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As much as the Knicks struggled against the Celtics during the regular season, losing all four of their meetings, they started the Eastern Conference semifinals with a clean slate.
None of those previous battles mattered anymore. This was a new opportunity.
A new battle unfolded – and what a battle it was.
The Knicks pulled off a 20-point second-half comeback to force overtime and ultimately pulled out a 108-105 victory at TD Garden in Boston Monday to take early control of the series.
Jalen Brunson and OG Anunoby each had 29 points for the Knicks, who beat the Detroit Pistons in six games in the previous round.
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown each had 23 points for Boston, which shot 35.1 percent from the field.
Game 1 against the Celtics was a wild, back-and-forth game that featured a little bit of everything.
But in the end the Knicks came out on top.
Game 2 is Wednesday night at TD Garden (7 p.m., TNT).
The Celtics went up by 20 in the third quarter – the Knicks have struggled in that period lately – but the Knicks reeled off a 20-9 run to go into the fourth quarter down by nine.
Anunoby knocked down some huge three-pointers, including one just more than three minutes into the fourth that sliced the Knicks’ deficit to one point.
And much of that comeback came with Brunson on the bench.
Anunoby later tied it with a steal and a fast-break dunk with about seven minutes left in the period.
The remaining minutes were tight until the end, especially with Brunson back in the game.
The star point guard hit a three from the right corner that tied the game at 89 with more than five minutes to go. Then he hit another contested three with four minutes left that put the Knicks up 94-91, then another shortly after to make it a six-point Knicks lead.
The Celtics later went back up by one on a Derrick White three before Anunoby hit a triple from the left corner with a minute left.
With the score knotted at 100, Anunoby shot a mid-range jumper and White came down with a tough defensive rebound.
With 10 seconds left, Jayston Tatum shot a deep three but missed and Miles McBride got the rebound for the Knicks who called timeout.
With one second left, Brunson had a great look at an easy layup off a great pass from Karl-Anthony Towns but he couldn’t make the shot.
Boston called timeout – out of the timeout Tatum put up an off-balanced shot that fell short as time expired to force overtime.
Boston’s a good three-point shooting team. It takes lot of threes. That’s no surprise.
The Celtics took 60 of them in Game 1.
The problem for Boston was that it only made 15 of them (25.0 percent). The Celtics' 45 missed threes were an NBA-playoff record.
All of those misses were costly.
Brown especially struggled, going 1-of-10 from the perimeter. Tatum was just 4-of-15.
It was a tremendous effort from Anunoby, and the Knicks needed all of it.
The forward finished with 29 points on 10-of-20 shooting (6-of-11 from three) with three assists, four rebounds and one steal.
He had an alley-oop dunk off a Josh Hart lob for the Knicks’ first points in overtime – give credit to Mikal Bridges, who got a steal on the other end to set up the play.
But it was Anunoby's play in the third quarter, including consecutive threes with less than six minutes left, that helped the Knicks begin their comeback and regain control.
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: NY Knicks vs Celtics: Game 1 takeaways
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None of those previous battles mattered anymore. This was a new opportunity.
A new battle unfolded – and what a battle it was.
The Knicks pulled off a 20-point second-half comeback to force overtime and ultimately pulled out a 108-105 victory at TD Garden in Boston Monday to take early control of the series.
Jalen Brunson and OG Anunoby each had 29 points for the Knicks, who beat the Detroit Pistons in six games in the previous round.
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown each had 23 points for Boston, which shot 35.1 percent from the field.
Game 1 against the Celtics was a wild, back-and-forth game that featured a little bit of everything.
But in the end the Knicks came out on top.
Game 2 is Wednesday night at TD Garden (7 p.m., TNT).
Knicks make wild comeback to force overtime
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The Celtics went up by 20 in the third quarter – the Knicks have struggled in that period lately – but the Knicks reeled off a 20-9 run to go into the fourth quarter down by nine.
Anunoby knocked down some huge three-pointers, including one just more than three minutes into the fourth that sliced the Knicks’ deficit to one point.
And much of that comeback came with Brunson on the bench.
Anunoby later tied it with a steal and a fast-break dunk with about seven minutes left in the period.
The remaining minutes were tight until the end, especially with Brunson back in the game.
The star point guard hit a three from the right corner that tied the game at 89 with more than five minutes to go. Then he hit another contested three with four minutes left that put the Knicks up 94-91, then another shortly after to make it a six-point Knicks lead.
The Celtics later went back up by one on a Derrick White three before Anunoby hit a triple from the left corner with a minute left.
With the score knotted at 100, Anunoby shot a mid-range jumper and White came down with a tough defensive rebound.
With 10 seconds left, Jayston Tatum shot a deep three but missed and Miles McBride got the rebound for the Knicks who called timeout.
With one second left, Brunson had a great look at an easy layup off a great pass from Karl-Anthony Towns but he couldn’t make the shot.
Boston called timeout – out of the timeout Tatum put up an off-balanced shot that fell short as time expired to force overtime.
The Celtics took a lot of three-pointers – they also missed a lot of them
Boston’s a good three-point shooting team. It takes lot of threes. That’s no surprise.
The Celtics took 60 of them in Game 1.
The problem for Boston was that it only made 15 of them (25.0 percent). The Celtics' 45 missed threes were an NBA-playoff record.
All of those misses were costly.
Brown especially struggled, going 1-of-10 from the perimeter. Tatum was just 4-of-15.
Huge game from OG Anunoby
It was a tremendous effort from Anunoby, and the Knicks needed all of it.
The forward finished with 29 points on 10-of-20 shooting (6-of-11 from three) with three assists, four rebounds and one steal.
He had an alley-oop dunk off a Josh Hart lob for the Knicks’ first points in overtime – give credit to Mikal Bridges, who got a steal on the other end to set up the play.
But it was Anunoby's play in the third quarter, including consecutive threes with less than six minutes left, that helped the Knicks begin their comeback and regain control.
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: NY Knicks vs Celtics: Game 1 takeaways
Continue reading...
