You might be the last person on Earth to know the Knicks are on a 11 game win streak.

What the Knicks have figured out this playoff run, is that If you score more points than the opponents, and play defense you will win games.

The Knicks run has been impressive. Say what you will about the matchups but it’s hard to blow teams out conistently. It would be a mistake to overlook them.

That being said, Wemby poses a pretty unique problem. The Wolves and Thunder were about as well equipped to handle him as anyone and they couldn’t. KAT is going to have his hands full on both ends. The Spurs guards are much better equipped to handle Brunson defensively than James Harden.

I’m excited to see how it shakes out. Should be fun.

The amount of fraud talk here on whoever loses Game 1 will be amazing.

Cue all the Reddit warriors saying it’s only cause they played bums.

At the start of the playoffs everyone was like oh the Hawks are the hottest team in the league, way better than your average six seed, and they have 2 perfect Brunson defenders….don’t be surprised if they upset the Knicks. Then the Knicks lost 2 games by one point and otherwise dominated the other four games to the point where the Hawks quit and everyone was like “well the Hawks weren’t actually any good”

Then round 2 everyone was like oh with Embiid and PG playing the Sixers actually have the best starting 5 in the conference….until the Knicks boat-raced them in 4 games, only one of which was competitive, and everyone goes “oh well Embiid was a corpse it took everything he had to beat Boston, the Sixers weren’t actually any good”

Then in round 3 everyone was like “Oh the Cavs have as much talent as then Knicks and their pick and roll is the perfect combo to target Brunson and Towns, Knicks will have their hands full this time!” And then the Knicks boat-raced them in one of the most dominant sweeps of all time and everyone goes “yea well playoff Harden sucks and Mobley and Allen lights too bright…the Cavs weren’t actually any good.”

Maybe the Knicks are crushing these (fully healthy, by the way) playoff teams by historic margins because they are really good???? I mean it feels like that’s a distinct possibility lmao.

Ya but they played against teams from the Eastern Conference.

If Knicks win vs Spurs haters will say Spurs were just really exhausted in 7 games after beating the champ, and say it was the real finals anyways. And if they lose, they gonna say Knicks are frauds because they only beat weak teams

That’s really awesome for them.

Against such vaunted teams as Cleveland and ugh….

Love that Danhausen

I’m a Knicks fan but I wonder if we can contain Wemby and his crew.

Obviously on the flip side will be interesting to see how the Spurs handle Brunson and the depth of the Knicks.

But regardless going to be a fantastic finals!

If i was forced to bet, id pick the spurs to win, but NY has a shot. It’s the finals, anything can happen.

Eastern conference lol

They didn’t play anyone good.

8 and 4 seed…

Round 1 before series: atl is the hottest team and their offensive rating is insane and their defensive rating is #2.  20-6 record before going into the playoffs!

Round 1 after series:  atl sucked.  Weak opponent.  

   

Round 2 before series:   Philly so good with Embiid back. Nlook at how they smacked Boston around once Embiid came back.  Vj, maxey, embiid, and George are just too good.  

Round 2 after series:   weak team.  Embitch sucks and is slow.  That team had no bench.  They sucked. . 

    

Round 3 before series:   Knicks have their number but Cavs are shooting the 3 well and have brunson stoppers.  They beat the Pistons.   They’re good.  Cavs in 6 or Knicks in 6.   

Round 3 after series:   Cavs sucked.   They don’t belong.    

 

What I see is constant praise for the opponent before the series and then completely belittling the team after the Knicks dominate them

   

It is either those teams were truly ass, the Knicks embarrassed them so badly that ppl think they’re ass, or there is an anti-ny bias where accomplishments are diminished and waved away with weak reasoning .

    

Spurs are the better team but if the Knicks win, I better not hear that.  ….

• Spurs were too young. 
• Spurs were gassed.  
• Spurs just didn’t shoot well. . 
• Refs cheated.  

Going to be an exciting series!

Knicks will never get the respect they deserve. Even if they win the finals, people will come up with ways to undervalue their achievements

Peaking at the perfect time + playing their best basketball in years + some eastern teams exposing themselves has led to these unheard sweeps. If I’m a Knicks am fan I would take the sweeps if they come but as a team you want to be fought and have some challenges.

Spurs are young and inexperienced but they have been battle tested through these playoffs so my money is on them to be the dominant team between them.

