No more pick-and-rolls, no more hooks, no more coach's dirty looks. For the New York Knicks and the league's other underachievers, the NBA season ends next week. So before they fly off to the tropics and let the stress of this difficult season float away, we must hand out report cards to mark their failures (and successes) on the record.
This is not simply a list of who's worst to who's best. This is an assessment of how well the players met the expectations set for them by their coaches, contracts and prior performances.
Back in autumn, we started the season with a variety of characters: the gifted honors students from whom everyone expected good things, a "lost cause" being given a second chance, a new kid from out of town who had to prove himself, an upperclassman accused of shirking his duties and plenty of other faces in the crowd.
Now that this term is over, the questions are: Who has pleasantly surprised us, and who has disappointed by failing to reach their true potential? Who's head of the class, while who merely eked out a passing grade?
Read on to find out.
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