⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Knicks stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game.
Where it moved
▲ NY better than we expected
▼ BKN better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 7 points better than our numbers for the Knicks.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Knicks won, and why the Nets did not.
From the game
Made fourteen threes to their four- Shot well above their usual, fourteen of 23 from three
- A 13-0 run took them from 3 down to 10 up in the second quarter
- Could not get to the line, seven free throws to their twenty
- Kept giving it away, seventeen turnovers to their eleven
- Beaten inside, 32 points in the paint to 52
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Knicks
Good plays
- 13-0 run
A 13-0 run took them from 3 down to 10 up
Q2 0:42 · NY 56-46 BKN
- 13-0 run
A 13-0 run stretched a 9-point lead to 22
Q4 5:37 · NY 105-83 BKN
Bad plays
- Technical
Kevin Seraphin technical foul(1st technical foul)
Q4 1:19 · NY 105-86 BKN
Nets
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| NY | BKN | |
|---|---|---|
| 50% | Shooting from the field | 36% |
| 14 | Threes made | 4 |
| 61% | Three-point accuracy | 17% |
| 7 | Free throws made | 15 |
| 53 | Rebounds | 59 |
| 7 | Offensive rebounds | 20 |
| 24 | Assists | 20 |
| 32 | Points in the paint | 52 |
| 12 | Fast break points | 12 |
| 14 | Points off turnovers | 9 |
| 17 | Turnovers | 11 |
| 4 | Steals | 11 |
| 8 | Blocks | 2 |
