It looked like last spring.
Defense. Grow. Tenacity – Adjectives that have not been much used on these Knicks.
During their first playoff game, the Knicks played the team impoverished by injuries a year ago.
They took a right hand and withdrew, raising the pistons with a fourth scintillating quarter after he seemed to have been late at the start of this opening eliminatory series.
Instead, a catchy race of 21-0 paved the way for an encouraging victory for match 1 in match 1 in a rocking garden.
Jalen Brunson rocked a trembling start to score 34 points, 12 in the final stanza, as well as eight assists.
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The cities of Karl-Anthony have collected 23 points, 11 rebounds, five assists, four interceptions and two blocks during its beginnings in playoffs as Knick, and Og Anunoby also had 23 points and seven rebounds.
The defense shot the match for the Knicks, who held the pistons at 21 points in the fourth quarter and completely forced 21 reversals.
Tobias Harris of Long Island scored 25 points for the pistons, although only three arrived in the second half. Cade Cunningham added 21 points and 12 assists.
The fourth quarter began with a violation of five seconds of Strait and a violation of the chronometer – an overview of what was going to happen. Piston reversals and missed shots have turned into Knicks streams.
Cameron Payne and Josh Hart came to life, the two combining to score 19 of the 39 points in the fourth quarter of the Knicks.
Given that the pistons drew 50% of the 3-point line (9 out of 18), Brunson started match 2 out of 13 from the field and Harris was unconscious first half on the way around 22 points, the Knicks were in a good place at the break.
They led by two, despite big problems for Hart and problems to defend the 3. The 11 reversals of the pistons certainly helped the orange and the blue in what was disjointed in the first half.
They started with the race for an advance of 10-3, immediately abandoned a burst of 21-10 and were blitzés by Harris for 13 points in the second quarter, including a 3-point just before the horn.
In comparison, he achieved a large total of 54 points in last year’s eliminatory series against the Knicks as a member of the 76ers.
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Anunoby was the best Knick by a wide margin in the first 24 minutes, marking 19 points on a shot 6 out of 11 while adding three rebounds, two interceptions and a block.
The cities collected 10 points, six rebounds, two interceptions and two assists, and had its best moments when sharing the soil with Mitchell Robinson.
The pistons started the second half by scoring their first eight possessions, and on the section of a burst of 15-4, took a four-point lead.
Malik Beasley extended it to seven later in the quarter, and Detroit entered the final stanza in eight. It was a particularly bad defensive period for the Knicks, who let the pistons pull an absurd of 63.6% in the frame (14 out of 22).
The Knicks revealed the intensity at the start of the fourth quarter, forcing turnover on the first two possessions of the pistons.
They upgraded them 15-7 during the 4:13 a.m. of the period, even shooting a 3-point Payne pointer with 7:47 on the left.
The race only started. Soon the Knicks would be in advance and the garden was as strong as the whole evening.
