"The game tells you what to do," Tom Thibodeau likes to say. When it comes to the 2024-25 New York Knicks , though, it sometimes seemed like we were all watching different games. The Knicks went 51-31 in the regular season with a top-five offense , then played three straight six-game series in the playoffs, going 10-8 in a six-week span that featured a nail-biter just about every other day. Was Thibodeau an idiot for trotting out the same starting five that kept getting off to terrible starts against the defending-champion Boston Celtics ? Was he a genius for baiting the Celtics into stagnant offense, allowing the Knicks to repeatedly overcome those terrible starts? It depended on who you asked. In New York, Thibodeau's future was a constant topic of conversation throughout the playo

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