In all seriousness, the Knicks are obviously in the much better situation than the Sixers. The Knicks just need to split these two games, while the Sixers need to win both games (which will also mean beating the Knicks three games in a row). So just relax. The Knicks will probably close the Sixers out tonight, and if they don’t, they’ll close them out in the Garden on Saturday.
Plus, the Pacers will be the Knicks’ opponent, and, well, come on, they’re not as good as this Sixers team even.
So just relax, enjoy the game, and on the off chance the Knicks don’t pull it out tonight, be confident in them bringing it all back home on Saturday.
Let’s go, Knicks!
477 replies on “2024 Playoff Thread: Knicks @ Sixers, Game 6, Only Return to New York for Second Round Opener, which I say is a thing”
I can’t not watch. Haven’t felt anticipation like this since my colonoscopy back in ’21.
iHart no fouls. Divo 15+. A little bit o’ Precious. No injuries. Bang bang.
I will watch as long as I can, and provide some color (hopefully not black) as long as I can, for those who professionally or emotionally cannot watch (but can read the thread).
Deuce Deuce!
This is the kind of high quality trolling I can get behind (so to speak)
High end*
Does Donte step up? Does Deuce maintain his play? Can we play consistently strong defense? Can we make free throws? Can we open with the lead? Man…so much to see
LET’S GO!!!!!!
English_Knick will soak up the usage of missing fans
First quarter lead!
Nice not to be down 10-0 or whatever
LET’S GO!!!!!
Five point lead for the Knicks!
And Donte with the three…
7-0
I can’t take this. I need meds
Well Donte looks good finally.
Divo with another three! 14-4.
Like I’ve said many times , big first quarter leads always hold up (-:
That’s the start we need.
Looks like a concerted effort to get everyone going on offense.
Keep it up. Keep it up. Job’s not over.
Love the adjustment of forcing Maxey left. No easy layups going right
I like it so far! Divo making 3s is a very good sign. And his D on Maxey is good – just forcing him left.
You can’t silence us, Josh Harris!
Are we allowed to take a double-digit 1st qtr lead?
It feels SO much better than the usual being down 10-0…
They are playing beautiful basketball and seem more relaxed than at home. They are certainly more relaxed than me. 🤪🤪🤪🤪
Smart strategy to play well in the 1st quarter for a change!
Co-sign
Passing has been pretty, too
Go NY Go NY GO!
Vibe seems different
Clyde is peaking in playoffs
Man, do not drive on OG
Gutturally yelling as iHart rips away a rebound from Embiid with one arm
Knicks are super focused on defense so far
It hard for me to explain why, but I can’t stand Oubre.
Now let’s make our free throws
This is the offense I remember
Please keep this up. Blow these fuckers out!
🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
What the heck did IHart do there?
How was that a foul?!
Was that a foul, really? The lower hand in the body?
L’il Baby Oubre getting schooled.
He sent bad vibes Embiid’s way
Ticky tack foul on ihart
Those have to be the softest 2 fouls ever called
Fucking bullshit fouls
Appreciate the low-key shade on Embiid from Grant Hill
Never knew you could commit a foul standing still
ANNC, “I guess when you’re the reigning MVP, things might go your way,” — iHart w/ 2
Grant Hill calling bullshit on both the Embiid fouls. Good for him.
Grant Hill already calling out the refs for their bullshit helping Embiid.
Taking a close up video of Embiid applying a brace is next level preemptive excuse making
More of the same bullshit.
I think the only solution is to body up Embiid and keep him from getting to his spot in the post. The refs are giving him shooting fouls if he gets exhaled on.
Flagrant on Embiid, not called
Well so far this is going very nicely…
Mitch doesn’t know how to deal with that obvious swipe from Embiid. I’ve seen OG successfully avoid it a few times.
Shoving a guy going up for a dunk in midair is dirty shit
Beautiful Divo!
MOLTO BENE
Deeeeeeee voooooooo
Is there anything more infuriating than watching Embiid complain about a call against him after multiple terrible calls in his favor already?
Dominating the offensive glass!!!!!
BEAUTIFUL finger roll by OG
OG to the cup!!! “New York. Just like I pictured it. Skyscrapers and everything.”
This is fucking unbelievable so far!
