It's a Shame We Can't Combine Knicks, Rangers

The Knicks and Rangers wound up turning in remarkably similar seasons.Both teams revived lagging support for their teams by winning more than they had the year before and raised hopes about better days to come in the not too distant future. Each team embodied the best and worst parts of the philosophies espoused by their coaches and wound up in the playoffs at the end of the season.Even the end of those playoff runs had much in common. As lower seeds against powerful opponents, the Knicks and Rangers had their flaws exposed for all the world to see as they were dispatched in swift and brutal fashion.And that is where the story of our two Garden residents start to diverge. Both teams have gaping holes that couldn't be covered up by their strengths when faced with top competition.For the Knicks, the supporting cast was the problem. Hard as they might have tried, players like Jared Jeffries, Bill Walker and Roger Mason simply don't belong on teams harboring hopes of doing anyth...