{"id":650670,"date":"2026-03-10T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/650670\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:42:26","slug":"sloppy-knicks-plagued-by-turnovers-for-second-straight-game-in-loss-to-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/650670\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloppy Knicks plagued by turnovers for second straight game in loss to Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"An<\/p>\n

An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows Karl-Anthony Towns drives during the Knicks-Clippers game on March 9, 2026, Image 2 shows Jalen Brunson reacts during the Knicks-Clippers game on March 9, 2026, Image 3 shows Kawhi Leonard dunks the ball during the Clippers-Knicks game<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2014 A day earlier, coach Mike Brown made an impassioned plea to his players to take care of the ball.<\/p>\n

As he put it, control the controllables.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t listen.<\/p>\n

\"Jalen<\/p>\n

Jalen Brunson reacts during the Knicks-Clippers game on March 9, 2026. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The Knicks committed 20 turnovers in a second straight slopfest in L.A., this time falling to the Clippers on Monday night, 126-118, at the Intuit Dome. The defeat felt sealed, appropriately, with consecutive Knicks turnovers in the final 3:05 \u2013 one by Jalen Brunson, the other by Landry Shamet.<\/p>\n

But New York still held hope until Shamet and OG Anunoby missed contested 3-pointers in the final 25 seconds. Then it left Southern California with back-to-back clunkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBiggest difference in the basketball game,\u201d Brown said, \u201cwas our turnovers. \u2026I liked our fight. I liked the way we played in the second half for the most part. We\u2019ve just got to find a way to take care of the basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Knicks (41-25), who allowed 24 points off those turnovers, wasted a rare high-scoring performance from Karl-Anthony Towns, who dropped 33 points on 12-for-16 shooting. It was the first time he scored 30-plus points since, amazingly, December.<\/p>\n

But the Knicks couldn\u2019t overcome those turnovers. Anunoby was the sloppiest with four of them. Brunson, Towns and Josh Hart all had three.<\/p>\n

On Sunday in an ugly loss to the Lakers, the Knicks committed 18 turnovers, which prompted Brown to list that as a main issue alongside fouling too much and rebounding.<\/p>\n

\"Karl-Anthony<\/p>\n

Karl-Anthony Towns drives during the Knicks-Clippers game on March 9, 2026. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

His team was certainly better at rebounding on Monday. They were slightly better at avoiding stupid fouls. They were worse at turnovers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of them, we were getting downhill and trying to make plays. But we got to be better playing off two feet obviously, playing more controlled,\u201d Brunson said. \u201cBut (the Clippers) got a lot of guys on their team who are steal guys, who are long wingspans, play passing lanes. That\u2019s what they do. We played to their strengths.<\/p>\n

Mikal Bridges, who went scoreless in Sunday\u2019s loss to the Lakers, didn\u2019t hit a shot until midway through the second quarter against the Clippers. He finished with seven points in 26 minutes and was benched for crunch time. His backup at the two-guard, Landry Shamet, endured a brickfest while missing his first eight 3-pointers. Still, Shamet closed over Bridges and finished with nine points on 3 of 12 shooting, with all his attempts from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n

Brunson, meanwhile, arrived in a deep shooting slump and quickly righted the ship Monday. He then scored 13 in the first quarter with three assists and two rebounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s human and he\u2019s going to have some nights (when he struggles to shoot),\u201d Brown said. \u201cHis track record shows that he can go get it done. It\u2019s not anything I\u2019m concerned about or I\u2019m looking at. And like I said, when he does have nights like that, how else can you impact the game, and he\u2019s shown that he can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brunson was cooking in the first quarter. Then Towns took over the offense.<\/p>\n

\"Kawhi<\/p>\n

Kawhi Leonard dunks during the Clippers-Knicks game on March 9, 2026. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The center feasted on the slower Brook Lopez, who had difficulty defending Towns last season with the Bucks, as well.<\/p>\n

Towns finished the first half with 21 points \u2013 including 17 in the second quarter \u2013 but New York\u2019s 3-point defense underwhelmed,\u00a0its turnovers were abundant, and the Knicks went into the break with a nine-point deficit.<\/p>\n

The good news for Knicks fans is the schedule eases up considerably. They next face terrible teams in six of the next seven games, including Wednesday at Utah and Friday at Indiana.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a chance to regroup after turnover-fests in La La land.<\/p>\n

\u201cTreat the ball better,\u201d Towns said. \u201cThe turnovers obviously put us in a bad spot. We didn\u2019t stop the bleeding in the second and fourth quarters. And even though we made three more shots than them, they made four more 3s. That\u2019s a recipe right there for disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An image collage containing 3 images, Image 1 shows Karl-Anthony Towns drives during the Knicks-Clippers game on March…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,369,559,113,288,327,563,529,304,84095,4034,192,4032,300,4988,251,135,4033,4031,1260,6,741,760,2204],"class_list":["post-650670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-basketball","tag-brook-lopez","tag-clippers","tag-indiana","tag-jalen-brunson","tag-josh-hart","tag-karl-anthony-towns","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-knicks","tag-knicks-clippers","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-lakers","tag-landry-shamet","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-mikal-bridges","tag-nba","tag-og-anunoby","tag-the-knicks","tag-turnovers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116204468033113747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}