The Josh Hart coast-to-coast fake-out had me giggling.
Multiple offensive rebounds, Brunson burning, Divo hitting from outside, OG doing OG things, Much shutting down Embiid…hard not to feel good so far!
Starting a GoFundMe for English Knick to attend every game
76er strategy: Feed Embiid and have him draw fouls on iHart and Mitch.
It’s way early, but we’re totally bottling up Maxey so far. He looks a little rattled
Lol same
Everyone be cool. Still need to see it out. Stay hungry. Play smart. Let’s go Knicks
Dream start! Literally just need to not lose the next 40 minutes by 20.
Is this going too well?
His victim act is the fucking worst
I don’t want a jinx, but I could watch a few more of those bricked threes from Maxey.
My blood pressure is out of heart attack range for now. The wine guzzling might be helping too.
So so hopeful. So so nervous.
I can’t believe this is a 9pm game. Either way, I’m up until about 2am tonight.
Let’s hope forcing Maxey left keeps paying dividends
Paul Reed minutes. Get iHart back out there and run.
hustlebunny!!!!!!!
That’s that hustlebunny shit
Hart with the hustle bunny play
Josh Hart hustlebunny extraordinaire
76er strategy: Buy all of the arena seats and then sit around wondering why that was their only strategy.
Embiid to the locker room! Let’s get up 30!
Did Embiid just straight give up in the first quarter of a game?
I hope we can keep up this pace!
OG definitely looks like he’s hurting when shooting
Not a good call.
I hate every single player on this 76er team.
Cmon Josh
That was so fucking stupid. Pay fucking attention Josh
Put a body on that little shit…
Cam fucking Payne. He does look like he came to play. Let’s stop that, please.
Dislike Cam Payne
Like Josh Hart
Here comes a run
We need to crush them while we have the chance
Also, Mitch got fouled on the second Brunson miss
Also I move the Sumner in the playoffs be the Payne award
Not a smart play by OG… Needed to run clock
Fuck oubre
Divo reads Knickerblogger. 😉
Good 1st Qtr. A little bit of trouble at the end.
Knicks have to stay calm and poised.
Brunson wanted to make sure Sixers fans had something to eat later while they’re drowning their sorrows
Their best player so far is Scott Foster…
I have a parlay on the Knicks winning the first quarter and then the game. First leg done, now let’s see that second leg come through!
What sick person whose last name is Payne names their son Cameron?
Well I will certainly take that first quarter. Some really pretty plays by pretty much everyone on the Knicks, offense and defense. Sixers made a brief run, but this is the NBA, runs happen. We answered, and are up 14.
Let’s Go Knicks!!!!
Steve Jones Jr. with some live film breakdown:
https://twitter.com/stevejones20/status/1786202995082064326
So many fast breaks with no points
Mitch has to dunk when he gets it under the rim.
Offense is tricky without Brunson.
Bring Brunson back in.
Well, at least Brunson got a couple minutes and the quarter rest
Offense past few mins has been stupid.
This will be tied by halftime
I love OG but he’s been blocked three times already.
A lot of mistakes to open the quarter. Good timeout. FOCUS!
Pags, you’re supposed to be not watching. And certainly not posting.
Would love to be able to bring in Bogey right about now.
When did TV ads start teaching adults how to poop?
Fuck you, Buddy.
Well I missed DDV and apparently they missed Hield
I hate Hield
Can’t double off Hield
Deuce has to calm down.
Just horrible defense right now.
Deuce left his shot at home.
Wake up fucking Brunson. Stop dribbling and forcing. Pass when they come at you.
Did Hart bang Scott Foster’s girlfriend?
Get Mitch out of there.
Mitch has missed like 20 tip ins so far
Knicks are 1-10 in the 2nd quarter.
Mitch at 100% makes those tip-ins
Mitch is clearly still hurting. He limped off.
Please for the love of God get Mitch out of there.
I have formally stopped having fun.
Why are they all afraid to shoot
What the hell are we doing?
This is getting ugly fast.
This is that “we’re tired” offense from end of last game. Not sure what’s going on. It’s still early.
It would look better if we made a few of our open shots. Deuce has been bad so far.
Has Deuce hit a single shot?
