RJ Barrett #9 of the Knicks drives against Bojan Bogdanovic #44...

RJ Barrett #9 of the Knicks drives against Bojan Bogdanovic #44 of the Detroit Pistons in the first half at Madison Square Garden on Friday, Nov. 11, 2022. Credit: Jim McIsaac

The Knicks shook off Wednesday’s blowout loss to the Nets and outlasted the Pistons on Friday night at the Garden, 121-112.

It wasn’t as easy as it could have been against the rebuilding Pistons, but the Knicks still improved to 6-6 behind 30 points from RJ Barrett, 26 from Jalen Brunson and 21 from Julius Randle. No other Knick scored in double figures.

The big three had a combined 17 of the Knicks’ 23 assists.

“Pretty good,” Randle said. “We carried a lot of responsibility of playmaking.”

Detroit (3-10) was led by Bojan Bogdanovic’s 25 points. Former Knick Alec Burks scored 17 off the bench in his first game of the season after a foot injury.

The Knicks led by as many as 17 points in the third quarter before the Pistons got it down to six with 6:34 left in the fourth with Barrett and Randle on the bench.

Tom Thibodeau reinserted Barrett and Randle, but it was Brunson who scored the next four points (a bucket and a goaltend) to get the lead back to double-digits at 105-95.

The young Pistons got it back down to four with 1:20 left, but Barrett hit a pair of foul shots and Immanuel Quickley added a three-pointer to seal the victory.

The Knicks took a 30-26 lead after one quarter with Barrett scoring 12. They outrebounded Detroit 14-10, with four of the boards coming on one possession. Randle finally scored on a putback on rebound No. 4 to tie the score at 10.

Derrick Rose was the first Knick off the bench one day after saying about his limited playing time, “I’m in the unknown.” Rose entered at 5:53 of the first quarter and gave the Knicks a burst of energy with four points and an assist.

“I thought guys made unselfish plays,” Thibodeau said. “I thought Derrick played with a lot of energy, got into the paint, made plays. I thought Jalen had timely buckets in the fourth quarter. I thought Julius — big-time rebounds at the end in traffic. So we had a lot of guys step up. I thought Isaiah [Hartenstein] played really well over the course of the game.”

Hartenstein got his second start of the season and had six points and 12 rebounds.

There were some good, some not-so-good and some weird Knicks moments in the second quarter.

Good: A lead that swelled to 16. Eight points apiece from Barrett and Brunson and six from Randle. Five off the bench from Quentin Grimes, who was the 11th Knick to appear in the first half. A 68-58 halftime lead.

Not-so good: A shot by Obi Toppin that hit the side of the backboard and was immediately followed by an air ball by Grimes on a three-point attempt.

Weird: Rose’s layup attempt that bounced around the rim and backboard for an eternity before settling on the cylinder and staying put. (A foul was called on the Pistons, so Rose got to shoot free throws.)

The third quarter was more of the same as the Knicks built a 17-point lead. When the Pistons got the deficit back to 11 on back-to-back dunks, Thibodeau called timeout and drew up a play. It was a good one as Barrett fed Jericho Sims for an alley-oop slam. The Knicks took a 94-80 lead into the fourth quarter.

The Knicks sported their new black and orange City Edition Uniforms, which the club said “takes inspiration from the 1999-2003 Knicks uniform, thus bridging the gap between past and present.”

The game was played on a redesigned court, which also featured generous portions of black and orange on the Knicks logo at center court and in the paint/basket/baseline areas. The color scheme seemed mostly to evoke Halloween, even though that holiday took place about two weeks ago.

The uniforms and court design were the work of Ronnie Fieg, whom the Knicks described as their “first-ever creative director.”

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