A rare, deep three-pointer from Isaiah Hartenstein gave the New York Knicks hope in a rollercoaster opener against the Indiana Pacers.
Brunson, DiVincenzo, Ionescu, Starks ... Hartenstein? The New York Knicks found the next metropolitan hope from deep on Monday night, if only for a few fleeting, fateful seconds.
Hartenstein's heave of hope played both immediate and subtle dividends: New York trailed by six rather than nine at halftime and it perhaps lingered in the back of Indiana minds when they looked at the final margin of 121-117. The Pacers had been poised to take their largest lead of the game into the intermission before Hartensten took desperate matters into his own hands.
Three-point shooting is far and away the biggest difference between this New York title run and the last: the Knicks were the only team among 2023 postseason participants to shoot less than 30 percent with an extra point on the line. This time around, they currently rank third in percentage behind only top seeds Oklahoma City and Boston.
“These players, it doesn’t surprise, but it surprises you, wherever they shoot it from they can make it,” Thibodeau said in Botte's report. “You see it all the time, whether it’s half-court, three-quarter court, oftentimes it misses on the back rim. But we had nothing going for us, and that sort of gave us a little hope and we had a chance to regroup at the half and started the third quarter pretty good.
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