The plucky Pistons kept themselves alive for at least one more game, beating the Knicks 106-103 in yet another physical, back-and-forth battle that was close right to the final buzzer.

The Pistons earned a hard-fought, 106-103 win in Game 5 of the opening-round NBA playoff series and will now extend the series to a sixth game. After the game, Knicks head coach Tom Thibodeau took some heat for leaving Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart on the bench for nearly all of the final three minutes of the game.

New York Knicks star point guard Jalen Brunson got brutally honest on what went wrong for his team in the Game 5 loss to the Detroit Pistons. New York once again was in a tight back-and-forth affair with the Eastern Conference’s No.