The NY Knicks and San Antonio Spurs are playing on the NBA schedule on Wednesday and the game from the AT&T Center starts at 8:30 pm Et and the matchup has Carmelo Anthony and company looking for a win against Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and the defending champions and on the road this will not be easy.
The Knicks have now lost nine straight games after falling to the Pelicans in their last matchup and they are simply trying to get a win here on the road. The Knicks knew this season would be tough, but they did not expect things to be this bad and now they have to find a way to pull things together. Chris Broussard at ESPN.com wrote a story about the Knicks issues and he describes some serious problems.
The triangle hasn't been working and players have grown frustrated with the fact that teams know their system, while Carmelo Anthony has been getting some heat as well. The articles says that Anthony and Tim Hardaway Jr. got into it the other night, with the young star calling out Anthony for playing selfish and not hard on defense. Anthony got heated and said he would fight Hardaway, but that did not end up happening. Either way, the Knicks are a bit of a mess this season and they have only four wins and they are challenging to be one of the worst teams in the league.
The Knicks knew it would be tough this season, but they have been terrible and now have dropped nine games in a row. The team is not just a game ahead of the Sixers and a half game ahead of the Pistons in the bottom of the standings and they also are battling with the Wolves and the Jazz. The Lakers are in the mix for the bottom as well and those teams likely will be in the lottery this season.
The Knicks will next play on the road against the Celtics and they come in after another loss against the Pelicans. The team is 4-19 and they are matching up with a Spurs side that is 15-6 on the season. Amar'e Stoudemire scored 26 points in the loss against the Pelicans, while Carmelo Anthony led the team with eight rebounds and Jose Calderon had six assists. The team is averaging just 93 points per game and they are ranked 12th in overall defense in scoring, but they are 26th on offense. The team has not been good up front and they are ranked 29th in the league in rebounds per game.
The Spurs come into the game at 15-6 on the season and they are third in the southwest for the time being with how well the Rockets and Grizzlies have played. The Spurs are defending champions and they are expected to be one of the teams at the end of things this season. Memphis is currently leading the division and they have played very well, while the Spurs come in after a close loss on the road against the Jazz. The Spurs got 23 points from Duncan and 14 rebounds while Manu Ginobili had eight assists to lead the team in the loss. The team plays two of the worst in the league now, as they host the Knicks and then the Lakers on the schedule.
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