On December 30, Beijing time, the Knicks played against the Pistons away from home, and the Knicks successfully defeated the Pistons 94-85 at the end of the game. The Pistons are missing Cunningham in this game, so it is still a tough thing for the Pistons to win the game. However, what people did not expect was that the Pistons still brought some pressure to the Knicks in this game, but in this game, the Knicks' benches were in a hot state, and the outbreak of relying on their substitutes also helped the Knicks occupy the lead on the field, and finally the Knicks also rejected the occurrence of the upset game.
The Knicks started 7-0 in the first quarter, but the Knicks were sluggish in the following game, and soon the Pistons hit back a wave of 13-0, but fortunately the Knicks also hit back a wave of 12-2 again, and the Pistons fell behind by 3 points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the two teams were in a slump in offense, but then the Knicks found the form first to play an 11-0 wave, but then Sadiq Bay and Diallo helped the team chase points, and the Knicks led by seven points at the end of the half. In the third quarter, the Knicks once again had an offensive power outage, this time relying on Diallo and Sadiq Bay Pistons to set off a counterattack to complete the counterattack, and then Burks and Topping helped the Knicks close the score, and the Pistons led by 7 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the Pistons' offensive state was sluggish, and the Knicks played a wave of 14-0 in the following game, although the Pistons tried to chase points in the later games, but Burks and others stabilized the situation, and in the end, the Knicks won the game without any danger.
The Pistons did their best in this game, especially in the third quarter of the game, the Pistons' attack was to let the team see the opportunity to win, but unfortunately, the Pistons did not perform well in the fourth quarter, and in the end they did not win the game. In this game, the Nets' selected person, Sadiq Bay, played a good offensive state, and he also helped the team in the game, but unfortunately, in the end, Sadiq Bay was still difficult to save, and at the end of the game, Sadiq Bay had 32 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists on 9 of 19. At the same time, Diallo also fired in this game, and diallo had 31 points, 13 rebounds and 4 assists on 13-of-19 shooting.
In contrast, the Knicks' starters performed very badly in this game, of which Randall performed very sluggishly in the game, in the face of such a situation, Thibodeau directly chose to abandon Randall in the fourth quarter of the game, and Randle got 5 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists in 2 of 11 at the end of the game, it can be said that as the core giant of the team, Randall's performance is really too bad. Of course, other Knicks starters also performed badly, with Walker having 2 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists on 1-of-5 shooting, Robinson having 7 points, 7 rebounds and 1 assist on 3-of-7 shooting, and Barrett having 15 points, 7 rebounds and 1 assist on 5-of-12 shooting.
And in this game the Knicks can win the game, their bench players really made a big contribution, after all, they are in the game to play an explosive performance, if it is not their play in the game, then the Knicks may be really difficult to win the game, especially Burks and Quickley played well in the game, at the end of the game, Burks 12 of 17 got 34 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, Quickley got 18 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists, Gibson had four points, eight rebounds and two assists. For the Knicks, if their starters are still doing so badly, it's really hard for them to make the playoffs this season.