🚨 Hawks Pull Off Near‑Impossible Comeback at MSG 🚨
The Hawks steal Game 2 against the Knicks 107–106 after trailing by 12 entering the 4th. Coming into tonight, road teams in that situation were 31–1,296 in the shot‑clock era. Atlanta just made it 32–1,296.
Fun chess match at the end of Hawks/Knicks.
Brunson was trying to get the Okongwu matchup almost every time down. Hawks mixed coverages up very nicely to try and keep him off balance. Sprinkled in hedges, hedge-and-unders, blitzing, switching, hard doubling.
Hawks outscored the Knicks 28-15 in the fourth quarter, held them to just 5-for-22 from the field.
Knicks led by as much as 12 early in the fourth.
NAW strips Jalen Brunson and feeds Jalen Johnson for a slam to give the Hawks a 4 point lead with 10.2 left
NAW strips Jalen Brunson and feeds Jalen Johnson for a slam to give the Hawks a 4 point lead with 10.2 left
Whew...Hawks dodged a bullet there. Knicks probably should have gone with a timeout.
We have a series though!
It was a wild one, but the Hawks just stole Game 2 and home-court advantage in the series.
Atlanta trailed by as many as 14 in the 2nd half and by 12 after 3 quarters.
32 points for CJ McCollum, who is suddenly quite popular in New York.
Breakdown to come on the Locked On Hawks Podcast.
The poetry of the Hawks dealing Knicks-killer Trae Young for CJ McCollum just for McCollum to play the same damn role against them is pretty incredible.
(i can pretty much guarantee you there are some hilarious old takes exposed tweets about the hawks being "dead" or different variations of that from earlier tonight)
NAW! What a sequence. Big time strip on Brunson then hit Johnson for the dunk on the break. That's how you make your mark on a game when your shot isn't falling.
Knicks let go of a 12-point, fourth-quarter lead and lose to the Hawks 107-106. The series is tied at one game a piece.
CJ won it, then almost gave it back, but there was a happy ending anyway. The Hawks who played the Celtics so tough late last month finally showed up in the 4th quarter.
