Game Thread: New York Knicks at Dallas Mavericks - 4/16/21

Nothing is more satisfying than seeing that we traded away KP and ended up replacing him by signing Randle, a better player right now.

A lot of free throw misses down the stretch Mavs on life support after a Luka 3

Wow, closing out this last minute was not easy, but we did it.

Knicks win!

5 game winning streak!

It?s over 117-109 good guys that?s 5 in a row!

Knicks climb to 3 games over 0.500.

We are currently the 6th seed, a game and a half ahead of the Heat in the 7th seed. We stay 6th seed or better and we avoid the play-in.

JR almost outscores Luka and KP by himself

Kiyaman said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1383274398711304200

Click to expand...

Nice Kiya I retweeted that one had to

Knicks 117, Mavericks 109: Scenes from Julius Randle channeling his inner Bernard King

Julius dominated.

Tweet

Alan Hahn
@alanhahn
?
2h
Julius Randle just put 34 on his former team the Lakers, 32 on his former team the Pelicans and now has 44 on the Mavs in his hometown of Dallas on national TV. Hell of a run by him. #Knicks on a 5-game winning streak.
@ESPNNBA

A season ago, the Knicks were the laughingstock of the basketball world after they handed Kristaps Porzingis to the Dallas Mavericks on a silver platter and hitched their wagon to Julius Randle (stat-padding loser) and RJ Barrett (not even on the All-Rookie teams). What a difference a year makes!

Julius Randle is the first Knicks player with 40 Pts, 10 Reb and 5 Ast in a single game since Bernard King did it on March 22, 1985 in a win against the Pacers.

Longest winning streak in 7 years!

?That?s the beauty of the team I really like the depth of our club,? Tom Thibodeau said. ?And we?ve had a number of guys step up in the fourth quarter, and play well. You need everyone and the willingness to sacrifice, put the team first, recognize when someone?s going well. That might mean you might not finish the game that particular night, but you search that person out because he?s got a good matchup and he?s going well. You have to put winning and the team first and that?s what I love about this group, their willingness to sacrifice and commit to the team first.?

RJ Barrett was fantastic down the stretch of Friday's road win, finishing with 24 points (9-of-18 FGs, 3-of-5 FTs), eight boards, two assists and one steal.
Barrett came in making 56.4% of his 3-pointers in the Knicks' previous nine games, and went 3-of-6 tonight. He's taken a huge leap as a shooter this year and his offseason work ethic is worth remembering on draft day next season. Barrett played nearly every minute of this game, due partly to the absence of Alec Burks (health and safety protocols) and partly to coach Tom Thibodeau's typical approach to playing his stars monster minutes