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“The Knicks are having fun again!” Josh Hart drains a 3 at the buzzer to end the 3rd and The Garden is electric again! <\/p>\n
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2:24 AM \u00b7 Oct 28, 2026 \u00b7 3.95K Views<\/p>\n
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If it\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve learned over the last few years, it\u2019s to never tell people how to fan.<\/p>\n
As GMAC always says, fan is short for fanatic. You\u2019d have a better chance of house training a Tasmanian devil than controlling how people engage with their favorite team.<\/p>\n
With that being said\u2026<\/p>\n
I was a bit taken aback over the last few days when I heard the \u201cp\u201d word uttered in connection to a team that had raised the Larry O\u2019Brien trophy less than five months ago. I suppose panic would have been warranted if you bet your mortgage on the Knicks winning 70 games, but panic over whether they were still a very good basketball team? It felt like a bit much.<\/p>\n
Maybe that camp of fans felt a little more emboldened in their skepticism after the first quarter last night, after which the Pistons led 38-25. I actually didn\u2019t think the Knicks played all that badly over the first 12 minutes and that the score was mostly a bi-product of some unsustainably hot shooting, but still, 38 points is 38 points. Coming off a fourth quarter when you gave up 40 to the Magic, it was a tough pill to swallow. Even the calmer side of the fan base had to be wondering when, precisely, was the big wake up call going to come?<\/p>\n
We didn\u2019t have to wait long for our answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning! Before we get to last night\u2019s action, a reminder that the Knicks are back in action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,6,297],"class_list":["post-869857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-pistons","tag-basketball","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-pistons","tag-detroitpistons","tag-nba","tag-pistons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117517863068461789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869857","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=869857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}