The Knicks begin the Eastern Conference Finals tonight, which is amazing to say.
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Not only Knicks in six but I think Mikal is going to do some shit this series. The gentleman has found his voice on this team. It isn’t calling out the coach.
Knicks in seven. I think the Knicks are better, but not that better, and it’s in everyone’s interest that it’s a long series. Dolan would love to host 4 juicy ECF games in the Garden.
While I’m not brimming with confidence, I really like our chances to advance in 6. Here are my top-10 reasons for optimism.
1. We have the cheat code in Jalen Brunson
2. The revenge motive after last year’s bitter defeat
3. We have played our best in 4th quarters and OT, despite numerous outstanding arrest warrants issued by the minutes police
4. The Pacers have no answer for Mitch now that he’s 7 for his last 8 from the line
5. Thibs has a surprise bench strategy in mind to keep the starters fresh
6. KAT is going to explode on O and play surprisingly well on D
7. The Pacers’ hot shooting is a mirage and 7SoL has been debunked
8. Mikal is going to exploit his matchups on both ends
9. We are going to destroy them on the offensive boards, and outrebound them by a wide margin in general, especially when they start missing.
10. MSG is going to be a huge homecourt edge
Knicks in 5. (I’m going to game 5). If it goes 7 I don’t think my heart can take. These games are super stressful for me.
I took Knicks in 5. Carlisle’s playing for a long series. Thibs’ short rotation should give us an advantage early, like it did last year when we should have gone up 3-0.
Knicks in 6 close games.
Knicks over Thunder.
Knicks visit the White House. Josh Hart punches Trump! Melee breaks out between the team and secret service! MAGA, valuing toughness over all other qualities name PJ Tucker new world leader…
Seriously, Knicks in 6 close games.
Today is a great day to be a Knicks fan.
It has been 25 years.
I am going to enjoy every moment until the opening tip. We will see what happens after that.
I’m gonna say Knicks in 6. I think the revenge factor for Brunson, Hart and Thibs will be huge and we had these dudes last year until OG got hurt.
We don’t have iHart but we have Mitch. And with the additions of Mikal and KAT, our core 7 is stronger than last year (if you factor for Randle being completely out and now we have KAT).
I think Mikal’s defensive versatility is going to come in handy this series and this is what wingstop was built for. Mikal takes Hali, OG takes Siakim.
I also think Deuce is going to be extra motivated to take on McConnell and will show out in this series. I’m also expecting at least one Cam Payne explosion. Indy has gotten extremely lucky in these playoffs so far. That ends in this series.
For the record: Knicks in six
(Frantically knocking on wood)
Worth noting the existence of a small quasi-pattern:
– This is the third time these teams have faced each other in a 7 game series in consecutive season.
– All three times the same team that had home court in the first had it in the second.
– Both previous times the team that won the first time lost the second.
– Both previous times the series went the same number of games.
If that holds it would be Knicks in 7 this time.
I am Owen-ing tonight as I have to attend a birthday dinner at 8pm.
accurate usage
I will add that amongst my boyfriends in heat land and my legal advice in beantown it’s become clear that the Pacers are the most annoying team in the east. There’s a semi-route on for the Knicks up and down the Atlantic seaboard. I forwent my tech scout breakfast burrito as offering to Jobu. Cheese and rice above – pasta below. Ptu Ptu ptu…
34 votes so far and I see that either Donnie or Pags has likely voted.
Maybe the Halliburton-jersey guy who got pelted with garbage lurks here, too.
PS – can someone explain the Windhorst stuff to me?
I often avoid picking series going to 7 games because it feels like a bit of a cop out. Once you’ve reached game 7 pretty much anything can happen, and picking a winner feels more like a coin flip than an evaluation of which team you think is better.
That said…this has 7 written all over it, IMO. There’ll be at least one game in which we get absolutely torn apart in transition, at least one game where we’re on fire and they just don’t have the offensive horses to keep up, and hopefully multiple Mitch games.
At the end of the day, I think we’ve got better shot creators, will snag key extra possessions, and have shown something defensively these playoffs I wasn’t sure we had in us.
Knicks in 7.
I voted but picked a number I feel was complete guesswork. Rather than defend my position, which I feel is defenseless, I’ll just quote Macri as he summed up exactly where I am trying to find myself today:
There is no universe where I will be OK if they lose.
