#New York Knicks at Minnesota Timberwolves
Target Center- Minneapolis, MN
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401584849)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/NYKnicks/comments/180374v/game_thread_new_york_knicks_85_at_minnesota/ka36kea/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|NYK |28|28|19|25|100|
|MIN |31|27|35|24|117|
###Player Stats
**New York Knicks**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|R. Barrett|21:58|14|4-13|3-4|3-4|2|5|7|1|1|0|4|5|-13
|J. Randle|33:33|21|6-16|1-6|8-12|3|11|14|1|0|0|2|2|-13
|M. Robinson|30:27|10|5-7|0-0|0-0|7|4|11|0|2|2|2|3|-11
|Q. Grimes|24:47|0|0-6|0-6|0-0|0|1|1|2|2|0|0|2|-18
|J. Brunson|36:09|25|7-15|3-6|8-8|0|4|4|6|0|0|1|2|-16
|J. Hart|24:09|4|2-6|0-2|0-0|1|1|2|1|2|0|0|0|-5
|I. Quickley|17:09|15|4-14|1-7|6-6|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|3|-6
|D. DiVincenzo|25:34|7|2-8|1-6|2-2|2|1|3|5|1|0|0|3|3
|I. Hartenstein|14:28|2|1-3|0-0|0-0|2|2|4|0|0|1|1|3|-6
|D. Jeffries|3:05|0|0-3|0-1|0-2|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|0
|J. Sims|3:05|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|0
|R. Arcidiacono|3:05|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|0
|M. McBride|2:31|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
**Minnesota Timberwolves**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|J. McDaniels|4:30|4|2-2|0-0|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|1|0|1
|K. Towns|35:45|20|6-10|2-3|6-7|0|5|5|4|3|2|3|6|14
|R. Gobert|26:23|16|7-7|0-0|2-7|3|4|7|1|0|2|1|2|16
|A. Edwards|39:08|23|9-21|1-6|4-4|2|8|10|5|2|0|3|1|9
|M. Conley|27:55|11|3-9|3-8|2-2|0|1|1|5|0|1|0|3|20
|N. Alexander-Walker|33:05|11|4-8|3-6|0-0|1|2|3|3|0|0|0|2|15
|K. Anderson|23:05|9|3-4|0-0|3-5|0|2|2|5|1|2|1|2|3
|N. Reid|18:13|10|3-8|1-6|3-3|0|3|3|1|1|0|3|6|3
|S. Milton|14:01|6|2-5|0-2|2-2|0|5|5|4|0|0|1|1|0
|T. Brown Jr.|16:34|5|1-5|1-3|2-2|1|4|5|2|0|0|0|2|2
|J. Minott|1:20|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|0|2|2|0|0|0|0|1|2
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|NYK|32-92|9-38|27-34|16|23|8|10|3|17|33|61|
|MIN|41-80|11-34|24-32|30|26|7|13|7|7|37|53|
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Let them eat their damn chicken. We get to rest and get ready for Miami at home.
Tough loss. We need to really address our lack of size before the trade deadline we are gonna get killed by bigger teams. Brunson and Mitch played well.
Stupid Stat of the night: Second game in a row where we gave the away crowd free chik-fil-a bc of consecutive missed FTs
Grimes is a scared player… don’t know why he was in over RJ
Three takeaways:
– Grimes’ defense is not worth his horrible offense. It hasn’t been good this season. Start Donte until he figures it out.
– It’s getting to the point where I get scared when Randle does something as little as dribble the fucking ball because the dude keeps overdribbling and flailing everywhere. It either ends up as a turnover or he gets fouled and misses free throws.
– Haven’t beaten a good team yet. It concerns a lot of people, but not me yet. It’s still only November and we have two more chances this week with the Heat and the Suns coming up. This team is still solid.
I’m gonna pretend this game didn’t happen, fail, and be doubly upset throughout the day
First real stinker from RJ this year
Could not shoot for shit. Minnesota’s defense is no fucking joke. Knicks need to get an actual 3 & D guy if they wanna make noise
Best team out west so not too down about it. Randle stinker in a big game was expected. Dribbling the air out of basketball and looking off Brunson all game. 1 assist when the balls in his hand all game… RJ def needs to get his rhythm back but the stroke still looks good. JB is tryna be a lock for All Star this season. Next game is a must win for the tourney
This team has a pretty big size problem against teams like this. Grimes needs to make the shots he’s paid to make.
That third quarter sank us. Edwards took over for a while and it was enough for their defense to take care of the rest. Unfortunately we don’t have anyone on our team that can do that for us
Shots just weren’t falling tonight, on to the next one boys!
