Poll: What would you consider a successful season?

djsunyc · Post #1 » by **djsunyc** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 5:30 pm

how far do the knicks have to go for it to be considered a successful season in your eyes?

conference finals
nba finals
champion

ctorres · Post #2 » by **ctorres** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 5:43 pm

NBA Finals if Brunson remains healthy, even if we lose two among OG, Mikal, and KAT to injuries

Semis if Brunson gets hurt but the rest of our guys stay healthy. I feel we have the talent to make it far in the playoffs even without Brunson

3toheadmelo · Post #3 » by **3toheadmelo** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 5:45 pm

NBA finals is basically the requirement since you got rid of Thibs.

Fat · Post #4 » by **Fat** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 5:46 pm

Firing Mike brown

robillionaire · Post #5 » by **robillionaire** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 6:57 pm

The goalposts of success shift constantly over the course of the season. Most people last year would have said getting out of the second round and then we did and then that wasn’t enough

At this point the goal is a championship but if we have another good competitive season with a deep playoff run I won’t be too mad. All I ever wanted was the Knicks to be a good respectable team again. Championship will come whenever it comes

FrozenEnvelope · Post #6 » by **FrozenEnvelope** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 6:59 pm

Fat wrote:Firing Mike brown

Who did you want instead?

FrozenEnvelope · Post #7 » by **FrozenEnvelope** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 7:01 pm

I don't expect to ever see a championship in my lifetime so Finals it is. But it also depends on injuries and the competition.

Ghetto Gospel · Post #8 » by **Ghetto Gospel** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 7:31 pm

considering the pacers, celtics and bucks have all sustained huge injuries making this the easiest eastern conference in years, nba finals has to be at the very minimum

KnicksGadfly · Post #9 » by **KnicksGadfly** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 7:44 pm

1. Postseason Success
2. Team doesn't feel like it's underachieving
3. Offensive cohesiveness and more creativity
4. We deal with that issue we had last postseason where the team gave up several games
5. Help Mikal and KAT
6. Defensive hunger
7. Manage the bench better and rein in any chuckers on the bench
8. Manage minutes better...play the stars more when it's needed and play them less when it's not needed

8516knicks · Post #10 » by **8516knicks** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 7:49 pm

robillionaire wrote:The goalposts of success shift constantly over the course of the season. Most people last year would have said getting out of the second round and then we did and then that wasn’t enough

At this point the goal is a championship but if we have another good competitive season with a deep playoff run I won’t be too mad. All I ever wanted was the Knicks to be a good respectable team again. Championship will come whenever it comes

With seven straight different champs the odds seem to favor a repeat of someone from that recent list instead of yet another different team (like the Knicks).

Worst_to_First · Post #11 » by **Worst_to_First** » Thu Jul 3, 2025 1:23 am

This might be our best and only shot in winning the title. With how difficult it is to get to the Finals, we cannot assume we can get back there the following season. Anything short of a Championship will be a letdown for me. I think our front office, coaching staff and players will have the same sentiment.

Jalen Bluntson · Post #12 » by **Jalen Bluntson** » Thu Jul 3, 2025 2:10 am

Play-in loss to WAS and getting the 11th pick to convey along with our own first rd pick we eating good next year!

Gravy · Post #13 » by **Gravy** » Thu Jul 3, 2025 3:36 am

I dont see the option for win the In-season tournament

HarthorneWingo · Post #14 » by **HarthorneWingo** » Thu Jul 3, 2025 4:18 am

Worst_to_First wrote:This might be our best and only shot in winning the title. With how difficult it is to get to the Finals, we cannot assume we can get back there the following season. Anything short of a Championship will be a letdown for me. I think our front office, coaching staff and players will have the same sentiment.

The MJ baseball season all over again. Isn’t this the season of the PJ Brown-Charlie Ward fight during the playoffs and all the suspensions?

thebuzzardman · Post #15 » by **thebuzzardman** » Thu Jul 3, 2025 4:20 am

Who cares. At least 25% of the board will hate whatever happens

Adelheid · Post #16 » by **Adelheid** » Thu Jul 3, 2025 8:48 am

knicks tumbled and fumbled into the ecf with hardly any coaching and adjustments and were short 2 wins in reaching the finals.

only finals will do at least

NoStatsGuy · Post #17 » by **NoStatsGuy** » Thu Jul 3, 2025 9:37 am

thebuzzardman wrote:Who cares. At least 25% of the board will hate whatever happens

fire mike brown, trade kat and bench brurnson takes incomming in december

god shammgod · Post #18 » by **god shammgod** » Thu Jul 3, 2025 11:38 am

baring injury to someone vital, in this east you have to make the finals

BowlRips · Post #19 » by **BowlRips** » Thu Jul 3, 2025 12:01 pm

Knicks gonna come out the gate as the clear 1 seed in the EC after a training camp including continuity and focus. Expectations will then be championship or bust

8516knicks · Post #20 » by **8516knicks** » Thu Jul 3, 2025 3:52 pm

Don't think we can bank on beating last season's Eastern Finals. Being "injury free" while our top rivals were struck probably won't happen in consecutive years, but if under Coach Brown the team shows more offensive creativity and better D than Thibs last year, and if Clarkson overperforms, plays some D and fits well, then a 2nd round loss (like in '24) might be tolerable.