Jazz vs Knicks Game Recap 11/09/09

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November 09, 2009

NEW YORK (NBA.com exclusive) -- Once again the Knicks fell behind by 20 or more points early. Once again they made a frenetic run late. And once again they came up short in the end. The Utah Jazz...

NEW YORK (NBA.com exclusive) -- Once again the Knicks fell behind by 20 or more points early. Once again they made a frenetic run late. And once again they came up short in the end.

The Utah Jazz became the latest team to come into Madison Square Garden and beat the Knicks, 95-93, before a crowd of 19,355.

Andrei Kirilenko scored 14 of his 23 points in the second half, when he went a perfect 4-for-4 from beyond the arc against New York's newly-installed 2-3 zone. Carlos Boozer added 23 points and 14 rebounds and Mehmet Okur had 18 and 12.

"We take confidence. We got a good win after having some tough losses and move forward," Boozer said.

Rookie Toney Douglas scored a career-high 21 points on 9-of-13 shooting for New York, but missed an off-balance 9-foot jumper as time expired on the Knicks.

Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said Larry Hughes was supposed to get the in-bounds pass from Danilo Gallinari and take the shot, but Douglas got the ball instead and drove right into the paint before putting up a shot that rolled off the rim.

"It was supposed to be Larry but sometimes things ain't going to work out like the way it goes, so you got to adjust to that," Douglas said. "At least we got a shot up, that's how I feel."

Coming off Sunday's loss to Sacramento, Utah improved to 3-4. The Jazz close out the week with a tough stretch of road games at Boston, Philadelphia and Cleveland. The Knicks lost their fourth straight and dropped to 1-7.

"A loss is a loss," said Knicks center David Lee, who scored 12 points. "Unfortunately, this counts the same way as the Milwaukee one [Sunday] does although the Milwaukee game feels like about 10 losses with how we played. I can't live with losing, but I feel like we're doing better with tonight's game than we did."

Utah outrebounded the Knicks, 53-40, including 12-7 on the offensive glass.

The Jazz also outshot the Knicks, 46 percent to 43 percent, including 38 percent to 28 percent from beyond the arc.

The Knicks watched tape of Sacramento's win over Utah and installed a 2-3 zone to imitate Sacramento's success.

It didn't work early, as the Jazz led by as many as 21 points in the third quarter, but it paid dividends down the stretch. After missing all 10 of their first-half 3-point attempts and trailing 48-31 at the break, the Knicks shot 8-of-19 from beyond the arc in the second half and outscored the Jazz, 62-47.

"I think a lot has to do with the zone," Jazz coach Jerry Sloan said. "Every time the zone has come at us we couldn't really get out and get way away from them and have enough success in three or four possessions."

Said D'Antoni of the zone: "They are really good at what they do and we tried to make them play a different game. Kirilenko got hot and that hurt us." Still, Kirilenko didn't hit a single 3-pointer in the final quarter.

After trailing by as many as 21 points in the second half, the Knicks rattled off a 10-0 run -- getting five points apiece from Al Harrington (11 points) and Gallinari -- to cut it to 84-83.

Douglas tied the game at 93 on a driving layup with 1:36 left.

But Okur hit a layup to give Utah the lead back at 95-93.

On New York's next possession, Ronnie Brewer stuffed a Hughes jump shot that might have tied the game.

After Brewer missed a jumper on the other end, New York called a full timeout and then a 20-second timeout with 6.4 seconds left. That led to the missed jumper by Douglas.

Douglas played more than 23 minutes in the game at the point, while starter Chris Duhon played 28 minutes and scored eight points on 2-of-7 shooting.

Duhon has come under fire recently for the team's struggles. He was pulled in the third quarter of the Milwaukee loss because of his poor defensive play.

After the game, Duhon gave all credit to Douglas.

"He played well," Duhon said. "He knocked down his open shots. He got to the basket, finished well. Defensively, he was really active. We're going to need that. He has to continue to play that way for us."

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