Pistons manage to squeak out close win to open playoffs.
Boxscores:[Knicks]|[Pistons]
Rasheed Wallace had a great offensive night, and Ben Wallace made the important stops on Defense,
and the Pistons took their first game of the playoffs.
However is didnt come as easy as many had predicted it would against the 8th seeded New York Knicks.
The Pistons struggled for most of the game trying to slow down the New York guards.
Ben Wallace managed to do a good job on hunting down penetrations that managed to get through
but often this would result on him having to leave Eddy Curry unattended.
A big factor in the Knicks performing so well had to be the pass first mentality that Stephon Marbury suddenly seemed to adopt.
Instead of forcing shots Marbury was often seen hesitating on taking his own rather than giving the ball up.
Jamal Crawford took over as the main focul point of the Knicks offense, especially making some clutch shots to keep them in the game.
Rasheed Wallace led all scorers with 26 points on 10 of 19 shooting, he also added 6 boards.
Ben Wallace had a stellar defensive game with 14 boards, 8 blocks and 3 steals.
Jamal Crawford led the Knicks with 22 points and 6 assists.
Stephon Marbury had 14 points and 9 assists, while Quentin Richardson added 18 points, on some big 3 pointers.
Ben made some big plays on both ends, wether it be the posterization of Knicks players or the big block on D
Stephon Marbury has been mkaing it tough for Billups on the offensive end || Steve Francis' only shot of the game was this missed dunk, they will have to get him more invloved
Rose has been a solid contributer for the Knicks since they acquired him, however he needs to score in double digits this series || Sheed was hard to stop for the Knicks frontcourt
Next up: Game 2 @ New York
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) and 2nd game just maazing blowout, Rip was on fire !!
