2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 1-0)
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Not sure who will win game 1. Knicks getting 4 days off. Indiana gets a weeks off. Series will have many close games.
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Wolfgang630 wrote:Not sure who will win game 1. Knicks getting 4 days off. Indiana gets a weeks off. Series will have many close games.
I'm working on the assumption that the Knicks will have game 1 pretty easily. I don't have stats for it, but my memory tells me that teams that sit 8-9 days don't fare well in game 1. Even the numbers might be skewed on that because most of those teams will be one seeds that just beat the hell out of some terrible team.
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Pacers in 5 or 6
Celtics lost 2 games that were easily winnable and would have won both if Pacers were in their place
Pacers passes well and moves well without the ball, and all their rotation players can score in double digits at any given light
Their offense is too much to overcome for Knicks' decent but vulnerable defense
Myles Turner alone could easily make Celtics a much better team this postseason
On other hand, Pacers can live with both Brunson and KAT taking all the load on offense but they are going to work much harder on defense
Pacers is a much better scoring team than both Pistons and Celtics in playoffs
Celtics lost 2 games that were easily winnable and would have won both if Pacers were in their place
Pacers passes well and moves well without the ball, and all their rotation players can score in double digits at any given light
Their offense is too much to overcome for Knicks' decent but vulnerable defense
Myles Turner alone could easily make Celtics a much better team this postseason
On other hand, Pacers can live with both Brunson and KAT taking all the load on offense but they are going to work much harder on defense
Pacers is a much better scoring team than both Pistons and Celtics in playoffs
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There was a whole troop of Celtics fans saying Knicks didn't deserve to be in the same building as them and no "neutral" fans stepped in to call them arrogant. We think our team is better and that's a pretty natural fan stance.
Also, nobody's questioning the legitimacy of last season's win. We just think we'll be better with all of our players vs like half of them and that last season isn't a good barometer for how this series will go. Fortune wasn't smiling on us last postseason and it has so far for us this year.
Pacers are also healthy and a year wiser.
Knicks in 5 but I think we see a lot of close games. Put our guard down and it goes 7 where anything can happen.
Also, nobody's questioning the legitimacy of last season's win. We just think we'll be better with all of our players vs like half of them and that last season isn't a good barometer for how this series will go. Fortune wasn't smiling on us last postseason and it has so far for us this year.
Pacers are also healthy and a year wiser.
Knicks in 5 but I think we see a lot of close games. Put our guard down and it goes 7 where anything can happen.
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PG: Brunson/Coleworld
SG: CJ/Merrill
SF: Black/Thybulle
PF: Kuminga/Kenrich Williams
C: Looney/Sharpe
Hugo | DWade | Craig Porter | Dadiet | Minott

PG: Brunson/Coleworld
SG: CJ/Merrill
SF: Black/Thybulle
PF: Kuminga/Kenrich Williams
C: Looney/Sharpe
Hugo | DWade | Craig Porter | Dadiet | Minott
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NYK in 6 if Towns can stay out of foul trouble in the first half, need his scoring. OG needs to find his shot, his offense has been MIA the last 2gms. Need Mitch to keep doing Mitch things and I'll take 50% from the line from him.
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cgf wrote:durden_tyler wrote:Pacers fans, am leaning towards the Knicks but this may be just bias talking since they are the more popular squad but you have five days to convince me (and other bettors) why we should pick Indiana to win this series.
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The Knicks aren’t cool. All of you in the betting crew should root for the pacers!
…we don’t want your bad luck

Liking my Knicks in 6 initial prediction. Leaning hard in locking in that now but maybe i have to listen first to the Pacers’ fans thoughts! i do think Indiana is a good team and like New York have just been resilient since the first round! Tough decision to make!
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Honestly, on paper the Knicks may have the best roster left in the Playoffs. I think the title is theirs to lose. What a wild statement.
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10DayContract wrote:Honestly, on paper the Knicks may have the best roster left in the Playoffs. I think the title is theirs to lose. What a wild statement.
LOL
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ArksNetsSince99 wrote:10DayContract wrote:Honestly, on paper the Knicks may have the best roster left in the Playoffs. I think the title is theirs to lose. What a wild statement.
LOL
damn knicks chip confirmed!! omg
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DaGawd wrote:ArksNetsSince99 wrote:10DayContract wrote:Honestly, on paper the Knicks may have the best roster left in the Playoffs. I think the title is theirs to lose. What a wild statement.
LOL
damn knicks chip confirmed!! omg
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I know who I'm rooting for, but I don't know who is going to win.
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ArksNetsSince99 wrote:10DayContract wrote:Honestly, on paper the Knicks may have the best roster left in the Playoffs. I think the title is theirs to lose. What a wild statement.
LOL

