Knicks Morning News (2017.01.23)

These aren’t about Phil Jackson’s media and Twitter blunders, which are plentiful and should be embarrassing to any executive.

Jeff Hornacek has tried everything.

During the off-season, most of those playing abroad were in Turkey, a nation where unrest and violence have fueled concerns back home.

Carmelo Anthony plopped himself on the scorers’ table at the Garden with the dazed expression of a man who had relived a bad dream. He didn’t feel the hands on his back — supportive fans patting his shoulder, trying to tell him it was going to be OK. He could only see all the things that went right, and then the one, pivotal thing that went wrong.

Better late than never? Not in this case. The Knicks lately have shown an irritating habit of locking down defensively in the fourth quarter. Making this practice so annoying is that for large parts of the game leading up to their attempted defense, they look like a team that couldn’t guard a locked door with…

At some point you expect Derrick Rose to erupt and say, “I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!” That was the line from Peter Finch’s character in the movie “Network,” but it was also the look on Rose’s face following the Knicks’ 107-105 loss to the Suns on Saturday…

The Knicks have won six times this season in games decided by four points or fewer. Now before you proclaim the Knicks the new Cardiac Kids, realize they’ve also lost seven games by four points or fewer. Two of the defeats have been in their past two outings, five of them in January, six in…

PJ Tucker looked like he came out with hunger to prove his worth against the Knicks on Saturday night.

With the ball in the final seconds on Saturday night, Carmelo Anthony heaved up a last-second 3-pointer, but the ball circled the rim and came out, as the Knicks fell to the Suns by two points.

Monday’s Knicks News: Anthony focused on the present