Knicks overwhelm Hawks in Game 5, grab 3-2 series lead
NEW YORK — Game 5 wasn’t a Knicks escape. It was a Knicks takeover. The Knicks had controlled stretches of this series before.
Tuesday night, they did it for long enough to leave very little doubt. The Atlanta Hawks kept searching for answers and never found one that changed the game, and the Knicks won, 126-97, at Madison Square Garden to take a 3-2 lead in the first-round series. Game 6 is ...
NEW YORK — Game 5 wasn’t a Knicks escape. It was a Knicks takeover. The Knicks had controlled stretches of this series before.
Tuesday night, they did it for long enough to leave very little doubt. The Atlanta Hawks kept searching for answers and never found one that changed the game, and the Knicks won, 126-97, at Madison Square Garden to take a 3-2 lead in the first-round series. Game 6 is Thursday night at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, with the Knicks one win from the second round.
Jalen Brunson finished with 39 points and eight assists, Karl-Anthony Towns had 16 points, 14 rebounds and six assists, and OG Anunoby added 17 points and 10 rebounds on a night the Knicks shot 57% from the field and committed 11 turnovers. Atlanta got 18 points, 10 rebounds and six assists from Jalen Johnson, while CJ McCollum, who had shaped too much of this series already, was limited to six points on 3-for-10 shooting. McCollum’s line was a big part of the story.