Randle With Triple-Double In Blowout Win Over Raptors As RJ And IQ Return To The Garden

Randle With Triple-Double In Blowout Win Over Raptors As RJ And IQ Return To The Garden

ACTUALLY, THE GAME IS COMING UP HERE ON MSG. OKAY. SO GREAT WELCOME FOR R.J. BARRETT AND IMMANUEL QUICKLEY, AND NOW SINCE THE TRADE, WALLY, THE KNICKS ARE 9-2 AND THE RAPTORS ARE 5-5. WELL, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE TWO TEAMS GOING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. AFTER TRADING AWAY PASCAL

SIAKAM, THEY ARE GOING INTO THE REBUILD MODE, SO YOU HAVE A TEAM THAT IS FOCUSED ON WINNINGED AND THEY TOOK OVER THE GAME IN THE THIRD QUARTER AND OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE DEFENDING THE HOME COURT. AND ALSO, MENTIONING OG ANUNOBY WITH 14 POINTS AND 7 REBOUNDS.

AND SO ALL IN ALL, GOOD NUMBERS FOR THE TRADE PLAYERS, AND NOW, THE KNICKS OUTSCORE THE RAPTORS BY 12 IN THE FOURTH QUARTER AS WELL AS THE THIRD. YES, AND THE RAPTORS CAME OUT IN THE THIRD QUARTER AND AGGRESSIVELY AND THEN AT HALF, COACH THIBODEAU PUT SOME THINGS IN ACTION, AND DONTE DIVINCENZO

CAME OUT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WAS PUT INTO ACTION. JALEN BRUNSON STEPPED UP AS WELL TO SHOW IT IN THE SECOND HALF AND ESPECIALLY IN THE RUN. JALEN BRUNSON WAS NOT GOING TO LET THE KNICKS LOSE THIS GAME. YOU COULD SEE HOW IMPORTANT THIS

GAME WAS GOING TO BE TO HIM AND TO DEFEND THE HOME COURT, AND TO SHOW THAT THE TRADE WAS A MOVE THAT MOVING FORWARD WAS THE RIGHT MOVE FOR THIS FRANCHISE. THAT WHAT FRANCHISE CORNERSTONES DO, AND THIS IS WHAT JALEN BRUNSON DID. LOOKING AT THE REBOUNDING DIFFERENTIAL. 30 TO THE KNICKS. YES.

THE BENCH WAS KEY IN THE FIRST HALF WHEN THE KNICKS WERE TRAILING BY 11. AND ACHIUWA HAD HIS BEST GAME. HE IS STANDING BY NOW WITH AL. WELL, THANK YOU, BILL. PRECIOUS, THE FIRST AND FOREMOST IMPORTANT THING WAS GETTING THE WIN HERE, AND DIFFERENT ATMOSPHERE FOR A REGULAR SEASON

GAME, BUT HOW IMPORTANT TO COME AWAY WITH THE WIN? WELL, IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT. AND JUST THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT AT THIS POINT IN THE SEASON EVERY WIN MATTERS AND EVERY GAME MATTERS AND WE HAVE TO COME OUT WITH THAT APPROACH AND ATTACK

FROM THE BEGINNING, AND GAMES LIKE THIS IS GOING TO MATTER IN PLAYOFF TIME. AND FOR, YOU IT IS A LITTLE BET OF BREAKOUT GAME, BECAUSE WHILE WE SAW OG ANUNOBY AND WHAT HE COULD DO, BUT FOR YOU, IT IS THE FIRST TIME FOR THE CROWD TO

SEE WHAT YOU COULD DO. AND WHAT WORKED FOR YOU? WELL, PLAYING THE RIGHT WAY AND TRUSTING MY TEAMMATES AND THE SAME THING THAT I HAVE BEEN DOING, AND SO THE BALL HAPPENED TO COME MY WAY TODAY, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO GET

THE WIN, AND WE WENT OUT THERE AND ACCOMPLISHED THAT JOB. SO MUCH OF THE GUYS RETURNING TO THE GARDEN, BUT HOW ABOUT YOU PLAYING FOR THE FORMER TEAM AND SOMETHING EXTRA ABOUT ITT? NO, THE IMPORTANT THING IS TO GO OUT THERE TO PLAY THE RIGHT

WAY AND COME OUT WITH THE WIN. THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING AND WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE LOCKER ROOM AND ESPECIALLY AT HALFTIME AND KIND OF A CLOSE GAME THERE, AND SO WE WENT IN AND WE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT THE THINGS THAT WE HAD TO DO AND THE

