{"id":92475,"date":"2015-12-02T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=92475"},"modified":"2015-12-06T23:37:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T04:37:38","slug":"the-art-of-losing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/02\/the-art-of-losing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Losing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Bishop would have some words for the New York Knicks.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is. Photo: Keith Allison<\/p><\/div>\n

This past Sunday night, as the particular perfume of Thanksgiving faded from our house, I nibbled on Chinese food while watching the New York Knicks lose to the Houston Rockets<\/a>. It was a game they had no business losing, even if they were without their best player, Carmelo Anthony, against a Rockets team that last season fell just two wins short of the NBA Finals. In theory, the Rockets are one of the strongest teams in the league this season; in practice, they\u2019ve settled into an unsightly mediocrity that strangely seems to suit them. You might just as easily say that the Knicks lost a game that the Rockets had no business winning.<\/p>\n

Up by fourteen points in the fourth quarter, the Knicks, with their subs on the floor, squandered their lead in the blink of an eye, giving up a game-tying three-pointer in the dying seconds. They proceeded to lose in overtime, allowing sixteen points in extra frame\u2014a feat that, if you\u2019re actively attempting to prevent the other team from scoring, is difficult to accomplish.<\/p>\n

It felt all too familiar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Knicks won seventeen games last season<\/a>, a record low for the franchise. For the majority of this century they\u2019ve been a rudderless mess. But this season has been different<\/a>: the Knicks had, until recently, won more games than they\u2019d lost, while playing one of the league\u2019s toughest schedules, at that. They\u2019ve beaten some good teams, and even in their losses have played a competitive, resilient, purposeful game, as if they were working toward a later benefit.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, something bothered me about Sunday\u2019s loss. Houston, for all their good players, is a team as close to death-in-life as you\u2019ll find in the NBA today. Their head coach, the legendary Kevin McHale, was recently fired, even though, on the heels of last season\u2019s success, the management had just rewarded him with a multiyear contract this summer. They also traded for a player who faces multiple DWI charges and had the temerity to name him a starter until a terrible play buried him on the bench. James Harden, the star of the team, plays like he\u2019s Super Mario, bumping into anything near him in search of points; the other Rockets players have the stilted body language of Scooby-Doo<\/em> villains. Even their seven wins have the whiff of accidents to them: none of them have been by more than six points. The night after their overtime win in Madison Square Garden\u2014a win the interim coach J.B. Bickerstaff referred to after the game as \u201ca lesson in perseverance\u201d before praising his team\u2019s \u201cmental toughness and fortitude\u201d\u2014Houston played in Detroit and was down 28 to\u00a052 before you could say Luigi. They ended up making the final score respectable, but there was no rousing comeback this time. The Rockets\u2019 record sank to 7-11 and the Pistons\u2019 improved to 9-9, the waterline of respectability for teams trying to learn to win: .500, the hope barrier. The Knicks were on the good side of that barrier but a week ago; now they sit at 8-10. They and the Rockets have both become teams acquainted with losing, resigned to it, seeking even to perfect it. In a matter of months, a team can go from powerful to pathetic. Why is this so?<\/p>\n

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As Sunday\u2019s game got away from the Knicks, I sat on my floor, still and stoic, my arms folded, my gaze straight ahead as the ice melted in my spiked eggnog. Bad memories welled up inside me. The ghosts of Knicks past began to dance in front of the screen and rattle their chains. Suddenly, there was nothing to give thanks for. If the Knicks can\u2019t handle their business even when they have a late and luxurious lead, what does that say about them?<\/p>\n

A poem by Elizabeth Bishop called \u201cOne Art<\/a>\u201d came to mind. \u201cThe art of losing isn\u2019t hard to master,\u201d it begins, and right before the final word, disaster<\/em>, Bishop gives herself a command in parenthesis: \u201c(write it<\/em>).\u201d Instead, I found myself saying to myself: (don\u2019t write it<\/em>). Don\u2019t write about this. This isn\u2019t a disaster. The Knicks tried to win, they played hard, they suffered from some unlucky bounces, they played against good players who figured the game out. The Knicks are no longer terrible. They\u2019re trying to learn how to win.<\/p>\n

Fine. But how does a team learn how to win? Is it the same as learning how not<\/em> to lose? And is it possible to turn losing, as Bishop claimed, into an art itself? If it is an art, then it\u2019s all too easy to master: something like what Milton, in Paradise Lost<\/em>, called \u201cnot nice Art,\u201d all artifice and flimsy deceit.<\/p>\n

After the loss, the press interviewed Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is, the Knicks\u2019 prized rookie from Latvia by way of Spain. He\u2019d just eased his way into a twenty-point, fourteen-rebound performance with seemingly no heavy lifting involved, no sublimity or wonder. In the matter of a few weeks, his production has been gripped by a frightening normalcy; he\u2019s made the spectacular look as ordinary as Helvetica. (Remember when Ice Cube talked about messing around and getting a triple-double in \u201cIt Was a Good Day<\/a>\u201d? Porzi\u0146\u0123is is like that.) But tonight he\u2019d been on the receiving end of a devastating two-handed dunk by Dwight Howard, off an alley-oop. When Howard slipped his screen and rolled to the basket, the outcome of the play was clear to anyone who watches the game: the clear lane, the space, Howard accelerating to the basket in a slight crouch that signifies imminent liftoff. When you see a dunk coming, the tried-and-true reaction is to avoid it\u2014no one likes being on that side of the highlights reel\u2014but Porzi\u0146\u0123is came from the weak side of the court anyway, and the rest, as Howard said in his own words, is history<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Porzi\u0146\u0123is took responsibility for the mistake\u2014a welcome change of pace for the Knicks. People seem to assume the team needs a big free-agent signing to change their fortunes, but the Knicks have never signed the biggest free agent on the market. Ever. Their best players have come from the draft, as Porzi\u0146\u0123is did, or from smart trades, as Earl Monroe<\/a> did. And their best teams have been resilient: they\u2019ve bonded with New York, they\u2019ve shown an abundance of chutzpah. If the Knicks failed to display much in the way of street smarts on Sunday, the simple act of assuming responsibility for it\u2014and then thinking out loud about payback, as Porzi\u0146\u0123is went on to do\u2014may be a sign of promise, even if it\u2019s pyrrhic in the short term. The long game is the only game.<\/p>\n

The only problem is, Porzingis will have to wait a long time for his revenge. The Knicks don\u2019t play Houston again this season. When they do face each other, in the murky future of the 2016\u20132017 season, who knows where their fortunes will stand? For now, the undefeated Golden State Warriors rule the roost, and neither the Knicks nor the Rockets can claim to have mastered the art of losing: that honor goes to the Philadelphia 76ers, who have one win right now. At this point in the season, we\u2019re beginning to see teams take a good look at themselves in the mirror. Some lament the loss of their past selves, but the best are squinting deeper, past the blemishes, in search of some sign of the future.<\/p>\n

Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the<\/em>\u00a0Daily\u2019s basketball columnist. His<\/em>\u00a0second book of poems,\u00a0<\/em>Heaven<\/a>,\u00a0was published earlier this year.\u00a0<\/em>He is the recipient of the 2013 PEN<\/small>\/Joyce Osterweil Award, a 2013 Whiting Writers\u2019 Award, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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