NEW YORK — Rick Carlisle entered Monday’s Game 1 with a modest goal.
“They're going to get some,” the Pacers head coach said before the game, discussing the Knicks’ insatiable appetite for collecting their own missed shots. “But we’ve got to keep them off of, you know, crazy historic nights on the offensive boards.”
Indiana managed to do that in the opening game of its second-round series with New York, limiting Tom Thibodeau’s team to just eight offensive rebounds — their second-lowest total of these 2024 NBA playoffs, just a tick above Game 5 against the 76ers.