The Knicks will lose for the second time this week in a game that was hard fought, but they came up short.

They dropped two in a row and will fall to two games under 500 at home.

Five and seven here at the Garden Clyde.

And this was a tough one to swap.

All right.

Obviously, this pointing ending to that game, but, uh, God, I don't even know how to wrap my head around what we just saw. I will say this. Um, there's going to be a lot of negativity, probably around the first half. I would imagine that's what happens when you go down by 21.

And that's fine.

And I get that.

There was a lot to be upset about.

They were sloppy.

They were mostly on defense.

They were sloppy on defense.

They were sloppy on offense, too, with the turnovers.

Alex Caruso, other than Demar de Rosen, was absolutely by far the most important player for the Bulls.

It's not even close.

But if we're keeping this big picture, and we'll talk about the game specifically in a second,

if we're keeping a big picture, I am going to take this game and this loss.

I don't know if I want to say I'm going to take it as a positive because, look,

the next year of 500 team at this point.

They came into the season with certain aspirations.

And they're a 500 team after 22 games.

I get that.

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