{"id":671595,"date":"2026-03-21T23:57:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/671595\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T23:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:57:15","slug":"knicks-wins-against-bottom-feeders-shouldnt-mask-growing-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/671595\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; wins against bottom-feeders shouldn&#8217;t mask growing concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knicks are on a five-game winning streak and flooded with concerns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, they have handled business against inferior opponents, finishing off the NBA\u2019s tankers to keep pace with the real threats atop the East.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, they\u2019ve been mostly unimpressive while beating the bottom dwellers, exhibiting trends and low-energy basketball that would\u2019ve left them with losses against tougher opponents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday night\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/20\/sports\/knicks-settle-for-shameful-win-over-lowly-rival-nets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nail-biting victory over the Nets<\/a> became the latest example. For the seventh time in the past nine games, the Knicks lost the first quarter. In fact, during that seven-game stretch heading into Saturday\u2019s games, their average point differential for first quarters (minus-5.1) was only better than the Wizards\u2019 and Nets\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Knicks are on a five-game winning streak and flooded with concerns.\u00a0 On one hand, they have handled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-671595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-knicks","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkknicks","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-sports-columnists","17":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116269881313248771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}