Last Night's Action: Knicks 103-80 win over the Pistons
Every NBA team has a tightly packed schedule this season, and the Knicks
finished a stretch of three games in four nights. But building a 29-poitn
lead against the Pistons helped them rest Carmelo Anthony in the fourth
quarter of a 103-80 win over the Pistons. Amare Stoudemire had 22 points to lead
everyone, and Mike Bibby had 16 points off the bench.
LeBron James scored 22 points in the first quarter. The Nets had 35 points
in the first half and lost 101-90. Kris Humphries had 25 points and 12
rebounds, but Deron Williams shot 4-of-16 from the floor and had 10 points in
38 minutes.
Knicks rout Pistons 103-80 after big 2nd quarter
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. —Playing his third game in four nights—with soreness
all over his body—_Carmelo Anthony_
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3706/) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3706/news) made it through three
quarters.
Then he had a chance to rest while the _New York Knicks_
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/nyk/) finished off a much-needed blowout.
Anthony scored 13 points, and the Knicks routed the _Detroit Pistons_
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/det/) 103-80 on Saturday night. Anthony was
hit in the back late in Friday night’s win over Washington, but he was able
to play against the Pistons—although New York didn’t need him to do all
that much.
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“My whole right side was kind of locked up. Last night when we got in, they
unlocked my back,” Anthony said. “Then today it was my hip, then in the
game it was my knee. It was kind of my whole right side. I can use this day
off tomorrow.”
He was able to sit out the fourth quarter after the Knicks built a 29-point
lead. _Amare Stoudemire_ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3607/)
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3607/news) scored 22 points and _Mike
Bibby_ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3245/)
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3245/news) added 16.
New York led 64-42 at halftime.
“Tonight we came out from the jump, from the beginning,” Anthony said. “
Tonight we put four quarters together.”
The Detroit fans had little to cheer about—except when highlights of Lions
touchdowns from their playoff game in New Orleans were shown on the big
screen. _Brandon Knight_ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4889/)
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4889/news) led the Pistons with 19 points.
“This was very, very disappointing. Overall, this was just an unacceptable
and extremely disappointing performance,” Detroit coach Lawrence Frank
said. “Obviously, this is not representative of what we want to be.”
Bibby has 27 points in his last two games after scoring seven through New
York’s first six.
Detroit guard _Rodney Stuckey_ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4293/)
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4293/news) sat out with a groin
injury, and the Pistons were also without forwards _Austin Daye_
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4620/)
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4620/news) (right ankle) and _Charlie Villanueva_
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3933/) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3933/news) (left ankle).
Knicks rookie _Iman Shumpert_ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4898/)
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4898/news) made his first career
start, replacing _Toney Douglas_ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4634/)
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4634/news) . He finished with 11 points,
including an alley-oop dunk late in the game that made it 99-73.
“I thought it went well,” Shumpert said. “We started off on the right foot
and kept the energy up.”
New York led by just a point after the first quarter before breaking the
game open in the second. With the score tied at 32, the Knicks went on a 26-4
run, highlighted by a one-handed dunk by Anthony over Detroit big man
_Greg Monroe_ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4722/)
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4722/news) that made it 52-35.
Moments later, Bibby made a 3-pointer to push the lead to 20, and he added
another shot from long distance at the shot clock buzzer to make it 58-36.
Bibby led all scorers in the first half with 14 points, making all four of
his 3-point attempts. Detroit gave the Knicks far too many extra chances in
the half, turning the ball over 11 times and allowing nine offensive
rebounds.
The Pistons finished with 20 turnovers. They’ve lost three straight by
decisive margins. Chicago beat them by 16 before Philadelphia defeated Detroit
96-73 on Friday night.
New York was playing the second game of a back-to-back set as well, having
edged Washington 99-96 the previous night.
The Pistons haven’t been drawing well this season, although Saturday night’
s announced attendance of 12,044 was mitigated by the fact that the Lions
were playing their first playoff game in a dozen years at the same time.
The area’s basketball team has a ways to go if it’s going to reach the
postseason. The Pistons looked disoriented on defense throughout, allowing
several easy dunks and doing little to slow the Knicks.
“This was a perfect example of how not to play our game,” Detroit’s _Jonas
Jerebko_ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4644/)
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4644/news) said. “They play that up-and-down style, and
once you make a couple mistakes, it really gets away from you in a hurry.
That’s how they like to play, and we let them get into it.”
After an alley-oop from Anthony to _Tyson Chandler_
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3512/) (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/3512/news) and a
dunk by Stoudemire, New York led 79-53 in the third quarter. _Josh
Harrellson_ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4927/)
(http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/players/4927/news) , the Knicks’ 6-foot-10 rookie, added a 3-pointer to
make it 82-55.
NOTES: Anthony was called for a technical foul in the third. … Greg Monroe
scored 15 points for the Pistons. … The Knicks committed a defensive
3-second violation 15 seconds into the game.
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