NBA Halloween: Playing trick-or-treat with each team’s early season trend

New York Knicks

A blowup of some sort is inevitable: Treat

Outside of rookie RJ Barrett (who’s been phenomenal so far) and second-year center Mitchell Robinson, the New York Knicks haven’t given their fans much to be excited about. Head coach David Fizdale looks incapable of putting competent lineups together, which is made all the more difficult by the fact that half his roster is made up of power forwards.

The Knicks are off to a 1-4 start, they’ve got a bunch of veterans jostling for playing time at the same positions and even worse, that power struggle could eventually take its toll on youngsters like Kevin Knox and Frank Ntilikina, preventing them from really spreading their wings in what will quickly become a lost season.

Whether it’s Fizdale getting the axe, Marcus Morris getting kicked out of a game and/or suspended, half the team’s veterans getting traded by the deadline or some combination of the three, there’s too much dysfunction here for the Knicks to enjoy a season that’s actually conducive to growth. We all know change is coming. All that remains to be seen is to what extent, and how low the Knicks will sink before turning things over fully to the youth movement.