2025 NBA PLAYOFFS East Semifinals: #2 Boston Celtics vs #3 New York Knicks (NYK leads 1-0)

[The Corey's]

Sounds good big dawg we'll talk
About this in the upcoming week

There's nothing to talk about lol.

When the Celtics rip apart the Knicks the only thing we're gonna hear is how hurt the Knicks are and how the Celtics are once again on the easiert route to a championship ever.


It's deja Vu here. The Celtics disrespect is strong.

If we lose 4 rotation players for the bulk of the series then, yeah, you'll probably hear about how we lost 4 rotation players for the bulk of the series.

Right now we're pretty healthy which is why you're not hearing that.

The Knicks don't have the talent to beat the Celtics. No one believes that.

[rolling_91]

Celtics in 4.

[LFGK]

There's nothing to talk about lol.

When the Celtics rip apart the Knicks the only thing we're gonna hear is how hurt the Knicks are and how the Celtics are once again on the easiert route to a championship ever.


It's deja Vu here. The Celtics disrespect is strong.

If we lose 4 rotation players for the bulk of the series then, yeah, you'll probably hear about how we lost 4 rotation players for the bulk of the series.

Right now we're pretty healthy which is why you're not hearing that.

The Knicks don't have the talent to beat the Celtics. No one believes that.

Def, no talent what so ever, clown guy thinks he's the 72-10 bulls

[bisme37]

If we lose 4 rotation players for the bulk of the series then, yeah, you'll probably hear about how we lost 4 rotation players for the bulk of the series.

Right now we're pretty healthy which is why you're not hearing that.

The Knicks don't have the talent to beat the Celtics. No one believes that.

Def, no talent what so ever, clown guy thinks he's the 72-10 bulls

Hey mang I gotta put my mod hat on and tell you to stop calling people clowns. Personal attacks are not allowed on the GB. Disagree with the post as strongly as you'd like (or ignore it), but don't insult the poster himself. Thx.

[The Corey's]

The Knicks don't have the talent to beat the Celtics. No one believes that.

Def, no talent what so ever, clown guy thinks he's the 72-10 bulls

Hey mang I gotta put my mod hat on and tell you to stop calling people clowns. Personal attacks are not allowed on the GB. Disagree with the post as strongly as you'd like (or ignore it), but don't insult the poster himself. Thx.

Knicks are apparently gonna show me! Give me a break. Why play the regular season if we're not going to take anything out of it. Like I don't know, destroying the Knicks by avg double figures across 4 games.

[Jcity08]

Some of the problems for the Knicks this series is that A) Celtics have pretty decent depth at the front court, with Al Hordfords old ass playing backup 4 so he doesnt get drained against bruising bigs down low and Luke Kornet taking the backup C role.
B) The smothering defense of the starting 1/2/3 of White, Jrue and Jaylen is ridiculous to say the least.
C) I just feel like Celtics bench is more balanced.

Can Knicks overcome this, sure, but considering the Celtics swept their regular season series, maybe this might be too steep of a wall to overcome.

But you never know in the playoffs, health ys a factor, players stepping up, others regressing, anything can happen but if I was a betting man my money is on the Celtics to sweep.

[celtxman]

Both teams healthy I'd say Celtics in 5. Knicks could make it longer by stealing Game 1.

[Celts17Pride]

The only loss the Celtics have had in the playoffs so far was when they let up 15 offensive rebounds to the Magic and also had 21 turnovers. The Celtics loss that game by 2 points. So I guess anything is possible

[Scalabrine]

Boston gets a 2nd round bye this year.

Just like they got last year when they had the Jimmy-less Heat, then the Mitchell and Allen-less Cavs, and the didn't belong their Pacers?

[bronxknicksfan1]

The Knicks had a point differential of +72 in the 16 games Brunson missed for an average of +4.5 per game. That’s actually slightly better than their season average of +4.1. Other teams have had more impactful injuries.

More impactful than the best player on the team going down? Nembhard, the Pacers 4th best player, makes the Pacers much better but losing Brunson doesn’t make the Knicks much worse? Trying to understand the logic of that one.

I mean I was simplifying; it was Nembhard and Nesmith and also Haliburton was banged up and playing nowhere near his level early in the year. Also you know nothing about the Pacers if you think Nembhard’s their 4th best player. His defense is massive. Hes easily their 3rd best player.

Pacers record without Nembhard (Nesmith also missed all these games): 6-11

Knicks record without Brunson: 11-6

I’ve watched plenty of the Pacers this season. Nembhard is definitely their 4th best player after Hali, Siakam and Turner.

And I’ll just keep it simple then. Do you believe Nembhard impacts winning more than Brunson?

[Riverwalk2021]

KAT and Porzingis are probably the two softest bigs left in the POs. Hate both of their games. That being said, I could see the Celtics play one stinker and the Knicks get super hot and win a 2nd game but could also see this Knicks team fold and get swept. Split the difference, C's in 5.

[LethalRangee]

It'll be more of a challenge next year when the Knicks get rid of Thibs and get someone who instills the importance of 3pt shot defense.

[iggymcfrack]

More impactful than the best player on the team going down? Nembhard, the Pacers 4th best player, makes the Pacers much better but losing Brunson doesn’t make the Knicks much worse? Trying to understand the logic of that one.