Also pretty funny how Breen was calling out Randle on all of his bullshit, “He is just out of control barreling into defenders” or “He is just so reckless”
Jeffries making sure that we shot below 80% freethrows AGAIN was just icing on the shit cake tonight. GG
RJ again 4/13 seriously Randle and Brunson need help with this mofo eating 30mil of the cap space and doing nothing
Did quick get hurt? 2nd least minutes in the game and 15 in 17 while giving the spark to stay in the game and then inexplicably comes out? Weird.
Tough loss, game really was lost exclusively in the third quarter. Can’t come out flat in the second after an already iffy start offensively against a team like this.
A lot of positives to take away from this still, Mitch still balling out defensively. Brunson still solid, just needed anybody else to get it going and this game was much more winnable. It’s still orange and blue skies out there just need to clear some clouds
Also Josh Hart is getting frustrating. Dude is afraid to shoot and ends up passing up open threes for that desperation floater over three people. Need that decisive Hart from last season back.
Coming out flat at half and not calling a timeout after giving up a bunch of easy buckets lost this game. Can’t complain too much since they are looking like a really tough team right now. Grimes (hopefully) won’t be this bad again but I think we need to consider moving him to the bench to give him more chances to touch the ball. RJ Randle Brunson in a lineup will not provide many touches to other players. gg lets win the next 500
Grimes needs to do SOMETHING on offense. He also gets absolutely cooked by the better guards in the league so it’s not like his defense is covering for his incredibly terrible shooting.
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Every time Randle has the ball and starts to dribble I wanna cry. He has some of the worst handles I’ve ever seen. Him spinning around in the paint is vomit inducing.
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Josh Hart…overpaid as fuck.
IQ – someone yesterday said that IQ was going to end up the best pick in his draft.
You dudes really need to stop overhyping Knicks players.
Randle was great but he needs some help. The young guys got to step up
Painful game, 3 point shooting came back down to earth
People complain about Randle over dribbling and trying to do too much (I do a lot as well), but when three of the guys he’s typically passes out to, Grimes, DDV, and IQ shoot 3-19 from beyond the arc, what do we expect him to do, pass to someone who’s almost guaranteed going to miss?
Minn smothered us at the rim
Bad shooting night in the road against the best team in the the west. It happens, wolves are legit. On to the next one.
The team gets a pass tonight. We can nitpick this game but look at it like this- 3-2 on this road trip, the only teams we lost to were the top team in the east and the top team in the west.
We better bring it on Friday!
The Hornets beating the Celtics makes that Celtic loss sting more smh. Can’t stand the Celtics. With these days of rest, Knicks better come out like the ’15 Warriors on Friday
I remember before the season people suggesting Grimes could make the leap this year. Not even close, he’s gone backwards.
I want to love grimes but man, when his wide open shots aren’t falling, what exactly is he good for?? His defense is vastly overrated and he doesn’t really do much else on the court. Need to see him pick it up or we might need to start a different SG in the starting lineup.
Worrying game from RJ without even looking at the box score/shooting numbers. Way too many dumb RJ plays that had been rare during his good start to the season. Have to hope he can get it back on track and not snowball it like he has throughout his career.
Grimes getting worked by one of the toughest scorers in the league and game thread wanted to put the guy who couldn’t stay in front of Kyle Anderson on him instead. Really good logic. I’m glad people have realized Divincenzo is actually a helpful player but y’all gotta understand last game was a **career high** in points and 3s, that’s literally never been who he is every night. Clearly didn’t have it tonight on offense either.
Is it me or is grimes not shooting well this season?
Minnesota is a big problem against most of the league, heck they’re undefeated at home for a reason. We obviously need to be better in hitting our shots (namely our supporting cast, which stunk up the joint tonight), but we’ll recover. Might need to look into moving Grimes to the bench though, he’s been the worst part of the first fifth-ish of the season this year. Needs to reset himself big time.
Can we also talk about how that was the worst use of a challenge I’ve ever seen??? Thibs is awful with those, happened last time too with Quickley obviously fouling a shooter beyond the arc
– Shots weren’t falling at all, no defense, Wolves played great, not our night.
– Timberwolves aren’t an easy out anymore. Anthony Edwards is fantastic.
– Aside from Brunson and Mitch, almost everyone had an off night. Knicks need more depth and height.
– It was nice to see Wally Szczerbiak get honored tonight.
– One of those you file away, right away. On to Miami.
Brunson was 7-15. Why can’t we just let him take over a game when nobody else can shoot? He needs to become an alpha.