Jalen Brunson was having himself a night on Tuesday, tying the game with 24 seconds left in the fourth quarter, then drawing a crucial charge call on Anthony Davis on the Lakers' last possession of regulation.
The charge gave the Knicks a chance to win it in regulation, but Brunson inbounded to Randle on the near sideline, and Randle went to work on Anthony Davis, only for LeBron James to come in for the double team. With Brunson open back beyond the 3-point line, Randle worked his way to the baseline and tried to get off a turnaround shot, but the buzzer sounded before the ball could ever leave his hands on a shot attempt that would have been awfully difficult to convert regardless.
"Julius got open, so I hit him," Brunson explained. "He had him kind of sealed. He went baseline and they doubled him at the last second. Kind of a difficult area for him to get a shot up on those two guys right there. it was tough, but he was aggressive.
"He had five extra minutes to do something about it. I'm not going to just be picky on that last play."
Asked about the play after the game, head coach Tom Thibodeau told reporters that the team drew up a play that would have given Randle "options" with the ball on that final possession, but it clearly didn't work out.
"There's three options on that play," Thibodeau said. "You gotta read the defense."
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