Bulls vs. Knicks rematch, three days after Easter

Knicks are 11-3 under Mike Woodson…Bulls are sans their MVP again, hoping that a Rose by any other name will be as sweet…
Knicks are oh for six to start with three turnovers, and go down 8-0…’Melo scores seven points in a row and Knicks take the lead…The Knicks score on 10 straight possessions…
Some sloppy play on both sides, and Van Gundy says: “Kids, this is what not to do on a fast break”…Carmelo has 13 in the quarter.
Second Q: Mike Tirico asks Van Gundy if Coach Tom Thibodeau lost his voice when he was his assistant, and VG says that he lost his voice at birth…Knicks’ offense stalls with starters out, they go down 9…Steve Novak can’t buy one from 3—he’s ohfer 9 in last two games…Van G proposes a Basketball Week, when everybody concentrates on b-ball. We just had that in March, but in the NBA VG wants one fewer timeout per quarter (how about six or eight fewer per half in the college tourn?) and Tirico asks him how will the network recoup the ad revenue. VG says sorry, that’s not his sphere of interest, he just thinks up the ideas. Me, too…Part of Bball Week will be the elimination, VG says, of the “power-hungry T-shirt throwers”…
Baron Davis bricks a couple and the Knicks are down 10 at the half…They’re struggling to find offensive help for Melo and getting killed on the boards…
Third Q: Van Gundy and Tirico have a long discussion about Amare Stoudemire and whether he’d be willing to come off the bench if it were best for the team…Everybody says they just want to win but how many actually mean it, in other words…

Rip Hamilton heats up and the Bulls go up by 12 after the Knicks cut it to 5…Van G decries all the “soft” fouls; “Whack somebody!” he implores…Or at least bite them on the leg…
Van Gundy: “If Kyle Korver blocks your shot you should go to some sort of penalty box”…A minute later Korver blocks another shot (as the shooter is coming down) and Van G crows, “You can’t take it in there against Kyle Korver!”
The Knicks appear to concede defeat and sure enough they get it. Chandler and Shumpert are the only guys playing as the game winds down…The Knicks apparently saving themselves for their match with Milwaukee tomorrow, a battle for 8th in the East.