It’s that time of the season that has been all-too-familiar for most Knicks teams—the time when you care less about the results of the game and more about how the youth are progressing. A game was still played, and the final score reflects that the Knicks lost 125-109—their 11th loss in their last 14 games. It was a somewhat typical, but not as bad a loss as the score presents with little to complain about other than the pointlessness of 34 point-Burks minutes (yielding 6 points on 2-6 shooting and 0 assists).
Sometimes you just play teams that are better than you, and sometimes those teams happen to be ones featuring a recently-traded and freshly-motivated James Harden trying to prove he wasn’t giving half of his best effort in Brooklyn alongside Joel Embiid trying to prove he’s this season’s MVP.