Knicks guard RJ Barrett has started the season brilliantly and Thursday night’s win over the Spurs was no exception.
These Jets should stop kidding themselves about playoff delusionIt’s hard to draw up a better night than this one inside the old gymnasium five floors north of Penn Station. There was a sellout crowd who was treated to the first of what promises to be many annual visits from Victor Wembanyama — and while the 7-foot-4 dynamo showed fleeting flashes of what’s to come, the Knicks held him in check.
The defense was solid, limiting the streaky Spurs to 26.5 percent shooting from 3, and the offense was even better, 28 assists accounting for the 46 field goals. An all-around solid night at the office., the Knicks scoring the game’s first 13 points and leading by double figures across all of the game’s final 42 minutes and 56 seconds. “We were very unselfish, had a good rhythm, made our 3s.
“I’ve been trying to work on it,” Barrett said after finishing with 24 points. “I’ve got to get my touch right because they’re going to leave me open with Jalen and Julius constantly getting in the paint. I’ve got to be able to knock those down.” For most of his career, trade-machine addicts like your humble narrator have routinely thrown Barrett’s name into any deal for any would-be alpha dog that could help bring the Knicks to the next level. That’s included a number of names — Donovan Mitchell, Dejounte Murray, OG Anunoby, among others — who weren’t even necessarily franchise centerpieces.
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