If Jalen Brunson’s dominance over Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell in the back-to-back duel is the most ‘flashy’ takeaway so far in this series Riders – Knicksthat of the interiors of New York on those of Cleveland is on the other hand probably the most decisive point.
Since the start of the series, we have indeed noticed a repeating scenario: with the exception of Game 2, collectively missed by New York, Mitchell Robinson And Isaiah Hartensteinin the statistics but also, and above all, in the impact and the visual feeling, dominate Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley in the duel of the interiors.
Sunday, as in Game 1, it was particularly in the field of offensive rebounds that the first dominated, capturing all by himself 7 of the 17 offensive rebounds of his team, the same total as the Cavaliers, collectively… And this, hours after teasing Cleveland’s interiors, in effect claiming after Game 3 that they were ” disconcerted by his activity and that of Isaiah Hartenstein in painting.
” We just play hard » simply explained “Mitch”, who completed the match with as many rebounds (11) as his two direct opponents, combined. ” They have two giants in the racket, so obviously it takes a little more effort. And we did the job. »
The most worrying thing is there, for the Cavaliers: if the Knicks’ domination of the offensive rebound during the regular season (3/30), combined with their meager efficiency in this same area (25/30), was an obvious indication of the worries that they were possibly going to meet, Jarrett Allen and Evan Mobley are more simply jostled in desire and intensity, powerless against this pair of pivots from New York who always find solutions.
Isaiah Hartenstein, the chameleon
Like Isaiah Hartenstein, who has shown since the start of the series an ability to adapt to the needs of his team according to the context of each game, to allow the interior sector of the Knicks to take over that of the Cavaliers .
A shot is a rather offensive role, like in Game 1 (8 points and 5 rebounds), another is a defensive role, like Sunday (7 defensive rebounds, 2 steals and 2 blocks).
” I just try to do what the team needs from me at such and such a time. In this match, it was not to score in this case he adds. ” Mitch ‘had done some work on the offensive rebound and finishing, so I tried to bring my stone to the building while he was on the bench. »
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Julius Randle | 77 | 35.6 | 45.9 | 34.3 | 75.7 | 1.8 | 8.1 | 10.0 | 4.1 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 3.0 | 25.1 |
| Jalen Brunson | 68 | 35.0 | 49.1 | 41.6 | 82.9 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 6.2 | 2.1 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 24.0 |
| Rj Barrett | 73 | 33.9 | 43.4 | 31.0 | 74.0 | 0.8 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 2.5 | 19.6 |
| Immanuel Quickley | 81 | 28.9 | 44.8 | 37.0 | 81.9 | 0.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 14.9 |
| Quentin Grimes | 71 | 29.9 | 46.8 | 38.6 | 79.6 | 0.7 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 11.3 |
| Josh Hart | 25 | 30.0 | 58.6 | 51.9 | 78.9 | 1.9 | 5.2 | 7.0 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 10.2 |
| Cam Reddish | 20 | 21.9 | 44.9 | 30.4 | 87.9 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 8.4 |
| Obi Toppin | 67 | 15.7 | 44.6 | 34.4 | 80.9 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 7.4 |
| Mitchell Robinson | 59 | 27.0 | 67.1 | 0.0 | 48.4 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 9.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 2.7 | 7.4 |
| Evan Fournier | 27 | 17.0 | 33.7 | 30.7 | 85.7 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 6.1 |
| Derrick Rose | 27 | 12.5 | 38.4 | 30.2 | 91.7 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 5.6 |
| Isaiah Hartenstein | 82 | 19.8 | 53.5 | 21.6 | 67.6 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 6.5 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 2.6 | 5.0 |
| Miles Mcbride | 64 | 11.9 | 35.8 | 29.9 | 66.7 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 3.5 |
| jericho sims | 52 | 15.6 | 77.6 | 0.0 | 75.0 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 4.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 3.4 |
| Svi Mykhailiuk | 13 | 3.1 | 50.0 | 60.0 | 60.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.6 |
| Trevor Keels | 3 | 2.7 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| Ryan Arcidiacono | 11 | 2.4 | 20.0 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
