{"id":146182,"date":"2021-01-03T02:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T23:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/knicks-rj-barrett-spent-new-years-eve-trying-to-fix-his-shooting\/"},"modified":"2021-01-03T02:09:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T23:09:31","slug":"knicks-rj-barrett-spent-new-years-eve-trying-to-fix-his-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/knicks-rj-barrett-spent-new-years-eve-trying-to-fix-his-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"#Knicks’ RJ Barrett spent New Year’s Eve trying to fix his shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Knicks’ RJ Barrett spent New Year’s Eve trying to fix his shooting<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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After shooting 0-for-8 from beyond the arc against the Raptors on Thursday night in Tampa, sinking to 0-for-21 across his past four game<\/a>s, RJ Barrett returned to the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n

It was New Year\u2019s Eve and midnight was app<\/a>roaching, but the Knicks guard went back on the court and stayed there for an hour putting up shots to try to snap out of his recent funk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went in and shot after the game. I spent time shooting [Friday] and today,\u201d Barrett said Saturday morning after a shootaround in Indiana before the Knicks took on the Pacers. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to get my groove back, just get back in it. But I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Barrett had plenty of company in firing blanks from the 3-point line in Thursday\u2019s 100-83 loss to the Raptors \u2014 Reggie Bullock shot 0-for-9, the Knicks\u2019 starting lineup shot 0-for-23 and the team shot a franchise-record-low 3-for-36.<\/p>\n

But though he did spend extra time shooting since Thursday\u2019s rough outing, Barrett didn\u2019t sound like he was spending too much time thinking about what went wrong for himself or his teammates.<\/p>\n

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RJ Barrett drives to the basket for the Knicks.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cWe had one bad shooting night as a team,\u201d he said. \u201cEvery team has them. You just can\u2019t dwell on it. We have another game today and that\u2019s what we gotta focus on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Knicks did enter Thursday\u2019s game leading the league by shooting 45.9 percent from 3 through their first four games. The chilly night in Tampa dropped them down to 13th (36.6 percent) entering Saturday\u2019s game against the Pacers.<\/p>\n

The sample size is still small, but the Knicks faced questions entering the season about their 3-point shooting after ranking 27th last year (33.7 percent). Two of the players they brought in over the offseason that figured to help their 3-point shooting, veteran guard Alec Burks and rookie guard Immanuel Quickley, both missed Thursday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

Burks shot 10-for-15 from deep in his first three games before suffering a sprained ankle while Quickley, whom coach Tom Thibodeau said could \u201cshoot the ball as well as anyone in the league,\u201d was expected to return Saturday night from the hip pointer he sustained in the season opener.<\/p>\n

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