knicks for Talkin’ Knicks and Knicks Film School.

New York entered the year expected to compete for homecourt but finds itself well outside what the play-in. What’s gone wrong?

When a team disappoints to this degree, it’s rarely just one thing that goes wrong, but a confluence of many failings all compounding one another. When the Knicks fell apart in last season’s playoffs versus Atlanta, it signified to the front office and fans that the…