RJ Barrett puts up another dud as Knicks take brutal loss to Bucks

RJ Barrett could use a reliable jump shot under the Christmas tree.

The Knicks forward continued his rancid stretch Saturday by missing 12 of his 17 attempts with just one assist, as the Knicks were again humbled by the Bucks and bombarded by treys in a 130-111 defeat at MSG.

“I thought that every aspect of the game, we were a step behind,” coach Tom Thibodeau said.

In his past six games, Barrett, the highest Knicks draft pick since Patrick Ewing, connected on just 36.7 percent of his field goals and 20.8 percent of his threes.

His dud Saturday helped waste a 36-point gem from Jalen Brunson (which followed the point guard’s 45-point effort against the Bucks last month), though, as Josh Hart noted, the Knicks failed in the only category that mattered.

“Stats don’t really mean s–t when we’re losing,” Hart said. “You can’t play for stats, you can’t be so consumed with stats. And obviously we’re in New York. You’re going to be talked about. You’re going to be talked about well when you have good stats. When you have bad stats, you’re going to be talked about badly. But at the end of the day, you can’t play for stats.”