The New York Knicks are struggling to find their chemistry as they face elimination and a 3-1 deficit in their series with the Indiana Pacers. Game 5 in the best-of-seven series that take place at Madison Square Garden at 8:00 p.m. ET and will air live on TNT or online here.
New York is expected to increase the minutes of Pablo Prigioni, who could return to the starting lineup, according to ESPN. Jason Kidd is expected to remain in the Knicks rotation as well.
"All you can do is continue to shoot and you shoot the next one, you've got to feel good about that it's going to go in," Woodson said Wednesday at practice while players took some jumpers that, indeed, did go in. "Right now we're kind of looking over our shoulders."
The Pacers can eliminate the Knicks in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Thursday. Only eight NBA teams have overcome a 3-1 deficit to win a series, and it's doubtful that the struggling Knicks of all teams will be able to.
Averaging 88.3 points on 41.2 percent shooting in the series, the Knicks believe things can be different back on their home floor, though the Pacers looked perfectly comfortable at Madison Square Garden while winning Game 1.
"Every game is huge, it doesn't matter whether it's 0-0, 3-1. It doesn't matter," Indiana coach Frank Vogel said following the Pacers' 93-82 victory in Game 4.
"Every game is huge and we had one closeout game at Atlanta earlier this season in the first round and we were able to come out and give a great effort and we've got to follow the blueprint we shared tonight: great defensive effort, great rebounding effort and selfless passing offensively."
The Knicks managed only 76.5 points per game in two losses in Indianapolis and were outrebounded by a large margin in both games. A change to the lineup may be the last hope for the Knicks as they face the brink of elimination.
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