Ugly stretch dooms Knicks in disappointing loss to Jazz
NY Post
SALT LAKE CITY — It was ‘80s Night’ at the Delta Center and the Knicks paid homage to the forgettable days of Pat Cummings and Louis Orr.
In other words, they weren’t very good.
As Journey and Bruce Springsteen blasted during timeouts, the Knicks were pounded at the start of the fourth quarter in a 117-113 defeat to the Jazz, wasting another strong performance from Julius Randle and missing two open shots that could’ve tied the game in the final seconds.
“We want to play for a full 48 minutes, playing our style of basketball, the way we want to play,” Jalen Brunson said. “We can’t have lapses like that and lose a game.”
The killer stretch spanned the third and fourth quarters — with Brunson and Randle mostly on the bench — when the Jazz scored 16 straight points to take a 15-point advantage.
It started with a boneheaded foul from center Isaiah Hartenstein, who ran into Utah’s Lauri Markkanen as the forward took a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Devin Singletary was not the second-overall pick of the 2019 NFL draft. Brandon Beane, the Bills general manager, didn’t gush that Singletary was touched by the hand of God when he selected him with the 74th pick in the third round out of Florida Atlantic University. He didn’t envision him as a Gold Jacket Guy.