SACRAMENTO, Calif. — RJ Barrett was cooking through three quarters Tuesday night, leading the Knicks with 25 points as they sought to hold on for their 10th consecutive win.
But Barrett hit a wall in the fourth, missing eight of his last nine field-goal attempts in the Knicks’ come-from-ahead loss to the Hornets at the Garden.
Immanuel Quickley also was 0-for-4 in the fourth quarter, as the Knicks finished the final period hitting just five of 26 shot attempts and missing all nine tries from 3-point range.
“At some point they started doubling the pick-and-roll. Whenever they did that I was just trying to make the right pass and when I got it back I was trying to be aggressive,” Barrett said after the game. “I don’t think my shots were horrible. A lot of the shots I took were the same shots that I took before, they just didn’t go in.”
“I think we just missed some shots, we had a lot of bunnies that we missed. Stuff like that. It happens sometimes.”
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The Knicks offered no immediate update on the status of starting point guard Jalen Brunson for the game Thursday against the Kings.
He missed the previous two games with a sore left foot.
Tom Thibodeau on guard Daquan Jeffries, who was signed Sunday to a 10-day contract, then assigned to G-League Westchester: “Just continue to work. We liked him a lot last year and then the fall, summer, we liked him. … He got hurt in training camp, so that set him back a little bit, but played very well in the G-League, so we like him a lot.”
Trevor Keels, the Knicks’ second-round pick out of Duke, was not signed to a second 10-day deal and is now an NBA free agent, with Westchester still holding his G-League rights.
Center Moses Brown is being added on a two-way NBA contract, the team announced. He appeared in 34 games for the Clippers this seaon, averaging 4.6 points and 4.1 rebounds.
