Do New York Knicks Really Need to Improve Their Shooting?
The New York Knicks got their playoff run off to a great start by taking Game 1 away from the Cleveland Cavaliers and winning the series opener.
The Knicks’ defensive play and rebounding have been strong, so all they need is for their outside shots to start dropping for them to take command of this series.
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The New York Knicks got their playoff run off to a great start by taking Game 1 away from the Cleveland Cavaliers and winning the series opener.
The Knicks have a superior bench than the Cavs have through two games, and Jalen Brunson has picked up right where he left off as the team’s primary offensive hub in the playoffs. Julius Randle has also returned from an ankle ailment.
Why aren’t the Knicks up 2-0 right now? Shooting and scoring.
In the early stages of the playoffs, New York is dead last in three-point accuracy (24.9 percent) and made threes per game (7.5) among all teams. Brunson, RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley, and Quentin Grimes as a unit have struggled mightily, going a combined 5-of-32 from the field (15.6%).
The Knicks’ defensive play and rebounding have been strong, so all they need is for their outside shots to start dropping for them to take command of this series.
New York Knickerbockers
The New York Knickerbockers, or Knicks as they are more often known, are a professional basketball team in New York City, New York, United States.
The New York Knicks are a professional basketball team from the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Sharing Madison Square Garden with the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL) is where the team plays its home games.
They’re one of two NBA clubs in the Big Apple, along with the Brooklyn Nets. The Knicks are one of the two original NBA clubs still based in its original city, the other being the Boston Celtics.
Ned Irish founded the club in 1946, making it an original member of the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which merged with the National Basketball League (NBL) to form the NBA in 1949.
The Knicks’ first head coach, Joe Lapchick, led the team to early success, and the team regularly made the playoffs. Starting in 1950, the Knicks had three straight trips to the NBA Finals, all of which ended in defeat. After Lapchick left the club in 1956, they struggled.
The Knicks did not start winning again until Red Holzman took over as head coach in the late 1960s. Under Holzman’s leadership, the Knicks won the NBA title in 1970 and again in 1973.
The 1980s Knicks saw a range of results, including six trips to the playoffs but no further than the conference finals.
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