#Washington Wizards at New York Knicks
Madison Square Garden- New York, NY
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401591925)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/NYKnicks/comments/17b3c68/game_thread_washington_wizards_00_at_new_york/k5gumgv/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|WAS |29|36|30|36|131|
|NYK |31|21|30|24|106|
###Player Stats
**Washington Wizards**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|B. Coulibaly|21:17|7|1-5|1-3|4-4|0|3|3|0|3|0|0|0|-4
|D. Avdija|15:02|2|1-4|0-2|0-0|1|4|5|3|0|1|1|2|0
|D. Gafford|18:00|5|2-5|0-0|1-2|1|2|3|1|1|1|0|2|4
|J. Poole|27:01|41|10-19|6-12|15-16|1|4|5|2|2|0|4|1|2
|T. Jones|25:34|13|6-12|1-2|0-0|1|3|4|7|2|0|2|0|6
|M. Muscala|24:42|20|7-10|5-7|1-1|1|7|8|0|0|0|0|1|12
|D. Wright|21:19|5|2-4|1-2|0-0|1|4|5|2|1|0|1|1|10
|D. Gallinari|17:30|7|3-6|1-3|0-0|0|2|2|2|0|1|2|2|10
|C. Kispert|21:23|8|3-6|2-5|0-0|0|1|1|2|2|0|0|0|24
|R. Rollins|15:31|13|6-8|1-3|0-0|1|3|4|1|0|0|0|4|23
|P. Baldwin|11:59|2|1-5|0-3|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|1|1|2|13
|J. Butler|6:35|0|0-2|0-1|0-0|0|3|3|4|1|0|1|2|9
|T. Gibson|6:35|5|2-2|1-1|0-0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|9
|J. Bernard|4:03|3|1-1|1-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|5
|X. Cooks|3:29|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|2|2|1|0|0|1|1|2
**New York Knicks**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|R. Barrett|34:18|19|8-19|3-8|0-0|0|7|7|3|0|0|2|3|-11
|J. Randle|28:53|20|8-15|4-6|0-2|2|8|10|0|0|0|1|1|-8
|M. Robinson|23:36|12|6-9|0-0|0-2|6|5|11|0|2|0|0|0|2
|Q. Grimes|16:58|5|1-4|1-4|2-3|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|3|4
|J. Brunson|24:40|12|3-12|1-5|5-6|2|4|6|5|0|0|5|2|0
|D. DiVincenzo|24:03|7|3-7|1-3|0-0|0|2|2|0|0|0|2|2|-23
|M. McBride|23:20|5|2-7|1-4|0-2|0|0|0|5|0|0|0|0|-25
|J. Hart|18:34|8|2-3|2-3|2-2|0|5|5|3|1|0|4|2|-16
|E. Fournier|13:42|6|2-5|0-2|2-2|0|0|0|0|1|0|0|1|-14
|I. Hartenstein|17:49|9|4-8|0-1|1-2|4|1|5|2|1|0|1|2|-18
|J. Sims|6:35|0|0-0|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1|-9
|D. Jeffries|4:03|0|0-2|0-2|0-0|0|0|0|1|0|0|0|0|-5
|C. Brown Jr.|3:29|3|1-1|1-1|0-0|0|1|1|0|0|0|0|0|-2
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|WAS|45-89|20-45|21-23|26|18|12|13|4|7|40|55|
|NYK|40-92|14-39|12-21|20|17|5|15|0|14|33|52|
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It’s just preseason. Breathe. We will be just fine.
LFG I’m hyped for next week
That was a game of nba basketball.
They played lazy as fuck in a preseason game. Thibs gonna chew them out.
We lost to the Wizards in preseason, so clearly the Knicks are lottery team this season.
Thank god with have the NY Liberty and my 3v3 team at the Y to save NY sports 😃
Edit: The Liberty are dead, but my squad aint!
