The garden was dead. In fact, this is not completely true; The garden was beyond death. All of these press scraps about the pistons, the brave explanation of them and their impressive acumen from the depth: it was not the noise. It was true.
There was slightly more than nine minutes in the game. The court court hanging in balance. And so did history. Six times, Knicks Game 1 was dropped from the best chain of seven at home. Every six times, lose Nix. dead? Yes. The garden was dead. Pistons was 98 points. Knicks 90 was. The pistons could not miss. Nix could not go out on them.
After five minutes and 27 seconds, Pistons 90 still has.
Nix was 111.
