The New York Knicks won their second straight game on Wednesday, taking down the Chicago Bulls, 133-127.

The Knicks were led by Jalen Brunson, who finished with 38 points on 13-for-25 shooting and 6-for-10 from three. OG Anunoby had 23 points, while Karl-Anthony Towns had 19 points.

The bench stepped up in a big way, with Landry Shamet contributing 14 points, knocking down four threes, Tyler Kolek hitting three threes, and Jordan Clarkson pouring in 18 points.

Mikal Bridges had another rough outing, playing just 13 minutes and scoring three points.

After the game, Knicks head coach Mike Brown explained why Mikal played a team-low 13 minutes and didn’t play at all in the fourth quarter.

"We just found combination(s) that we went with…(Tyler) Kolek with Jalen…[Jordan Clarkson] extended minutes, Landry playing well––now there's not much room…harder to go back to what we started with,” he said.

Bridges was coming off his best game of the season against the Detroit Pistons where he scored 12 points on 4-for-10 shooting and 4-for-8 from three. The 12 points against Detroit were more points than he had scored in the first three games combined, when he had only scored ten points.

Following it up by only playing 13 minutes and scoring two points as not ideal for a player who has been struggling to get going this year.

Bridges has scored just 25 total points in five games and is shooting 27% from the field and 25% from three. He has yet to take a trip to the free throw line. The Knicks had a 96.8 offensive rating when he’s on the floor compared to a 128.7 offensive rating when he’s off.

Simply put, he’s killing their offense right now with how he’s shooting and his overall lack on contributions.

Brown previously said that he was happy with the looks Mikal was getting, he just needed the shots to go down. They went down against the Pistons, but he didn’t get much of an opportunity to build off that performance against the Bulls.

During a six-game stretch in mid-March last season, Bridges shot 29% from the field and 21% from three, averaging just 6.7 points per game. After that rough six-game outing, he shot 50% from the field and 42% from three, averaging 12.2 points per game in the next six games.

He’s shown the ability to bounce back from rough shooting stretches, but he’ll need to do it sooner rather than later if the bench continues to step up.