Carmelo Anthony dropped to the Madison Square Garden floor, blood spilling out of the corner of his eye and the life leaking out a lost cause. Down goes 'Melo, a TKO that left him discombobulated and diminished. He had come to New York chasing glory and endorsements, the bright lights of the big city. A fast smile, a sweet stroke, the Knicks treated his arrival like some kind of second coming. The New York Knicks oversold Anthony, and it’s little surprise that he's underdelivered. This was the kind of night Anthony hasn't been wired to withstand, the ferocity of the Boston Celtics trampling the Knicks with a furious fourth-quarter bludgeoning. Suddenly, the Knicks found themselves crumbling under a champion's resolve, the Celtics responding to a word that Doc Rivers had never needed to use until his halftime diatribe: soft. The Celtics could never live with such a label, and that's so much of the reason they came so hard for the Knicks in the final minutes of an 96-86 victory. It was so much of the reason that Anthony would go without a basket in the fourth quarter, that his eye needed five stitches after connecting with the sharp end of a Rajon Rondo(notes) elbow. "We got on the floor and got grimy and made it a dirty game," Garnett marveled. Amar'e Stoudemire(notes) dropped down with Garnett, symbolic of the way Stoudemire has grown into a $100 million man. Anthony hadn't been here a month, and Stoudemire has had to publicly remind him that this isn't about the Knicks ...