Maxey has done nothing. We’re getting killed by Embiid, Hield and Scott Foster
philly playing some stout D
5 points in 2nd qtr
I know Raven. I’m sorry, couldn’t help myself. Looks like I’ll be turning it off soon
Randle sitting on the bench, wish he was on the court instead.
Brunson’s gone cold
Instead of waiting until the final minute Knicks decided to start choking in the 2nd quarter.
Finally. Jesus Christ
Will someone score the fucking ball!!!
iHart only one showing up at the moment on both ends.
Hield was Chekhov’s gun all along, wasn’t he
An offensive foul on Embiid? Am I dreaming?
OK no more fucking around when Embiid sits. I swear to god.
Maybe guard Hield?
Nurse looking dumb for not playing Hield sooner
STOP FUCKING DOUBLING EMBIID!!!
Not sure where IHarts head is at
Think I’ll go read some NYT headlines to look for good news.
This is more depressing than being down by 15 in the first quarter.
This is a worse collapse than last game.
Pagliacci wasn’t being pessimistic, he was being realistic.
My comments earlier about a bus slowly sliding over a cliff …. It’s EXCRUCIATING.
13 points in the quarter
OK, that’s what happens when we stop.
Anyone think Thibs will use the most effective strategy we have to defend Embiid in the second half or just keep sending soft and ineffective double teams?
How the F#@$ did we let that happen?
og, Ma che cazzo ?
I hate the NBA.
OG …
OG wtf
Shit.
OG. That’s just fucking karma for something.
Hell of a half
The Payne Award has been renamed the Hield
Turning off. This is a loss. Master xlass in finding ever more brutal ways to choke.
Looks like Thibs will now be 3-9 when up 3-2. E was right about everything.
They are getting beaten by buddy hield
Turning this off for a while.
This is now officially less fun that it was half an hour ago.
Maxey 1-6 and we’re losing
Pretty fucking ominous
God awful quarter
17 point quarter for Buddy Hield what the fuck
Hield, Payne, Batum. Thibs, what is the adjustment?
Knicks still haven’t taken the dicks out of their mouths that they choked on last game.
Once they got up by 20 they thought they won the game. Idiots.
How does this team collectively forget how to finish on the break all of a sudden
I wish we’d just lost in 5 or whatever, this slow collapse is so much worse. Just want this all to be over.
Honestly we really could’ve used Bogey in to get 2-3 buckets while the offense went to complete shit
No idea why Hield wasn’t playing the last few games
on the break. at the rim. everywhere. putting together that lowlight film will be a sad man.
I do think it is fatigue. A lot of mental mistakes. Adrenaline for Q1 but the tank is empty.
We’re resilient, and this is the test of the season. They better come out with fire.
Maybe the attrition is catching up to us. The effort is still there, but the decision making is starting to slip
Hield making us pay for 2x Embiid, Knicks not hunting Hield on offense, thus Hield outscores Knicks in 2nd qtr. Real test of Knicks mettle.
MSG on Saturday night is gonna feel like a morgue.
haven’t made it out the house yet to go get the boys…for some reason my resting heartrate (about 62 to 65 usually) has jumped about 20 bpm…
not watching the game, just laying down and listening to soft piano music…
thought I’d check in here to see how you all were doing – ha, looks like y’all are having more trouble with your nerves than I am 😊
that does kind of make me smile and feel better about myself…
fuck, sometimes it feels like my glands and endocrine system are just totally doing their own thing…here have this extra dosage of adrenaline – just because why not…
I’ll be happy if we win…so let’s win…
Kenny and Charles accurately tearing the Knicks a suite of new assholes. I hate it when they’re right. Meatheads.
I muted the halftime show, I’m too angry to hear it
Halftime show: ~ “The house is on fire.”
Prediction: they come out flat in Q3, go down by 20, and storm back in the 4th to win. This team seems to need to have their backs against the wall sometimes, facing what seems like hopeless doom, before they come alive.
Down 15+ by end of 3rd
Unfortunately Kenny and Charles are right. But it’s time for Thibs to outcoach Nurse once again and earn the 3rd quarter.
Obi with 21 as Indy advances. Good for him.
