This is the part that gives hope for the other side of the season and other games, as there will be an open casting call for alpha dogs who can take their turns at the moment of greatest need. Lately, I have become a different person every night.
This time it was OG Anunoby. He was playing against his former team and made his first 11 shots of the night and finished with 31 shots. On the other hand, I played defense in my own personal parlor game, picking designated opponents and shutting them down completely, constantly shuffling my deck.
That's all the Knicks needed to beat the Raps 139-125 on a night when Jalen Brunson missed his first six shots from the field and his first three from the line.
Two nights earlier, Brunson, who scored 39 points and extended the third quarter in New Orleans, flatly declared that the Knicks were not going to be targeted by the feisty Pelicans. . Anthony Towns was largely invisible thanks to foul trouble.
