“Our guys are studying,” Cavs coach J.B. Bickerstaff stated following the loss. “We play a ton of fellows a ton of minutes who’re studying what playoff basketball is about. We’ve talked about it. It’s a must to expertise it to grasp it. This was a lesson. We experienced it and we’ve got to bounce back from it and correct the things we can correct, which I think there was a lot of.” Though Jarrett Allen’s putback on the 2:12 mark of the fourth quarter created bedlam inside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse and gave Cleveland its first lead of the second half — and first because it was 18-16 within the first quarter — New York stayed calm and ripped off the subsequent 5 factors. That response began with a ruthless high of the important thing 3-pointer from Josh Hart who was hobbling on one leg after a nasty he fall he took moments earlier. Then got here a clutch pull-up mid-range jumper from playoff-tested Jalen Brunson that put the Knicks again in entrance by 4. -via Cleveland Plain Dealer / April 16, 2023
