PostSportsPlus: The numbers and trends behind the Knicks’ debilitating failures in crunch time
Then there is Julius Randle, who is having a terrific season. He’s a legitimate All-Star candidate, shooting an equivalent percentage and averaging a few ticks more points and rebounds than he did in his breakout season two years ago. But he has hurt the Knicks in the clutch, which the NBA identifies as the last five minutes of any game in which either team leads by five points or less. Randle is shooting a woeful 27.3 percent, 12.5 percent from 3-point range, 68.
Some of that can be attributed to games that Barrett and Brunson missed or be dismissed as a relatively small sample size. But not all of it. The Knicks have not been the same team in close games. It is why they own a mediocre 7-8 record since their big eight-game December winning streak.By 3-point percentage, Quentin Grimes is the Knicks’ second-best long-range shooter. The second-year guard is hitting 37 percent of his attempts from beyond the arc on 5.
In a game such as Monday’s, when Brunson and Randle shot a combined 18-of-49 and clearly weren’t at their best, it would behoove the Knicks to spread the ball around more. Getting one of their best shooters more than five shots across 40 minutes would have helped. For what it’s worth, the Knicks are 12-5 when Grimes scores in double figures. In other words, when he’s involved in the offense, the Knicks perform better. Far too often of late, that has not been the case.
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