The war is over soldier, the city is ours.
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NoDopeOnSundays wrote:ArksNetsSince99 wrote:10DayContract wrote:Honestly, on paper the Knicks may have the best roster left in the Playoffs. I think the title is theirs to lose. What a wild statement.
LOL
The war is over soldier, the city is ours.
Some German and French Leaders claimed victory over Russia and never reached Moscow
The Knicks claimed victory already , I can see them fall on cornfields before ever reaching Indianapolis
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durden_tyler wrote:cgf wrote:durden_tyler wrote:Pacers fans, am leaning towards the Knicks but this may be just bias talking since they are the more popular squad but you have five days to convince me (and other bettors) why we should pick Indiana to win this series.
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The Knicks aren’t cool. All of you in the betting crew should root for the pacers!
…we don’t want your bad luck
Liking my Knicks in 6 initial prediction. Leaning hard in locking in that now but maybe i have to listen first to the Pacers’ fans thoughts! i do think Indiana is a good team and like New York have just been resilient since the first round! Tough decision to make!
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We only play 7 guys because their 11th man (Walker) could get real PT for us; they run & press fullcourt for 48 minutes. Carlisle is better than Thibs. Turner will drag Mitch away from the paint. KAT struggles defending teams who move the ball well and can force him to make reads on D. Haliburton is almost as clutch as Brunson, Siakam knows how to deal with OG, and Nembhard is just absurd once the playoffs start.
Now bet on them to beat us!
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10DayContract wrote:Honestly, on paper the Knicks may have the best roster left in the Playoffs. I think the title is theirs to lose. What a wild statement.
OKC hasn’t been bounced yet
Capn'O wrote:We're the recovering meth addict older brother. And we've been clean for a few years now, thank you very much. Very uncouth to bring it up.
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ArksNetsSince99 wrote:NoDopeOnSundays wrote:ArksNetsSince99 wrote:
LOL
The war is over soldier, the city is ours.
Some German and French Leaders claimed victory over Russia and never reached Moscow
The Knicks claimed victory already , I can see them fall on cornfields before ever reaching Indianapolis
So are you a large or a medium when it comes to NBA jerseys?
Capn'O wrote:We're the recovering meth addict older brother. And we've been clean for a few years now, thank you very much. Very uncouth to bring it up.
Brunson: So what are you paid to do?
Hart: Run around like an idiot during the game and f*** s*** up!
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ArksNetsSince99 wrote:NoDopeOnSundays wrote:ArksNetsSince99 wrote:
LOL
The war is over soldier, the city is ours.
Some German and French Leaders claimed victory over Russia and never reached Moscow
The Knicks claimed victory already , I can see them fall on cornfields before ever reaching Indianapolis
We can claim the city already, not that we ever lost that but it's been over and you're just left hoping we lose now.
I respect the hating to an extent, but your war is over, go scout the draft, what pick did y'all get? I haven't really been up on the lottery in years and it feels great.
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cgf wrote:ArksNetsSince99 wrote:NoDopeOnSundays wrote:
The war is over soldier, the city is ours.
Some German and French Leaders claimed victory over Russia and never reached Moscow
The Knicks claimed victory already , I can see them fall on cornfields before ever reaching Indianapolis
So are you a large or a medium when it comes to NBA jerseys?
Same size as Rhodey
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I’m sorry, but I can’t take the Pacers seriously when they’ve the weakest road to the conference finals…maybe after Minny. Maybe they’ll prove me wrong this series. But I’ll be the arrogant one this time around. Don’t see how they beat the Knicks.






