So how about them Knicks...

After being 3-14 for the first seventeen games of this grueling season (if you're a Knicks fan), the team has been one of the hottest teams as of late! In the last eighteen games, the Knicks are 12-6, which is third best record in the East for the last month.

The Knickerbockers are not one of the elite teams of the East; as a fan of the squad, I know they will not get any of the top six seeds of the playoffs in the near future. I only have hope to actually watch good basketball every time I turn on MSG and see the white, blue and orange. As of late, I'd say the Knicks are one of the most exciting teams in the league.

Six of the players on the roster average double-digits in scoring (the seventh currently averages 9.6 ppg), and with such a spread offense, they are one of the top ten offensive teams in the league. It isn't the amount of points they score that amaze me (in January, they are averaging more than 110ppg), but it's the way they go about scoring.

A no-doubt three-point shootout candidate is Danilo Gallinari, New York's 6'10" forward who has made 96 three-pointers up to this day. He leads the league in three-pointers made and attempted, and still has an admirable .410 three-point percentage.

But Gallinari is just the Knicks' fourth leading scorer, we haven't spoken about Al Harrington who comes off the bench--yet still averages 18.4ppg for New York. He started eight games in the season, and now has learned his role as a spark off the bench. Reminiscent of John Starks who would come off the bench and lead the Knicks--except Harrington is a forward and is yet to dunk on Jordan and Pippen.

Then we have the double-double man David Lee. Night-in and day-out, he cleans the glass spotless. He is seventh in the league in rebounds and is pretty efficient--shooting .575 from the field.

The Knicks also have Wilson Chandler, 2nd year man out of DePaul who had seventeen rebounds the other day. He is prolific scorer with the ability to shoot the three or get physical in the paint. He's the Knicks' top free throw shooter and is one of only three players in the team who has started every game.

Nate Robinson, on the other hand has barely started any game but had a 41 point performance the other night and has been a returning asset to the team. Standing tall at 5'9" and a 180lbs, he still is a high-flyer that has a passion for dunking (sometimes he is a bit too erratic but a crowd-pleaser nonetheless.

There are more players to talk about like the injured Larry Hughes or the defensive stopper Jared Jefferies who does not fill up the stat sheet but always takes the role of guarding the leagues best offensive weapons. However but above all things, what the Knicks are now is something they have not been in a while: a team.

So although we won't see the Knicks grabbing a top seed, I'm almost positive they'll at least have a spot in the East.