The Bulls just played four overtimes then traveled to New York, and the Knicks didn't come out running them around like maniacs? I'm still trying to make sense of that. In an even stranger twist of fate, the Knicks airmailed a trio of berserk jump shots and got down by ten points almost immediately. Thats a sign of dead legs, right? Why did the Knicks have dead legs? Shortly thereafter Kirk Hinrich came in to relieve an uninterested Derrick Rose. He promptly unfurled some of his own air ballistics and that was the tide of change.
From then on the Knicks unloaded on the Bulls and stymied every run they threatened to make.