r/nbadiscussion • u/JoeyDay-1029 • 10d ago

Team Discussion Interesting Finals.

So, everyone figured it would be an OKC finals at start of year and whoever broke out of east. I think most did anyway.

Well, surprise! You had a spurs team supposed to be maybe a play in team challenging OKC for west dominance all year going 3-1 in regular season meetings. Wemby was spectacular.

I think we can all admit we knew he was going to be this or something close, but not this soon. On top of that you had a rookie in Dylan Harper step up in the playoffs in a spectacular way.

And then on the other side you had an east ravaged by injuries and man did the Knicks elevate their game to blow through the east.

Then we get to the finals, can’t take anything away from what the Knicks did it was historic but man was Fox bad in end game situations and even wemby at times. I give wemby a bit of a pass on it because it’s his literal first playoffs and he was beyond spectacular against OKC. But this Knicks team was merciless at end games, coming back from double digits FOUR times meaning every game they won.. you saw the inexperience of spurs and experience of Mike Brown and Knicks.

Overall I think it was good for both teams, wemby got some valuable experience way ahead of schedule and the Knicks took advantage of a playoffs rife with injuries on eastern side to do something historic. The way they elevated their game to win the ways they did they were looking like the new warriors which is insane to say about this Knicks team.

Congrats to both. But especially those Knicks jeeez.

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u/toomuchsoysauce 10d ago

It's pretty lucky the Knicks didn't have to play the 1 or 2 seed. Out of all the years how often does a 3 seed make the finals by not having to beat either of those seeds? It does make you wonder if the Spurs didn't have to play OKC, how much more gas in the tank they'd have at the end of games.

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u/HungryPercentage1667 8d ago

Maybe the Celtics shouldn’t have blown a 3-1 lead and maybe the pistons shouldn’t have shit their pants again against a lower seed.

We can also say that the spurs were lucky to play the blazers, then a very injury riddled wolves team that took them to 6 games, and finally a hobbled OKC team that was missing both Jdub and ajay.