By Tanner Bowen | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-04-28 07:06:17
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
一场充满勇气和强硬的系列赛，在纽约尼克斯队与底特律活塞队首轮对决的第四场比赛中，继续名副其实。
纽约尼克斯开场就展现出要在系列赛中确立优势，并带着3-1的领先离开底特律的决心。在上半场的大部分时间里，纽约正是这么做的。他们迫使底特律活塞投出高难度球，并在上半场造成多次失误，在第二节末段一度领先16分。然而，杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson)的一记可能将分差扩大到19分的投篮不中，反而让活塞打出一波反击，将分差保持在个位数进入中场休息，也为底特律带来了新的生机。
活塞从中场休息后带着与上半场结束时相同的气势卷土重来。尼克斯拼命抵抗，却发现自己陷入了与上半场活塞相同的境地。更糟糕的是，在第三节末段，杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson)因明显的脚踝受伤离场，当时尼克斯还处于落后。不过，布伦森在第四节开始时回到了替补席，并在不久后重返赛场，当时尼克斯仍然落后，并且迫切需要一个转机。在布伦森单节贡献15分的带领下，尼克斯从落后11分的情况下奋起反击，将比赛变成了一场势均力敌的拉锯战，胜利就在眼前。卡尔-安东尼·唐斯 (Karl Anthony-Towns)的两记关键球最终决定了比赛的胜负，尼克斯在最后10秒迫使对手两次投篮不中，以94-93险胜，带着3-1的系列赛领先优势回到麦迪逊广场花园，迎接周二晚上的第五场比赛。
观察
- 自从2008年东部决赛第四场在奥本山宫殿球馆进行以来，底特律就再也没有赢得过主场季后赛的胜利。
- 对布伦森进攻表现的批评，特别是那些称他为无耻“骗犯规”者的人，实际上是低估了他。虽然其中一些确实是明显的骗犯规行为，但他那古怪的运球风格是他作为一名进攻球员如此有效的部分原因，并且自然而然地会寻求身体对抗。他今晚得到32分，是他为尼克斯队效力期间第15次单场得分达到30+，但更令人印象深刻的是什么？他在全场比赛中面对底特律全队针对性防守的情况下，还能送出11次助攻，且只有2次失误。
- 凯德·坎宁安 (Cade Cunningham)开局缓慢（上半场6分），这在很大程度上要归功于OG·阿努诺比 (OG Anunoby)的精彩防守。但他在下半场爆发，最终得到25分、10个篮板和10次助攻，成为活塞队历史上第二位在季后赛中获得三双的球员。另一位是谁？名人堂成员以赛亚·托马斯 (Isiah Thomas)，他今天下午也来到了现场。
- 活塞在比赛开始5分钟后就使用了他们的挑战机会，希望在一次球被碰出界的情况下获得球权，但挑战失败了。虽然没有教练使用挑战的“正确”时机，但可以肯定地说，在这种情况下使用挑战是浪费的。
- 或许对OG·阿努诺比和米卡尔·布里奇斯 (Mikal Bridges)在进攻端表现平庸提出批评是不公平的。两人是一对强大的防守组合，他们在防守端倾尽所有。尼克斯或许能够容忍这两位球员平庸的得分表现来赢得这个系列赛，但在下一轮，很有可能是对阵波士顿凯尔特人？那就不可能了。对于布里奇斯来说尤其如此，尼克斯去年夏天为了得到他付出了巨大的代价。
- 托拜厄斯·哈里斯 (Tobias Harris)在帮助活塞重返比赛中发挥了巨大的作用。底特律执行了很多战术来让他在布伦森防守他的情况下接球，而他也兑现了球队的期望。他在第三节表现出色，带领球队控制了比赛。然而，他在该节结束前领到第4次犯规，不得不坐在板凳上直到第四节过半。哈里斯在剩下的比赛中未能得分。
- 尼克斯继续从他们的替补席上获得寥寥无几的贡献（今天总共只有5分，全部来自迪尤斯·麦克布莱德 (Deuce McBride)），而底特律的一些替补球员今天表现沉寂，尤其是丹尼斯·施罗德 (Dennis Schroder)。他仅以4次出手得到6分。马利克·比斯利 (Malik Beasley)的状态也继续飘忽不定。比斯利本赛季的三分球命中率为41%，但在过去的3场比赛中，他的三分球命中率只有6/27。
- 卡尔-安东尼·唐斯（全场得到27分，仅次于布伦森）在比赛还剩不到2分钟时命中了两个关键跳投，最终证明是比赛的胜负手。第一个：
这是一记艰难的底线投篮，卡尔-安东尼·唐斯！pic.twitter.com/dBxzDIvDvD
— 纽约尼克斯 (@ nyknicks) 2025年4月27日
- 第二个：
卡尔-安东尼·唐斯。
pic.twitter.com/y4lVJ296J4— Hoop Central (@ TheHoopCentral) 2025年4月27日
第五场比赛将于美国中部时间4月29日周二下午6:30在TNT回到纽约市进行。
点击查看原文：NBA Playoffs Final Score: Knicks hold on, force Pistons to the brink with 94-93 win
NBA Playoffs Final Score: Knicks hold on, force Pistons to the brink with 94-93 win
A gutsy, hard-nosed series continued to live up to the billing in Game 4 of the New York Knicks-Detroit Pistons first round match-up
The New York Knicks came out looking like they wanted to make a statement on this series and leave Detroit with a commanding 3-1 lead. For much of the first half that’s exactly how it played out for the New York. They forced the Detroit Pistons into tough shots and turnovers throughout the first half, eventually growing a 16 point lead late in the 2nd quarter. A missed Jalen Brunson 3 though that could have made it a 19-point hole instead led to a Detroit run, keeping the game within single digits heading into halftime and giving Detroit new life.
