Game Thread: New York Knicks vs Atlanta Hawks 7:30 12/10/2017 [Game #26]

KP hits the contested jumper and gets the and-1 to stretch the lead to 11.

Hawks come right back and lead is trimmed to only 6. Knicks need a timeout to regain composure. The defense still isn?t there when we need it to close out games like this.

mafra said:

The rookie sinks te teardrop runner. Sweet. Back-2-back games now.... looking like he did pre-Lebron incident.

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You would think he's scored 20 but he's 2-6 with 7pts all in the 4th.

I really hope McDermott gets his chance to start for a stretch of games this season

tiger0330 said:

You would think he's scored 20 but he's 2-6 with 7pts all in the 4th.

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Yeah he only has a string of good play but when he does it's often during crucial moments

Ntilikina, Jack, and Baker now all out there together with KP and Lance Thomas.

Ntilikina with another steal. Lead is 8 with less than 4 minutes to go.

Now the Hawks I'd wonder if they are trying to Tank, when you consider how long Schoeder has been on the bench

Thats got to be a flagrant on Belle if they gave Quinn one earlier.

Ntilikina yet again with the best plus/minus on the team. He is +17 in a game where we only lead 8. His defense is just that much of a game changer.

tiger0330 said:

Thats got to be a flagrant on Belle if they gave Quinn one earlier.

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I don't get that call, a tech on a personal foul don't think I've ever seen that before. Bell hit Baker in the face like Quinn hit that Hawks player but Quinn gets a flagrant. I don't see the difference.

tiger0330 said:

I don't get that call, a tech on a personal foul don't think I've ever seen that before.

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Very weird and a waste of time

Ntilikina gets a piece of the pass and forces yet another steal.

No one wants to make a shot for us now and Atlanta is bombing away from 3.

Up 3 with the ball and 42.9 seconds to go. Need someone to hit a big shot here.

Clutch jumper from Jack. Lead is 5 with 28.5 seconds to go. Can close this one out with our defense.

Jack with the 18 ft dagger. His Knicks high 18 points, Knicks up 107-102 28 secs left

Jack hits the nail-in-coffin jumper... he was terrific tonight. KP, Ntikilina, and McDerms got the win with quality play.

13-13. Back to .500.

Ntilikina hits 1 of 2 from the line to stretch the lead to 4 with 12 seconds to go. Need to not do anything stupid on defense here.

Jack just fouled Bazemore taking a 3. How do you let that happen?

Guess that was a 2 pointer from Bazemore, but still.