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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Knicks | 17 | 31 | 19 | 28 | 95 |
 Pistons | 28 | 22 | 17 | 25 | 92 |
NYKTeam statsDET| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYK | 38-8544.7% | 8-2236.4% | 11-1764.7% | 47 | 24 | 15 |
| DET | 34-6949.3% | 13-2944.8% | 11-1668.8% | 28 | 21 | 16 |
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New York Knicks95| 34 | 17 | 7-17 | 1-3 | 2-3 | −1 | −3.6 | ||||||||
| 30 | 10 | 4-11 | 0-1 | 2-4 | +3 | +0.7 | ||||||||
| 27 | 8 | 2-5 | 2-4 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | +7 | +2.2 | |||||
| 21 | 3 | 1-8 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −15 | −9.5 | |||||
| 13 | 11 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | −3 | +0.5 | |||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 27 | 17 | 6-12 | 3-7 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | +7 | +4.5 | |||||
| 19 | 7 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0 | 1-2 | +12 | +1.1 | |||||||
| 18 | 4 | 2-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −5.4 | ||||||
| 18 | 11 | 5-10 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −0.3 | ||||||
| 18 | 5 | 2-4 | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | −2.2 | ||||
| 14 | 2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +3 | −0.5 | |||||
| Team | 95 | 38-8544.7% | 8-2236.4% | 47 | 24 | 15 | 21 | 11-1764.7% | 16 | 5 | 6 | |||
Bench 46 points on 19 for 37 shooting
Did not play: Damyean Dotson and Maurice Harkless (coach’s decision).
Detroit Pistons92| 37 | 17 | 6-13 | 3-7 | 2-4 | −5 | −0.8 | ||||||||
| 35 | 11 | 3-8 | 1-3 | 4-4 | 0 | −6 | −2.9 | |||||||
| 34 | 12 | 5-8 | 2-3 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +7 | −5.3 | ||||
| 31 | 20 | 7-17 | 3-7 | 3-4 | 0 | +5 | +2.4 | |||||||
| 29 | 7 | 3-5 | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | −2 | −3.3 | ||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 32 | 6 | 2-6 | 2-4 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −8 | −7.2 | |||||
| 18 | 12 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | +4.4 | ||||||
| 13 | 5 | 1-3 | 1-2 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3.0 | |||||
| 12 | 2 | 1-3 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −7 | −1.1 | ||
| Team | 92 | 34-6949.3% | 13-2944.8% | 28 | 21 | 16 | 19 | 11-1668.8% | 3 | 5 | 7 | |||
Bench 25 points on 10 for 18 shooting
Did not play: Svi Mykhailiuk, Brandon Knight and Derrick Rose (injury/illness); Louis King (coach’s decision).
Knicks95Pistons92ClickTap a team’s number to see the plays behind it.
PS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes. The game’s highs are in blue, hot shooting in gold, cold in gray. ClickTap a column’s heading to sort by it.
The New York Knicks beat the Detroit Pistons 95-92 for their fourth straight win.
Elfrid Payton’s 9-foot floater put the Knicks ahead for good with 1:29 left in the fourth quarter.
Julius Randle’s hook shot with 13.5 seconds left made it 93-89. The Pistons had the ball down 3 after a timeout, but Reggie Jackson missed a pull-up 3-pointer with 3.7 seconds left that would have tied it.
During clutch time, the Knicks outscored the Pistons 14-8. Randle scored 5 of the Knicks’ 14 on 2 for 4 shooting and 1 for 2 at the line.
Wayne Ellington scored 17 points (9 on 3 3-pointers) off the bench.
For the Pistons, Jackson had 20 points (8 in the fourth quarter) and 9 assists.
The Pistons gave up 16 offensive rebounds, about 6 more than usual for the shots the Knicks missed. The Knicks outscored the Pistons 46-25 off the bench.
New York KnicksDetroit PistonsPS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes.
The five plays that moved the chance to win most, in order.
Each play from the side of the team that made it: its chance to win before and after, and the change in percentage points. On the court, each shot is the shooter’s face (gray when he missed), bigger the more it moved the chance. The Knicks’ chance bottomed out at 11% (4th quarter, 6:08 left). Chances from the site’s game model (the per-play numbers the Clutch and Performances tabs use aren’t built for this game).
84 points from the field on 85 shots: 4.5 fewer than the league scores from the same zones.
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| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 17-30 | 56.7% | 64% |
| In the paint | 8-17 | 47.1% | 40% |
| Mid-range | 5-16 | 31.3% | 40% |
| Corner 3 | 4-6 | 66.7% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 4-16 | 25.0% | 35% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Wood | 40 | 11 | 5-11 | −2 |
| Thon Maker | 8 | 1 | 0-3 | −1 |
| Bruce Brown | 3 | 0 | 0-1 | −1 |
| Everyone else | 8 | 7 | 3-5 | +5 |
The tracking credits him with 19 points on 58 possessions. He usually scores about 18 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langston Galloway | 28 | 11 | 4-7 | +7 |
| Bruce Brown | 8 | 0 | 0-1 | −1 |
| Jordan Bone | 4 | 3 | 1-1 | +2 |
| Tony Snell | 4 | 0 | 0-1 | −1 |
| Everyone else | 2 | 2 | 1-2 | +2 |
The tracking credits him with 16 points on 47 possessions. He usually scores about 7 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thon Maker | 17 | 8 | 4-5 | +5 |
| Christian Wood | 4 | 3 | 1-1 | +2 |
| Bruce Brown | 4 | 6 | 3-4 | +5 |
| Everyone else | 2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 |
The tracking credits him with 17 points on 27 possessions. He usually scores about 5 on that many.
What the players each one guarded scored, against what they usually score on as many possessions.
Possessions, and parts of possessions when defenders switched, from the NBA’s matchup tracking. The line under a defender’s name: his share of the scorer’s possessions. Usual: what the scorer averaged a possession against every defender in the regular season, eased toward the league’s rate when he has few possessions.
DET win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
NYK
50/50
DET
Highest Leverage Moments
Payton 9' Driving Floating Jump Shot (10 PTS)
Q4 1:29
27.1%
57→29
Jackson 8' Driving Floating Jump Shot (20 PTS)
Q4 2:01
22.7%
34→56
Randle 1' Cutting Dunk Shot (15 PTS) (Payton 6 AST)
Q4 2:23
19.0%
53→34
Randle 7' Hook Shot (17 PTS)
Q4 0:14
16.3%
21→4
Wood 25' 3PT Jump Shot (17 PTS)
Q4 0:09
16.3%
4→21
