O'Brien said the fourth-quarter troubles went beyond one surprising mid-November home loss, a loss that came in the second game of the Pacers' first back-to-back of the season.

"They wore us out in the fourth quarter," O'Brien said. "We tend not to move well in the fourth quarter."

The Knicks' defense was stifling throughout the second half. Most notably, it stifled Danny Granger.

Granger, the Pacers' All-Star forward, continued an early-season hot streak in the first half. With Granger scoring 30first-half points, the Pacers took a 69-54 lead, but after shooting 11-of-14 in the first half, 5-of-6 from 3-point range, he scored just three points in the second half.

"Our offense got kind of stagnant and they just outplayed us down the stretch," said Granger, whose first half helped Indiana to its highest first-half point total of the season.

Granger took just four second-half shots.

"We just overplayed everything he got," D'Antoni said. "We made him work harder to get the ball. We contested every one of his shots."

Said Granger, "We still should have moved the ball and scored. We turned it over too much. We really couldn't score the ball tonight."

After leading by one at the end of the first quarter, the Pacers pushed the lead to 15 with a 43-point second quarter in which they shot 76.2 percent from the floor. Granger shot 6-of-7, including 3-of-3 from 3-point range, to finish the quarter with 17points.

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