The Pistons came out of the intermission riding the same momentum that carried them to the end of the first half. New York tried desperately to hold on, but now found themselves in the same situation they had put Detroit in during the first half. To make matters worse, Jalen Brunson left for the locker room with an apparent ankle injury towards the end of the 3rd with the Knicks trailing. Brunson was back on the bench to start the 4th though and was back into the game not long after with the Knicks still trailing and in desperate need of a spark. Spearheaded by 15 points in the frame from Brunson, the Knicks stormed back from down 11, turning the game into a back and forth affair with the W there for the taking. Two clutch buckets from Karl Anthony-Towns proved to be the difference, and the Knicks forced two misses in the final 10 seconds to claim a 94-93 win and grab the 3-1 series lead heading back to Madison Square Garden this Tuesday night.
Observations
- Detroit hasn’t won a home playoff game since Game 4 of the 2008 Eastern Conferencr Finals when they still played at the Palace at Auburn Hills
- Criticism of Brunson’s offensive game, namely those calling him a shameless foul merchant, are really selling him short. While some of it is certainly blatant foul-baiting, his herky jerky style of ball handling is part of what makes him so effective as an offensive player and naturally lends itself to seeking contact. His 32 points tonight marks his 15th 30-point performance with the Knicks, but even more impressive? His 11 assists against just 2 turnovers, with the entire Detroit defense gunning for him all game.
- Slow start for Cade Cunningham (6 points in the 1st half) thanks in large part to an OG Anunoby defensive clinic. He came alive in the 2nd half though, finishing with 25 points, 10 rebounds, and 10 assists, only the second player in Piston’s history to notch a playoff triple double. The other guy? Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas, who was in attendance this afternoon.
- The Pistons used their challenge 5 minutes into the game, hoping to gain possession on a tipped ball that was ruled in New York’s favor, and lost. While there’s no, “right,” time for a coach to use their challenge, it’s safe to say it was wasted in this situation.
- Perhaps it’s unfair to come at both OG Anunoby and Mikal Bridges for having such mediocre games on the offensive end. The two are a formidable defensive tandem that leave it all out there on that end of the floor. New York might be able to live with mediocre scoring performances from those two to win this series, but in the next round, likely against the Boston Celtics? Not a chance. This is especially true of Bridges, whom the Knicks gave up quite the haul to bring into the fold last summer.
- Tobias Harris played a huge role in getting the Pistons back into this one. Detroit ran a lot of action to get him the ball with Brunson guarding him and he delivered. He was huge in the 3rd quarter, leading the charge and helping Detroit take control of the game. He picked up his 4th foul before that quarter ended though, finding himself on the bench until halfway through the 4th quarter. Harris failed to score the rest of the way.
- The Knicks continue to receive almost nothing from their bench (just 5 points total today, all from Deuce McBride), while some guys on the Detroit bench were quiet today, namely Dennis Schroder. He finished with just 6 points on a measly 4 attempts from the field. Consistency continues to elude Malik Beasley as well. Beasley, who shot 41% from 3 this season, is just 6/27 from behind the arc in the last 3 games.
- Karl Anthony Towns (who finished with 27 points, only second to Brunson for the game) hit two huge jumpers with under 2 minutes to go that ultimately proved to be the difference in the game. The first:
THAT’S A TUFF BASELINE SHOT KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS pic.twitter.com/dBxzDIvDvD
— NEW YORK KNICKS (@ nyknicks) April 27, 2025
- And the second:
KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS.
pic.twitter.com/y4lVJ296J4— Hoop Central (@ TheHoopCentral) April 27, 2025
Game 5 is back in New York City Tuesday, April 29th at 6:30 CT on TNT.
By Tanner Bowen, via Pounding The Rock