2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 3-1)

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Who wins Game 4??

Pacers win at home and go up 3-1
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Knicks get the road win and tie it up at 2-2
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Re: 2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 2-1) 

Post#221 » by durden_tyler » Wed May 28, 2025 1:03 am

Dan Z wrote:I wonder how good the Raptors would be had they kept Siakam, OG and Fred VanVleet (if they could)...?

A good team, but probably one that would only go so far.

Yeah, that was a one time flukey team, difficult to be that lucky again.


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Re: 2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 2-1) 

Post#222 » by Calinks » Wed May 28, 2025 1:03 am

KAT with the Embiid whistle would be a generational big man.
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Re: 2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 2-1) 

Post#223 » by 2weekswithpay » Wed May 28, 2025 1:03 am

Hart with another TO.
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Post#224 » by The Warrior » Wed May 28, 2025 1:04 am

Dan Z wrote:I wonder how good the Raptors would be had they kept Siakam, OG and Fred VanVleet (if they could)...?

A good team, but probably one that would only go so far.
2nd round ceiling at best if they're your best players. They're all Robins but with a Batman next to them that's a dangerous team, see 2019.

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Post#225 » by Marvin Martian » Wed May 28, 2025 1:04 am

Why is Bridges initiating the offense?
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Post#226 » by LFGK » Wed May 28, 2025 1:05 am

Van gundy is brutal to listen to my god man
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Post#227 » by The Warrior » Wed May 28, 2025 1:05 am

durden_tyler wrote:
Dan Z wrote:I wonder how good the Raptors would be had they kept Siakam, OG and Fred VanVleet (if they could)...?

A good team, but probably one that would only go so far.

Yeah, that was a one time flukey team, difficult to be that lucky again.


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Post#228 » by durden_tyler » Wed May 28, 2025 1:05 am

78 points combined in the first and now combined 40 in the second. i wonder if the Pacers should just run everytime again in the second half knowing the Knicks struggle with conditioning and fatigue late.


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Re: 2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 2-1) 

Post#229 » by Dan Z » Wed May 28, 2025 1:05 am

The Warrior wrote:
Dan Z wrote:I wonder how good the Raptors would be had they kept Siakam, OG and Fred VanVleet (if they could)...?

A good team, but probably one that would only go so far.
2nd round ceiling at best if they're your best players. They're all Robins but with a Batman next to them that's a dangerous team, see 2019.

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That's better than the current Raptors team, but they'd also be older and more expensive.
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Post#230 » by durden_tyler » Wed May 28, 2025 1:05 am

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durden_tyler wrote:
Dan Z wrote:I wonder how good the Raptors would be had they kept Siakam, OG and Fred VanVleet (if they could)...?

A good team, but probably one that would only go so far.

Yeah, that was a one time flukey team, difficult to be that lucky again.


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How’s your rebuilding? Contenders again by 2030 maybe?


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Re: 2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 2-1) 

Post#231 » by doogie_hauser » Wed May 28, 2025 1:05 am

KAT is maybe the Knicks most important/significant player. When he stays out of dumb foul trouble.

He is carrying this hard working Knicks team on his giant shoulders right now

He has been so good Thibs hasn't really needed Mitchell Robinson so far
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Post#232 » by scrabbarista » Wed May 28, 2025 1:06 am

Towns has been plum tuckered out for a while now. Wake up, Thibs.
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Post#233 » by RookieStar » Wed May 28, 2025 1:06 am

Wonder why IND ismt hunting Brunson anymore?
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Post#234 » by ___Rand___ » Wed May 28, 2025 1:06 am

My cable stream is 2 possessions behind the game SMH.
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Post#235 » by Marvin Martian » Wed May 28, 2025 1:06 am

2weekswithpay wrote:Hart with another TO.

And he just left his man open for a 3
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Post#236 » by kwajo » Wed May 28, 2025 1:07 am

The Warrior wrote:
Dan Z wrote:I wonder how good the Raptors would be had they kept Siakam, OG and Fred VanVleet (if they could)...?

A good team, but probably one that would only go so far.
2nd round ceiling at best if they're your best players. They're all Robins but with a Batman next to them that's a dangerous team, see 2019.

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Post#237 » by durden_tyler » Wed May 28, 2025 1:07 am

doogie_hauser wrote:KAT is maybe the Knicks most important/significant player. When he stays out of dumb foul trouble.

He is carrying this hard working Knicks team on his giant shoulders right now

He has been so good Thibs hasn't really needed Mitchell Robinson so far

KAT is the type of low-basketball IQ player that is so effective if you just simplify things. Just ask him to attack and shoot without thinking, he’s more relaxed and efficient that way.


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Re: 2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 2-1) 

Post#238 » by knicksfan974 » Wed May 28, 2025 1:08 am

Keys for the Knicks for the second half:
- Enough with all these turnovers, they are killing the Knicks!
- Keep attacking the basket, good things happen every time. The Knicks are by far the more physical team down low.
- Cannot let Tyrese put up 50
- Force the Pacers to live and die by the three
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Post#239 » by Marvin Martian » Wed May 28, 2025 1:08 am

RookieStar wrote:Wonder why IND ismt hunting Brunson anymore?


Silver put in the call for IND to extend the series on purpose
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Re: 2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 2-1) 

Post#240 » by jehosafats » Wed May 28, 2025 1:08 am

Brunson gets the Timothy Chalamet whistle

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