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What the Knicks said when a computer predicted they would go 37-45 this season

Steve Mitchell/USA TODAY Sports

Steve Mitchell/USA TODAY Sports

The New York Knicks’ miserable season ended on a high note, as the team beat the Raptors at Madison Square Garden 95-92. One year after a thrilling year in which the Knicks finished second in the East, Carmelo Anthony and co. limped to a 37-45 — which the SCHOENE system predicted back in October. The SCHOENE projections also correctly predicted that Knicks offense wouldn’t be able to keep up with its ridiculous output in the 2012-13 season (the Knicks scoring differential dropped from +4.3 to -.9 this year), but when presented with the calculations before the season started, Carmelo Anthony wasn’t impressed.

Via the NY Post:

“Sometimes there’s glitches in the computer. That’s all I can say.”

Knicks coach Mike Woodson played the “this computer never played the game” card.

“Do they play? It’s a computer system. I don’t think computers run up and down the floor.”

This is just another reminder that machines will one day rule us all.

(Thanks to Mike Prada for bringing this to our attention.)

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