Why has Precious been benched? Thibs goes away from things and his job should come under question if they lose this series
Also not going to grill Leon Rose , but trading Obi for nothing wasn’t the right answer. He didn’t know Randle and Bogey would go down. This team needs more scoring though and what they traded him for would be the same as just letting him go in free agency .
OG/Precious D. Hart on one leg is not gonna be good to watch.
That’s what we need more of. FINISH AT THE RIM.
At this point iHart will be lucky to get a minimum contract this summer.
Why don’t we just trade him for scraps, would that make you happy
Vibes less good
Embiid appears to have office space inside IHarts head
Well, we ARE only down by five…
I mean, seven.
Thibs looks like a kindergartener trying to spell Massachusetts.
Holy shit they just showed a stat Knicks this season are 37-0 when they have a lead of 15+ pts.
Mothercucjer
I’m not even mad or frustrated anymore, just a sad feeling right now…
Jesus Embiid made IHart look small
Lowry complains about every single foul it’s really fucking annoying
ha, too funny hubie…very easy visual of thibs to conjure..
That floater giving us life
iHart earning a higher contract now.
Time for Precious!
wasn’t it valvano who said you should strongly feel a wide range of emotions each and every day…
think of it as getting a week’s worth of living in every one of these games BBA…
playing like shit, yet only down 7.
Did we not have another idea against Embiid with OG and Precious? Did it not work for at least five minutes? Did I hallucinate that?
Valvano said if you laugh, think and cry you’ve had a heckuva day!
We better make some serious hay when Embiid sits down
It’d be nice if we were allowed to defend Embiid
Somehow only down 3…
Buckle your seatbelts fellas…..
I think this team has already done all the Knicksy things this series so all that’s left is to win.
Why do I do this to myself? Is it worth it? I’m not sure it is!
They’ve weathered the storm at least, hopefully now Philly starts to get tight.
Brunson is probably gonna have to score 45 at least for us to win this
This game will be won with 0:00.1 on the clock.
So many threes!!
3 > 2
Donte has a double-jump button
Deuce misses three shots and now we have a six man rotation?
I’m beginning to believe again!
0-0 now
Does Jericho have a mustache?
C’mon, refs! You got this!
12 good minutes guys…
I’ll take it. We won that quarter.
Knicks also have the ball to start 4th quarter.
finally tuned in…still haven’t left the house…
nice to see OG hit that three…
took drugs, doing deep breathing, staying positive…
just gotta practice patience…
Yup
Totally random but I found out where Joel Embiid lives today. Surprise: it’s in NYC. I may or may not give his address to Knicks twitter.
Big 3
MITCH
Mitch just smothered him oh man
Cameron Payne shoots like the third best player in the original Teen Wolf
The Sixers have successfully negated our rebounding advantage again.
Ok I’m back, but I can’t handle a loss here.
OG!!!!!
Cmon boys bring this one home!!
Ian Eagle had OG’s government name in his back pocket for that block lol
Now we’re going to go back to iHart. I’m sure Embiid will come back.
Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive.
This is an absolutely insane game and series
Somebody notify PT that they hit Mitch on the roll
These Brunson-less lineups are taking years off my life
Jesus Brunson sits and they turn into a turnover machine.
Whoever bet Hield scoring 20 is a multimillionaire
DEUCE
Deuce has balls of steel
This series reminds me of the Earnie Shavers/Ron Lyle heavyweight fight years back when the virtually had a toe-to-toe slugfest
IHart cannot stop Embiid one on one like Mitch gotta understand that
Put Mitch back in.
I think that Deuce three was our first bench points.
Icewater Deuce
I kind of think that clear out elbow from Embiid is a foul but they never call it
Naturally Thibs went back to the worst defense we have for Embiid.
Ironic Knicks might lose this game because they can’t get a defensive rebound.
Nah, Mitch had a dunk
Mitch or Precious here
Hartenstein cannot stop Embiid one on one.
keep deuce in for donte?
And Thibs is literally the only person who hasn’t figured this out.
I’d run deuce, jalen, josh, OG and precious out there…
Problem is Mitch gives absolutely nothing offensively.
Damn that was so pure…
Edit: AGAIN!
AHHHHHHHHHH
The old Double Brunson!
Ok that’s frustrating.
