Carmelo Anthony Gives Honest Opinion On Current Knicks Team

The brand of basketball which the Knicks currently play enables them to be in every game. They are going to bring energy and effort every night regardless of the opponent and circumstances they are facing. That is the DNA of Tom Thibodeau-led teams.

Can that style of play, with the currently constructed roster, get over the top in the playoffs? That remains to be seen. The Knicks aren’t going to make things easy for their opponent, but they still feel to be lacking something.

That something is a player like Anthony was during his career. He also discussed what placing him on a roster like the one New York currently has would have been like.

“Me with that team…that would’ve been a special team…,” Anthony said.

When the Knicks acquired him from the Denver Nuggets, Anthony would have killed to have a roster like this around him. Given all of the assets they surrendered to land him, New York was left with a barebones roster, capping their ceiling despite having a superstar pairing with him and Amar’e Stoudemire.

Under Thibodeau, the Knicks have matched the same level of success which Anthony had in the postseason. To surpass that level, they need to find a player of that caliber to bring it all together and put them on par with the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics, who have Giannis Antetokounmpo, Damian Lillard, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown to rely on.