NBA Playoffs 2025 (Poll created for Finals prediction)

[SunsRback4Good]

Maybe Knicks get desperate after this meltdown sweep lol

Mitch Robinson, Shamet and picks for Durant. Who says no?

That a serious question?

Nope

[KdoubleDees23]

Mitch Robinson, Shamet and picks for Durant. Who says no?

That a serious question?

Nope

Bridges, Robinson, and Picks for Durant and you have a deal

[mkot]

Haliburton getting voted as the Most Overrated player by his peers is just so ridiculous. If anything his advantage creation for the team is the most underrated part of his game. Guys like Jokic, Prime LeBron and Nash all has it, it raises the floor of the team when your best player is constantly mapping the court and creating advantage for himself and his teammates. Haliburton is an incredible engine, the Knicks may not have the right personnel to contain him, he is not a quick athlete but he is so quick at advancing the ball with his passing and vision. The Knicks need to find Haliburton every time they inbound the ball and guard him chest to chest, force him to make some counter moves before he crosses half court. OG is big and strong but not quick enough, Bridges is quick and long but not the guy who can constantly guard 75 feet, maybe Josh Hart and McBride.

OKC has waves of defender to rotate, and the Wolves favorite defensive scheme is to pressure the ball 94 feet so regardless of who comes out of the West Haliburton will see a very different defense in the Finals if Indiana advanced.

[BobbieL]

That a serious question?

Nope

Bridges, Robinson, and Picks for Durant and you have a deal

Unless a third team - would probably be OG and Robinson

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Nope

Bridges, Robinson, and Picks for Durant and you have a deal

Unless a third team - would probably be OG and Robinson

I would trade KD for OG, Mikal and the one 1st rd pick they can trade. If Robinson must be included for salary fillers then sure.

Then trade Robinson to some other team for picks and expiring contract.

Robinson has Ayton type attitude issues based on what Knicks fans have said.

[sunsbg]

OKC, a small market team, back in the finals after 13 years, both times building thru the draft. Matty may want to reconsider his concept 'who cares about 7th graders'.

[lilfishi22]

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...for real though, that's also a terrible reminder of how badly we fell off in G6 and G7.

[thamadkant]

Thunder will sweep the winner of East.. likely Pacers.

SGA's midrange is the best I've seen since Kobe. He's MJesque efficient though as he takes them smartly.

And then you can't play him close because he knows how to draw fouls easily. He can shoot 3s, he can make passes... then he also plays top defense.

SGA is arguably next to Jokic as best player in the world right now. This playoff run is defining him as the benchmark guard star. Amazing.

[thamadkant]

Bridges, Robinson, and Picks for Durant and you have a deal

Unless a third team - would probably be OG and Robinson

I would trade KD for OG, Mikal and the one 1st rd pick they can trade. If Robinson must be included for salary fillers then sure.

Then trade Robinson to some other team for picks and expiring contract.

Robinson has Ayton type attitude issues based on what Knicks fans have said.

Knicks won't do that.

Again, as I mentioned before, my guess is Giannis will force a trade to Knicks for Towns and OG. Bucks will be OK with that since they still remain in the playoff hunt while Dame is signed. They field Towns, Kuzma, OG and Dame... Knicks then field Giannis, Mikal, Hart, Brunson and a big who can shoot from long range or medium range.

[mkot]

As I said before Game 5 the Knicks only solution is to ball pressure Haliburton, and they did, and it worked.

Haliburton does have the tendency of disappearing or becoming too passive when teams trying to guard him 94 feet and take the ball out of his hand, that's very concerning if the Pacers advanced. I don't think the Knicks can keep this defense intensity up for another 2 games but the Thunder is more than capable of playing physical defense on him 94 feet 40+ minutes a night, they foul a lot and are build for this.

[enigmatics]

I still can't believe what the Knicks paid for Mikal lol.

[garrick]

I still can't believe what the Knicks paid for Mikal lol.

His performance this season didn't justify the trade but maybe he can get his shot back after ruining it this offseason.

Not sure why he felt the need to "fix" his shot but he can do whatever he did to fix it while he was here in Phoenix I hope.

[bullsaficianado]

Thunder will sweep the winner of East.. likely Pacers.

Nah. Pacers will win 1 or 2 games I think.

[MrMiyagi]

Everyone should watch these finals so we can get rid of the big market bias.

[bwgood77]

I still can't believe what the Knicks paid for Mikal lol.

His performance this season didn't justify the trade but maybe he can get his shot back after ruining it this offseason.

