Embattled Julius Randle was rolling. Mitchell Robinson was slamming. And the Knicks were winning by 12 after a 24-2 romp late in the third quarter.
But as in Los Angeles, the Knicks blew another double-digit lead and suffered a 113-104 defeat to the powerful Jazz on Monday at Vivint Arena. Awful offensively in the fourth quarter, the Knicks fell to a season-worst 24-30 and 0-2 on the make-or-break western trip with the trade deadline looming.
The Knicks played just well enough to lose again. The Jazz, missing center Rudy Gobert and out-for-the-season Joe Ingles, moved to 33-21 as Donovan Mitchell killed his hometown team with 32 points.Randle racked up 30 points, looking to be in All-Star form for three quarters, and Robinson went for 19 points and 21 rebounds. But Randle got quiet late and Robinson didn’t come up big enough, losing a defensive rebound to Donovan Mitchell, who fed it to burly Udoka Azubuike for a pivotal slam dunk. Robinson proceeded to miss two key free throws with 3:01 left and the Knicks had no firepower down the stretch.The killer came when Evan Fournier capped a poor outing by bouncing the ball off his foot and Bojan Bogdanovich raced in for a fast-break dunk to make it 102-97 with under two minutes left. A Randle to RJ Barrett fast break lifted the lead to 82-70 with 3:14 left in the third capping that 24-2 run. Randle rolled a bounce pass to Barrett, who missed a layup but Randle followed with the tap-in with 3:14 left in the third. But the Jazz closed well and were within 86-82 after three, buoyed by a third-chance tip-in by Jordan Clarkson. It may or may not have been a coincidence that Cam Reddish had checked into the contest just after the 24-2 run and and the Knicks saw their lead disintegrate. While backup point guard Immanuel Quickley became a train wreck early in the fourth quarter, Mike Conley Jr. drained a 3-pointer to get the Jazz within 86-85 with 10:15 left. With the Knicks shorthanded, the rarely used Reddish played 15 minutes, scoring six points, shooting 1 of 4 from the field.The Knicks were missing starting point guard Kemba Walker, who was taking a rest day on the first night of a back-to-back. And they were also minus rookie shooting guard Quentin Grimes . That allowed Alec Burks to slide in as the starter at point guard and moved little-used Reddish into a sold part of the backup unit. Reddish entered in the first quarter and played 7:55 with mixed results despite filling up the box score. Reddish scored six points — 1 of 3 from the field and making all four free throws. But he was a minus-8 and committed two turnovers, including one in which he had a fast break and the ball was stripped, going off his foot out of bounds.Share this article:
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