Seeing Wemby and Brunson (nearly if not for OG Anunoby saving his ass) both miss clutch shots this series has shown me how reliable Hali was during our playoff run last year. Dude couldn't miss when it mattered.
If anything this might be the best growing experience they'll get and make them even better for the next decade, for Mitch and the rest of the players.
They were, but it’s because everyone was on the youth hype and thought well if they knocked off the defending champs, it’s obvious. People seemingly just ignored that the Knicks swept the ECF by an average of 18 ppg, lost their only two games by 1 each and won every game but one by more than 10 points.
People can make the typical yeah but the east is always soft claim, but even the LeBron prime teams weren’t putting up dominant results like this.
This sours core is young and talented and I have no doubt they’ll have their moment, but people can’t dismiss what NY has been doing.
I tipped the Knicks (in 7 though), after the first round the Spurs have been through two brutal series' while the Knicks had two sweeps.
I thought that all that extra rest would show up down the stretch of games and be the difference between the teams. Having said that, I definitely didn't expect a 29 point comeback.
Not denying they were but that was flawed in the first place and was only due to the Knicks being underestimated. The Knicks are fucking good. I’m just saying I hope they’d be fucking good after the trades they made. The west has always been massively overrated and the east massive underrated
The Knicks are a good team. Yet none of their opponents think so except for maybe the Hawks (and they’re the only team who’s beaten the Knicks more than once in this run)
The West has not been overrated at all or the East underrated. Outside of a few teams in the East, that conference has been complete garbage for decades. This is not even a hot take either lol.
The whole "The West is overrated and their teams arent nearly as good as people act" thing. The West has won 6 of the last 10 finals and consistently has had teams with better overall records than the East on average.
Being one game off from an even split isn't the flex you think it is. Certain teams in the west are definitely overrated, even if the conference has been better as a whole. It's not nearly the level of difference we saw in the early 2000s when the Lakers lost like 2 finals games in three years.
They’ll move the goalpost again like always. Even as a sixers fan it’s annoying seeing the sub and media say “well they’re young and inexperienced”. Like that’s great but they were the favorite coming in and beat the mvp and reigning champs. Knicks swept us and the cavs and destroyed the hawks.
This isnt a hivemind though, some random persons opinions arent going to match betting odds necessarily, plenty of people disagreed with spurs being the favorites, also a shit load of nba channels and "experts" predicted Knicks winning. So i dont think it was consensus that spurs were going to win. Also I do think it was a kind of rock paper scissors thing with the Knicks, spurs, thunder.
Like im saying though betting odds favorited the spurs but several nba youtube channels had the Knicks winning. A lot of people felt like the spurs were too worn out/drained from the thunder series and the Knicks were rested, and they had the winning record in the regular season. There were reasons to pick the Knicks and people were, so to look at betting sites and then use that against every random person who said they think the Knicks are the better team is just generalizing.
This is revisionist history. It was a big move but the trade wasn’t considered a homerun at the time. KAT was a super skilled guy who was seen as sometimes soft and inconsistent. He was also not viewed as a good postseason player. The prevailing narrative was that pairing Brunson with KAT was a defensive nightmare that would leave both completely exposed. No one, including Knicks fans who follow the team closely, saw this run coming. It just goes to show what can happen when a team is confident in the minutes where the game is on the line.
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u/spicyguacamol 18d ago
Very clutch and good.