The Knicks are described as unexpectedly great despite a broader sense that the world is “shit.” The focus centers on whether the franchise has figured something out and whether it can beat the dominant team emerging from the Western Conference Finals. The conversation connects the team’s performance to coaching and roster decisions, including Tom Thibodeau’s credit, Mike Brown’s rotation experimentation, Landry Shamet’s role, and Mikal Bridges’ resurgence. The overall tone emphasizes how well these changes are working right now and how easily the team’s play has created belief that a championship is within reach, even if that optimism feels unusual.
"“The world is shit,” the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z said early in our interview, “but the Knicks are great.” We focused mostly on the last part of that, and much of the episode is given over to a somewhat giddy discussion of whether one of the NBA's most reliably tragicomic franchises really has figured something out, and whether they actually have a shot against whichever juggernaut escapes the Western Conference Finals."
"While we touched on plenty of the nuts and bolts-how much credit Tom Thibodeau deserves for the success of the team his replacement seems to have unlocked, Mike Brown's season-long experimentation with the team's rotation, the Landry Shamet Experience and the resurrection of Mikal Bridges-it keeps coming back to how shockingly well all of this is working at this moment, and how easy the Knicks have made it to believe that they really could win it all."
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