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Fadeaway World on MSNKnicks Finally React To Disastrous Starting Lineup — Mitchell Robinson In, Josh Hart Out For Game 3The New York Knicks have finally decided to shake things up. Down 0-2 in the Eastern Conference Finals and outplayed in nearly every key metric by the Indiana Pacers, head coach Tom Thibodeau is making a long-overdue change to the starting lineup.
The Knicks starting five is -29 through two games against the Pacers, but the starting five's issues go back much further.
Former NBA All-Star Jeff Teague gets honest about why the Knicks are struggling in the Eastern Conference Finals thus far.
The Knicks’ starting five continued to have problems as a unit in the heartbreaking opener of the Eastern Conference finals.
With the Knicks down, 2-0, to the Pacers in the East finals, the woes of the starting five have come into focus. Increasingly, fans and media members have called on Thibodeau to break out of his stubborn loyalty to the team's starters.
The Knicks' starting unit is a combined minus-29 against the Pacers. They've lost two games by a combined 8 points. Is it time for change?
But coach Tom Thibodeau trotted his starting five — Jalen Brunson, Bridges, OG Anunoby, Josh Hart and Karl-Anthony Towns — out to start the third quarter, and they went from leading by three at halftime to down by three, a six-point swing, when Robinson checked back in with 4:18 left in the quarter.