Joel is a fucking moron
OG got fouled too but no blood no foul, literally
They fouled OG, though
Why would they challenge that??
Embiid hit him after (or before?) the ball.
Announcers are wrong.
Embiitch just cost his team a challenge and a timeout
That turnover up 6…
I-Hart needs a cut man he’s been hit in the face like 10 times tonight
How do they challenge that. Embiid smacked him in the nose
Need Mitch in there. I don’t care what he doesn’t give on offense.
Embiid’s left arm to iHart’s face. Call should stand. Philly loses their challenge. Might matter.
Scott Foster you are a beautiful man
Come on, Foster, obviously it’s the ball that is committing the fouls.
MORE THAN MARGINAL, EAT SHIT YA BIG BITCH
So there’s now two kinds of contact: marginal and more than marginal
The end of this game is going to be like passing a kidney stone…..
WOW what a shot
Brunson crazy tough shot
How did Brunson?
Most dislikeable Phillies, in order.
Embiid
Oubre
Lowrey
Nurse
Fans
It is traditional to ask on the 3rd date if she wants to be “more than marginal”
Lol
Jalen’s touch is so uncanny
Brunson Burner ACTIVATE
Up 8! Don’t slow down!
Brunson is god
Can we just go on a huge run and win by 18?
Keep hunting Buddy on every possession
Hell yes, BRUNSON!
Post of the night.
Need Payne before Fans
I was going to post exactly this
I fucking love Brunson!
ha, my heartrate at 106 now…c’mon man, finish the game strong…
Key might be Thibs getting Brunson a couple of quick blows in the fourth
Punishing Nurse for playing Hield
It kind of feels like we will end this game on the discord
Props to iHart also for that defensive possession on Embiid.
Horseshit
That looked offensive, no?
LOL that call on Embiid, come on…
YESSSSSSSss
OG REDEMPTION
OG
RJ Barrett, you are a fine boy, but you were never doing that
YES
Grown man jam!!!
O! to tha G!!!
He CAN dunk!!!
Knicks don’t need to do shoot arounds. They need to do FT arounds.
Jesus Maxey
Fucking Christ HART.
Kelly fucking Oubre?
Well, fuck. Shit.
OH MY GOD HOW DID THAT GO IN !!!!!!
Oubre can fuck off
Jalen!!!’n
Karma’s a bitch Oubre
edit fucking ft’s
Brunson Second Coming
Please hit this FT
Brunson is crazy fucking strong to remain squared up on one leg after taking that contact to shoot
Owbre
I am so in love with Jalen Brunson.
Fucking hell that’s 2 missed FT’s in a row
I miss Randle if only to save Brunson’s energy to make free throws
Fucking missed FTs
Missed fucking FTs…
That is not goaltending
Not goaltending, what the actual fuck
I repeat, that is not goaltending
The Extender…
We were up 8 points
How many times do we have to get screwed in one series?
That frikkin goaltending call.
It was goaltending based on the rules. It’s a shame because it wasn’t going in. But we miss our free throws so we deserve to lose.
Hit your fucking FTs like Philly does and it wouldn’t matter.
We have to play to win. Not to not-lose. C’mon.
Josh Hart!!~!!!!!
OH MY GODDDDDDD
Josh F. Hart
Just how we drew it up
THERE HE IS!
JOSH
oh I hope this game ends well…
Hart is good from up top. He seems to hit those threes.
OMFG!!!!!!!
We can easily still lose this.
WE GOT HART
Ask me if I’m still mad about the first round pick we gave up for Josh Hart.
So shouldn’t the Knicks foul here instead of letting Maxey throw up a three?
Do we have a foul to give?
I am so sick of this game.
Couldn’t hart have layed that in?
Embiid’s fouled out!
Fuck
Somebody make some free throws
Let’s see if the analytics hold true…
Finally somebody fouled to prevent the three
That was too fast
Not the best execution of this strategy
This
Clutch deflection by Deuce
Wow.
What an amazing team effort
WE WINNNNNN
I LOVE YOU ALL
Knicks win!
Holy shit
YESSSSSSSS
PHEWWWWWWWWWW
Sweet baby Jesus
Truly think my heart is struggling with these games
Loved seeing Embiitch lose his shit after fouling out
I couldn’t bear to watch. Deeeeeep exhale
oh my god. is this pleasure? i’m not sure. WHOOOOOO!