Not sure why he felt the need to "fix" his shot but he can do whatever he did to fix it while he was here in Phoenix I hope.

It's more amazing to me how little they paid for KAT. Other teams were offering 4 picks for Bridges, because they know players like him are important...glue guys, chemisty guys, etc.'

But those picks were too much. However, it wasn't like what we did for KD, where it was for a 1-2 year window that has now closed, where we got to the 2nd round once and swept in the first round once. This was to round out a young team with guys in their 20s, in their prime, with a 5-7 year window, the exact time the picks convey. Some of our picks were obviously going to convey post KD, or certainly near prime KD. Only one of our 3 picks has conveyed so far.

But it's weird people act like he played bad this season. Sure he had bad games like anyone, but he scored 17.6 ppg, more than in any season with us, and his efficiency was solid...not elite like with us, but it was good, like 57% efg%. For context, Booker had a 52.5 efg%.

He made game winning plays in the playoffs.

But like I said back with the trade, I would have taken the rest of Bridges career straight up over KD's, that's before considering the 4 unprotected picks and swap, Cam, Jae and the 5 2nd round picks he was dealt for.

[sunsbg]

I still can't believe what the Knicks paid for Mikal lol.

His performance this season didn't justify the trade but maybe he can get his shot back after ruining it this offseason.

Not sure why he felt the need to "fix" his shot but he can do whatever he did to fix it while he was here in Phoenix I hope.

It's more amazing to me how little they paid for KAT. Other teams were offering 4 picks for Bridges, because they know players like him are important...glue guys, chemisty guys, etc.'

But those picks were too much. However, it wasn't like what we did for KD, where it was for a 1-2 year window that has now closed, where we got to the 2nd round once and swept in the first round once. This was to round out a young team with guys in their 20s, in their prime, with a 5-7 year window, the exact time the picks convey. Some of our picks were obviously going to convey post KD, or certainly near prime KD. Only one of our 3 picks has conveyed so far.

But it's weird people act like he played bad this season. Sure he had bad games like anyone, but he scored 17.6 ppg, more than in any season with us, and his efficiency was solid...not elite like with us, but it was good, like 57% efg%. For context, Booker had a 52.5 efg%.

He made game winning plays in the playoffs.

But like I said back with the trade, I would have taken the rest of Bridges career straight up over KD's, that's before considering the 4 unprotected picks and swap, Cam, Jae and the 5 2nd round picks he was dealt for.

Thibodeau is overplaying him and his defense has been worse as a result too. I watched him only in the playoffs and sometimes it feels like he's coasting. If he gives full effort for 40 mins his iron man status will probably end soon. Playing so much he's probably past his prime with his peak being just before getting traded by us and a season or so with the Nets.

[handsome salary]

Congrats to either the Thunder or Pacers in grabbing their first NBA championship.

After 39 years of following the Suns I still have no clue how that feels.

[mkot]

What an embarrassing showing from the New York Knicks, they were the favorite, heavy favorite in most NY fans and media and they did not deliver. Lots of questions going into the offseason for them.

Going into the season I thought NY could be the dark horse, I never thought they would be in the Finals so obviously I and most people look at them as a flawed team, but not this bad. Boston gave that series away, how could you blow TWO 20 point lead at home? None of the players on the Celtics were in the right headspace including their coach Joe Mazzulla. Anyway, I think the Knicks overpaid for Bridges but I thought they improved a lot by putting real offensive and defensive talents around Brunson. I see people putting a lot of blame on KAT horrible defense, he did mess up his assignment a lot and got hunted repeatedly by Haliburton and Nembhard all while getting cooked by Pascal Siakam on both ends so he does deserve a lot of blames. Thibodeau also deserve some blames on his defensive schemes, player rotation etc., but I look at Brunson, looks like this is the style he plays. He just plays the same way regardless of who's around him.

Him and KAT has a negative net rating in the regular season and that's always a red flag that the team is losing when your two best players are on the court together. I think Brunson is the guy to build around, so they need to look into moving Towns for a defensive minded big man. It's just too much to overcome two defensive liability. Brunson at least try but he just doesn't have the energy to play hard on defense and then do his thing on the offensive end, but KAT is just dumb not sharp in making his decisions and the Pacers exposed that. Despite his poor showing in the playoffs, he still has very high trade value, maybe breaking him up into 2 defensive minded players for more depth. I think we are at the point where it's pretty clear that the ceiling with KAT as your main guy on the team is not a championship and at their level that should be the goal.

[KdoubleDees23]

Go Thunder. Get that ring.