And yet…
This is sports. Sports are supposed to be fun…a distraction from the trials, tribulations and occasional gut punches of everyday life. I’m going to try and remember that as I navigate the next two weeks. This team has already exceeded expectations. All eight playoff wins have generated genuine ecstasy. I’m going to do my best to remain thankful for those and for however many we have left on top of them.
If we play defense with awareness and cohesion anywhere close to what we showed in game 6 against Boston, then we will have no problem against Indiana. It’s up to us. Knicks in five.
The Pacers are a formidable opponent. They closed out the season 28-13 in the second half, a 56-win pace. Then they easily dispatched Milwaukee and Cleveland. They have been consistently excellent for quite a while now.
The Knicks have the best player in the series though, and did something incredible in defeating last year’s champs. The Knicks are the more “x factor” kind of team. They played their two finest games of the season in their last two wins over the Celtics, and may be finding themselves just at the right time. In those games they looked like they could beat anybody.
This looks like a very evenly matched series. We can beat these guys, but it’s really a coin flip.
It’s so typical that all season long I would have settled for making the conference finals and considered the rest gravy. But now that we here (hi Julius!) and it’s the Pacers instead of the Celts or Cavs, losing would indeed be a most bitter pill.
That said, any time we break a long streak of any level of futility, it’s a good thing. Four out of five seasons in the playoffs, three straight second round appearances that went at least 6 games, a merc-less roster with lovable high-character players in their respective primes, no teams that won’t do business with us (even if at a premium), some young players to dream on, no albatross contracts…and our great city in a frenzy over every step forward on a march towards the finals…led by an unlikely superstar captain whose jersey will be hanging in the rafters next to Willis, Clyde, Barnett, Bradley, Dave, and Pearl….
And who knows? Maybe Thibs will be up there someday as well!
I’m in a good place with this team for now and will be no matter what happens.
Mikal Bridges has a .519 playoff TS% and a playoff minus-0.6 OBPM.
OG Anunoby has a .528 playoff TS% and a playoff minus-0.8 OBPM.
If those numbers aren’t materially higher after this series, the Pacers are very strongly favored and IMHO will win the series.
As outlined in an earlier post, the Pacers are also clearly playing better in the playoffs as measured by net rating and pythag wins. If the Knicks don’t remain “clutch” and the sequencing of their point production and point prevention regresses to something more normal — as analytics would counsel it’s bound to at some point — that’s also a pessimistic sign.
So I don’t really have much of a prediction. The series is going to be more of an uphill climb than the primary faction of the fanbase thinks, but it’s obviously winnable.
I’ll go Knicks in 7. Good chance an inopportune injury decides things one way or the other, unfortunately.
This team is special, particularly now that Mikal is communicating with the group.
Brunson’s leadership, Hart’s energy, OG’s stoicism, even KAT’s goofiness all bring something to the table we haven’t seen much of as Knick fans.
If no one gets injured, I’m taking the Knicks in 5, even with strong performances from Hali.
I went Knicks in 6 to keep the theme of the first 2 rds going but obviously wouldn’t be surprised if it’s Knicks in 7.
knicks in six…
After a lot of dithering I’m coming back to Knicks in 5. I don’t think the Pacers can beat us; we can only beat ourselves. Both teams playing at their best, Knicks win. We’ve seen what our team is capable of, and now that they’re so close, I don’t think they mess around. We’ll take our foot off the Pacers’ throats one time, but otherwise we dominate them.
Or, we continue to be scattered, unfocused, inconsistent, and lose in 7. But I really do think they got religion by the end of the Celtics series.
My reasonable mind agrees with you, E. The evidence doesn’t look good. But my emotion mind just can’t accept the imbalance that would be createdif we lose two years in a row to the Pacers.
Knicks in 7. I’m expecting a classic series that we’ll be talking about for years.
Knicks in 6….we have a healthy Brunson…nuff said…
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I agree they have to defend better but in Game 6 they also were aggressive in taking threes. It was the only game we took more threes than them. It worked. I think if they stick to their guns and keep shooting they can win this. But I think it’s going to be a very tough series.
Glass half-empty argument: we’re by far the most inconsistent team left in the playoffs, and we have a tendency to dig ourselves into holes in part through miscommunication. If we remain the same Jekyll and Hyde bunch, this is going to be a long series that could have a very bad ending.
