Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks hoped that the Thanksgiving weekend would bring winds of change, but it brought more of the same: close defeats. Of the Knicks’ 14 losses this season, 10 have come by just single digits, including two over the long holiday weekend. After a Sunday night defeat at the hands [...]
With five minutes left in a huge road test against the Houston Rockets, Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks held a lead and looked around the court for Carmelo Anthony, their top scorer and best closer—but he was nowhere to be found. Melo had exited the game with back spasms in the second quarter, leaving the [...]
Derek Fisher’s New York Knicks squad had seen its share of close, heartbreaking losses in recent weeks, so after seeing his team close out a victory Saturday, Coach Fish was content with the win, even though the final score was closer than expected. New York led the Philadelphia 76ers by as many as 21 but [...]
On Derek Fisher’s first day as the coach of the New York Knicks, he immediately began preaching his defense-first philosophy, even though the majority of the buzz was surrounding the implementation of the triangle offense. Through their first 13 games of the season, the Knicks have made major strides offensively, but in Game No. 13, [...]
If there's one thing Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks can hang their hat on early in the 2014-15 season, it's their resiliency. Under Coach Fisher, the Knicks have shown they will not give up, no matter the odds they face. They proved it again on Tuesday night in Milwaukee. Coming off a win on [...]
Derek Fisher and the New York Knicks welcomed two Western Conference foes to Madison Square Garden over the weekend, and the two-game slate brought both a heartbreaking loss and a much-needed bounceback victory. An improved Utah Jazz squad came to town Friday night and sunk the Knicks on a buzzer-beater by Trey Burke, handing Fish’s [...]
After the Orlando Magic got to the hoop for a pair of easy buckets to start the second half and stretch their lead to 10, Derek Fisher called for a timeout less than one minute into the third quarter. During that break, Coach Fish lit a fire under his team, sparking a 16-4 run. That [...]
The New York Knicks posted a pair of big victories early in the season, but they’ve fallen in a recent slump, including a home-and-home loss to the Atlanta Hawks. After the second of those losses Monday night, Knicks head coach Derek Fisher took his team into the locker room at Madison Square Garden with a [...]
Derek Fisher has preached defense to his team all season long and in the New York Knicks’ first benchmark game of the season against their rival, the Brooklyn Nets, that defense faltered. D-Fish’s defense had held its four previous opponents under 100 points, but it didn’t fare as well in the Barclays Center. After the [...]
It was an off shooting night for the New York Knicks go-to scorer, Carmelo Anthony, leaving the squad in a big hole against the Detroit Pistons—but Derek Fisher found what was almost a winning combination down the stretch. The Knicks nearly overcame a 76-59 deficit, as a rotation tweak by Coach Fish had his team [...]