– RJ Barrett should shoot 3s from the right corner only
– Quentin Grimes should shoot them from everywhere and guys should be looking for him
– Don’t understand the insistence on iso ball when Brunson or RJ PnR usually results in something good
– In general i feel like by your 4th year coaching a team you should understand what strengths and weaknesses individuals have and play towards that rather than purely playing a guessing game of “which of Randle/Brunson/RJ is gonna have a good game 2nite”
But w/e its preseason
Knicks giving 20 shots to RJ over Donte and Grimes is a recipe for disaster but the genius Leon will never realize that he’s too busy building trade packages for freaking Towns.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if we had another down year. Wouldn’t stop me from getting pissed though. If that happens, you’d think that Thibs’ has to be on the hot seat at that point. Can’t keep having let down seasons immediately after good ones
I missed the game but seeing JP dropped 41 is crazy ngl
I know this is preseason and this is not so much about this specific game but the Knicks are so much better with Quickley. I really think he is the x factor this season
Team looked absolutely abysmal tonight. It’s a little concerning.
Not sure what the angle was on having them wait till the last pre-season game to actually put the starting lineup on the court for any real meaningful minutes, but there appeared to be major communication issues on defense that will hopefully get rectified by opening night.
Offense, as I said in another thread for pre-season game 2, it’s quite obvious to me that they really need an upgrade at the 2 guard position. I know Grimes went off last night, but tonight he was back to normal — which means he contributed nothing. They desperately need 3 point shooting. Wizards absolutely cooked them from behind the line.
Divincenzo got a lot of time this pre-season but I’m yet to see why the Knicks signed him. Let’s hope he can show something in the regular season.
I’ll tell you one thing…..this sub is in mid season form. My god y’all gotta relax.
I actually think it’s time to move on from thibs maybe give Bryant a chance because clearly letting brick J do whatever he wants is not going to work
I know it’s only pre-season but if they let this kid take 19 shots during the season this is not a serious organization
I liked the way Randle played in terms of attacking the paint
Unfortunately Grimes is going to see a lot of games with less than 5 shots as our iso heavy offensive he is relying on the ball to move his way as we don’t run any plays for him (I.e. run him off curls).
RJ stunk it up in the 1st half played better in the 2nd he is driving and kicking more. Not a fan of him taking 8 3s
Overall we looked a little lazy on D imma chuck it up to preseason tho
A couple things
The starting unit hasn’t played long enough this preseason to actually get consistency.
Brunson and hart and Rj all played world so there probably taking it easy until game 1 of the season. Why go hard now? Maybe the last preseason but still
Randle looks better but he’s going to probably need the 1st 15 games to get into all star rhythm from his ankle surgery
Just like before the team can’t get into a real rhythm when Thibs is playing everyone. It’s preseason so he has to do it but once it gets down to the 9 man rotation you should get better consistency
It’s preseason
There isn’t any game plan for Poole so once teams figure him out he will go back to normal
I’m not really sure what I expected from DiVincenzo but what i’ve seen this offseason sure ain’t it. -23 is pretty rough. Had 6 turnovers last game as well. Hoping he just needs to click with the team.
If teams hit 20 three pointers out 45, the Knicks are screwed.
Luckily I don’t think that level of shooting is sustainable so I think we will be ok
Another example that IQ is so important to this team and its defense #PayIQ
Excited for regular season lets go!
I enjoyed the C’s blowout so much more. We mostly played our third-stringers + Grimes & Mitch but there was ball movement and unselfish play. We didn’t have enough star power to win but we played the right way offensively. This game was the exact opposite of that. Iso-ball, selfish ballhogging, freezing out players. Awful to watch.
Welp, glad it doesn’t count, I guess.
Lmao there’s no way people in here are actually getting pressed over preseason
Better hope it was just preseason lack of effort because if they don’t get it together by next week Boston is going to light us up
* Jordan Poole: 41pts on 19 shots
* RJ Barrett: 19pts on 19 shots
Why didn’t Quickley play?
The voice of reason to the rescue:
Brunson had (by his standard) a terrible game.
IQ was out.
Grimes got into early foul trouble and had to sit out extended minutes.
Wizards were shooting unsustainably well.
This game should not have been so lopsided and wouldn’t be under normal circumstances.