Glass half-full argument: we are capable of playing so much better than we for the most part have, as evidenced by what we did to Boston in games 4 and 6. Our ceiling is higher than anyone except probably OKC. If the players-only meeting shocked these guys into getting their act together and playing to their potential, then we’ll be in the Finals, and whatever happens, happens.
I wouldn’t be stunned if we lost but Knicks in 6. Unfortunately, I don’t see anyone beating OKC this year.
All bits aside, Pacers in 6. The indicators on our starters’ offense are still very poor. Counting playoff games, they are 42-16 in 2025 while we are 35-26.
They’ve been flawless in the playoffs against stronger competition. We’ve exceeded expectations but they’ve blown them away. I think we’ll get paced, spaced, trapped, and tired out. Hope I’m wrong!
How are Milwaukee without Dame and an injured Cavs team stronger competition?
I would love to know what they talked about in that players only meeting after game 5 bc they looked like a completely different team. That team can beat anyone, and I think the bullish cases for us stem from believing we turned a corner that day. Or maybe the corner was turned in game 4 and game 5 was a blip. Either way, the team we watched from G1 DET thru G3 BOS probably has no shot in this series. Hopefully that’s not who we are.
Bits of what? I don’t get it.
64 votes, 59-5 for Knicks. Perhaps this is the perfect opportunity for lurker Nate to introduce himself and explain why this poll might be flawed or biased.
Your whole existence on this blog is a bit.
“All that other stuff I was doing, that was a bit. Those weren’t ‘real’ predictions, I was just fooling around with you all. This one, though, is a real prediction, and if it turns out to be correct I will be sure to smugly act like I was right about everything all along.”
-Troll
I mean, I am never picking the Pacers. That’s not what we do here.
Knicks in four. The time is now.
Seriously.
As we saw in OKC/DEN where a not great DEN team turned out to be their biggest challenge in the playoff run, having the best individual player has more impact in the playoffs. Giannis is a lot better than any Detroit player and the 11.4 BPM he put up in that series is the best of any player in the playoffs. MIL was very strong to end the season and ended on an 8-game win streak even without Lillard, 2 of those wins being over DET.
Not really, JK. I’m sometimes serious, sometimes not. My predictions generally reflect what I think will happen. I’m sometimes wrong, sometimes right. I’m really just a guy posting takes of varying temperature on a basketball blog over here. It’s not that deep.
I think we take care of business tonight by double digits, then the Pacers make adjustments and win game 2.
Then we split in Indy and win games 5 and 6.
Nah man.
What you do here is not good faith conversation. You do a shtick. A very annoying shtick. Every “prediction” you make is of the most pessimistic variety possible. Pistons will sweep the rest of the games. OG is probably out for the year. Celtics in four. I mean five. I mean six. I mean seven. Haha, I was just doing a bit though, right guys?
There’s no point in trying to explain it away. Everybody can see it for what it is. It’s fine, it’s a free country and all. Nobody here is pretending that it’s actually analysis or good faith conversation. It’s some sort of coping mechanism mixed with a desire for attention. Some people are polite about it and don’t call it out for what it is.
Sorry, but that’s just not how I roll. You add nothing of value.
sometimes, lol
The pretzel logic here is astounding. Denver won 50 games this season. The exact same amount that Indiana won. So how are they “not great” but Indiana is a juggernaut that will destroy us this series.
How do you think Denver would have fared if Murray didn’t play in the series. If Jokic = Giannis, then Murray = Dame and Dame didn’t play in that series at all.
sorry but that’s just not how he trolls
Knicks in 6.
https://x.com/tvippolis/status/1924543009653219511?s=19
My new favorite song!
But those were my good faith predictions! I actually thought all those things would happen. Needless to say, I’m very pleasantly surprised that we’ve come this far. I’m not understanding how it’s insane to predict:
1. OG Anunoby not being very durable
2. The 60+ win defending NBA champs beating us convincingly
3. Us losing in the first round to a hungry young team that has been better than us for the second half of the season after they stole homecourt.
4. General misfortune for the team that has been the NBA’s whipping boy for the vast majority of this century
I’m a pessimist, yes, but none of those takes have been insane. We are experiencing our 95th percentile outcome and that’s great. I was wrong on most of my takes. Yay!
Why do you need to take it so personally?
Pags reveals that the reverse jinx is what he’s after every once in a while. But now that I posted that it nullifies the reverse jinx so someone has to nullify me.
Knicks in 6. Brunson is on a mission now.
