Series Thread: Eastern Conference Finals: (3) New York Knicks vs. (4) Indiana Pacers

[bksballer89]

I stand by what I said
That was a choke job by the Pacers
If you are the Pacers you can’t cough up a 20 point lead when you are up 2-0 in the series

Choke!

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And I disrespectfully disagree

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Series been much better than the WCF

Yep...every game has been close and settled by single digits.

 

[tlance]

Would agree with you if rounds 1 and 2 are played every other day but they aren't. There is at least 2 days off between every round 1 series and sometimes multiple and normally at least 1 in the 2nd round

Round 1 is because of TV schedule.

Round 2 not sure why.

Round 3 they want a game on every night.

 

[msgkings322]

I don’t know how you’re not livid as a pacers fan

Can’t lose this game up 20 at home being up 2-0 in the series

Well the Knicks can’t choke game 1 and yet here we are. Every game is its own story

 

[Pastafazul]

Well the Knicks can’t choke game 1 and yet here we are. Every game is its own story

It’s De ja vue all over again

 

[Pastafazul]

I agree it was a bad decision.

You are delusional in thinking the Knicks are a top 3 team.

Can’t possibly be that you are wrong, so you blame the coach.

Who, coincidentally, is part of their team.

Last I checked they be 4 teams left in the running for THE best team

Before the game tonight the Knicks appeared to be fourth, they won after the pacers choked it away , now they are tied for the 3rd top team in the running.

You still thinkin they are not a contender is just dumb considering where they are , they can still win this even though I don’t believe they will with Thibs , but they can.

What are you thinkin man????

lol, Knicks could win it all and you’ll still say they aren’t a top team. That’s just weird

 

[msgkings322]

It’s De ja vue all over again

Thanks Yogi

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

I need the NBA to explain their thought process behind scheduling in the conference finals

They play every other day even on travel days but in the NBA finals, every travel day requires an additional day off

It's science, bro.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Knew they had it all the way

 

[PPhan]

Last I checked they be 4 teams left in the running for THE best team

Before the game tonight the Knicks appeared to be fourth, they won after the pacers choked it away , now they are tied for the 3rd top team in the running.

You still thinkin they are not a contender is just dumb considering where they are , they can still win this even though I don’t believe they will with Thibs , but they can.

What are you thinkin man????

lol, Knicks could win it all and you’ll still say they aren’t a top team. That’s just weird

If they win it all, then nobody should say they weren't the best team this season. When it's all said and done, this is what counts the most.

 

[wildturkey]

Pacers fucked up when they let the lead grow to 20 pts. As we've seen in the playoffs, that's when the Knicks wake up and become the most dangerous team in basketball

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

 

[Stakesarehigh]

To be fair, it happened far back enough that a lot of older fans may have forgotten and a whole generation of fans has come along since then.

I remember it as it was the Lakers first championship of my lifetime.

Hold on, so you've argued this hard for Jordan and weren't even alive in the 80s?

 

[tlance]

If they win it all, then nobody should say they weren't the best team this season. When it's all said and done, this is what counts the most.

Eh.

Doesn’t matter at that point.

But the best team in the league doesn’t always win the title.

Which has been part of my point.

Of course the title is all the really matters.

And being somewhere between 3rd and 10th best?

Who really cares about that?

 

[tlance]

Last I checked they be 4 teams left in the running for THE best team

Before the game tonight the Knicks appeared to be fourth, they won after the pacers choked it away , now they are tied for the 3rd top team in the running.

You still thinkin they are not a contender is just dumb considering where they are , they can still win this even though I don’t believe they will with Thibs , but they can.

What are you thinkin man????

lol, Knicks could win it all and you’ll still say they aren’t a top team. That’s just weird

Well, they outlasted 2 teams that most would say were better all year (including you, at least with the Celtics).

So there is that.

But your insistence on Thibs being the thing holding them back is just another example of you straddling the fence.

If they win?

Hey! You are going to claim being right.

If they lose to the Pacers?

You are going to claim it is Thibs fault and that you are still right.

Even though the Knicks aren’t still playing if Thibs didn’t drastically out coach Mazzula.

The 2019 Raptors were not a better basketball team than the Warriors. But things happened and they won a title anyway.

And that is all that really matters.

 

[DJ Fieri]

KAT went off in the 4th, damn.

 

[Albuquerque Rams]

Went to bed with the Pacers up 16. Looks like I missed a comeback, damn it.

 

[Albuquerque Rams]

Hold on, so you've argued this hard for Jordan and weren't even alive in the 80s?

Yes because I don't suffer recency bias.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Yes because I don't suffer recency bias.

I'm not going to derail this thread, but it shines a light into someone having a nostalgic opinion of MJ.

 

[logic]

What they have always done.

Longer travel from east to west and back.

It’s really not longer travel if it is Indiana this year though.