Knicks rout lottery-bound Bulls by 40 without Karl-Anthony Towns
Ahead of tipoff against the Chicago Bulls on Friday, Knicks head coach Mike Brown said he wasn’t 100% pleased with where his team stood with five games left on the regular-season schedule before the playoffs begin in mid-April. “You always want your team to be playing at the highest of high cylinders. Do I think we’re there right now?
No. Do I have belief in this team? Yes I do,” Brown said.
“I’ve seen us play really good basketball throughout the course of the year. Even in games where there’s quote-unquote manufactured pressure. We’ve played really good basketball.
So I like what we have in that locker room, and I like the things that we’ve done this year. “But I expect more from myself first, and everybody else second. ” If only the Knicks could play the Bulls 82 times a year.
The Knicks, who were without Karl-Anthony Towns (elbow) took the NBA Draft Lottery-bound Bulls to the woodshed and outscored them 20-1 to begin an all-out avalanche of a 136-96 victory at Madison Square Garden on Friday. The Knicks led by as many as 47 points, marking their second-largest advantage of any game this season. Their biggest margin of victory was a 54-point rout of the Brooklyn Nets on Jan.
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