Knicks may oust Heat this year...think back to 2011 Dallas.

[bledredwine]

Mavs had a better interior defensive line-up, length, DIRK>Melo lets be honest, great coaching,

and Jason Terry swagging it out.

On top of that, the big 3's been together longer, Spo is less of a dumbass, add Ray Allen + R. Lewis etc. I also highly doubt Lebron would get shut down this year so easily by interior D though that does seem to give him fits.


I'd much rather have NY win than the Heat, but it's just not likely.

[daschysta]

Knicks would lose to Indiana or Chicago in a series, let alone the Heat.

They have played like an 8th seed since their red hot first 20ish games or so. Multiple teams have been significantly better since that aberration of a start. Teams have started to just play Melo single coverage and stay home on their shooters and they have no answer and look like a mess. Indy just smashed them by nearly 40 and they are just imploding overall.

[carayip]

Kidd was 2 years older and had no where the impact as he did in 2011 anymore.

[Alize]

2 reasons the dallas mavs won it in 2011, lebron was not attacking the basket at all in the last games and dirks GOAT performence, if bron played like the first 3 rounds , miami would have won the series

[TheOUTLAW]

No way can the Knicks win 4 out of 7 against Miami. I just don't see it.

[Bandwagon1]

Lol.

[Krodis]

Just as soon a Carmelo Anthony turns into Dirk Nowitzki, Kidd de-ages a couple years, Shumpert learns any semblance of an offensive game, JR Smith turns down the stupidity just a notch, Amare learns to defend a chair, and Mike Woodson turns into Rick Carlisle, then maybe you'll be right.

So no.

[Dupp]

This is a repeat thread from earlier in the season but now the knicks are actually playing to their real potential. They'll make ecf's at best but even then im not sold theyll make it that far. Fact is they have no chance and never had a chance to win a title this season.

[Tamilballah]

Raps in 4. /thread

[rizkid92]

And this is why ballboys shouldnt be able to make threads. Thus guy i just trying to make knick fans look bad

[Rockice_24]

I agree with op in one regard that the Knicks matchup well with the heat. Won't mater much since all the other teams like indy, chi, bk, bos and now even Toronto all much up well with them. If they make the ecf it'll be a good series but I have my doubts they even make it that far therefore making the fact that they match up well with the heat irrelevant.

[shokase]

facepalm worthy thread.

the knicks will be lucky to get a top4 seed. I think the bulls and nets will passs them in the standings and the knicks will lose to miami in the 2nd round in a 5 or 6 game series. I don't even feeel comfortable saying they will advance to the second round.

[LeBronNextMJ]

[tsherkin]

This is an interesting one because I. Any given series, Ndw York could heoretically heat up from downtown... But relying on the three is so very inconsistent and unreliable. JR Smith has been terrible for a while now and they have no real punch besides Melo, who has cooled off considerably the last two months as his unsustainable 3ptnshooting came down with the rest of the Knicks... Just like I and many others predicted.

They are a good team but they don't have the starter star power to get it done... Unless Melo goes HAM like Dirk did in 2011, and Melo has never been a great playoff performer.

We'll see, but I strongly doubt they win it this year.

[R9ndo]

You have to make it a tough game and grind it out for all 7 games. You are not going to beat the heat if you get in a scoring contest with them. Slow down the game and grind it out.

Boston grinding it out took them to 7, the mavs played them very tough yea they shot some 3s but they played tough every game, Same with Indy started out great playing tough but then got to cute with it.