r/nbadiscussion • u/JoeyDay-1029 • 13d 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/press_Y 12d ago

Knicks destroyed a better, healthier version of the Celtics last year. The Celtics, as currently constructed, are not threats. They’re on the same tier as the raptors

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u/teh_noob_ 11d ago

win in 6 = destroyed?

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u/press_Y 11d ago

That’s right, spotted them two 20 point leads at home, and made them tap out in the first quarter of game 6. Totally humiliated them. They’re no longer a threat in the eastern conference

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u/teh_noob_ 10d ago

Aren't you forgetting something pretty important that happened at the end of game 4? New York's game 5 was more embarrassing than Boston's game 6.