Nate Robinson scores 27 off bench as New York Knicks beat Detroit Pistons: as I saw this I could not help but to feel outraged

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BY Frank Isola

DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Monday, January 18th 2010, 4:01 PM

KNICKS 99, PISTONS 91

Nate Robinson may be a favorite among the fans but to Mike D'Antoni, Robinson is someone the head coach tolerates. Barely.

There's a reason why D'Antoni sat Robinson for 14 games. And there are reasons like Monday when Robinson can be a valuable asset.

With Chris Duhon continuing to play his way out of the lineup, Robinson rescued the Knicks from what would have been the worst loss of the season. Playing against a depleted Detroit Pistons roster, Robinson became deto-Nate as he scored 27 points off the bench in the Knicks 99-91 victory.

The win snapped a two-game losing streak and improved the Knicks record to 17-24. Coming into their annual Martin Luther King matinee at the Garden, the Knicks had lost four of their last five including Saturday in Detroit.

Robinson scored eight of his 27 points in the fourth quarter and made 11 of 18 shots overall. Duhon went 0-for-3 in 19 minutes and shooting 3-for-24 in his last four.

Robinson's 27 points are his highest output since he scored 41 on Jan. 1 in Atlanta. That game was Robinson's first after being bench for 14 straight and had it not been for Duhon struggling who knows when Robinson would have played again.

But he is back in the rotation permanently and back to being himself again, which isn't necessarily a good thing. 'Lil Him began his day with the announcement that he will defend his crown at the Slam Dunk contest in Dallas. Robinson celebrated the news with a second quarter dunk.

Wilson Chandler added 17 points, Al Harrington 17, Danilo Gallinari 16 and David Lee finished with 11 points and 15 rebounds. His counterpart, Ben Wallace, had a strong game with 16 points and 14 rebounds.

Rodney Stuckey led the Pistons with 22 points and Charlie Villanueva scored 16. Detroit was 0-for-12 on three's while the Knicks made 10 of 22.

Poor John Kuester, the rookie head coach and Larry Brown disciple, who is charge of a team that can't stay healthy. Monday, the Pistons were playing without Ben Gordon, Tayshaun Price and Richard Hamilton. Gordon was in uniform but was sidelined due to a groin injury. Prince is out with a sore left knee and Hamilton was a late scratch because of an upset stomach.

That's how much the NBA has change over the past 10 years. Charles Oakley wouldn't miss a practice, much less a game, after broke bones in his face. Nowadays, players beg out of the lineup because of a tummy ache.

The Pistons starting lineup included Jonas Jerebko, Austin Daye and Chris Wilcox which doesn't exactly conjured up memories of Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars and Bill Laimbeer.

The players Kuester used played hard for him. Detroit played the Knicks even for one quarter before Robinson erupted for 13 points in the second quarter, including a dunk set up by Duhon's lob pass. Harrington scored seven in the quarter and rookie Jordan Hill added four as the Knicks built a 57-43 lead.

D'Antoni probably should have opened the second half with that trio but instead gave his regular starters another chance and that group faltered badly. With Wallace having his way with Lee, Detroit outscored the Knicks 27-11 in the third quarter.

In the opening three minutes of the fourth, Robinson and Harrington each scored five points to help the Knicks regain the lead.

CURRY UNDER THE KNIFE: The Knicks announced Monday that Eddy Curry was scheduled to have arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Monday afternoon. Curry, who has played in just seven games, is expected to out six weeks and there is a chance he may not play again this year. ... Larry Hughes didn't play for the eighth time in the last nine games.

New York 99, Detroit 91

New York

Pistons-Knicks Game Review

New York, NY (Sports Network) - Nate Robinson sank 5-of-9 three-pointers and ended with 27 points, as the New York Knicks held on for a 99-91 victory over the Detroit Pistons in the back end of a home-and-home matchup.

Wilson Chandler had 17 points, while David Lee added 15 rebounds and 11 points for New York, which lost at Detroit on Saturday. Monday's victory was the Knicks' second in their last six games.

"Before the game we just talked about winning, by any means necessary," Robinson said. "So our whole aspect was...to just come out play hard and win. Even if it was an ugly win, we just had to get the job done."

Rodney Stuckey had 22 points to pace the Pistons, who had won their last three. Ben Wallace finished with a season-high 16 points to go with 14 boards in the loss.

"He played extremely well," Pistons head coach John Kuester said of Wallace. "He's competed the entire season. He did a great job on the boards. We needed other people to step up and we didn't get the production in certain situations."