ADJUSTMENTS AND WE CAME OUT TO HANDLE BUSINESS. TERRIFIC PERFORMANCE BY YOU. THANK YOU. BACK TO YUSHGOU, BILL. AND ISAIAH HARTENSTEIN LEFT THE GAME ON WHAT THE KNICKS ARE CALLING A SORE ANKLE AND MAYBE GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR ACHIUWA TO GET COMFORTABLE, AND WE TALKED

ABOUT THE BENCH, AND JOSH HART WITH NINE POINTS AND FIVE REBOUNDS AND WHEN THE TEAM WAS DOWN, THE BENCH GOT THEM BACK INTO THE GAME. THEY PLAYED GOOD BASKETBALL, AND THAT IS GOOD BECAUSE THE GAME BEFORE THEY DIDN’T. SO FOR THEM TO BOUNCE BACK AND GIVE SOME QUALITY MINUTES WAS

HUGE TO SUPPORT THE STARTING UNIT WITH JALEN BRUNSON AND DONTE DIVINCENZO AND JULIUS RANDLE AND WHEN THEY GO TO BENCH, IT IS NICE TO HAVE THE BENCH HOLD ON TO THE LEAD. THE KNICKS’ FIRST TRIPLE-DOUBLE SINCE APRIL OF 2022 AND IRONICALLY ENOUGH, IT IS IMMANUEL QUICKLEY WHO HAD THE

TRIPLE-DOUBLE AGAINST TORONTO, AND RANDLE WAS GREAT TODAY. OH, OUTSTANDING. HE REALLY WAS. HE IS MAKING ALL OF THE RIGHT PLAYS, AND THE PASSING HAS BEEN OUTSTANDING WAY HE IS FINDING GUYS AND THE WAY HE IS PLAYING, AND SOMETIMES POINT-FORWARD TYPE LOOK. AND THE REBOUNDING, AND WHAT A MONSTROUS EFFORT ON THE BOARDS.

YOU CAN REALLY SEE THE DEFICIENCIES THAT THE RAPTORS HAVE ON THE BOARDS WITHOUT JAKOB POELTL OUT THERE. AND YOU CAN SEE THE CHEMISTRY WITH DONTE DIVINCENZO, AND HE FINDS HIM FOR A LOT OF THE BIG TIME THREES AND THE CUTS, BUT EASY REBOUNDS ON THE OFFENSIVE END OF THE FLOOR FOR JULIUS

RANDLE, AND HE OVERPOWERED SCOTTIE BARNES. SCOTTIE BARNES IS BEING THRUST INTO THE FRANCHISE FOR THE RAPTORS, AND YOU COULD SEE HE IS REALLY STRUGGLING A LITTLE BIT BEING THE NUMBER ONE GUY IN THE SCOUTING REPORT. OG ANUNOBY DID A GREAT JOB ON HIM, AND SO DID JULIUS RANDLE DO

A GREAT JOB DEFENSIVELY ON HIM, AND OVERALL GREAT PERFORMANCE TOP TO BOTTOM BY JULIUS. AND NOW, 18-0 ON THE TEAMS UNDER .500. TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS. MONICA McNUTT CALLING US AND ON THE CALL ON THE ESPN RADIO 84.7 FM, AND WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THE ATMOSPHERE OF THE

BUILDING AND THE RETURN OF R.J. BARRETT AND IMMANUEL QUICKLEY? WELL, IT FELT LIKE QUICKLY CERTAINLY SOME EMOTIONS BETWEEN THE CANADIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM AND OUR NATIONAL ANTHEM AND SOME R.J. BARRETT CHANTS AND I FELT IT WAS EARLY, BUT I COULD UNDERSTAND THE ENTHUSIASM FROM THE FAN BASE, BUT BY THE TIME

THEY GOT TO THE SECOND QUARTER, IT SEEMED THEY SETTLED DOWN AND SO DID R.J. BARRETT AND IMMANUEL QUICKLEY. YES, AND SPEAKING FOR THIS AS A DAD, THE KIDS WERE HOME FOR THE VISIT AND YOU LET THEM ACT UP, AND THEN YOU TO LET THE RULES COME DOWN. SO BOTH SIDES HAD ENERGY AND