When did I say Indy was a juggernaut or better than Denver?
The West dominated the East this year, winning 55% of interconference games. 50 wins in the west are more meaningful than they are in the East. DEN has the greatest living basketball player and increases his minutes in the playoffs, enabling them to punch well above their regular season weight. They aren’t great because their supporting cast is mediocre and banged up, but they are battle-tested and good. That’s why I think they were the strongest opposition OKC will face. I would probably favor them to beat us or Indy.
I never said Indy is a juggernaut, just that they are very good, probably better than us, and I think they will win the series, but it’s not like the BOS series where we are huge underdogs. I think it’s AK vs. QQ all in preflop, a 60/40 or 55/45 kind of thing. We can certainly win.
That’s the end of the line though, against OKC we’re fucked and so is everyone else.
Dame played 25 MPG in 3 games. He was bad, but he played.
However, I never said MIL was equivalent to DEN. Just that like DEN, they have one transcendent player and that has outsized value in the playoffs, making them able to punch above their weight. For Indy to crush them convincingly was IMO more impressive than us barely beating a DET team whose best player still hasn’t learned to score efficiently.
Bullshit. You tried to say that Indy beating the Bucks with Giannis was as impressive as Denver with Jokic almost beating OKC. Not considering the Dame FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES did not play in the series against Indy while Murray did. Not to mention that Giannis is not as good as Jokic.
Indy has gotten lucky. Giannis might be a superstar but he’s not Jokic and he didn’t have a sidekick healthy to help him. Cleveland’s entire roster was basically injured against Indy.
Not saying Indiana isn’t good. 50 wins is 50 wins. But we won 51 games and beat the defending champs.
If you truly think that the worst possible outcome in every series is what is going to happen, you need to go to fucking therapy. That isn’t team pessimism. It’s team nihilism.
The problem is that if those ARE good faith predictions and it isn’t a schtick, the Knicks aren’t enjoying a “95th percentile outcome,” but rather you’re terrible at predictions. So terrible that there’s no point in reading your posts.
Thanks for the clarification!
No, you I called you out on saying Denver was a not good team when, in fact, they won the same amount of games as Indy.
i am so happy and relieved to see that mitch is no where near the injury report with his back issue
Kumbaya
“Tried to say?” Sorry but you invented that. Quote where I said Indy beating the Bucks was anywhere near Denver pushing OKC to the limit please.
What I actually said was that Indy beating MIL convincingly was more impressive than us beating DET by thin margins, because the value of a transcendent player goes up in the playoffs.
I agree Indy is also pretty high up on their percentile of outcomes. Maybe 85th or so. Agree Giannis is not as good as Jokic, but he’s probably the 2nd or 3rd best player in the league, and better than any opposing player we have faced.
CLE was banged up but their guys mostly played and played well. Mobley missed 1 game and otherwise put up 18/10/ 2.8 stocks with 69% TS. Ty Jerome forgot how to shoot. Only Garland was clearly too injured to be effective. Is that worse than Tatum missing 2 games, brown playing through a torn MCL and KP having Porziphilis?
The worst possible outcome is a sweep where all our guys tear their Achilles tendons. Did I predict that? No, I predicted we lose in 6. That is the second closest possible loss in a series.
The betting markets have us as a slight favorite. I think we’re a slight underdog. If you can’t deal with that without getting upset it’s you that needs therapy.
I’m the Great Clown, not the Great Prophet. I never said I was good at predictions, or that there was any point in reading my posts!
Again, when did I say they were not good? I said they were not great.
Nine teams in the NBA won 50+ games this year. Do you take the position that 30% of the league is ‘great?’
If so, your bar for ‘great’ is just a lot lower than mine. IMO, Jokic is great. The Nuggets are just pretty good.
OKC seems highly susceptible to the “miss all your shots” defense. Denver isn’t exactly a defensive stalwart and they held them 42% eFG in G3, 41% in G4, and 52% in G6. When they win, they tend to dominate. But they’re still really young, and in close games I remain unconvinced that Chet and Jalen will come through consistently (they certainly did not against Denver).
The part that’s annoying is when you try to pretend that your predictions aren’t predictions. So it’s a “heads I win, tails you lose” scenario.
I was wrong? No, I was just kidding! Just doing a funny little bit.
