One of the problems of the Knicks this season has been winning on the road, where they are just 5-15 SU. However, they have been way more competitive lately with a better mindset and, more importantly, playing it better. They have defeated the Nets in the last game (playing in 2nd night of a b2b spot); they were down by 1 @ red hot Minnesota before collapsing in the 4th quarter and they have defeated the Mavericks in the previous road game.

Their perimeter offense has been inconsistent but Tim Hardaway Jr. is back to boost their offensive power. In the last game @BKN, I really liked the fact that their coach just gave more minutes to bench players who were playing better and he was rewarded with the win – big team morale boost: Kanter and J. Jack played only 9 and 13 minutes vs. Ntilikina & O’Quinn that played 29 & 23 minutes.

They will play @ MEM that is coming from a nice but completely overrated win vs. the LA Lakers in the last game. Note that they received a LAL team that were coming from an OT game @ DAL in the previous game and were without Lonzo Ball & B. Ingram – 2 key players of the game.

For some reason, LAL’s coach Luke Walton decided to play “small” almost all game (Lopez logged only 19min) and the Grizzlies took advantage of that by scoring 54 points in the paint. This won’t happen vs. NYK that plays always with two legit big men on the frontcourt.

MEM’s offense relies almost exclusively of the play of Evans & Gasol… M. Gasol is questionable for tonight (illness) so this hurts MEM’s offense. NYK’s rookie PG Ntilikina has been getting more minutes lately and he is already a formidable defensive player that will give problems to Evans. I expect NYK to win today even with Gasol on the lineup.