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<p>GREENBURGH, N.Y. &#8212; The Knicks skipped the usual film session Tuesday morning, heading right to the practice floor. With Phil Jackson watching from the side, they played with a fire, a number of flare-ups and hard fouls.</p><p>If the Knicks had displayed any of that Monday night when they hit a new low, dropping a one-sided game to the lowly Los Angeles Lakers at Madison Square Garden, they might not have been subjected to the harder than usual practice session. And they might not have been trying to explain away where things have gone wrong.</p><p>Jackson, as usual, was silent &#8212; not speaking to the players and choosing not to talk to the media. He has not spoken to the New York media since Sept. 23, before preseason began. He sat with Knicks coach Jeff Hornacek after practice and might have been the calmest person in the franchise.</p><p>&#8220;Well, Phil&#8217;s a pretty calm guy,&#8221; Hornacek said. &#8220;We talk about things. We obviously talk about things that aren&#8217;t going well and what we need to do better, things that he sees. But I think he looks at it in a calming way. He&#8217;s not accusing guys of not doing this or that. He&#8217;s kind of stating what&#8217;s out there, how can we get better at it. Those are our discussions.&#8221;</p><p>Asked if Jackson seemed satisfied, Hornacek said, &#8220;No, who would be satisfied? Everybody is looking for the answers and what we can do to get better. He&#8217;s trying to analyze it, I guess, and let us know what he sees and that&#8217;s all year long we&#8217;ve been trying to work together, talk about things.&#8221;</p><p>After ducking out, he then surfaced in his preferred choice of sniping &#8212; tweeting out praise of a story that bemoans Carmelo Anthony&#8217;s mentality for winning while throwing flowers at Jackson as a leader: &#8220;Bleacher&#8217;s Ding almost rings the bell, but I learned you don&#8217;t change the spot on a leopard with Michael Graham in my CBA daze.&#8221; It&#8217;s just the latest in a line shots at Anthony.</p><p>Things have hit a bottom &#8212; or at least what seems like a bottom so far &#8212; with 18 losses in the Knicks&#8217; last 24 games and a 22-31 record. And beyond the wins and losses is a notion around the league that Jackson is looking to tear down his latest rebuild and trade away Carmelo Anthony, possibly Derrick Rose and just about anyone else not named Kristaps Porzingis.</p><p>While Jackson has remained silent, Hornacek and Anthony have been left to answer for the Knicks, although other teams have discussed their side of the trade talks &#8212; namely that they aren&#8217;t giving up much to acquire Anthony. With a no-trade clause (and a 15 percent trade kicker) that Jackson handed him, Anthony has the final say on where he goes and the Knicks have investigated deals with Cleveland and with the team that the Knicks will face Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Clippers.</p><p>Anthony was gone from the gym when the media was allowed in Tuesday, and after Monday&#8217;s game he insisted he wasn&#8217;t thinking about his options before the Feb. 23 trade deadline.</p><p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t blame them,&#8221; Courtney Lee said of the possibility of management breaking up this team. &#8220;I can&#8217;t blame them for thinking that. But I&#8217;m still confident in the group, man. Today was a bright point. We got after it, it got chippy and that right there lets me know that people care. We&#8217;ve just got to be all on the same page, we&#8217;ve got to trust each other, we&#8217;ve got to play for each other on both ends of the court. We&#8217;ve got to start holding each other accountable and we&#8217;ve got to demand it from each other.&#8221;</p><p>For now, the Knicks&#8217; roster is what it is and the players and Hornacek &#8212; and Jackson &#8212; were trying to figure out where this team that looked good on paper has gone wrong.</p><p>&#8220;I think at this point we don&#8217;t need any more pep talks,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t need any more pats on the back or none of that stuff. It&#8217;s now or never. If you don&#8217;t realize that as a player, you&#8217;re in the wrong sport and you&#8217;re on the wrong team because we need it now.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Another twist came in the Phil Jackson-Carmelo Anthony saga on Tuesday when Jackson took a shot at the star forward on Twitter. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/web1_Carmelo-AnthonySAD-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Another twist came in the Phil Jackson-Carmelo Anthony saga on Tuesday when Jackson took a shot at the star forward on Twitter. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) </caption0><photoCredit0>Matt Slocum | AP file photo </photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Steve Popper</p><p>The Record</p></bylineMeta></div>

Phil Jackson takes a Twitter shot at Carmelo Anthony