Knicks, first team to overcome 20 points in two playoff games in the same season

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The Knicks are the second team since 1998 to get multiple victories after losing for more than 20 points in the same postseason.


The story was similar to that of game 1 of the East Conference Semifinals between Boston Celtics and New York Knicks And in the final stretch the coach quintet Tom Thibodeau traced to go out with the victory and win in TD Garden the game 2, placing the 2-0 series in his favor; The champion is against the strings.

Everything indicated that Celtics had learned the lesson and after a first dominant half, things were marching stern wind. Boston went to rest with a 9-point advantage, had surpassed New York for 9 second chance points (15-6) for a partial 50-41 at the end of the first two rooms.

In this way, Knicks became the second team since 1998 to get multiple victories after losing for more than 20 points in the same postseason … Indiana Pacers have also achieved this year, but the Knicks are the first team to get multiple victories of this type in the same playoff series since 1998.

To get this feat, the Knicks finished the game with a streak of 23-6 in the absence of 8:30 for the end of the last quarter.

For the visit, Kat and Josh Hart stood out when contributing, double-double of 21 points and 17 rebounds for the first and 23 units from the second.

With information from AM850 Stats & Info.