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NY Knicks' Playoff Prospects: Optimism vs. Reality
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5/9/2025
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But most, if not all, Knicks fans felt that they were not going to win this series,
00:06
not be competitive in this series, and would be happy with any win.
00:12
That's a fine way to look at it, right?
00:14
I know that I was, you know, me thinking the Knicks would win this series.
00:20
It's just how I felt, right?
00:22
We don't have to open that thing.
00:24
But I wasn't like, I don't understand why nobody thinks that.
00:27
Like, I totally understood the feeling that Boston would dominate this series.
00:32
I understood it.
00:34
My question, though, is if you're the Knicks,
00:40
and the Knicks have three home games in this series.
00:46
If they do not play the third, it means they won this series, right?
00:54
Assuming they play three home games.
00:57
The Knicks have to win two out of the three games in Madison Square Garden, right?
01:06
In order to win this series.
01:13
If that does not happen, let's say they only win one.
01:20
That would match what they did in round one at home.
01:28
If the Knicks, after all of this, with the atmosphere of the Garden,
01:35
go two and four in their own building,
01:39
and blow a 2-0 lead to Boston with a trip to the conference finals on the line,
01:45
where it is presently expected if they get through,
01:48
they will have home court advantage against the Pacers team,
01:53
who last year many Knicks fans believed they would have beat had they just stayed healthy.
01:57
Who pays the price for that?
02:04
Like, ultimately, I think there should have been some questions around Tibbs
02:08
if the Knicks were smashed, dominated, and rolled by Boston.
02:12
I was largely on an island with that one, though.
02:15
If the Knicks get through, do not get through Boston now,
02:24
is the idea like, hey, we hung, it was competitive,
02:28
we're close, first year really with this team, overhauled a lot,
02:33
we're going to get there?
02:35
I'm not saying blow up the roster,
02:38
though I think the Knicks will kick the tires on the honest situation.
02:42
That's just doing your due diligence.
02:48
I just, if they don't win the series,
02:52
like, what's the excuse now?
02:55
Because you can't go up 2-0 and then be like,
02:59
ah, come on, like, we never had a chance.
03:01
That team is so much better than us.
03:05
They're not.
03:07
They're not so much better than you.
03:09
They shouldn't be.
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