{"id":692014,"date":"2026-04-01T14:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692014\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:37:17","slug":"ny-knicks-josh-hart-stresses-need-for-team-to-turn-things-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692014\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Knicks\u2019 Josh Hart stresses need for team to turn things around"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Knicks<\/a> are falling apart at the worst time. Tuesday\u2019s loss against the Houston Rockets marked their third consecutive loss, which was marred by a lot of the same problems that have plagued them for a while.<\/p>\n

Knicks\u2019 Josh Hart not happy with performance against Rockets <\/p>\n

New York started the game trailing 14-1, and they found themselves down double digits just before halftime after cutting the deficit to four. New York never got within eight during the whole second half, with pick-and-roll defense being a huge issue among other things.<\/p>\n

\"NBA:Credit: Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Josh Hart was among those most displeased with his team\u2019s performance, and stressed that Wednesday\u2019s game against the Memphis Grizzlies needs to be the day they turn things around, deeming it a \u201cmust win.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re obviously struggling right now to win games. Struggling to start games off. Struggling to focus on the attention to detail. Struggling to get outside of ourselves and focus on what the betterment of the team is. So [Wednesday] we have to play with a sense of desperation. Sense of being willing to sacrifice. To win,\u201d Hart said via Stefan Bondy of the New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Knicks need to turn it around soon<\/p>\n

Slow starts have hurt the Knicks tremendously. The starting five is constantly putting New York in a hole that is too steep to climb out of against playoff teams, and the Knicks are paying the price for the offensive ineptitude.<\/p>\n

\"NBA:Credit: Troy Taormina-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The signs showed during their recent seven-game winning streak. Despite winning those games, they came against teams under .500, some of which required comebacks from down double digits in order to secure the victory.<\/p>\n

They need to clean things up fast with the playoffs just around. Though they have their spot in the playoffs secured, they are still in pursuit of a favorable seed. They are currently one game above the Cleveland Cavaliers for the third seed in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Wednesday against the Grizzlies will be a get right game, as they look to break some of their bad habits with the playoffs approaching. <\/p>\n

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\t\tDylan Backer is the Senior Content Producer for ESM. He is 23 years old and is from Royal Palm … More about Dylan Backer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks are falling apart at the worst time. Tuesday\u2019s loss against the Houston Rockets marked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-692014","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116329963152790214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692014","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=692014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}