Years off my life
Anybody have a heart attack?
Can’t believe Nurse didn’t catch a T with all his incessant yapping
Wow. What a game
This is the origin of my pre-existing condition
Josh Hart’s 3, my god
Hello Indiana!!!
Bummer.
You had one job, Scott Foster. One job.
They can’t take it away, right? No review or something we don’t know about?
I think I’m about to start crying tears of joy!!!!!!
Look guys – I’m willing to stick around in the US for the remainder of the playoffs if you can crowd fund my tickets and accommodation… I’m just a good guy like that.
Watched the last minute – too stressful. Some joy, mostly relief.
Fucking hell, I lost like 10 years of life expectancy with this series, but Knicks in 6 prevailed baby!
Also I don’t want to hear any of you ever question Josh Hart again, what a gigantic 3.
Also FUCK THE SIXERS AND FUCK EMBIID, off to Indiana we go!
Wooo! Feels good to finally close these fuckers out! And get some desperately needed rest before our next series against Indy.
Yeah I feel the same. Phew! Wipe my brow and exhale.
Happy for all of us but also very happy for Clyde and Breen
Jalen Brunson joins Oscar Robinson in playoff history with 3 35+ points and 10+ assist games in one series.
Josh Hart has some big fucking balls!!!!
Stress thy name is a Knicks game. LETS GO KNICKS!!!!!
Props to the sixers, more than worthy first round opponent
Maaaan i need to take my bp meds.
I scared my son twice shouting during the game. But mannn… I’m still shaking.
So, soooooo happy we closed this out.
Oh and fuck Embiid!
The Oscar Robertson stat is NUTS
And this guy was ‘bad’ in the first two games
Jalen is currently the leading scorer of all teams in the playoffs. MVP, MVP, MVP….
Special credit to english_knick! Great job!
I would have loved an easy win at some point in the series but thats not bad at all
Yup Josh Hart is the kinda player who can win you playoff series
English_Knick , whose presence was the tipping point. Maybe a visit to Indiana?
A big sigh of relief.
I felt it would go down to the last second even up 22 in the 1st.
On to Indy!
It was fitting that the hack named Embiid fouled out.
I take back every bad thing I said about this team during the 2nd quarter.
I love you guys! I love this team! This was a series to remember. Despite all the chaos, blown leads, terrible officiating, we did it.
Nick Nurse with 11 chains on as a 56 year old man explaining how the math said to leave Josh Hart open is gonna hit different
Jalen Brunson is a legitimate superstar. I still can’t believe how good he is
It goes way back to the 3rd quarter but one of the biggest shots of the game was Devo’s three to cut the lead to 7
If he misses that, this game might have gotten out of hand
Knicks were 6 for 21 in the 2nd quarter.
When do we start the Indy series?
These last 48 hours were quite something. I think I can be back on the internet now.
Jalen Brunson, last 4 games of this series:
39 points
47 points
40 points
41 points
Michael Jordan (’93) is the last player to score 39+ points in 4 straight playoff games.
I have to confess that I was so disturbed by the way Game 5 ended that I didn’t log on to KB until right now, nor did I listen, watch, or read anything about that game or this game until I turned the game on. I literally couldn’t sleep and felt like my guts have been kicked out.
So thankful that the boys came through tonight. Now the season is at least somewhat of a success no matter what happens going forward. And I hope we can put the Game 82 discussion behind us. We won in 6 by playig the same way we did in game 82.
I am so happy to be a fan of this gritty team. Bring on the Pacers!
I wasn’t stressed until this game. The previous game shook my faith in an inevitable victory but holy shit was that a rollercoaster.
English Knick has been to 1 Knick game and it’s better than any game I’ll ever go to.
Can you believe we have a franchise player that we can comfortably expect 40 points a night from?? Can you believe it?
Z-Man, same here.
From Stephan Bondy:
Congrats. 💰💰💰💰💰
I have one thing to say
NEXT
I can’t believe we have Jalen Brunson as our point guard.
