How Jalen Branson and Josh Hart missed, perhaps, the most important section

New York – Jalen Branson and Josh Hart stood at the bomber table, watching the Detroit pistons expand their leadership in the last minutes of the game 5 and waiting for registration, waiting for the opportunity to try to turn over the tide.

And they just continued to wait.

Neither Brunzon nor Hart were on the floor when Kade Cunningham passed on the schedule, he went out onto the high screen from the center of Jenen Duren and went left. The pistons of the “All-Star” playing Miles McBreid on his thigh, attacked Karl Entoni Towns in the paint and rose in a runner over a large person NIX, giving a visit to Detroit leadership with six glasses above the nicknames from 1:57, which remained in the fourth quarter.

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Brunns and Hart checked the game a minute earlier, and New York stretched two. Brunns, it seemed everywhere, would lead to Balky’s right -wing akle, which bothered him throughout this series of the best of seven people, guarding Cunningham with a little less than four minutes. After a few possessions, Hart had an unpleasant fall after slipping to challenge the Cunningham Drive, facing the piston star in the air and landing on the left arm and the lower back.

After Duren removed Miss Cunningham with the help of the top to make it 97-95, the head coach of Knicks Tibodo called Timeout, checking Branson and Hart from the game. Hart carefully walked past the bench and back to the locker room. Branson remained at the end of the bench during a time -auta, squatted and at some moment slapped a pillow of a chair in a clear disappointment.

Tibodo was placed by McBride and a veteran of the reserve capturing Cameron Payne in the game with the cities, Mikla Bridges and OG Anunobi. NIX missed four shots in a row when the clock fell, with the two best initiators of the attack – and with a Branso, recently chopped player of the year standing at the scorer at the table, waiting for registration.

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Some coaches could instruct their players to make a foul in order to force a stop in the game, creating the opportunity to make a replacement. The New York was already dedicated to five fouls in the fourth quarter, which means that any personal foul, devoted, will send Detroit to the line of the penalty-and-thrust, although the piston was their fair share of the problems of 26 out of 36 from the strip for the game, each moment admitted that the probable were emerging in the head of Tibodo after he observed his insult and a voltage of four at four in a row.

When asked about the game about choosing not a fol, Tibodo said: “Just a decision of the coach.”

NIX had one time -out, and they could call it as soon as they received possession to stop the game and give Branson and Hart the opportunity to register. But Tibodo decided not to use it.

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“Where we were with our time -auts,” he said. “The decision of the coach.”

He explained that a number of factors are included in this decision -making process.

“You look for a while, clogging, fine, time -anuts – all of the above,” he said. “What is happening in the game? Do you feel that the next possession, you know, will discard this?

This calculus led to the fact that Tibodo stood on PET: to allow the players who had on the floor to try to protect the Cunningham Duren, who cut nicki for large pieces of the second half and tried to find out how to generate kindness in the last four games.

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“Well, yes, we had guys who came out,” Tibodo said. “This, you know, a challenge. We did not know when they returned if they returned. So this is part of this. You have different combinations. ”

From the time when Branson and Hart checked to the time when Tibodo called this last timeout after the remaining 27.4 seconds of Ausar Thompson from 27.4 seconds, the New York combination received 6-2, which allowed Detroita to build a leading of six points. NIX would force the pistons to sweat, thanks to the 3 signs of Bridges and Anunobi … But this stock rose, which allowed Cunningham and Co.

“It’s difficult,” Branson said from sitting at the bombing table and is not able to return to the game. “But I have maximum faith, regardless of the result, my teammates. Whoever is there – trust, faith, faith, all this. I will always have this for my teammates. ”

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Concern, seeing that Branson and Hart should break from the floor during the most critical site of the game – this is the form in what form they will be when the series resumes on the Little Caesars Arena. Brunns, as he was not, insisted that his ankle is in order. When asked what wrist hurts him after falling, Hart said: “My whole body bothers me.”

In just one day between the games at this stage of the first round of the play -off NBA 2025, Brunns, Hart, Tibodo and the rest of the NIX will have to become as correct as they can be between now and on Thursday to try to put a bitter taste of 5 games and put themselves in a position to close the pistons on their home court.

“The task is to reset,” Tibodo said. “Each game is different. Look at the movie, look at what we can do better and be prepared to go to the next game. ”