Over the first two games of the second-round series between the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks, there were major concerns regarding the defending champions.

The New York Knicks starting five has been getting crushed by the Boston Celtics in their second round playoff series matchup. Despite New York being up 2-1

There was no miraculous comeback this time for the Knicks, who fell 93 to 115 in Game 3 to the Boston Celtics. The Knicks looked lifeless from the start, while the Celtics looked like a team whose life depended on winning. Without a historic comeback to mask it, the Knicks' lethargic offense was on full display.

It's no secret that the Boston Celtics have an overreliance on one aspect of their game: the three-pointer. They've had championship success, but their love story with the three-point line hit a huge snag during Game 1 against the New York Knicks on Monday night,

During the regular season, the Celtics blitzed the Knicks by 23, 27 and 13 points, respectively, in the teams' first three meetings. And even if the score got tight in the final minutes, no team in the league had a better clutch-time win percentage than the Celtics.

It was a gamble New York was willing to take because of how dominant Cunningham has been this season against the Knicks and the rest of the league," Edwards wrote. This strategy could work in the ...

Suddenly, the two teams started to bring back fond memories of Charles Oakley, Patrick Ewing and the rest of the Knicks teams that engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

With Mitchell Robinson shooting an abysmal 30% (7-of-23) from the free throw line during the Eastern Conference semifinals, Celtics head coach Mazzulla sees no reason to adjust his Hack-A-Mitch strategy that’s been going for the first three games of the series.