crustydemonburgers | Thunder

41 | 5 hours ago

Knicks are very good at basketball I underestimated them and think they have a good chance against whoever comes out of the west.

narcistic_asshole | Cavaliers

19 | 5 hours ago

It’s really easy to write them off as the same old Knicks, but they’ve really elevated their game. They’re playing good basketball and their offense is deep, not just in talent, but their overall offensive system is deep in the variety of ways they can operate and KAT is playing the best defense of his career so you can’t even rely on him being an exploitable weakness to their defense

T-BoneSteak14 | Knicks

18 | 5 hours ago

Good basketball is an understatement, they have literally had the most dominant month of basketball of all time

narcistic_asshole | Cavaliers

5 | 5 hours ago

I meant that more in the sense that you guys are playing clean mistake-free basketball. It’s contrast to my Cavs where nearly win was in spite of tons of unnecessary turnovers, defensive miscommunication and terrible shot selection. You guys look dialed in and ready for the playoffs.

BikesAtNight

7 | 4 hours ago

I kind of like the people are writing them off. I’m not sure why people think they will get smoked in the finals but it might give the Knicks more of an edge. Not that they need extra motivation for the finals but still. They are playing really exciting basketball with very few bad stretches on either end. It is so much different from watching them last year. Feels like almost the same roster but they’ve reached a new level/some of the guys are just flat out playing better now.

narcistic_asshole | Cavaliers

6 | 4 hours ago

I’m coming in from a Cavs perspective, but the last 2-3 seasons I’ve viewed Cavs and Knicks as similar teams that had the talent to be true contenders, but too flawed to be anything more than a dark horse. That ECF was a perfect litmus test for how much the Knicks have leveled up. You guys look genuinely primed for a title while we’re just as flawed as ever.

The winner of the West is going to be much better than anyone the Knicks have faced thus far, but similar to the Pacers last year I think anyone that’s writing the Knicks off in the Finals is going to be in for a big surprise

BikesAtNight

2 | 4 hours ago

I’m not actually a Knicks fan, more of a neutral who has been liking the Knicks in the playoffs the last few years. I felt like they could play beautiful basketball and then all of a sudden would resort to iso ball and it drove me crazy. I agree with you that Cavs and Knicks felt similar until this year. Both teams were good, but you felt like they weren’t quite playing to their potential and reaching that next level to win it all. Now the Knicks are peaking at the right time and I think it will make the finals really interesting. Always a chance they regress and go back to some of those bad habits they had last year or against the hawks this year, but assuming they keep this up the finals should be incredibly competitive.

drums_please__fab | Knicks

3 | 5 hours ago

Thank you. Knicks fans (and even unbiased basketball fans who actually watch games regularly) knew they had this in them, which is what made some stretches of the regular season so frustrating. I get why we’d be underestimated, but all the people this sub claiming that we have no chance in the finals after how they’ve been playing for the last month are just proving that they don’t know what the hell they’re talking about.

jon__koa | Knicks

1 | an hour ago

I think a lot of is because the offense really plays into the weakness of both OKC and San Antonio: perimeter defense. During the big 11 game run, it’s been a lot of just punishing perimeter defense lapses

Sko_Neezy

31 | 5 hours ago

Crazy there were all of those game 7s yet some of the worst playoff basketball I’ve ever seen for a conference as a whole. Other than the Knicks it was like a ‘Who stinks less?’ competition.

Either_Imagination_9 | Knicks

23 | 5 hours ago

The Cavs Pistons series was a “who wants to lose more?” Competition.

dpman48 | Thunder

2 | an hour ago

And if anybody is wondering why some people aren’t taking the knicks seriously this is why. If you watched the eastern conference playoffs most of these teams looked really bad for stretches. Even the injured and shorthanded lakers looked better than most of the East teams and they got swept.

Sko_Neezy

6 | an hour ago

They should be taken seriously, nobody has ever done what they’ve done the last 10 games even in the regular season, which is saying something.

But it takes two to tango…they’re very good and their opponents were very bad.

dpman48 | Thunder

2 | an hour ago

I’m taking them seriously. But it’s very hard to look at the east playoffs and not think everyone besides the Knicks were terrible

Sko_Neezy

2 | an hour ago

You can count me among the people who don’t think the 2026 Knicks will rank among immortal teams when it’s all said and done but until the Finals it’s tough to parse their performance

iLikeTrees2020 | Celtics

19 | 5 hours ago

Analitically speaking the Knicks can still go to 7 against the Cavs

heroman3

4 | 4 hours ago

Analytically speaking the Knicks can win it all.

Dear_Profile_5251

3 | 4 hours ago

Knicks to the east is what Thunder is to the west but better

X-Craft | NBA

2 | 4 hours ago

And zero game 7s in the West (so far)

ajgedrys | Knicks

-5 | 5 hours ago

Yes we know, its only been posted everywhere a million times

I_Set_3_Alarms | Celtics

3 | 3 hours ago

Eh I haven’t seen it or processed that only Knicks haven’t gone 7 in the east.

Although as a Knicks fans maybe you’re just seeing Knicks fans bringing it up everywhere and the rest of us aren’t

All 4 Eastern Conference playoff series that didn’t involve the Knicks went to Game 7.