The Knicks lost? SEE I TOLD YOU SO.
well then pags, let me share my insight in to your being 😝
i have decided you do in fact dance, and your get down groove is this…
picturing your short fat balding body shaking around to that tune…
full disclosure: upon first glance i too might get pegged with the short fat balding body description…nothing too personal about it – other than lay off the sweets and hit the gym fat ass…
go ahead pags, shake that money maker for a while why don’t you…
Touché
So Cleveland’s injuries were nothing but Boston’s were huge. Got that. Brown has a torn MCL yet put up one of his best playoff games ever in game 5. Got it.
KP being hurt or ill is par for course for his career, so you can’t really count him being hurt or ill because most of the time, he is.
Knicks in 7. Gotta ban the dudes that are voting Pacers… well, except Donnie, i mean! 😉
I think so. Garland was huge for the Cavs this year. He missed two games and was severely limited for the other three. He basically wasn’t there.
Tatum played the first 4 games and they were down 3-1.
Brown played every game and looked good (if not perfect) in all of them. He had one of the best games of his life in game 5.
KP can never be counted on anyway.
It was, like, two weeks ago I was watching the Pacers finish off the Bucks on NBATV while you guys were complaining about the Knicks on TNT, how they were going to lose to Detroit, how they were unwatchable, how they all had to be fired and traded, how thank god it was baseball season and the Yankees and Mets were off to good starts…
Then Boston fumbles a few 4th quarters and injure their best players and you all are like
You sure kicked the shit out of that straw man!
When did I say CLE’s were nothing and BOS’ were huge? I argued that they might be at least comparable.
Brown played one great game on his torn MCL, yes, which means he must have played really shitty the rest of the time to manage a series TS% under .500.
Mitch being hurt is also part for course, but he was healthy and highly impactful. See what I mean about that 95th percentile outcome for us?
Hubie, fair argument. Is it worse enough that it should account for the delta between a dominating gentleman’s sweep and us needing multiple miracles to end up at 3-2 with a losing pythag record including one full game of the opponent missing a top 5 NBA player?
You don’t have to explicitly say something in order for the meaning of what you’re saying to be clear. You meant exactly that and to say otherwise is you being disingenious. Stop it.
Feel free to bother us with your negativity about how Leon failed us when we lose in double OT in game 7 against The Thunder in the finals. Otherwise, fuck right off. Only good vibes until we’re out.
you’re charming company and you lit up the polo lounge. Next time (hopefully soon) we’ll be toasting a memorable season.
Mentally throwing garbage at Donnie rn.
oh hecks yeah…shoot, whether it’s celebrating or commiserating i am in senor clarence 🙂
“I think we take care of business tonight by double digits, then the Pacers make adjustments and win game 2.
Then we split in Indy and win games 5 and 6.”
I can’t get out my head the thought that we get pummeled tonight (for no good reason) and then make adjustments and win game 2. Then the rest like dmar says.
I hope he’s right and I’m wrong, if nothing else to avoid reading this site after going down one!
Hope to be there for that!
It’s Knicks PTSD – how often have we had our hearts torn out in the past three decades? Often. Or there hasn’t even been something to care about. But I’m trying to be rational and not let the dark feelings creep in: we are a better team. We have a better closer. We nearly beat THIS VERY SAME TEAM last year with fewer functional players. We should win, and it shouldn’t be all that close.
But yeah, I feel it, too. I’m just trying to shake it off and believe that we will play up to our potential more of the time.
KNICKS IN 5!!!
Pags you actually very regularly do make “predictions” like the allegedly over-the-top one you used as an example, so you shouldn’t be surprised when people stop taking you seriously, even when you temporarily drop the bit and share your honest to god opinions. Call it the Pags Who Cried Sweep Effect.
Maybe, just maybe, you should stop literally trolling 95% of the time if you actually want people to engage with your posts constructively. I certainly am not going to bother trying to suss out the remaining 5%, I’m not Sherlock Holmes–I just ignore them all.
lol this is also a bit, but it’s a good one.
rama, totally with you that we’re the better team. When we play to our potential. Which we did in games 4 and 6 last round. Of course, there was also game 5…
But I say Knicks in six. Let the (mostly) good times roll!
(And I would love to hang with clarence and geo…!)
Apparently I don’t even have to implicitly suggest something in order for you to construct fantasies about them and get outraged. I said what I said and it wasn’t what you’re arguing against.
