Jalen Brunson, 35 and 11, but not enough.

Nick certainly hurt by the ejection of Josh Hart in the first half on a flagrant two-fowl

call, automatic ejection.

Brunson, back to back, 35 and 11 efforts.

And the Knicks come back, falls short tonight after a magnificent one last night.

And they fell behind by 20,

a rough first quarter.

All righty.

Next lose,

tough game,

understandable game,

but a tough game nonetheless,

especially when they did what they always do, and they made a real push in the second half against a Bulls team that is, like, let's call them a Feisty Bulls team, because that's, that's what they are. They're a feisty bulls team, and they've actually been a decent, a half decent basketball team since they started the season slowly, but still a team that you figure even the version of the Knicks that we have right now should be.

And that they're the better team.

And I think I don't think anyone's going to come out of this game thinking that the Bulls are a better basketball team than the Knicks, despite the fact that they won 100 to or 108 to 100.

I think this game came down to a few things.

My lead storyline is, I think, has to be the fact that they, the Bulls are coming off

for three days off.

They have not played a basketball game since Monday.

And boy, oh, boy, did you see that play out, especially in the first half when they were flying all over the court and, you know, making shots and just they were everywhere.

And they were doing most of their damage. They had a few threes early for sure. They they were doing most of their damage that they

had a few threes early for sure they were really doing most of their damage inside the arc and

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