The increasingly hot-seated Thibodeau and his 6-7 team clearly are searching for answers.
From the Celtics establishing a franchise record for both teams with 27 made 3-pointers on Nov. 5 to last week’s no-show loss in Brooklyn to Sunday’s 145-point explosion by the Thunder — offsetting alternating wins in that span against the Timberwolves and the Pistons — the Knicks open a formidable five-game road trip Tuesday night in Utah as a team in defensive disarray. “The thing that sits with me is the disappointment of losing.
“The defense, the rebounding, that effort has to be counted on every night,” Thibodeau said. “Players are too good to give that type of confidence away right from the start. That’s the thing, the challenge is for us to be consistent. We can’t be up and down. It’s a hard league. There’s no shortcuts in this league.
“We’re capable of doing better and we’ve shown times that we’ve guarded extremely well. What I’m concerned with is the up and down of the last four games.” The Knicks have won just once in Utah over their past eight visits since 2014 and they play Wednesday night in Denver, where they are winless since 2006. The Knicks departed immediately after Sunday’s game to attempt to acclimate to the altitude in Salt Lake City and Denver.
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