The New York Knicks finally get to take a souvenir home.
It was perhaps an expensive addition, but the Knicks downed the Dallas Mavericks by a 113-111 final on Wednesday night at American Airlines Center.
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Entering Wednesday night play, the Knicks (9-5) were one of two teams, alongside the reeling Indiana Pacers, that had yet to register a win away from their home base.
“You have to win in different ways, and if we lost the game, I’ll tell you—it sounds crazy—but I thought we competed,” Knicks head coach Mike Brown said in the aftermath, per Kristian Winfield of the New York Daily News. “I thought we tried to play the game the right way tonight, and when you do those things, then the confidence starts to build, and you can start stacking wins on the road because you’re about the right stuff, and tonight, we were about the right stuff even though the shots didn’t go in.”
It’s probably for the best that the Knicks have no playoff selection committee to impress, as the severely shorthanded Mavericks gave them all they could handle. Obviously playing without traded franchise face Luka Doncic, Dallas also went without top draft pick Cooper Flagg, extended backcourt threat Kyrie Irving, and Anthony Davis, the main yield from the controversial Doncic deal.
But, paced by strong relief efforts from Naji Marshall and D’Angelo Russell, the Mavericks refused to budge despite several metropolitan attempts to pull away. A narrow score persisted through the final minutes, as neither team led by more than five in the final period.
Amidst a 28-point outing for Jalen Brunson and double-doubles for Josh Hart and Karl-Anthony Towns, it was Landry Shamet who got to play hero: the second-year New Yorker that stole the final conventional roster spot continued his torrid November pace, hitting consecutive clutch triples in the final minute-plus to seal the deal.
Shamet, less than a week removed from a 36-point showing in a Sunday win over Miami, then drew an offensive foul in the final second, as Brandon Williams was charged with a call as he drove against the reserve that negated his would-be equalizer. It was a welcome change from the Knicks’ last attempt to win on the road, as the duel in Dallas came just over 48 hours after New York fell by two in a South Beach-based rematch.
“The ball found me, I didn’t find any open looks early,” Shamet said, per Ben Krimmel of SNY. “Stayed composed, and knew, had a feeling some would come in the fourth, and they did, just step in, ready to shoot, good plays by my teammates, and I’ll take them.”
Kremmel’s report also featured relief from a “happy” Brunson, who also readily acknowledged the fact that the Knicks “have a lot of work to do.”
In some ways, Wednesday’s game should’ve never come down to Shamet’s dual heroics—the best things in life were anything but free for the Knicks in Dallas, as they were 19-of-35 from the foul line, including 1-of-6 alone over the last 22 seconds as the exhausted Mavericks struggled to keep pace.
The resulting success rate of 54.3 percent is the worst output of any winning team in an NBA game so far this young season.
Despite Davis and Flagg both sitting, the Knicks also lost Wednesday’s rebounding battle and shot less than 30 percent from three-point range for the third time this season (losing the prior couple).
“We don’t want it to come down to [a late call],” Shamet noted, per Krimmel. “We’ve got to do a better job of playing 48 minutes and find a way to create some more separation earlier in the game.”
The Knicks, of course, are dealing with their own ailments: Brunson returned to action on Wednesday after two games off due to an ankle injury, and OG Anunoby continues to work off a hamstring strain. Brown, however, noted that the Knicks’ opponents and finding ways to compete, and even win, despite missing their own headliners.
“Miami’s missing Bam [Adebayo] and Tyler Herro, and they’re finding ways to win games,” Brown noted, per Winfield. “I know we were missing Jalen, OG, two of our quote-unquote All-Stars against Miami at home, and we found a way to win. Anything can happen on any given night in this league.
“You’ve got to respect everybody, and however you can get a win, you go get that win and you feel good about it and you keep trying to get a little bit better. So I don’t care what spread is or what the thoughts should be on the spread. We competed, we tried to play the right way, and we got a dub.”
The Knicks will go for road win No. 2 on Saturday evening as they return to Florida to face the Orlando Magic (5:00 p.m. ET, MSG).
