NY Knicks' Playoff Prospects: Optimism vs. Reality

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00:00But most, if not all, Knicks fans felt that they were not going to win this series,

00:06not be competitive in this series, and would be happy with any win.

00:12That's a fine way to look at it, right?

00:14I know that I was, you know, me thinking the Knicks would win this series.

00:20It's just how I felt, right?

00:22We don't have to open that thing.

00:24But I wasn't like, I don't understand why nobody thinks that.

00:27Like, I totally understood the feeling that Boston would dominate this series.

00:32I understood it.

00:34My question, though, is if you're the Knicks,

00:40and the Knicks have three home games in this series.

00:46If they do not play the third, it means they won this series, right?

00:54Assuming they play three home games.

00:57The Knicks have to win two out of the three games in Madison Square Garden, right?

01:06In order to win this series.

01:13If that does not happen, let's say they only win one.

01:20That would match what they did in round one at home.

01:28If the Knicks, after all of this, with the atmosphere of the Garden,

01:35go two and four in their own building,

01:39and blow a 2-0 lead to Boston with a trip to the conference finals on the line,

01:45where it is presently expected if they get through,

01:48they will have home court advantage against the Pacers team,

01:53who last year many Knicks fans believed they would have beat had they just stayed healthy.

01:57Who pays the price for that?

02:04Like, ultimately, I think there should have been some questions around Tibbs

02:08if the Knicks were smashed, dominated, and rolled by Boston.

02:12I was largely on an island with that one, though.

02:15If the Knicks get through, do not get through Boston now,

02:24is the idea like, hey, we hung, it was competitive,

02:28we're close, first year really with this team, overhauled a lot,

02:33we're going to get there?

02:35I'm not saying blow up the roster,

02:38though I think the Knicks will kick the tires on the honest situation.

02:42That's just doing your due diligence.

02:48I just, if they don't win the series,

02:52like, what's the excuse now?

02:55Because you can't go up 2-0 and then be like,

02:59ah, come on, like, we never had a chance.

03:01That team is so much better than us.

03:05They're not.

03:07They're not so much better than you.

03:09They shouldn't be.