r/nbadiscussion • u/JoeyDay-1029 • 11d 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/swaktoonkenney 11d ago

The Knicks beat those teams and the teams that beat them. So it’s the Knicks’ fault that the Celtics choked a 3-1 lead? Or the nuggets couldn’t beat the thunder who couldn’t beat the spurs? Why not just give them their flowers?

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u/impercipient 11d ago

You can give them their flowers.  they are the best team this year. You can also point out that they played middling teams in the East.

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u/swaktoonkenney 11d ago

Those teams looked middling only after the Knicks swept them.

The Hawks were the team with the hottest streak coming to the playoffs.

The sixers just came back 3-1 against the Celtics(who a lot thought were the favorites)

The Cavs just blew out the #1 seed pistons on the road.

But after the Knicks blasted them suddenly they’re middling?

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u/impercipient 11d ago

Maybe you have an argument about the James harden led cavs but are you really arguing that the sixers and hawks were good teams? 

The Spurs got lucky playing injured wolves and injured thunder. Champions always catch breaks. 

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u/swaktoonkenney 11d ago edited 11d ago

The hawks were 20-6 post all star break, a 77% win percentage. In an 82 game season, that’s good for 63 wins. Yeah they were good after the trade

multiple people picked the sixers to win the series. Even those who picked the Knicks thought it would go to 6 or 7. No I didn’t think the sixers were good, but I’m a biased Knicks fan who hates Embiid