Shea Serrano really captures what I am feeling right now
WE DID IT WE DID IT ALL OF US LIFELONG KNICKS FANS SINCE LIKE A WEEK AGO WE FUCKING DID IT WE DESERVE THIS
Hello Obi
What’d I miss? 😀
Here’s my confession: I followed the score every 15 min or so on my phone, but couldn’t bear to watch it. Game 5 destroyed me.
Jalen Brunson is the Best PG in the NBA, unless you count Luka as a PG.
And Props to Thibs, who outcoached Nurse again and again.
And now Joel Embiid can declare for the WWE.
He may go down as the best player in franchise history if we win it all one of these years
Plus the pained-douche-face when Nurse is asked about using Hield too late in the series.
Donte finally stepped up. Some ugly sets, but he drained his 3s
How the fuck am I supposed to fall asleep????
Shout out to Nick Nurse for blowing a TO on a stupid challenge
I watched on TNT tonight. They’ve stolen Brian’s “is a thing” bit.
Knicks Twitter is peaking in the playoffs too
This is an incredible shot of the OG Dunk. I may have the makings of a new avatar
https://x.com/balldontlie/status/1786238036759773287?s=46&t=0wqff4cNt-sCGcDs-uMExw
I know the Sixers have 2 stars and we have 1, but the rest of that Sixer lineup of Lowry, Oubre and Harris is just hot garbage
Thibs: “was it a hostile arena?” 🤣
Pacers and Knicks both won 4-2, but could not have faced more different paths in their first round.
I’m looking forward to Embiid’s charming post-game comments. I’m sure it will be full of effusive praise for the Knicks and how they lost fair and square.
It’s also kinda sweet that they tried to shut out Knicks fans from buying tickets and, well, it didn’t work.
Damn Pacers upped their ticket prices for the Knicks series like 4x.
Didn’t realize Divo played every second. He was instrumental in this win – great D shading Maxey left, and quick enough to keep him from getting past him usually. Big night from him – just as we all hoped.
Is there a line on which teammate Embiid throws under the bus?
The Villanova trio: 80 pts, 11/22 from three, 26 assists, 21 rebounds.
Divo alone played all 48 minutes. 23 pts, 7 assists, 4 boards, 2 steals, 3 blocks, 5-9 from three, and 2 clutch free throws down the stretch when “the ship be sinking”
Tip of the cap.
I don’t know who needs the 3 days off more, the players or myself.
Philly will be better next year just replacing Harris with a live body.
He was really good once, but zero points in this game? Man
The momentum had shifted after that dramatic game 5. I had the Knicks for dead before the start tonight and I had them for dead at the beginning of the third quarter. I suspect I was not alone. Once again, however, those Knicks proved everybody wrong. They have done this time, after time, after time this season. Don’t forget that we are talking about Brunson plus role players no matter how well-coached they are and how hard they play. There is no doubt we are just one player away from competing for a championship. This could be just Randle, who knows.
That little giant Jalen Brunson beat the Sixers by himself in the fourth quarter tonight, while the rest of the team made the right plays when needed on offense and defense.
On to Indiana now. It is going to be a weird matchup given the way Indiana plays. We shall see if we can slow them down. Win or lose, this Knicks team already made me proud.
Man all I gotta say is I’m so fucking proud of this team. This is all I’ve ever wanted as a fan.
The nova boys came through so huge tonight. Hart with the three. Fitting he hit a three to win game one and to close it out. OG was fucking awesome and big props to DDV for coming through and breaking the mini slump at the most important time.
Now please let’s take care of Indiana. If we end up losing I’ll justify it like hey we didn’t have Randle, only 7 deep, Philly took a lot out of us, etc. But I just want to go to the eastern conference finals so bad. We deserve it.
But I don’t think it will be easy. Indiana can score and scoring is something we struggle without Randle and now not even Bojan off the bench.
But tonight. We did it. This was a huge test for us and we passed it. If we ever do win a title this year or next we may all well point to this series as the one where the team really found that extra level and became champions.
I normally don’t like reposting my own shit, but I did have 4 out of 5 right (-:
Harris was invisible the entire series and he was brought in originally to be the third guy. Just worthless.
It’s not about scoring. We don’t have the roster to outscore them and we don’t play that style of basketball. It is about slowing them down.
