had his way for most of Monday night<\/a> en route to finishing with 33 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n\u201cThey were running stuff to get me off of his body,\u201d Anunoby said of what the Pistons were doing differently Monday to allow Cunningham to settle into his game. \u201cSetting screens to get me off of him, doing stuff like that. They made some adjustments, we\u2019re gonna make some adjustments ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cade Cunningham attempts a shot while OG Anunoby defends during the
Knicks\u2019 loss to the Pistons on April 21. Jason Szenes for the NY Post<\/p>\n
Sure, even the best players have off nights. <\/p>\n
But the Knicks \u2014 who aren\u2019t nearly as scary of a title contender as they\u2019d hoped to be when they made big offseason moves \u2014 need more from Anunoby than what he showed Monday night, especially on offense.<\/p>\n
The Pistons won Monday\u2019s game by getting to the free throw line 15 more times than the Knicks. <\/p>\n
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But Detroit also outrebounded New York 48-34.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes we were out of position a little bit,\u201d Josh Hart said. \u201cGotta give them credit, they hit the glass hard, but we just got to come down with those rebounds, especially in the playoffs, where every possession matters. You got to finish possessions the right way, you got to get extra possession on the offensive side, and that\u2019s something that we didn\u2019t do today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans and media alike were singing OG Anunoby\u2019s praises after Game 1. But the version of Anunoby who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773],"tags":[7,296,188,3860,6,11,197,191,741,297,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-147332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-pistons","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-detroit","10":"tag-detroit-pistons","11":"tag-detroitpistons","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-playoffs","14":"tag-nba-playoffs-2025","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-og-anunoby","17":"tag-pistons","18":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114796513764751325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}