The Hawks might be the best team they’ve played. That’s the Eastern conference for ya

You live under a rock?

28 other teams had a shot. 28 other teams failed. Streak or no streak, we’re here.

Yet they will get blasted in game 1. Hard to beat a team coming off a 7 game series against the champs when you are all rusty. Will be interesting to see if they can make it a series after that.

The Spurs are a much more physical team than anyone the Knicks have faced in the playoffs. But the Knicks are also incredibly well rested, have chemistry and clearly have found a rhythm.

But don’t get it twisted, the Knicks 100% have not faced a top-end defense yet.

The Knicks are good, but they have undeniably had the good fortune of playing the softest opponents in the field this playoffs; Orlando, Detroit, and Boston ALL had top 10 defenses and the Knicks played neither of them.

people say the knicks fans are obnoxious but when you see all the disrespect the team gets, you can’t blame em. when we win the chip we gonna have people wishing okc got a chance to repeat

My biased take from this is the Knicks played with HCA. Not in the finals though.

New York could easily win this series… but a lot of the people picking them are high on recency bias. As recently as the middle of the Atlanta series Mike Brown hadn’t figured out that KAT is actually good and you should run the offense through him. They looked discombobulated all season and frequently looked kinda bad (I think in January they had that 1-9 stretch where it looked like things were imploding). They’ve been super hot of late and an eleven game win streak papers over a lot of holes, but if you look at the opponents over that stretch it gives a lot of context to suggest maybe everything isn’t quite what it seems.

Lifetime Knicks fan.

I have hope but not delusions. This is a solid Knicks lineup but I see this going 4-1, mayyyyybe 4-2 to the Spurs.

whenever someone says ‘east is trash, west will sweep’, and someone rightly counters ‘…but OKC barely beat Indy in 7 last year, and probably only because Hali went down’, they never follow up, lmao. I’d love to hear someone explain why the West is so dominant, the Knicks will get swept, but this supposedly dominant OKC team barely beat Indy in 7?

Weak East confirmed.

Oh for sure. He has elite impact on both ends (beyond elite on the defensive). But as an individual offensive scorer and distributor he isn’t quite at that level. His impact is elite though because the threat of him in the paint is so high. Honestly I’m just pumped for what I think will be a great series.

if they really are historically good, then they’ll beat the spurs. if not, it will have been just a fluke run against playoff chokers.

I think when it’s the highest point differential over an 11 game span in postseason and regular season history you can’t really dismiss it by saying it’s the quality of opponent.

The average competition the Knicks faced over 11 games is way higher than most 11 game stretches in the NBA and still no one has performed this well. This is historic.

Here’s the thing: This route is going to make them ill-prepared for what they are about to encounter in the finals.

There is no denying that the Knicks had an easy route to the finals, which is not to down play the accomplishment. You play who is put in front of you, and you have no control over that. The Knicks have gotten the job done.

1. They were very lucky that the Celtics were unhealthy and had a bad match-up in the first round, with Embiid getting a LOT of calls. If the Knicks had to play a healthy Celtics team I don’t think anybody would expect them to be in the finals this year.

2. They are fortunate (and I won’t use lucky here) that the Cavs matched up so well against the Pistons, because the Pistons match up much better against the Knicks than the Cavs do. The Pistons are better than they were last year, when they went 6 games against the Knicks, a series in which three of the Knicks wins were decided in the last 30 seconds of the game… a series that could have gone either way should the ball have bounced one way or another.

There is no doubt that had Boston and Detroit both advanced, the Knicks would have had a harder time. Not that they wouldn’t have won, but it would have been a much harder path.

But beating up on an inferior Philly team, and then man-handling the Cavs? That doesn’t give them the experience they need to beat a team down the stretch. They DID get that experience last year against the Pistons, but missing that going into this series, and now going up against a team that won 62 games in a much harder conference and just beat a 64-win team? This is another level of competition that the Knicks have not seen this year, or that this Knicks roster has really seen at all in the playoffs over the last couple of years.

And I’m not sure Mike Brown is the coach to get them through this challenge. He’s good… but I feel like, defensively, they’ll miss Thibs.

I won’t be surprised if this series is a 4-0 sweep for the Spurs.

They beat dogshit to get there

crazy how much Knicks get disrespected in this sub.

They played the Cavs and Hawks lol

All just to get swept lol