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It would\u2019ve been easy for the Knicks to go in another direction in Game 2. It would\u2019ve been easy for Mike Brown to pull the plug on Josh Hart and reinsert one of his favorites, Landry Shamet, a move that worked wonders two days prior in Game 1. For Hart, it would\u2019ve been easy to curl up and stop shooting 3-pointers. We\u2019ve seen that before. He doesn\u2019t look at the hoop and swings the ball like it\u2019s a hot potato.<\/p>\n

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But the head coach didn\u2019t give up on his glue guy, and Hart didn\u2019t give up on himself.<\/p>\n

Eventually, that swung Thursday\u2019s Game 2 into a 109-93 Knicks victory with Hart going off because the Cavaliers had no respect for him. When the numbers told him to go to the bench or stop shooting, Hart told the analytics nerds to throw away their calculators.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m never a huge analytics guy. At some point, they\u2019re a lamppost to a drunk person,\u201d Hart said. \u201cYou can lean on them. But they won\u2019t get you home. So at a certain point, you got to have a good feel for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

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