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Something clicked for the New York Knicks starting in Game 4 of their first-round matchup against the Atlanta Hawks , and they have not looked back since. After winning three consecutive games against the Hawks by a total margin of 96 points , the Knicks’ world-beating ways continued in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal matchup against the Philadelphia 76ers , demolishing them by 39 points, 137-98.
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In terms of current form, there seems to be no stopping the Knicks now that they’ve awoken after taking a few sucker punches from the Hawks. And all the 76ers could do after Game 1 was tip their cap to New York after such a dominant effort.
“They had it going. They were really great tonight. They’re a great team and they were really great tonight,” 76ers head coach Nick Nurse said in his postgame presser, via SNY’s Knicks Videos on X (formerly Twitter).
There is no shortage of superlatives that should be used to describe the Knicks over their past four ballgames. They have been locked in, and their offense has been downright unstoppable. This was the vision many had of them when they assembled this deep team, and they are coalescing at the right time in the postseason.
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The Knicks ended Game 1 against the 76ers having shot 63.1 percent from the field and 51.4 percent from the foul line, and they were lively on defense as well, holding Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey to a combined 27 points on 6-20 shooting from the field.
Mitchell Robinson has always been a good Embiid defender, and Mikal Bridges , who had some poor moments in their series against the Hawks, finally awoken from his slumber on both ends of the floor, hounding Maxey to the poor shooting night.
But of course, one win, even though it was a huge blowout, does not win any team a playoff series in the NBA. The Knicks have some more locking in to do if they were to return to the Eastern Conference Finals, especially when the 76ers have shown that they can shrug off these kinds of bad losses the way they did against the Boston Celtics .
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