Ahead by one shortly into the fourth quarter, the Knicks scored eight in a row and didn't trail again. Al Harrington opened the burst with a three, while Danilo Gallinari drained a three from the left corner. Gallinari followed that with a long two from the right side to give New York an 83-74 advantage with 7:47 to play.

The Pistons stayed close and drew within five several times down the stretch, including when Charlie Villanueva cut to the basket for a layup with 3:51 to go, getting Detroit within 90-85.

But both teams went cold over the next few minutes, and with 1:11 on the clock, Jason Maxiell made a jump shot for the Pistons for a 92-87 game.

However, Lee followed with a three-point play, and Detroit missed three shots on its next possession. Harrington's two foul shots with 32.1 left put the Knicks up 97-87, as they held on for the victory.

It was 23-23 after the first quarter, and the Knicks moved ahead shortly into the second. Harrington and Robinson each provided five points in the 10-0 run, which made it a 38-27 game with 7:13 left in the half.

The Pistons trimmed their deficit some, but the Knicks ended the frame with another 10-point burst to take a 57-43 at the break.

However, Detroit used a 12-0 run to grab the lead in the third quarter. Wallace's fadeaway basket with 2:45 left provided the Pistons with a 68-64 edge, and they were up 70-68 going to the fourth.

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The N.Y. Task Force Urban Search and Rescue team arrives in Port-au-Prince on Jan. 16.

New York police and fire department search and rescue teams yesterday saved four people who had been buried under rubble since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti to its core on Tuesday.

Rescuers pulled a man from a ruined four-story building on Rue Belencourt in Port-au-Prince in the afternoon, police said. Rescuers used jackhammers and cutting tools to reach the 55-year-old after finding him using a camera. Before he could be extricated, Det. Randin Miller, an NYPD paramedic, crawled into the debris to bring the dehydrated man fluids through an IV line. The man, who was on the third floor when the earthquake struck, was not seriously injured, police said.

Earlier in the day, another New York City team completed an all-night effort at a collapsed grocery store by rescuing two men and a teenage girl. The girl was treated for a leg injury at a U.N. hospital set up at the airport and the two men for unknown injuries.

The 40 NYPD and 40 FDNY members are divided into teams based at the Port-au-Prince airport and work shifts that run around the clock. They are expected to stay for at least one week.

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Reuters New York Jets upset Chargers with comeback win

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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The New York Jets pulled off a surprise 17-14 win over the San Diego Chargers Sunday to earn an AFC Championship showdown with the Indianapolis Colts.

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The Jets trailed 7-3 going into the fourth quarter but snatched the lead with a touchdown when rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez threw a short pass on the run to Dustin Keller.

Another Jets rookie, running back Shonn Greene, then gave the Jets a 17-7 lead with an explosive 53-yard touchdown run.

San Diego's Nate Kaeding missed his third field goal of the day as the Chargers tried to respond. It was a nightmare game for kicker Kaeding, who had converted his previous 20 kicks going into the game.

Quarterback Philip Rivers ran through the middle from a yard out to bring the Chargers within three points, but it was too late for a team that had gone 13-3 in the regular season.

The Jets scrambled into the postseason with a 9-7 record and are now one more upset win away from a place in the Super Bowl.

But first year coach Rex Ryan said he did not consider the win, which takes his team to their first AFC Championship game since 1998, to be a shock.

"Not really -- we have believed the whole time, the whole year," said Ryan.

"It (the win) probably wasn't the popular choice but its been old fashioned 'ground-and-pound' football and here we are."

The first half was a grueling, unattractive battle with San Diego getting in front in the second quarter on Rivers' 13-yard pass to full-back Kris Wilson in the end-zone.

A 46-yard field goal from Jay Feely put three points on the board for the Jets in the third before the two quarterbacks exchanged interceptions.

WEATHER THE STORM

The fourth quarter belonged to the Jets, with Sanchez delivering the key plays.

"In games like this you have to weather the storm," said the quarterback, who was drafted from the University of Southern California.

The Jets now face a Colts team who effectively eased New York's path into the playoffs by resting key players and losing to them in the penultimate round of the regular season.

Chargers coach Norv Turner was at a loss to explain the defeat.

"You'd like to be playing your best games in January, in games like this. Certainly for whatever reason, we did not do that today," he added. "We didn't play our best game and it's disappointing."

The Chargers had scored at least 20 points in their past 22 games, a run that ended with a bump.

"There's no one thing you can point at," defensive end Luis Castillo said. "There's no one thing where you can point the blame. We made a lot of mental mistakes in terms of penalties and personal fouls."

(Reporting by Simon Evans in Miami; Editing by Peter Rutherford)