The NBA eliminatory action Thursday evening delivered two tight games filled with thrills of the fourth quarter.
The New York Knicks qualified for the semi-finals of the eastern conference after having narrowly escaped the Detroit Pistons 116-113.
Equaled 113-113 with 5.1 seconds to play, Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks struck a 3-point winner to beat the Detroit pistons 116-113 and maintain the trip to the New York eliminatory series. The Knicks continue to play the Boston Celtics in the second round, which begins Monday at TD Garden.
The La Clippers forced a match 7 in their first round series against the Denver Nuggets with a victory of 111-105.
Denver made a sequence of 11-2 in the fourth quarter to reduce the advance of the clippers to six points with 2:43 to play, but that was not enough for the Nuggets, who entered the evening with an advance in the 3-2 series, to keep the. The series returns to Denver for a winner match 7 Saturday.
Knicks 116, pistons 113
(New York wins the 4-2 series)
Jalen Brunson saves the knicks
Brunson had the last laugh at Detroit, once again, and that saved the Knicks from more disappointment.
After crossing Ausar Thompson and drilled the 3, the pistons returned the ball to the following possession with a chance to establish. Brunson, who was faced with an ankle injury, scored 40 points despite his research by Thompson.
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New York had two main two-digit distinct tracks which he was wasted in the match, leading by 15 in the first half and by 11 in the fourth. The Knicks offensive played quickly with a ball movement or stagnant and loose with the ball. New York exchanged its third quarters in difficulty for a bad second quarter in which the pistons upset the Knicks by 16.
In the end, however, Detroit did his own trial and error and left a five -point lead in the last minutes.
The Knicks will face a team of Celtics that they did not beat all season. It will be a difficult climb for New York to be competitive with the reigning champions, but a chance is better than no luck, which was close to performing without the heroism of Brunson several times throughout this series. – James L. Edwards III, Knicks Beat writer
The pistons fail but should be celebrated
Everything went to the fourth quarter. The pistons won the second 38-22 and the Knicks won the third 37-24. Detroit and New York exchanged blows throughout the fourth, with the crowd in Little Caesars Arena crossing a roller coaster of emotions.
But Brunson intensified to mark his 40th point of the evening in what would be the winner of the match. In one possession, the piston season suddenly ended. Detroit had a last game for even the score, but Cade Cunningham was double and kicked Malik Beasley, who let the ball slide from his fingers and out of the limits.
Although the pistons have failed in six games, it is undoubtedly a season that should be celebrated.
After winning a franchise in 14 games in 2023-24, Detroit returned to the relevance this season and took the third seeded in New York at six games. The team did it without starting the shooter Jaden Ivey and the precious role player Isaiah Stewart, who only played 19 minutes in match 1 before the inflammation of the right knee prevented him from the field for the rest of the series.
An offense of difficult decisions for pistons starts now. – Hunter Patterson, Beat Writer pistons
Clippers 111, Nuggets 105
(Series with a tie 3-3)
How did the mowers succeed?
We have learned from the minnesota Timberwolves shot misad in match 5 of the arena formerly known as Staples Center that you can survive in the basement if you do other things at a high level. The Timberwolves closed the Los Angeles Lakers despite the missing 40 3, partly because they committed two less turnarounds than the Lakers, and in part because Rudy Gobert obtained more offensive rebounds than the whole list of Lakers.
In the first quarter of match 6, the Clippers missed 9 of the 10 3 while Jamal Murray de Denver scored 12 points, threatening the clippers from Tko. The Clippers obtained James Harden for 17 points in the second quarter, but the team missed 18 of the 22 Mi-Mi-time 3. The also forced eight nugget reversals in the second quarter.
Ivica Zubac obtained a decline in a missed Harden 3 to give the Clippers an advance of 58-57 at halftime, an appropriate credit at the Battle of possession of which I speak.
If a team is 61.5% of the field – as the Nuggets did in the first half – and finds himself dragging, this team is probably in difficulty. And this was the case, because the clippers completed by firing 50% of the land with five less reversals and two additional offensive rebounds than the nuggets.
Clippers jump shots woke up in the third quarter. They made 4 of the 9 3 while maintaining a healthy advantage in the battle of possession, obtaining three additional offensive rebounds and making two less reversals than the Nuggets. This helped the Clippers take an advance of 90-79 in the fourth quarter.
A 12-0 race for the Clippers in match 6 on TNT!
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The Nuggets finally began to beat the clippers during the possession battle in the fourth quarter, obtaining eight offensive rebounds from the two of the clippers and having a less turnover. The legs of Los Angeles were dead because the clippers missed 6 of the 7 shots in the painting in the fourth quarter. But the Clippers also made 6 of the 11 shots outside the painting, including 4 out of 8 out of 3.
It is a complementary basketball. It is not always a league to do or miss. Sometimes you have to force certain reversals and rebounds, especially until the stars and the gunshots arrive. Overall, the Nuggets had only one offensive rebound only the Clippers (10-9) while the Clippers had seven lessons less than the Nuggets in a match decided by six points.
Since the Clippers have played an additional match, they will set up together to mount one more flight to have a chance to qualify for the semi-finals of the Western Conference. – Law Murray, Clippers Beat Writer
How defended it Nikola Jokić
Clippers’ ability to defend Nikola Jokić in the second half led to a match 7.
The double teams that Jokić have found a path in the last two games were more effective in match 6 on Thursday evening, especially in the second period. The failures and reversals to which the mowers forced Jokić allowed the clippers to run a two -digit lead, a lead, the nuggets could not completely erase the section.
The great adjustment of the was Nic Batum, whose activity at both ends of the soil made the life of Jokić. Now, Nuggets must find a solution to Batum’s adjustment in match 7, because the decision of the CLIPPERS TY LUE coach to put BATUM in the opening range in the second half has changed match 6 at the two ends of the ground. – Tony Jones, editor of the NBA
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