Boston Celtics: The good, the bad, and the ugly from win against Knicks

The Ugly: The Knicks couldn’t buy a basket all night

The game wasn’t pretty by any stretch of the word and the New York Knicks were a major reason for that. They shot a poor 37 percent from the field and a measly 40 percent from the free-throw line.

Sure, certainly give the Boston Celtics a lot of credit for holding them down on offense, but let’s not pretend that some of the blame has to fall on the away team.

The Knicks only turned the ball over 12 times so it isn’t like they weren’t getting lots of shots up. They finished with 79 attempts on the game which was three more than what the shamrocks totaled, and they still lost by 24 points.

Julius Randle, RJ Barrett, and Alec Burks shot a combined 15-51 from the field and could never find any sort of rhythm.

New York is missing a few key players and it was clear that the ones who were available were a bit gassed from the extra workload.

It is always tough to pick up shorthanded road wins in the NBA but Saturday’s performance for the Knicks was as ugly as it gets after their 25-point comeback just two nights prior.