The C’s on-again/off-again free throw shooting – they’ve ranged from 94% fine-and-dandy, to 59% bowling-shoe-ugly through five games – picked the right game to right itself Friday night on Causeway Street. It proved to be the difference between winning and losing, no disrespect to Jayson Tatum’s clutch game-winner.
New York’s definitive 15-point edge in Second-chance points (20- 5) allowed them to match Boston’s total of 45 converted possessions. Their shoddy, sub-40% shooting from the field had put them in need of such salvaging.
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Coach David Fizdale’s Knicks did launch often enough from long-distance to record 14 treys, but squandered half of that “Bonus” with seven missed foul shots.