The New York Knicks have gone from a high lottery pick to postseason upstart to holding onto the last playoff spot by a thread. They lost their enigma of a point guard in Jeremy Lin, Amare Stoudemire is mired by injuries, and the team has a new coach in Mike Woodson. Essentially the 2012 NBA season has been tumultuous and the Knicks fans have been made dizzy at Madison Square Garden. The New York Knicks tickets to MSG for the rest of the basketball games on the regular season schedule are here with the TicketSpecialists to see if the team’s postseasons aspirations are to come true.
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Down the stretch the Knicks need Carmelo Anthony to put up the kind of points he did when he challenged for the NBA scoring title not so many seasons ago. Melo will be taking the court with Baron Davis, a veteran resurrected by the sudden void at point guard in the starting lineup. Davis’s tendency to play the point guard position as a scorer rather than a distributor may be just the band aid necessary for this scorer ravaged basketball team to hold off the Milwaukee Bucks, the lone club within striking distance of the playoffs.
The Knicks are ready to go forward with Tyson Chandler at center, Anthony at power forward, and Landry Fields at small forward. Iman Shumpert and Baron Davis are set to man the backcourt. Chandler’s defensive presence is even more important now as the stable of scorers appears to have reached its end. Even J.R. Smith, the supposed spark plug signed midseason, has failed to have the effect intended with his addition as sixth man. There is still hope Stat could be returning as an effective player, so that would move Melo back to small forward.
Much has to go right for New York to maintain its trajectory into the postseason. Once there, the club must contend with either the Bulls or Heat, two teams with more than enough talent to eliminate the Knicks. The fans are hoping, or tricking themselves to believe this team is going much farther than the first round.