Zach Lowe

And you're not even sure what happened to click them into place or why all of a sudden they are greater than the sum of their parts.

And then just as quickly as you've digested that and been happy about it, they lose it.

And we go back to this like, hey, they're still pretty good.

It's not like their slumps are bad other than the one in the middle of the season when they were two and nine over an 11-game stretch.

But it's like, it's clunky.

And cat doesn't take shots and teams are switching the Brunson cat pick and roll and putting their centers on Josh Hart.

And an issue that the Knicks look like they had kind of solved one game ago is now just completely gumming up their offense.

And it just, it's just this ineffable mystery to me that like they have it and then they don't.

And I,

I can't figure out why or what clicks or what makes them click when they click, but they're not clicking enough for me to have a ton of faith that this year is going to end the way James Dolan says that it had to end.

But you watch this team up close.

You live in New York.

What are you seeing?

Does what I'm saying make sense to you?

They have it and then they don't.

This is like every week there's either, there's some sort of Nick's existential crisis every week.

It's a cat quote.

It's cat shot attempts.

It's the McHale Bridges trade being brought up on every media show because McHale Bridges had eight points on two of seven shooting for the third straight game.

It's just, there's just a lot going on all the time.