Knicks coach hints that Phil Jackson wants team to be patient and practice the triangle: Life comes at you fast, especially when you’re the head coach of the New York Knicks. In Jeff Hornacek’s case the honeymoon lasted 48 ugly minutes against the defending champs on Tuesday. In the immediate aftermath of the Knicks' 117-88 opening night loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers the star point guard questioned an offense that has been questioned by other Knicks for three years running. “It’s always us, right?” Carmelo Anthony said when asked why you never constantly hear about 29 other teams struggling to pick up an offensive system. -- New York Daily News

‘Thrives in madness’: Joakim Noah’s NYC homecoming: The changes are striking — towers of glass and steel climbing from once-ignored blocks, intent on touching the sky. The changes are subtle — new, dimly lit restaurants trying to be trendy enough to survive the next round of rising rents. Disfigurements and improvements dot Manhattan’s West Side, where tourists keep trickling out from an elevated rail line turned popular park, where a new 11th Avenue subway stop helped chisel away at decades of isolation. -- New York Post

Knicks other strategy for scoring besides hoisting up 3s: Sometimes, there are elements of the good old days that are missing in today’s NBA. Like absorbing elbows, and punches and getting knocked on your butt. “Part of the strategy in basketball that’s changed over the years is nobody gets the other team in foul trouble,” Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek said Thursday. -- New York Post

Making Phil Jackson’s triangle work: Knicks preach one word: Here’s some free, unsolicited advice in case you are sitting around, holding your breath waiting for the Knicks to resemble the Michael Jordan-Scottie Pippen Bulls or the Kobe Bryant-Shaquille O’Neal Lakers in running the triangle offense: Exhale. There’s a new coach, Jeff Hornacek, who hasn’t coached it before. There is a former MVP, Derrick Rose, who hasn’t played it before and missed most of preseason because of his sexual assault civil trial. -- New York Post

Carmelo Anthony, Jeff Hornacek understand Derrick Rose’s frustration: Jeff Hornacek isn’t getting much of a honeymoon. Hornacek’s Knicks haven’t even played a game in front of their hometown fans, and the two biggest names on the team, Derrick Rose and Carmelo Anthony, already are grousing about the triangle offense and how difficult it is for a playmaker like Rose to run it. -- Newsday

For Knicks, reality hits hard -- and quickly: The saying goes that life comes at you fast, and for Jeff Hornacek and the Knicks, having LeBron James barreling toward you at full speed in the first game, it only comes faster. It took just one game for Hornacek to learn what life at Madison Square Garden can be like. The amiable new coach of the Knicks spent the preseason trying to teach a new offense, not one of his choosing, to a team almost completely rebuilt and that was missing one of its most important components, and on opening night Tuesday, the result was shown in the form of a 29-point loss to James and Cavaliers. -- The Record