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OG Anunoby was a full participant in practice today, Mike Brown says.

Playoff series usually get remembered through the stars and the big moments, but most of the series is really just a long sequence of matchups and adjustments. Who got the primary assignment, who teams kept trying to switch onto, who handled the ball the most, who created offense against pressure, and who started forcing mistakes as the series went on. This post is built around the matchup data from the series itself. Not overall playoff numbers, but what happened when specific defenders were the closest matchup on possessions involving Brunson, Hart, Bridges, McBride, KAT, Maxey, Paul George, Oubre, Embiid and Edgecombe. The numbers here are a little different from normal box score stats because they come from NBA tracking data. Defensive possessions in matchup tracking aren’t counted as perfectly clean one-on-one possessions. Switches, doubles, late contests and cross-matches all get folded into the data, which is why the possession totals aren’t always whole numbers. The goal is less about saying one defender “locked up” another player and more about showing who saw the toughest assignments most often, who produced efficiently in those matchups, and which players were creating or losing possessions within the flow of the series. That’s also why possessions matter alongside the raw production. A defender seeing someone for a huge portion of the series is carrying a completely different workload than somebody picking up a few late-clock switches here and there. Efficiency changes when the matchup burden changes. Turnovers change when pressure changes. Assist numbers change depending on how aggressively defenses are helping. The interesting part about playoff basketball is how quickly every possession becomes specific. By the middle of a series, both teams already know who they want involved, who they want to avoid, and where they think the weak point is. These matchup numbers are basically a snapshot of that chess match across the series. #nba #nbaplayoffs #newyorkknicks #knicks #76ers

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According to @shams , the expectation is that OG will be able to play Game 1 of eastern conference finals barring a setback. He participated in parts of team practice today.

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Josh Hart on the amount of Knicks fans in Philadelphia for Game 4: “I used to think Philly was a sports town. I don’t know if it is anymore.” 😬

It’s time to put respect on Tyler Kolek’s name…

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