Knicks Go as Cold as the North Pole
CHICAGO, Dec. 25
After being battered end to end for much of the first half tonight, the Chicago Bulls gave the Knicks 24 minutes of their own bitter defensive medicine, rallying for an 89 77 victory at Chicago Stadium.
First, Michael Jordan scored 10 points as the Bulls used a 12 0 run to erase a 10 point Knicks halftime lead. Then the Bulls smothered the Knicks, holding them to a season low 13 points in the third quarter and just 15 in the fourth as they evened the season series between the teams at one game apiece. The Knicks’ 29 points in the first quarter bettered their total for the second half, which amounted
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It was the Bulls’ defense that provided the decisive sequence. With Chicago leading by 72 68, Jordan, who scored 42 points and ended the game with a hang on the rim breakaway dunk, combined with B. J. Armstrong to trap Greg Anthony into a turnover that led to an Armstrong fast break layup. Pippen on the
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On the Knicks’ next possession, it was Scottie Pippen’s turn to strip the Knicks’ second year point guard of the ball, and this time, Jordan dunked at the other end, giving Chicago a 76 68 lead with 5 minutes 13 seconds remaining. After a poor first half, the life returned to Pippen’s multifaceted game, as he finished with 16 points, 9 rebounds, 5 steals, 5 assists and 3 blocked shots.
John Starks, who had 17 points for the Knicks, as did Rolando Blackman, got New York within 79 75 with a 3 point shot. But Jordan hit a free throw, Patrick Ewing missed a 10 footer and Jordan scored again to put the game away
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The Knicks’ offensive slide after a prosperous first half was evidenced most clearly by the woes of Ewing, who shot 1 for 6 in the third quarter (6 for 18 over all) and did not score in the fourth. Charles Smith, who scored 10 first half points, also went scoreless in the second half, as the Bulls fiercely trapped and pressured the Knick guards and took away the Knicks’ interior game. The Knicks committed 28 turnovers 16 during the second half. Ten of them came from their point guards, Anthony and Doc Rivers. Faster Than Expected
"You’ve got to get it across half court and we didn’t do that," said Knicks Coach Pat Riley.
That was, for Riley, painfully obvious when the Bulls rallied at the start of the second half. Feeling fortunate to be within 10 at the half, Bulls’ Coach Phil Jackson told his team: "Don’t try to make a 10 point play, to get it all back at once."
"We weren’t trying to, but we did," said Jordan, smiling. He was referring to the quickness with which the Bulls erased the Knicks’ lead. Four Knick turnovers against the stepped up defensive pressure led to that 12 0 run, which featured five baskets by Jordan and another by Pippen, putting the Bulls ahead, 51 49.
"We let them come out in the second half and get excited," Rivers said of the Bulls. He might as well have been talking about the crowd, which sat for much of the first half in stunned silence while the Knicks savaged the world champions by 32 14 on the boards while pounding their way to a 49 39 lead.
Riley had commented during the week that he didn’t think the Bulls respected the Knicks, not after being taken to seven games in last season’s Eastern Conference playoff semifinals and not after being beaten by 37 points in the first meeting between the teams Nov. 28 at Madison Square Garden.
"That respect statement has been blown all out of proportion," said Riley. "I do believe that there is a lack of respect. I’m not asking them to get down on their knees. I know what the attitude of a championship team is. We need to beat them more than once or
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"Aw, he was just using that to motivate them on the road," said Jordan, who again carried a huge burden in dragging the Bulls to victory, playing 41 minutes
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Not to be outdone in the psychological motivation department, Jackson continued to
fake oakleys portray the Knicks as a bunch of well paid muggers. Tongue planted partly in cheek, he even questioned the Knicks’ right to participate in a Christmas night game on national television.
"It’s a meaningful day of peace and light and a celebration of life," said Jackson. "To mar it with a game in which you have to come and fight on the court with guys who are going to foul you on every possession turns the game into something else."
With the exception of a Charles Oakley Bill Cartwright scuffle, there was little of the cheap shots that marred last season’s playoff series. There was, said Jordan, a lot of talking. "That’s just the way it is, with the rivalry and all," he said.
But from the start, with Oakley’s put back basket, the Knicks demonstrated they were not going to fall apart just because they were in Jordan’s noisy house. In fact, considering how horribly they played in the second half, and how Jordan and Pippen, to a
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fake oakleys the Knicks still were not out of the game until Jordan’s basket made it 82 75 with 47.9 seconds left.
"We played awful and still had a chance," said Rivers. "That’s something to take out of this." REBOUNDS
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