{"id":262233,"date":"2021-05-29T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T08:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/knicks-lineup-shakeup-fails-despite-derrick-roses-dominance\/"},"modified":"2021-05-29T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T08:02:16","slug":"knicks-lineup-shakeup-fails-despite-derrick-roses-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/knicks-lineup-shakeup-fails-despite-derrick-roses-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"#Knicks’ lineup shakeup fails despite Derrick Rose’s dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Knicks’ lineup shakeup fails despite Derrick Rose’s dominance<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The change at point guard was one of the few things that went right Friday night for the Knicks.<\/p>\n

Derrick Rose made his first postseason start since 2015 \u2014 replacing Elfrid Payton \u2014 and scored a team-high 30 points in the Knicks\u2019 105-94 loss to the Hawks in Game<\/a> 3 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

Rose, who said he was informed of the switch at Friday\u2019s morning walk-through, became the first Knicks guard to score 30 or more points in a playoff game since Stephon Marbury in 2004.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe thing is he\u2019s been playing basically starters\u2019 minutes for a while. The big thing was trying to get off on a good start, especially on the road,\u201d Tom Thibodeau said in explaining the long-debated switch. \u201cBut then we had a problem in the second quarter. So we have to take a look at that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Derrick Rose gives a dejected reaction during the Knicks\u2019 105-94 Game 3 loss to the Hawks. <\/figcaption>
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Rose and Taj Gibson, Thibodeau\u2019s other longtime trusted lieutenant with both Chicago and Minnesota, also moved into the starting lineup after the veteran duo opened the second half and helped lead the Knicks back from a 13-point halftime deficit two nights earlier in their series<\/a>-evening Game 2 victory at the Garden,<\/p>\n

Thibodeau went all in and finally benched Payton, his starting point guard, if in name only for several weeks.<\/p>\n

Payton had started each of the previous 65 games in which he had app<\/a>eared this season, including the first two games of the series, but \u201cstarter\u201d never has been a sillier designation after he played just eight minutes and five minutes, respectively, in the first two games of the series, and not at all in Game 3.<\/p>\n

During the game, Payton\u2019s mother, Danielle, posted on her Twitter<\/a> account (@DannieP19) a retweet of the Knicks\u2019 official starting lineup tweet with the reply, \u201cHow that worked out for you! #ProudMama\u201d<\/p>\n

Barely an hour before the lineup changes were revealed, just ahead of Friday\u2019s tipoff, Thibodeau had played coy with the media, saying he was \u201cstill undecided\u201d and still \u201cthinking things over\u201d based on \u201cwhat gives us our best chance to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rose finished 13-for-21 from the floor with five assists, making nearly as many shots as Julius Randle, RJ Barrett and the rest of his bricklaying teammates combined (16-for-60).<\/p>\n

Rose, the 32-year-old former NBA MVP, had scored a team-high 26 points, including two key 3-pointers in the second-half rally in Game 2.<\/p>\n