Anthony completed with 25 focuses

The Knicks' Carmelo Anthony (7) heading to the wicker bin amid the misfortune to the Atlanta Hawks at Madison Square Garden on Thursday.

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The presentation of the Knicks’ beginning lineup Thursday night was gone before by an extravagant laser appear and boisterous music. The group at Madison Square Garden shouted for Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis. The Knicks were in the lead position. They were undefeated.

The inclination was delightfully remote. It didn't last.

In their home opener, the Knicks uncovered that some unfortunate propensities — poor shooting, dull guard — are difficult to break as they tumbled to the Atlanta Hawks, 112-101.

“We saw the distinction between the level where they are at this time, and where we are correct now,” Coach Derek Fisher said. “We’ll need to gain from it as we go forward.”

The Knicks (1-1) were generally fixed by their failure to shield along the 3-point line and at the edge. Ahead of schedule in the second from last quarter, Anthony hurled a court-length go to Robin Lopez — or if nothing else Lopez was the expected target. The Hawks’ Al Horford captured the pass. The ball discovered its approach to Kyle Korver, who hit a 3-pointer to put Atlanta up by 17. The Garden seemed like a bingo corridor.

In the midst of the calm, the Hawks (1-1) facilitated past a rival that had landed back at the Garden flush with confidence. The Knicks were under 24 hours expelled from a season-opening triumph over the Milwaukee Bucks. Be that as it may, the Hawks, who claimed the best record in the Eastern Conference last season, offered a litmus test.

Fisher kept on lecturing the twin ideas of persistence and procedure.

“Last night, everything was awesome and the sun was up,” he said, alluding to the Knicks’ 25-point win over the Bucks. “And now, unexpectedly, there is no sun on the grounds that we lost. That’s the mindset we need to escape in this association — everyone. We can’t run here and there with the sun and the moon. Being great takes time.”

Anthony completed with a group high 25 focuses, however shot only 10 of 27 from the field and missed every one of the seven of his 3-point endeavors. Lopez scored 18 focuses, and Porzingis included 10.

“It has been two games,” said Jose Calderon, the team’s beginning stage watch. “Let’s not overemphasize it. We need to show signs of improvement for sure.”

The Hawks, who shot 10 of 24 from 3-point reach, were driven by Jeff Teague, who gathered 23 focuses and 8 helps. Atlanta scored 52 focuses in the key and drove by upwards of 22.

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Prior to the diversion, Fisher said he had been attempting to give his players edible pieces. He said he needed to “streamline things” so the players did not feel over-burden with data. The thought, Fisher said, was to “really give our folks a menu of things that they can concentrate on turning out to be great at for now.”

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He included, “And then, ideally, as we develop and advance after some time, we can include layers and distinctive choices that oblige them to think a tiny bit more.”

No new layers were apparent against the Hawks. Anthony worked, amplifying a late pattern. A week ago, in the team’s last presentation of the preseason, he shot 4 of 18 against the Boston Celtics. On Wednesday, he confronted predictable twofold groups from the Bucks and shot 4 of 16. Neither Anthony nor Fisher appeared to be worried before Thursday’s diversion. Anthony had knee surgery in February.

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“We know he’s healthy,” Fisher said.

Against the Hawks, Anthony conceded to buddies in the game’s early stages. Each of the four starters not named Carmelo Anthony scored before he did. At last, late in the first quarter, Anthony tossed his body through a throng of protectors and changed over a layup while drawing contact. He sank his free toss for a 18-17 lead.

Porzingis, in the interim, was hindered at the edge on the Knicks’ first ownership. He missed his initial three shots. Be that as it may, the group was enchanted by his eagerness. When he hit the floor plunging for a free ball, he should have been raising a title trophy. The Garden overflowed with trust, in any event for some time.

Protection was the bigger issue against the Hawks, who shot 54.5 percent from the field in the first quarter as they headed out to a 30-20 lead.

Fisher swung to his stores toward the begin of the second quarter, and they conveyed 11 straight focuses. The second unit was driven at the end of the day by Derrick Williams, who ran the court experiencing significant change, topped a play with a dunk and for the most part treated the diversion like a jazz solo. Williams, who marked with the Knicks amid the off-season, recognized his relative deficiencies.

“I still don’t know all the plays,” he said for the current week. “People are as yet letting me know, ‘Go here, go there.’ But I’m simply playing off my instincts.”

His impulses were sufficient to lift the Knicks to a lead, but a transitory one. The Hawks soon recaptured their beat, especially from long separation. Atlanta shot 8 of 13 from 3-point range in transit to a 61-45 halftime lead. The Knicks were level footed on their guarded turns, and it cost them.

Bounce back

Tim Hardaway Jr., whom the Knicks exchanged June for the draft rights to Jerian Grant, came back to the Garden as an individual from the Hawks interestingly. “It never feels great to get traded,” Hardaway said before the diversion. “But you’re with a group, by the day's end, that needs you.