Game Recap: Knicks 118, Pistons 116

The Knicks defeat the Pistons, 118-116 to take a 2-1 lead in their 1st-round, best-of-7 series.

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00:00موسيقى

00:30Tim Hardaway Jr., remember him, drafted by the Knicks, drills the three, then Cunningham

00:37does the same, we're tied up at 20, Paul Reed, Mitchell Robinson, Carl Anthony Towns

00:46all get into a scuffle, all get technicals in the first quarter, the second quarter

00:53we get back to basketball, watch the hustle by both teams, ball gets knocked around, but

01:01it's the rookie Ron Holland with the top play nominee on the block on the dunk attempt,

01:10Hardaway Jr. nails the three, why not go back to back on Hardaway, making it clap, so the

01:18Pistons, they take a four point lead, halfway through the second quarter, the Knicks start

01:26to get it together, OG in the house, OG Ananomi puts New York back up by one, Brunson, Kay

01:35Cunningham exchanging some words, so we have another stoppage in play, but when we get

01:41back to the action on the floor, the Knicks, on a 21-3 run, take a 14 point lead, on the

01:52Bridges three, we move to the second half, Asar, the rising star, Thompson, playing above

01:59the rim, then Carl Anthony Towns, the Bodega Cat, and one, Brunson, from Midrage, also, and

02:08one, Knicks, building on a lead, into the third, Bridges, no, Hart, yes, the Nova Knicks

02:16connecting to give New York a 10 point lead, we move into the fourth quarter, how about

02:22the runner up for sixth man of the year, with the runner, Malik Beasley, Brunson, reminding

02:30us again, why he's the clutch player of the year, getting the bucket, wouldn't be his last,

02:35in the fourth, Motorcade, Dennis Schroeder, remember, he is the dagger in game two, Towns

02:44going baseline against Tobias Harris, the fade away is good, check it out again, Towns showing

02:52the whole repertoire, Kay Cunningham getting downhill, and look at the score, we got a three

02:58point game, with two minutes to go, Cunningham, dropping defenders, but Carl Anthony Towns gets

03:06the steal, Brunson, gets the bucket, on the other end, Knicks, up by three, five seconds

03:13to go, inbounds pass, to Brunson, in the backcourt, Brunson is fouled, take a closer look, it looks

03:22like that could have been a backcourt violation, J.B. Bickerstaff pleading his case, but to no

03:30avail, so another three by Tobias Harris, takes it a one point game, with one second to go, Jalen

03:39Brunson is fouled, he makes the first free throw, misses the second, Pistons get the ball back,

03:44but Jalen Duren, the inadvertent pass, overhead of Kay Cunningham, and that's how the Knicks

03:53come out on top, they just have the inbounds, the ball, Jalen Brunson gets it, they take a

04:002-1 series lead, with the 118-116 win, over the Pistons.