ADRENALINE AND THE RAPTORS WERE PLAYING OUT OF THEIR MINDS IN THE FIRST QUARTER AND R.J. BARRETT OFF TO A GREAT START, AND QUICKLEY HAD THE VERY GOOD BEGIN OF THE GAME AND THEN IN THE SECOND QUARTER, JALEN BRUNSON AND JULIUS RANDLE SAID,

NO, IT IS TIME TO WIN THE GAME AND NICE TO HAVE YOU VISIT, BUT WE STILL HAVE TO GET THE DUB. THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I SAW, WALLY. WHAT ARE THE THOUGHTS OF IMMANUEL QUICKLEY HITTING THE FIRST THREE AND THEN SKIPPING

AROUND AS A ROAD OPPONENT ON THE GARDEN FLOOR AND HE DID IT A COUPLE OF TIMES. WHAT WAS THE THOUGHTS? IT WAS WEIRD. I SAID, I DON’T KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT HIM SKIPPING IN A RAPTORS’ UNIFORM, AND HOW POETIC IT WAS WITH ANUNOBY GETTING A CORNER BLOCK ON RRD R.J. BARRETT WITH

CONVERSATIONS WE HAVE HAD. IT IS LIKE THE ACTING UP KIDS, AND OKAY, YOU HAVE ONE, BUT THAT IS IT. AND THE BUILDING WAS BUZZING, AND A LOT OF ENERGY EARLY ON, AND NOTHING LIKE PLAYING IN MADISON SQUARE GARDEN WITH THE ENERGY IN THE BUILDING AND WE FELT THAT TONIGHT, BUT THE

SECOND HALF DID FEEL LIKE A REGULAR SEASON BASKETBALL GAME, AND THE KNICKS WERE THE SUPERIOR TEAM. THEY END UP WINNING THE GAME BY 26, AND WHAT DID YOU THINK, ALAN, AND TALKING ABOUT BENCH CONTRIBUTION, BECAUSE I FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO WIN THE GAME. ABSOLUTELY, AND PRECIOUS

ACHIUWA AND WHAT HE WAS ABLE TO DO AND OBVIOUSLY I JUST TALKED TO HIM AND YOU COULD TELL THAT HE WAS HOLDING BACK TALKING THE TEAM-FIRST, BUT HE HAD A SENSE OF PRIDE IN HIMSELF AS WELL TO SHOW OUT WHAT HE COULD DO WHEN HE HAS EXTENDED MINUTES, BUT

WITH HARTENSTEIN WITH THE SORE ANKLE, AND THAT IMPORTANT AS WELL, AND QUENTIN GRIMES GETTING A COUPLE OF LATE BUCKETS YOU HOPE HE CAN BUILD ON THAT AND GETTING JOSH HART BACK INTO THE LINEUP WAS HUGE. YES, AND THE BENCH PRODUCTIVITY WAS A CONVERSATION, BUT THE ENERGY WITH WHAT THEY

PLAY WITH IS ALSO AS IMPORTANT AND ALSO ON THE QUENTIN GRIMES NOTE, HAHN, WE KNOW THAT QUINT IS A THREE-POINT SHOOTER, BUT THE DUNKS AND THE HIGH PERCENTAGE SHOTS AND ONE WHEN THE TEAM WAS GOING TO OPPOSITE BASKET THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN

AND-ONE IN MY MIND WHEN HE HIT THE GROUND AND LAID IT UP. BUT IT WAS THE LEVEL OF AGGRESSION. EVEN IF IT IS LATE IN THE GAME, BUT TO SEE HIM GET A DUNK AND IT IS LIKE, GET IT OFF OF YOUR BACK AND LET OUT A SCREAM

AND FEEL GOOD AND WHAT TYPE OF TEAM YOU ARE PLAYING ON, BECAUSE THE KNICKS HAVE BEEN ON A ROLL AND THEY HAVE BEEN PLAYING VERY WELL AT HOME, AND THAT IS SOMETHING ELSE TO POINT OUT. THANK YOU. MONICA WITH THE NETS TUESDAY AND ONE OF TWO ROAD GAMES BENOW AND THEN, WALLY.

RJ Barrett and Immanuel Quickley return to The Garden for the first time since the trade that saw them go to Toronto and they came ready to play. However, it was the massive ouput by Jalen Brunson with 38 points and Julius Randle with a triple-double in a blowout win for the Knicks. This is the 3rd straight win for the Knicks as they look to take on the Nets in Brooklyn.

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Randle With Triple-Double In Blowout Win Over Raptors As RJ And IQ Return To The Garden