CLICK GRAB OUR BEST Expert NBA Picks for 2013 HOOPS GAMBLING season!<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\nNew York was clearly not ready for the Pacers in Game 1 at Madison Square. The Knicks took a modest lead into the second period, then were unable to respond for the next 24 minutes as the Pacers controlled tempo, harassed Carmelo Anthony into bad shot after bad shot, and took a 16-point cushion into the final period.<\/p>\n
If the Knicks thought they could manhandle the Pacers defensively the same way they took care of the gassed Celtics in the late going of games in Round 1, they were mistaken. Au contraire. Indiana\u2019s physical style was too much for Knicks, and when it was time to crack nuts, it was New York that turtled.<\/p>\n
The Knicks that take the court tonight know that their season could very well be on the line. Fifty-four regular-season wins will mean nothing if they don\u2019t at least get to the Eastern Conference finals.
\nAnthony turned in another semi-bowser in Game 1, needing 28 shots (10 makes) to score 27 points. [ad-6571516]<\/p>\n
But it was in the paint that the Knicks were trashed, as Indiana outrebounded New York, 44-30, and all but forcing NY coach Mike Woodson into making a major lineup adjustment for Game 2. It\u2019s possible that we see more of Chris Copeland tonight, and it will certainly help if Tyson Chandler \u2013 who fouled out in just 28 minutes in Game 1 \u2013 can stay in the game.<\/p>\n
Indiana, meanwhile, will just keep on keepin\u2019 on. With six players scoring in double figures (and Tyler Hansbrough one layup from making it seven), the Pacers are content to spread the sugar and make the Knicks play defense for 48 minutes. A 2-0 lead heading to the Midwest could put what many feel is an overrated Knicks team out on a steep ledge.<\/p>\n
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NY will no doubt come out spitting bullets in this one, given the alternative. But 6 points seems like a heavy line considering the way that Indiana can suck it up and play well on the road and NY\u2019s tendency to mentally check out. The Knicks, after all, gave up 20 consecutive points to the Celtics before holding on in Game 6. Woodson isn\u2019t a dope, and he\u2019ll make a few offensive adjustments to free up his shooters, so we\u2019re liking the over play on a 183 total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Indiana Pacers (1-0) at New York Knicks (0-1) Uh, the New York Knicks do know, don\u2019t they, that as the playoffs advance into the next round, the competition tends to get a little better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":34108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62101,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62055\/revisions\/62101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}