New season, same old finishes. The New York Knicks dropped to 0-3 Saturday night, losing to the Boston Celtics in the first home game at Madison Square Garden of 2019-20, 118-95. A second-half breakdown led to David Fizdale’s team’s collapse, with 72 allowed points to just 44 of their own in the third and fourth quarters combined.
This rough game will send the Knicks reeling, leaving more questions than answers about lineups and the rotation moving forward. How did player performances potentially impact this? Let’s take at the grades from the Oct. 26 game:
It is usually hard to find good performances in losing efforts, but RJ Barrett played well for the Knicks, scoring a current career-high 26 points on 9-for-20 shooting, 4-for-6 from three-point range, seven rebounds and three assists.