That game was really just what the doctor ordered.
I know my heart couldn’t take another game like the ones the Knicks have been in against the Nets, Sixers, and even Magic this past week. I can’t imagine what Julius Randle, RJ Barrett, or — heaven forbid — Tom Thibodeau must have been feeling lately.
I was actually kind of worried before the game that the Wizards might not be the pushover that their record suggests — they’d played a lot of the same teams close that the Knicks have also lost to close recently, so this kind of had the makings to me of a bit of a trap game.