![]() ![]() Bird's drive and a three-point play by Lewis made it 73-66 at 6:42. Midway through the third, though, the Celtics made a push. I'm as shocked as anybody else."īoston had made a couple of small runs in the first half, but the Knicks kept staying close and were down just 54-50 at the half. I kept waiting for us to run off 10 or 12 points, but it didn't happen. We started off really good, but it went back and forth. When you're in the Garden, you should win these kinds of games. "We played hard, but we seemed a step behind them all day. "This is about as low as it gets since I've been here," Bird said. Larry Bird had 31 points and nine rebounds to lead Boston Parish had 22 points and nine rebounds Dennis Johnson added 21 points and 10 assists Reggie Lewis had 19 points and nine assists McHale finished with 17 points and seven rebounds. "And I think I did an outstanding job on Kevin, making him take his fadeaway shot instead of coming to the hole." "Charles did an outstanding job on Robert, pushed him off the block," Ewing said. And after averaging 26 points on 72-percent shooting the first two games, McHale's averages dropped to 19.3 points on 53-percent shooting. New York took Ewing off Robert Parish and put him on Kevin McHale. You remember, the 157-128 shellacking Boston put on the same Knicks in the same building just eight days earlier. That, and a defensive change New York made after Game 2. That's what this is all about, not the streak." "The real lesson is being down, being kicked, being able to come back. "It had to happen sometime," New York Coach Stu Jackson said. New York shot 25 of 34 (.735) in the second half, including an 11-of-13 stretch through most of the third quarter that erased a seven-point Celtics lead. And thus the Knicks joined the 1956 Fort Wayne Pistons and the 1987 Golden State Warriors as the only teams to come back from such a plight. Tucker (14 points) and Johnny Newman (13) personally outscored Boston's bench, 27-4. Maurice Cheeks played the entire game, scoring 21 points (17 in the second half) with 7 assists and 2 steals. Charles Oakley had 26 points and 17 rebounds. The Knicks had huge efforts, led by Patrick Ewing's 31 points, 10 assists, 8 rebounds and 4 blocked shots. But this team had to hear all about that too. Guard Trent Tucker is the only player left from that squad. New York hadn't won here in 26 games (18 regular season, eight playoff) since Feb. Today the Knicks ended their own futility at Boston Garden and joined only two teams that have come back from 0-2 deficits in best-of-five series, with a 121-114 victory over the Boston Celtics in front of 14,890 fans. In eight days the New York Knicks have gone from deader than dead to the second round of the NBA playoffs. But it is intriguing and amazing in its own way. BOSTON, MAY 6 - The Story of Creation favored in some circles covers a seven-day period. ![]()
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