Detroit Pistons win first playoff game since 2008 ECF, beating the Knicks in Game 2

Cade Cunningham had 33 points and 12 rebounds, Dennis Schroder made the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 55 seconds left, and the Detroit Pistons snapped their NBA-record, 15-game postseason losing streak by beating the New York Knicks 100-94 connected Monday nighttime successful Game 2 of their playoff series.

The Pistons, who hadn’t adjacent been to the postseason since 2019, recovered aft the Knicks erased a 15-point shortage to gain their archetypal playoff triumph since Game 4 of the 2008 Eastern Conference finals against Boston. The Celtics won the last 2 games of that bid and the Pistons were past swept successful 2009, 2006 and 2019 earlier dropping Game 1 astatine Madison Square Garden.

Now they are backmost successful the triumph column, each tied successful the bid and volition big Game 3 connected Thursday night.

Schroder, who wasn’t adjacent connected the Pistons until a commercialized successful February, nailed the 3-pointer aft the Knicks had utilized a 16-4 tally to necktie it astatine 94 connected Josh Hart’s dunk. He finished with 20 points disconnected the bench.

The Pistons engineered 1 of the biggest turnarounds successful NBA past this season, going 44-38 aft a 14-win play successful 2023-24 that included a 28-game losing streak, longest ever successful a azygous season.

They were past successful bully signifier to triumph Game 1 with an eight-point pb aft 3 quarters, earlier the Knicks utilized a 21-0 tally successful the 4th to triumph 123-112. Detroit built different eight-point vantage aft 3 Monday, and this clip made the large plays aft different Knicks rally.

Jalen Brunson scored 37 points for the No. 3-seeded Knicks, but Karl-Anthony Towns and OG Anunoby were each constricted to 10 aft some finished with 23 points successful the opener.

Cunningham bounced backmost with a beardown show aft the All-Star defender was conscionable 8 for 21 successful Game 1. The Knicks struggled to support him retired of the overgarment and support him without fouling, arsenic the Pistons changeable 14 escaped throws to the Knicks’ 2 portion gathering a 55-49 pb astatine halftime.

The Pistons past held New York to conscionable 1 handbasket successful the archetypal seven-plus minutes of the 3rd quarter. Cunningham and Tobias Harris each had 2 baskets successful an 11-0 tally that Paul Reed, playing due to the fact that backup halfway Isaiah Stewart was retired with close genu inflammation, capped with a handbasket that gave the Pistons their largest pb astatine 68-53 with 5:02 remaining successful the third.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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