{"id":714305,"date":"2026-04-20T00:57:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714305\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:57:17","slug":"josh-hart-tweak-key-to-neutraling-hawks-big-threat-to-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714305\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hart tweak key to neutraling Hawks&#8217; big threat to Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were about seven minutes left in the third quarter, the result still very much in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Johnson, the Hawks All-Star, dribbled into an isolation on the perimeter against Josh Hart. Johnson had the space to take on his smaller defender, moving a step back to create momentum.<\/p>\n<p>But Johnson didn\u2019t get past his third dribble. Hart stripped him clean \u2014 his third steal of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/18\/sports\/knicks-roll-past-hawks-for-huge-game-1-playoff-victory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday\u2019s 113-102 Knicks victory<\/a> \u2014 and it became the best example of an important Game 1 development:<\/p>\n<p>Hart not only held his own defending Atlanta\u2019s top player, he bullied him into ineffectiveness. There were other examples, too, like two minutes before halftime, when Johnson tried to use his size advantage to back down Hart but couldn\u2019t get farther than the foul line before attempting a turnaround brick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were about seven minutes left in the third quarter, the result still very much in the balance.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3776],"tags":[676,208,3874,7,677,327,6,11,56381,191,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-714305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-hawks","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-hawks","10":"tag-atlantahawks","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-hawks","13":"tag-josh-hart","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-playoffs","16":"tag-nba-playoffs-2026","17":"tag-new-york-knicks","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714305","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=714305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}