I mean I was simplifying; it was Nembhard and Nesmith and also Haliburton was banged up and playing nowhere near his level early in the year. Also you know nothing about the Pacers if you think Nembhard’s their 4th best player. His defense is massive. Hes easily their 3rd best player.

Pacers record without Nembhard (Nesmith also missed all these games): 6-11

Knicks record without Brunson: 11-6

I’ve watched plenty of the Pacers this season. Nembhard is definitely their 4th best player after Hali, Siakam and Turner.

And I’ll just keep it simple then. Do you believe Nembhard impacts winning more than Brunson?

Nembhard >>> Turner

I wouldn’t say that he impacts the game more than Brunson individually, but when he and Nesmith are both out at the same time the Pacers have no one to defend on the wing at all. It’s like a team missing both of their point guards. Nesmith only played in 2 of the 17 games that Nembhard missed.

I think healthy Pacers > healthy Knicks as shown by how much better they’ve played when healthy.

I also think Knicks without Brunson are a significantly better team than the Pacers without Nembhard or Nesmith again which is clearly borne out by evidence.

[Capn'O]

Some of the problems for the Knicks this series is that A) Celtics have pretty decent depth at the front court, with Al Hordfords old ass playing backup 4 so he doesnt get drained against bruising bigs down low and Luke Kornet taking the backup C role.
B) The smothering defense of the starting 1/2/3 of White, Jrue and Jaylen is ridiculous to say the least.
C) I just feel like Celtics bench is more balanced.

Can Knicks overcome this, sure, but considering the Celtics swept their regular season series, maybe this might be too steep of a wall to overcome.

But you never know in the playoffs, health ys a factor, players stepping up, others regressing, anything can happen but if I was a betting man my money is on the Celtics to sweep.

Horford always gives us fits no matter the personnel. He's a fly in the ointment to Thibs' basketball theories.

[LFGK]

Def, no talent what so ever, clown guy thinks he's the 72-10 bulls

Hey mang I gotta put my mod hat on and tell you to stop calling people clowns. Personal attacks are not allowed on the GB. Disagree with the post as strongly as you'd like (or ignore it), but don't insult the poster himself. Thx.

Knicks are apparently gonna show me! Give me a break. Why play the regular season if we're not going to take anything out of it. Like I don't know, destroying the Knicks by avg double figures across 4 games.

Keep looking at the regular season, going to save you this series Indiana shouldn't even be playing this series vs Cleveland rite? They went 3-1 against them in the regular season season and no reason the play this series

[The Corey's]

Hey mang I gotta put my mod hat on and tell you to stop calling people clowns. Personal attacks are not allowed on the GB. Disagree with the post as strongly as you'd like (or ignore it), but don't insult the poster himself. Thx.

Knicks are apparently gonna show me! Give me a break. Why play the regular season if we're not going to take anything out of it. Like I don't know, destroying the Knicks by avg double figures across 4 games.

Keep looking at the regular season, going to save you this series Indiana shouldn't even be playing this series vs Cleveland rite? They went 3-1 against them in the regular season season and no reason the play this series

Indiana is better than the cavs

What does that have to do with Celtics in 5?

[bronxknicksfan1]

I mean I was simplifying; it was Nembhard and Nesmith and also Haliburton was banged up and playing nowhere near his level early in the year. Also you know nothing about the Pacers if you think Nembhard’s their 4th best player. His defense is massive. Hes easily their 3rd best player.

Pacers record without Nembhard (Nesmith also missed all these games): 6-11

Knicks record without Brunson: 11-6

I’ve watched plenty of the Pacers this season. Nembhard is definitely their 4th best player after Hali, Siakam and Turner.

And I’ll just keep it simple then. Do you believe Nembhard impacts winning more than Brunson?

Nembhard >>> Turner

I wouldn’t say that he impacts the game more than Brunson individually, but when he and Nesmith are both out at the same time the Pacers have no one to defend on the wing at all. It’s like a team missing both of their point guards. Nesmith only played in 2 of the 17 games that Nembhard missed.

I think healthy Pacers > healthy Knicks as shown by how much better they’ve played when healthy.

I also think Knicks without Brunson are a significantly better team than the Pacers without Nembhard or Nesmith again which is clearly borne out by evidence.

I’ll agree to disagree on Nembhard vs Turner.

As for which team is better…I’ll just keep it at the Knicks didn’t have a fully healthy roster until a few games before the playoffs. So, we don’t really know what this team is. I guess we’ll see soon enough.

[Celts17Pride]

It'll be more of a challenge next year when the Knicks get rid of Thibs and get someone who instills the importance of 3pt shot defense.

There’s always next year in New York. Knicks fans know that song very well

[LFGK]

It'll be more of a challenge next year when the Knicks get rid of Thibs and get someone who instills the importance of 3pt shot defense.

There’s always next year in New York. Knicks fans know that song very well

My brother in Christ before last seasons title all Celtics fans would say year after year is next year, let's relax a bit and pray the Knicks don't send you guys home early.

[Celts17Pride]

It'll be more of a challenge next year when the Knicks get rid of Thibs and get someone who instills the importance of 3pt shot defense.

There’s always next year in New York. Knicks fans know that song very well

My brother in Christ before last seasons title all Celtics fans would say year after year is next year, let's relax a bit and pray the Knicks don't send you guys home early.

You are the one talking about next year even before the series has even started