Detroit – Nothing was resolved.
The Knicks had the opportunity to ensure no. 3 seeds on Thursday and essentially block Detroit as a first round opponent.
Instead, they played it safe with rest and minutes restrictions and were rejected by Scrapy pistons, 115-106.
As a result, the Knicks, with two trailled games, still need a defeat or a defeat of the Pacers to ensure number 3 in the east.
Assuming that happens, the Knicks play the Cavaliers on Friday and the Nets on Sunday, their first round opponent, it is very likely that the Pistons remain the Pistons.
However, never, Detroit can increase a place by winning its last two games.
That would leave the Bucks as the opponent of the Knicks playoffs.
Contrary to Tom Thibodeau’s reputation, the Knicks were not completely invested in winning Thursday.
Two holders of Anunoby and Josh Hart sat on the first night of a consequence, with Mitchell Robinson also archived.
Jalen Brunson and the cities of Karl-Anthony were clearly operating in the restrictions, a total of less than 30 minutes each.
Then, they both fell short, with the Pistons in a 9-0 race in the middle of the last quarter to take control.
Towns committed seven ball losses, including four in the fourth quarter. Brunson had no score in the final period.
Thibodeau tok a hard detour with its rotation, giving Pj Tucker in minutes for the first time this season.
Tucker, 39, who sat this season before signing a 10 -day contract with the Knicks in March, mixed it physical with the fighters Pistons and buried his first points of the season in a trery in the third quarter.
He represented his first NBA cube in exactly one year.
At one time in the second quarter, the Knicks produced an alignment with Tucker, Cam Payne, Landry Shamet and Delon Wright.
Despite their lack of experience playing together, Knicks reserves kept their own two -digit head in the first half.
The headlines blew him in the last quarter.
A series of Knicks-Pistons playoffs would also be a rematch between Thibodeau and Detroit coach JB BickerStaff, who lost to the Knicks in the first round two years ago while guiding the cavaliers.
In that confrontation, the Knicks physically dominated painting and cavs.
The Pistons, theoretically, sacrifice a harder ball mark with Isaiah Stewart and Ausar Thompson.
But none of Detroit’s young players, including Gift Cunningham, who scored 36 points that have yet played to play in the postseason.
“Obviously, Thibs is a great coach,” Bickerstaff said. “His strategy, the way in which his boys compete, defend, all those things, his ability to remove the first force and the first option of what you try to do is high level. This team, such as I Saveland.
“Only the stylistic. I like our possibilities, point, with anyone just because the way we compete, the way we discard. Again, our boys will take time to experience things. But I think we are built for Playt.”
