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Knicks Have Already Laid the Path for Another Lopsided Win in Game 2

New York Knicks On SI·Kento Kato·26 days ago
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A lot of 76ers fans have spent the past day and a half convincing others, if not themselves, that the Knicks' hot shooting can't, and won't persist. Some of that is true. The Knicks shot an absurd 63/51/71 split and that likely won't be the case for the entirety of this series. There is a chance that some of the players' shooting percentages regress to the means. Yet I sit here having a hard time believing that the Knicks' offense, which scored 109 points through the first three quarters before garbage time, is just going to fall of a cliff like some are believing. Knicks are dicing up 76ers by design, not luck Take Monday night's dominant performance and the shooting splits, and say they shoot 30% from three, instead of 63%. That's obviously a steep decline. But if the Knicks shot 11-37 (29.7%), instead of 19-37, New York still wins by 15. Yes, that might have made a difference, especially if the 76ers had kept their starters in, and executed better offensively. But context matters.…

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