If we make the finals at all I expect we’ll be swept, but I won’t complain. That’s our 98th percentile outcome. I’d still wish we had avoided the unforced errors that capped our potential at ‘team that doesn’t belong on the court with OKC,’ but OKC is GOAT level so I recognize that’s an unreasonably high bar.
I stand by my prediction that we’ll lose to Indy in 6 and will be pleasantly surprised if we win. If you can’t deal with it, that’s not my problem.
Ok but what seems to be happening here is people taking me super seriously. I said we’d lose in 6 and multiple posters are losing their shit over it.
PSA: I’m the Great Clown Pagliacci! I don’t expect to be taken seriously at any point!
Knicks in six!
That’s partly why they are so much better this year. They are the same team. They’ve had 1.5 seasons of Siakim now. They have completely gelled. They’re very dangerous.
Also, they were young enough that they still had some internal upside left to realize. Hali just turned 25. Mathurin is 22. Their wingstop guys are 25. They’re not at their peak like we are, and we need to be better now to avoid being overtaken.
I am very confident that Indy is toast for two games. I don’t know what’s going to happen after that, but I love us tonight and Friday. The crowd’s going to be insane. Thibs is going to be matching up our starters against their bench. Our players are rested. We should get both these games.
Supplementary Pagliacci prediction: if we go up 2-0 we win the series barring injury breakdown.
i am sticking with my original prediction knicks in six with indy winning games 1 and 4
shai gets mvp what a shock
Shams says Shai won the MVP.
Shai is absolutely no doubt the second most valuable player in the NBA.
Yep. The best player on the best team, not to mention scoring champ, was always going to beat averaging a triple-double while shooting 41% beyond the arc.
Jokic should have five trophies at this point. Oh well, Shaq only got one.
If the Embiid experience is any indication Shai’s whistle is gonna get absolutely insane from here on in
To be fair, I do think you can argue that a candidate whose team won 68 games should have a big leg up over a candidate whose team won 50 games.
I wasn’t prepared for how bad the singing was on that Brunson song.
I love Pags’ avatar, it makes it very easy to scroll through his posts.
The beef is better than Paisano’s here, doesn’t seem likely to change. Not my problem, most of the time.
At the start of the 2nd round, I was wishing that the Celtics could play the Cavs and the Pacers could play the Knicks, so that we’d have two really good matchups to watch. I am, frankly, shocked that they are actually facing each other in the ecf, but still believe it will be a fun, entertaining series.
The garden will be rocking, but so too will Gainbridge, née Market Square. Spike, Stiller, and Chalamet will give it all they have in celebrity row, but don’t underestimate superfans from the hoosier state that will be front row for games 3 & 4: Pete Buttigieg, John Halliburton, and the ghost of Kurt Vonnegut. Gonna be crazy.
I think the Knicks are slightly favorite.
I can’t see a Knicks’ sweep.
I don’t think we can win a clincher in Indiana.
My heart can’t survive a Game-7.
Knicks in 5.
City streets have been named after Knicks players.
No surprise, Deuce has the hottest location.
You know, I am not sure about that actually.
https://x.com/TommyBeer/status/1925266241230365183
I can’t tell if you don’t realize it’s his jersey number or if you’re just kidding.
Knicks in 6, maybe 5. Best offensive player and best player (Brunson), best two defensive players (Anunoby and Mitch and Bridges no slouch), best two rebounders (Towns defensively, Mitch offensively), best real tough guy (Hart). Coaching a push, bench a push.
After Knicks win this series in 5 games or less, Cleveland will be further exposed for the frauds that they are…
Brunson is great but this isn’t automatically true just because he’s the best scorer. Haliburton has outdone him in OBPM and OEPM two years running. Him being the best playmaker in the league counts for a lot.
He’s also a better defender than Brunson, so there isn’t a strong case that we have the best player here. Maybe 2 of the best 3 though.
The Tottenham supporters celebrating on 14th & 7th right now give Knicks fans a run for their money.
Somebody had a lot of fun with Towns Square
This series is so close I think it’s going to come down to who just happens to get hot from 3 and rebounding. I think if we can clearly beat them on the boards (our edge) and hold our own from 3 we will win. If we aren’t defending the 3 point line well and they start getting hot, this could be a disappointing series because these two teams are extremely close.
New thread! https://knickerblogger.net/2025/05/21/2025-round-3-game-thread-knicks-vs-pacers-game-1-on-a-final-run/
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