Detroit Snaps Playoff Losing Streak, Defeats Knicks in Game 2

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00:00They go off in game number two as a six-and-a-half-point home favorite

00:04with a total of 220 and a hook.

00:06Detroit had other ideas, this time holding the Knicks off

00:11in the fourth and final stanza to snap a 15-game playoff-losing skid.

00:17First playoff win for Detroit as a franchise since May 26, 2008.

00:25The Pistons went outright 194 as a six-and-a-half-point road dog inside the garden.

00:33And going on the road, you might just look at one box score and say to yourself,

00:36what's the statistic that I want to look at?

00:38How about 627 from three-point range for the Pistons, 22%.

00:41And they won that basketball game, which shows you how important

00:44Cade Cunningham was in that game.

00:46Dennis Schroeder off of the bench and almost Tobias Harris,

00:48who I miss a sweep in this game by half of a point as he taps in for 15 points

00:51but grabs 13 rebounds here.

00:53You flip it over to the home team, which is supposed to shoot better

00:56than the road team.

00:57It's their environment.

00:58You didn't get that from the New York Knicks.

01:0028% from three-point range, only 42% from the floor.

01:03Brunson showed up with 12 of 27, not all that efficient there,

01:06but still with the 37 points, just not enough from that bench.

01:09But then again with Tibbs, he just runs his starters out there 40 minutes a game

01:12and say, hey, who cares about the bench?

01:14Let's see what we can do.

01:15Knicks couldn't do anything last night.