Zman-
You and and me both. I was at game 5. After that brutal soul crushing loss, I’ve been in depression since then. I stayed away from text messages, internet, TV, and knickerblogger. My family knows how depressed I get after a big loss and gave me space. I watched the game at work tonight. From the call room (I’m a physician). The last few minutes I probably made patients and staff uncomfortable with my yelling (OG dunk, Brunson big shots, harts 3, etc). What a rollercoaster. I’m planning on attending game 2 next week. I know it’s not healthy, but man, my entire life hinges on this team right now. Like most of you. Ride or die!
The Nova trio are having a classic postgame press conference together.
Llcoolbp, great story! Glad it had a happy ending for all of our sakes!
Special shout-out to Mitch, he’s clearly playing through pain but stepped up and slowed Embiid down. And to iHart, who took everything but a punch to his face from Embiid.
Love the nova guys. Their chemistry is infectious and seems to spill over to the entire team.
Indiana will be interesting. Can the Knicks physicality overcome their offense? Knicks have to impose their will on Indiana. Maybe having this first round war was a blessing in disguise. Mentally it has to help prepare the Knicks. I can taste the Eastern cobfeeence finals. And if you squint you can see them posing a problem for the Celtics without Porzingis. I’m getting way ahead of myself. From depression to irrational euphoria. The life of a knick fan.
My favorite stat: We still haven’t lost 2 games in a row with OG on the team.
This one stings, even though I wasn’t going to be able to watch game 7 anyways, I deserved to at least know it was happening elsewhere.
The annoying thing is that the Cavs Magic series probably will go 7 games and it’s been such a boring series so far that it will probably just be on NBATV while TNT replays Knicks Sixers highlights.
The most important thing is that I won my bet. 😉
Not only did Harris score 2 points, he only took 2 shots. How does that level of passivity in an elimination game happen lol
just got home and watched the game…holy fuck…that was, as they say in hockey…a “greasy” win…a lot of heroes tonight and fuck that asshole embeed…draymond was my most despised player in the league before this series…now its not even close…embeeaatch takes the crown…also nice to see nurse eatin crow in the postgame…another asshat…
hmmmm, now you have me curious BC…the money you make from betting – do you throw it in with the other money to like pay utilities, go buy groceries…
or, are the betting earnings earmarked for something different, more a reward type treat…
Kind of incredible how great Josh Hart was in this series.
He shot 16-37 from 3PT, a cool .432 percentage.
Averaged 16.8 points, 12.3 rebounds, and 4.5 assists per game.
Played 46.3 minutes per game and made big plays at the end of several games.
Monster series.
confession time – i lost faith in donte during this series…i’m glad thibs didn’t…
That’s a beautiful day!
Like several of you, the Game 5 collapse hit me as hard as any sporting event has in a long time. I stayed off Twitter. I stayed off here. I resolved that I was just not going to watch Game 6, because my nerves and my soul couldn’t take it. I watched The Simpsons with my kids. I watched all the fight scenes in Legend of Drunken Master. I read a book. I kept my phone on Do Not Disturb. I went to sleep at 11, knowing nothing.
My dreams are not often literal, but this night, I kept dreaming about looking at the score, and seeing that the Knicks won, or that they lost. Finally, when I got up at 4 to take a leak, I couldn’t resist checking my phone, assuring myself I would be at peace with either result. When I saw how close the score was, I told myself I had probably made the right call. And when I inevitably couldn’t get back to sleep and decided to put on the MSG rewind, I knew I had made the right call. Given how Game 5 ended, seeing this thing live would have killed me 17 different times. Instead, I got to experience all the extreme momentum swings with the reassurance that things would all end up okay.
I love this team, and can’t wait to see them against the Pacers, no matter how that series goes. I just… the previous game kind of broke me, and I needed to step away briefly. And I’m so happy things went well this time.
It’s the opposite here, Alan. I really wanted to watch this one, but i fell asleep… it started at 2AM here.
Well, what matters is that we’re in the 2nd round and English Knick got to see the Knicks live and in such a high stakes game. That must have been amazing! 🧡💙
About game 5, i didn’t say it to not jinx game 6, but it would only be one of the worst losses of Knicks history if we lost the series… now it’s only a footnote, thank God! 😉