Knicks Overcome the Pistons 118-116, Lead Series 2-1

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00:00The Knicks, 118-116, got a little dicey at the end with the Pistons, but they go on the road,

00:07get it done, take it two games to one, series lead. Big nights by both Jalen Brunson, who had

00:1330, and Carl Anthony Towns getting involved with 31-8 on TNT. Harris is on Towns. This has been

00:21the matchup Detroit has relied on. Towns tonight, though, has won it. A series of moves to get open,

00:27and it's the J. Nice shot by Carl Anthony Towns. Yeah, look, I thought Towns had a huge first

00:34quarter. He had four threes. He had 31 for the game. I thought Ananobi played really well. He

00:41had three threes. I thought Bridges played well. He had three threes. I thought Brunson, can you

00:47imagine Brunson had 30 and only won three? He did a lot of work, got to the line a lot, made some big

00:54free throws. It's just a gigantic win for the Knicks because I think this team's a little bit

01:01of a thorn in their side, the way they played them in New York. They are not afraid of the Knicks at

01:06all, but I thought from belly to belly, the Knicks flat out played better than the Pistons last night.

01:12I saw last night the Knicks kind of trying to change a couple things up on D. When Mikkel Bridges was on

01:20Cade Cunningham, he missed all four. So he was 0-4-4 with Bridges on him. He was 4-14 when OG was on

01:26him. So the Knicks threw OG and Bridges at Cade a lot more, and Cade obviously wasn't... OG's their best

01:31defender, bar none. Yeah. You know, I think Mike, when he realized this year that he was a 6'8 monster

01:38that, you know, was known for basically defending and shooting threes, that was really his M.O., when

01:46he realized that he could attack the 10 and drive and bang and finish and dunk and go inside and get

01:54easy 5- to 8-foot floaters and dunks and kisses off the glass, I thought his whole game expanded exponentially.