⏱️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. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ CHI better than we expected
▼ NY better than we expected
The first quarter was where it moved most, 7 points worse than our numbers for the Bulls.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Knicks won, and why the Bulls did not.
From the game
Made seventeen threes to their ten- Shot well above their usual, seventeen of 36 from three
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Bulls
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Technical
Torrey Craig technical foul
Q3 0:40 · CHI 92-98 NY
- Turnover
DeMar DeRozan lost ball turnover
Q4 2:24 · CHI 112-119 NY
Knicks
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 6-point lead to 14
Q2 8:31 · CHI 36-50 NY
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run stretched a 8-point lead to 17
Q3 10:04 · CHI 64-81 NY
- Steal
Isaiah Hartenstein stole it from DeMar DeRozan
Q4 2:24 · CHI 112-119 NY
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| CHI | NY | |
|---|---|---|
| 53% | Shooting from the field | 55% |
| 10 | Threes made | 17 |
| 36% | Three-point accuracy | 47% |
| 13 | Free throws made | 19 |
| 39 | Rebounds | 31 |
| 12 | Offensive rebounds | 6 |
| 20 | Assists | 31 |
| 66 | Points in the paint | 54 |
| 8 | Fast break points | 14 |
| 13 | Points off turnovers | 13 |
| 9 | Turnovers | 11 |
| 4 | Steals | 6 |
| 5 | Blocks | 4 |
