New York Knicks: 6 takeaways from an opening night loss
By Ben Bennett
Three-point shooting woes
One of the major factors that killed the Knicks’ hopes of winning this game was the team’s poor performance behind the arc. New York shot a putrid 24% from three in the loss.
In today’s modern-style NBA, that just can’t happen if you want to have any hope of winning games. The only players to shoot above 35% on the team were Evan Fournier and Cam Reddish, each going 3 for 5 from three.
The Knicks were in the upper half of the league in three-point percentage last year, so this game might just be a fluke. The team got plenty of good to wide-open looks – the shots just wouldn’t fall. Hopefully, this game is just a fluke and not an ominous sign of things to come.