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NBA playoffs: Pistons hang hard in New York to force a game 6

NBA playoffs: Pistons hang hard in New York to force a game 6

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New York-JB Bickerstaffs Embassy to his team, which went into a do-or-die game 5, was easy.

“We have overcome a lot of chances, right?” He said before the game. “So why not again?”

The pistons answered his call and lubricated on Tuesday evening in Madison Square Garden with a robust, physical, often bad on Tuesday evening to extend the series of the first round with a win of 106-103.

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Game 5 was a slug festival in a telephone booth: eight ties, 14 lead changes, 21 combined missed free throws, 51 Personal fouls, neither the team able to win more than 10 separation points. Again the competition in the crunch time was decided; This time, however, it was the pistons that prevailed in the coupling, with Detroit star Cade Cunningham (24 points in 6-against-17 shooting, eight rebounds, eight assists, two steals and one block in 37 minutes) a few free throws with five seconds that faded the elimination.

Ausar Thompson (left) and Cade Cunningham High-Five in the second half of the 5th game in Madison Square Garden on Tuesday in New York. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)

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Cunningham's counterpart, Knicks-Star Jalen Brunson, achieved the least effective excursion of the playoffs and scored 16 points in 4-against-16 shooting with seven templates and three rebounds in 36 minutes. The newly shaped coupling player of the year of the NBA did not score a point in the last five minutes and spent part of it on the sidelines after he rolled his right ankle with a little more than three minutes. Brunson and Josh Hart, who had returned to the changing room after a hard fall after a collision with Cunningham, both stuck at the goal scorer for two and a half minutes without the head coach Tom Thibodeau called his last time -out.

Make rock fights

The pistons were the attackers out of the goal and ran 9-2 when the Knicks-Die had committed a shot-clock violation-a step slowly when she got on her offensive early. However, New York began to appear, with Karl-Anthony Towns and Hart led a give-and-and-go for a loud cat-dunk that sent a fee through the Madison Square Garden:

However, no team was able to buy a bucket for most of the first quarter and only combined 16 out of 48 from the field and 4 out of 16 from the 3-point range. A few transition baskets and a few free throws from Brunson in the last seconds of the quarter, New York gave a 23-22 lead after 12 minutes.

The physical, dirty battle continued, with Knick's backup center Mitchell Robinson dominated in the boards in the melody of nine rebounds in 12 minutes in the first half. The fight on the glass led to a friendly fire for the pistons, with Duren accidentally hit teammates Tobias Harris under the basket and sent the veterans to the floor in front of pain:

However, Harris would rush back, scored seven quick points and scored a few strong defensive games-a tangled change of goal, but hey, Detroit was offered to recharge with an intermediate quarters, who fought Detroit on a kink team again to create clean looks, or to make fighters.

However, New York continued to grind. OG anunoby and cities that were together for 22 points in the first half, while Hart brought four assists together and took the Knicks with a 50:49 lead in the lead with a break to bring the Knicks with 4-on-7 points that brought together for 22 to 49 leads to put the Knicks with 4-against-7 cities in the first half, in the first half, in the first half, in the first half, in the first half, in the first half, to put together, in the first half, inwards, inwards, inwards, inwards, inwards, inwards To put the kinks to put the Knicks in the lead with a 50: 49 lead.

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Both teams fought against foul pools in the first half, with the officers swinging a narrower pipe than before in the series. The Pistons' Duren took out three people, and with the backup center, the Isaiah Stewart again through knee infections and the third Big Paul Reed, who had already brought in, had Bickerstaff take action against his preferences and play a small ball to push the over-athletic Thompson into the 5th? This continued the boards for New York, which had 12 offensive rebounds in half.

The good news? It enabled us to protect the rims from Ausar, which he did with extreme prejudices:

Cade full

Cunningham came from the changing room, which wanted to bring its advantage at the beginning of the third quarter. The all-star point Guard pushed the ball in the transition and solved praise for a Thompson Alley-Oop-Dunk, tore the ball out of anunoby hands into the basket and started cutting New York into the pick-and-roll. When the kinks it for the most part of the kink, and Duren, the Duren game from the short run, from the short floor, the short floor, in one.

The result: a 20-9 run to give the piston a double-digit lead over a kink team that was frustrated both by the defense of Detroit and, which they clearly considered an inconsistent pipe for routes. A late increase would receive 77-74 back within three years and entered the last framework within three years.

The teams exchanged the lead at the beginning of the fourth and left them where they were so often in this series: in a one-people affair in the crunch time. Cunningham, Duren, Thompson and the rest of the pistons made just enough pieces to withstand the late 3 Series from Bridges and Anunoby to send their remarkable breakthrough season on Thursday for game 6 to Detroit.

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