NBA Playoffs Round 1. (3) New York Knicks vs. (6) Detroit Pistons

[Sports_Freak]

If you told me the Pistons would win 2 road games in this series, I would assume they won the series. An inexperienced Detroit team is giving NY all they can handle.

[Deleterious]

Brunson shot 4-16 from the field.

Harris and company did a nice job on KAT too.  He was 5-14 from the field. 

Hardaway and Beasley combined to go 3-14 from three.  Pistons were 8-29 as a team.

[buddha]

fun to see the knicks fans complain about the refs.

[Deleterious]

Cade played 9m49s in the 4th quarter tonight. 

He scored 13 points on 3-6 shooting 1-1 from three.  6-6 from the FT line.  4 rebounds 2 assists 1 TO.

 

[NYLion]

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

If you told me the Pistons would win 2 road games in this series, I would assume they won the series. An inexperienced Detroit team is giving NY all they can handle.

An inexperienced and injured Pistons team without their 2nd best scorer and best defensive player, along with Ausar.

[NYLion]

29 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Cade played 9m49s in the 4th quarter tonight. 

He scored 13 points on 3-6 shooting 1-1 from three.  6-6 from the FT line.  4 rebounds 2 assists 1 TO.

 

He was great in the 4th. He and Ausar making me look like a dumbass for calling them out for their 4th quarter deficiencies.

[Shinzaki]

Harris really stepped up ... you expect him to score a bit,  but he played 43 minutes and got you 8 boards and 4 blocks.  Huge pain in the ass defensively on KAT.  Great game for him

[Betrayer]

3 hours ago, Shinzaki said:

Harris really stepped up ... you expect him to score a bit,  but he played 43 minutes and got you 8 boards and 4 blocks.  Huge pain in the ass defensively on KAT.  Great game for him

Outside of last game, he's had a really good series. He's matched up against an All NBA player and played him at least even last night once again. And he's doing it on both ends.

[RatkoVarda]

getting Rodman-esque vibes from Ausar's defense. the guy has only played 1.5 years and is pretty good right now.

[Sports_Freak]

I don't wanna call the Knicks lucky but some of those deep 3 pointers they make or extremely low percentage shots they throw up there, with the shot clock running out, that go in? And the refs swallowing their whistle at just the right time for them? Yeah, the Pistons could easily have already won this series. Or been up 3-2. But big picture, this season has been a blast. We've already exceeded expectations.

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, RatkoVarda said:

getting Rodman-esque vibes from Ausar's defense. the guy has only played 1.5 years and is pretty good right now.

This article agrees with you;

https://www.mlive.com/pistons/2025/04/with-season-on-the-brink-pistons-forward-delivers-on-both-ends.html

[Sports_Freak]

Ya just gotta love Twitter. Lmao

 

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Ya just gotta love Twitter. Lmao

 

I didn't even correct his spelling. I really wanted to but I made that mistake once recently. I felt stupid. 😅

[Deleterious]

 

[Shinzaki]

Would be great if Stew pulled a 1970 Willis Reed and have his knee shot up with cortisone so he could hobble out and lead us to a win.

Ok..maybe not great..more like incredibly risky for his long term future, but it would be pretty dramatic 

[Deleterious]

 

[Deleterious]

The Pistons starting lineup now has a net rating of +33.4.

The Knicks starting lineup has a net rating of -8.2.

 

[Betrayer]

34 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

The Pistons starting lineup now has a net rating of +33.4.

The Knicks starting lineup has a net rating of -8.2.

 

Maybe JB needs to resort to Tibbs strategy and just ride the starters for 40+ minutes tonight.

[Deleterious]

Come on Stew.  We won't even make you play offense.  Just slap KAT around a bit and call it a night.

 

[Deleterious]

26 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

Maybe JB needs to resort to Tibbs strategy and just ride the starters for 40+ minutes tonight.

I'm down.

As good as Thompson played in game 5, he only played 29 minutes. 

[Betrayer]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

I'm down.

As good as Thompson played in game 5, he only played 29 minutes. 

Glad it went up from 20, but if it were me I would've mirrored him to Brunson at about 36 minutes.

What JB can't do is continue to have Beasley and THJ on the court at the same time, especially with Schroder. That lineup just gets killed.

Another thing JB should do is consider subbing Duren out early since Tobias is guarding KAT anyway. That way Duren won't need his rest right at the same time Mitch Robinson comes in. You've got to have Duren out there the entire time Robinson is on the court because nobody else is big enough to keep him off the glass.

[Tigeraholic1]

Pretty hype for this game tonight. Could force a game 7 and end that horrible home playoff losing streak.

[buddha]

is stewart out again?

[Tigeraholic1]

 

[Deleterious]

I burned too much spouse capital to watch tonight's game just for them to lose.