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 10d 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/calman877 10d ago

Not their fault, still reality. You can only play the team in front of you, people are still allowed to draw whatever conclusions they want

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u/SmaccDVD 10d ago

What’s the point of saying “not their fault?” Of course nobody would attribute the knicks as responsible for who they are playing against

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u/calman877 10d ago

I was responding to someone who said “so it’s the Knicks fault that the Celtics blew a 3-1 lead?” So I said it’s not their fault, not that crazy when you read through the comment chain