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Associate head coach Chris Jent challenged the Knicks to execute from the very beginning going out on the road for the first time in the series on Saturday night, and the team responded in a big way.
New York jumped out to a 9-1 advantage less than two minutes into Game 3 and never looked back from there, completely dominating the Cavaliers for their 10th consecutive playoff win.
They received contributions from up-and-down the lineup in the wire-to-wire dominant effort.
“We just came out with energy,” Josh Hart said. “We knew we had to with it being their first home game with their backs against the wall, their fans were going to be making noise and cheering and supporting them from the start.
“So we came out aggressive and set the tone, and we just continued to play with that pace throughout the night.”
Hart and the other four Knicks starters all topped double-digits in points, while Landry Shamet chipped in 14 of his own in 28 massive minutes off the bench.
New York now just sits one win away from their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999.
While no team has ever overcome that commanding 3-0 series deficit in league history, the attitude in the locker room is staying the same heading into Monday night’s Game 4.
"You don’t look ahead," Jalen Brunson said. "You deal with what’s in front of you."
"You have to keep your mind on the task at hand," Karl-Anthony Towns added. "The game is over and we found a way to win, but you have to have the same desperation like it’s a 0-0 series, just Game 1."
"We know they’re going to give us their best punch," Shamet said. "Sending a team home is the hardest thing to do, especially at this point -- there’s no time to sit and celebrate, it’s onto the next one and how do we go get a win."
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New York jumped out to a 9-1 advantage less than two minutes into Game 3 and never looked back from there, completely dominating the Cavaliers for their 10th consecutive playoff win.
They received contributions from up-and-down the lineup in the wire-to-wire dominant effort.
“We just came out with energy,” Josh Hart said. “We knew we had to with it being their first home game with their backs against the wall, their fans were going to be making noise and cheering and supporting them from the start.
“So we came out aggressive and set the tone, and we just continued to play with that pace throughout the night.”
Hart and the other four Knicks starters all topped double-digits in points, while Landry Shamet chipped in 14 of his own in 28 massive minutes off the bench.
New York now just sits one win away from their first NBA Finals appearance since 1999.
While no team has ever overcome that commanding 3-0 series deficit in league history, the attitude in the locker room is staying the same heading into Monday night’s Game 4.
"You don’t look ahead," Jalen Brunson said. "You deal with what’s in front of you."
"You have to keep your mind on the task at hand," Karl-Anthony Towns added. "The game is over and we found a way to win, but you have to have the same desperation like it’s a 0-0 series, just Game 1."
"We know they’re going to give us their best punch," Shamet said. "Sending a team home is the hardest thing to do, especially at this point -- there’s no time to sit and celebrate, it’s onto the next one and how do we go get a win."
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