<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">April 5, 2006 -- Wizards 105 Knicks 90 WASHINGTON - The Knicks' catastrophic season became even more alarming last night, prompting Quentin Richardson to call the team more pathetic than the old Clippers and question whether his teammates "care" about winning. Larry Brown, meanwhile, in his strongest comments to date, accused some players of no longer trying. Brown held an emergency 20-minute team meeting after the latest disgrace - a 105-90 blowout loss to the Wizards at Verizon Center in which they fell behind by 31 points early in the fourth. The Knicks made sure this one ended early. They were trailing by double digits after just four minutes and dropped their ninth straight, their league-worst record sinking to a mind-boggling 19-54. "I played for the Clippers and we were bad. But I've been around nothing like this," Richardson said in a long rant afterward. "I've never lost games like this, where it seems we don't care. I can't even explain it. "I know I've had a horrible season," the shooting guard added. "But I come out and play hard, and you can tell I want to win and I care about the way we're losing and the whole situation. I just feel bad where you don't feel the whole team feels this way." Brown was beside himself after the Knicks committed 28 turnovers. "This is as tough as it can ever be," Brown said. "I have to find five guys who care enough to compete. I never thought in my life I'd be in a position begging guys to play. I haven't been around anything close to this." Malik Rose (six turnovers) and others spoke up during the meeting. But there have been many meetings, to no avail. "I doubt it," Rose said when asked if last night's meeting might help. "I've seen the sun shining, so I know it shouldn't rain every day. Maybe some guys haven't seen the sun shining and don't know what they're missing." Asked why Brown's message has fallen on deaf ears, Rose said, "Maybe some guys don't know how to do it. Maybe some guys don't want to do it." It now looks inevitable that the Knicks are riding the fast track to finishing with the franchise's worst record ever. Physically and emotionally battered, the depleted Knicks can tie the season's longest losing streak tonight at the Garden with another loss to LeBron James' Cavaliers, winners of nine in a row. The Knicks must finish at least 3-6 to avoid replacing the 1962-63 Knicks as the worst team ever. That team finished 21-59. "Just when I thought we couldn't get any worse, we top it," Richardson said. "I [take] my hat off to the coaching staff. I don't know how they made it this far with this." </div> Source
