A real last-minute headache for the NBA, the first “In-Season Tournament” significantly changed the regular season schedule, and the most injured team is New York. Although qualified for the second round before losing to the Bucks in the quarter-finals, the Knicks will face the Celtics five times but also the Bucks. That's ten matches against the two best teams in their conference, including six away! That's more than any other team this season.
An injustice which nevertheless does not affect Julius Randle, which puts things into perspective with lightness. “ Are we going to play them five times each? What do you want me to tell you? That this is bullshit? What can we do? Games are made. »
40 home matches, 42 away
The interior of the Knicks and his teammates would however have legitimate reasons to complain. Particularly considering the schedule this week of their competitors in the race for the playoffs: the Nets play the Hawks and the Wizards, the Heat face the Raptors and the Sixers play again against the Wizards…
Even worse: since they played in Milwaukee and Boston, the Knicks lost a home game this season. They will therefore play 40 matches at Madison Square Garden, and 42 away!
“ Life is unfair, you know “, prefer to joke Jalen Brunson, also not very affected by this atypical and above all tough schedule. “ I see this as a good thing in the end. We want to test ourselves, see where we are. When you play two teams of this caliber two days apart, you take the opportunity to take stock, to see how you can still progress in the face of adversity like this. »
Until now, there is in any case no real picture: the Knicks are struggling against teams with 50% wins or more, with 2 wins and 9 losses after their defeat in Boston last night, but are progressing against teams with 50% wins or less, with 10 wins and no losses…
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | L.F. | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Party | Pts |
| Jalen Brunson | 20 | 35.5 | 46.6 | 45.7 | 81.1 | 0.7 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 5.6 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 24.9 |
| Julius Randle | 20 | 35.1 | 43.0 | 29.2 | 72.2 | 2.2 | 7.8 | 10.0 | 5.5 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.6 | 21.5 |
| Rj Barrett | 15 | 29.5 | 41.9 | 38.2 | 85.3 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 18.9 |
| Immanuel Quickley | 20 | 24.2 | 42.8 | 36.4 | 89.1 | 0.2 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 15.0 |
| Donte Divincenzo | 20 | 20.3 | 42.5 | 42.7 | 68.4 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 9.1 |
| Josh Hart | 20 | 28.5 | 47.5 | 35.6 | 73.3 | 1.1 | 5.1 | 6.1 | 2.5 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 8.3 |
| Mitchell Robinson | 20 | 29.7 | 57.6 | 0.0 | 38.9 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 10.4 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.9 | 6.0 |
| Quentin Grimes | 18 | 22.9 | 35.9 | 34.5 | 66.7 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 1.8 | 5.8 |
| Isaiah Hartenstein | 20 | 17.0 | 56.6 | 33.3 | 66.7 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 5.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 5.4 |
| Evan Fournier | 1 | 15.6 | 16.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 |
| Miles McBride | 13 | 4.3 | 50.0 | 35.7 | 50.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.8 |
| Dylan Windler | 3 | 2.5 | 50.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 |
| Daquan Jeffries | 7 | 2.7 | 37.5 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.0 |
| Jericho Sims | 9 | 2.8 | 66.7 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 0.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 |
| Ryan Arcidiacono | 6 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Jacob Toppin | 1 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Charlie Brown, Jr. | 1 | 2.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
