This series still comes down to the Knicks have better bigs, then the Knicks are better conditioned, and Brunson and Bridges can score in the midrange which is what the Celtics defense is giving them. Also Mitch and Hart were screening their asses off to get Brunson mismatches, and Lowkey it looks like Brunson and Bridges was hunting White later. Like they were legitimately looking for him.
I also still think game three they “took it off” or played not as hard to rest and made a gamble that the Roleplayers wouldn’t kill them. Them all talking about “we need to play with more urgency” was probably because they knew they were taking the game off. Regardless of their conditioning the effort they played the first two games with was crazy. They started to speed it up again during game 4 but once Tatum got injured the Celtics gave up and the game slowed down.