NBA -Analyst about Knick's chances against Celtics: “You may have a chance for fighting, but it won't be great”

Thanks to the heroic deeds of Captain Clutch Jalen Brunson, the kinks survived and performed against the start of Detroit Piston.

Your reward?

A matchup in the second round with the defending champion Boston Celtics, who dropped Orlando Magic in five games.

Game 1 is on Monday evening in Boston.

Boston is 20-4 in the NBA playoffs in the last two seasons and against the Knicks in their last 10 games. The Celtics swept the Knicks 4-0 by 65 points this season.

“[The Knicks] Could have a chance, but it won't be great, ”said Jay Williams from ESPN, a former No. 2 election in the NBA design, on Friday on” Bewing Up “.

Williams said that Brunson has to try to hunt Matchups with Kristaps Porzingis and Al Horford to free him on the offensive.

“He has to be productive in this series,” said Williams. “You will see how he chased various matchups against Porzingis and Al Horford in pick-and-roll. If he can and publish some space by Jrue Holiday or Derrick White, you may have a struggle.”

The vacation missed the last three games of the Magic series with a right knee tendon after playing well in games 1 and 2.

He traveled to Orlando with the team and was questionable before game 3, but was excluded from the games 4 and 5 per day in advance.

“He is every day,” said Celtics coach Mazzulla on Wednesday to 98.5 in Boston. “He works off his ass to return there for us. It is good that we could take care of the business to bring the additional time for the rest. He works as hard as possible to get back. He will continue to be better every day.”

The Knicks also have to get more out of Karl-Anthony Towns, the game 6 ended with only 10 points in the 4-of-10 shooting and missed his only 3 pointer.

After the Knicks lost to the Indiana Pacers in the semi-finals of the Eastern Conference, they exchanged their squad again by exchanging several draft picks against the Brooklyn Nets for Mikal Bridges and then entering Julius Randle and Donte Divincenzo for cities.

Nevertheless, they went 0-4 against Boston this season.

“Obviously we will do a lot of work in the next few days,” said Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, “and our assistants and our Advance boys have been working on it for a long time … they are the defending champion, so we know that we will be of our best.”

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Adam Zagoria is a freelance reporter and basketball insider for NJ Advance Media. You can follow him on Twitter @Adamzagoria and take a look at his website Zagsblog.com.