2023 East Semifinals | (5) New York Knicks VS (8) Miami Heat (Series tied 1-1)

[WargamesX]

Knicks just beat some kids. Heat beat the best team in the East in 5. Jimmy is easily the best player in this series. How does anyone think the Knicks win this?

Lol, I think Brunson has something to say about that.

Jimmy is an incredible defender. They aren't even close if you're considering both ends of the floor.

The flipside to that is can he defend at a high level and score at a high level through a series.

[Jimmit79]

The Knicks won't be able to bully the Heat like they did with the Cavs. Heat in 6.

While Bam is good but your next best big is love lol who while a good 3pt shooter doesn't bring anything else. The Knicks have way more scorers then Heat who is one man team in Butler and I doubt he will continue scoring 40ppg unless the refs are betting on heat and send him to FT 20 times every game.

[Lunartic]

New rule - if you spend post after post arguing why X player can't shoot above/below a certain percentage or some other nerd gooblygook, you have to make a prediction as well.

I personally have Heat in 7

[WargamesX]

The Knicks won't be able to bully the Heat like they did with the Cavs. Heat in 6.

While Bam is good but your next best big is love lol who while a good 3pt shooter doesn't bring anything else. The Knicks have way more scorers then Heat who is one man team in Butler and I doubt he will continue scoring 40ppg unless the refs are betting on heat and send him to FT 20 times every game.

I don’t want to sleep on Kevin Love. Especially if Randle isn’t 100%.

Healthy Randle yeah, but unhealthy Randle idk. Love might be the best PF in the series just based on vet savvy and that 3 pt shot. If Randle is healthy I like the Knicks odds in this series a lot more because Bam can’t stop Randle scoring and Mitch rebounding and act as a second or third option offensively. Something would have to give. Love isn’t stopping either for a whole series.

[Jimmit79]

The Knicks won't be able to bully the Heat like they did with the Cavs. Heat in 6.

While Bam is good but your next best big is love lol who while a good 3pt shooter doesn't bring anything else. The Knicks have way more scorers then Heat who is one man team in Butler and I doubt he will continue scoring 40ppg unless the refs are betting on heat and send him to FT 20 times every game.

I don’t want to sleep on Kevin Love. Especially if Randle isn’t 100%.

Healthy Randle yeah, but unhealthy Randle idk. Love might be the best PF in the series just based on vet savvy and that 3 pt shot.

Love can't play 48 mins he will have a heart attack meanwhile obi can even if Randle doesn't show up till game 3.

[SerialChiller]

I have no idea what will happen in this series. The Heat have me at a loss. If they play like they did all year and during the playin games, they probably lose in 5 or 6. If they play like they did in the first round, they probably win in 5 or 6.

[Mickey8]

Miami should win this fairly easy but we will see.

Hell no. What makes you think that?

Miami have two best players in the series and tons of experience of going deep in the play off's in the last few seasons. Also they coming into this series as the team who just knocked off number one seed , the team who was one of the favorites to wins it all momentum is on Miami's side. Maybe it won't be easy but to me Miami is the clear favorite in this series.

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[cgf]

Miami should win this fairly easy but we will see.

Hell no. What makes you think that?

Miami have two best players in the series and tons of experience of going deep in the play off's in the last few seasons. Also they coming into this series as the team who just knocked off number one seed , the team who was one of the favorites to wins it all momentum is on Miami's side. Maybe it won't be easy but to me Miami is the clear favorite in this series.

You're taking Bam over DamnSon? That's bold.

[Mickey8]

I do, Bam is more battle proven player than him.

[cgf]

I do, Bam is more battle proven player than him.

Like I said, that's bold IMO. I'd be more surprised if Bam outplayed Brunson than if Bam was outplayed by two of Brunson / Randle / Barrett, but time will tell.

[ProcessDoctor]

I have no idea what’s going to happen so I picked the home team in 7.

[cgf]

Curious to see how RJ does in this series. His career high came when he was sharing the court with Jimmy last season, and this season against the Heat, RJ has averaged: 21.5ppg (on 51.5|25.0|77.8), 5.0rpg, 2.75 apg...which is right around what he averaged the last 3 games against CLE; 22.0ppg (on 55.8|31.3|68.4), 4.7rpg, 2.67apg

[Jimmit79]

Curious to see how RJ does in this series. His career high came when he was sharing the court with Jimmy last season, and this season against the Heat, RJ has averaged: 21.5ppg (on 51.5|25.0|77.8), 5.0rpg, 2.75 apg...which is right around what he averaged the last 3 games against CLE; 22.0ppg (on 55.8|31.3|68.4), 4.7rpg, 2.67apg

We need his girlfriend to keep him happy otherwise he will revert back to a **** robot.

[cgf]

Curious to see how RJ does in this series. His career high came when he was sharing the court with Jimmy last season, and this season against the Heat, RJ has averaged: 21.5ppg (on 51.5|25.0|77.8), 5.0rpg, 2.75 apg...which is right around what he averaged the last 3 games against CLE; 22.0ppg (on 55.8|31.3|68.4), 4.7rpg, 2.67apg

We need his girlfriend to keep him happy otherwise he will revert back to a **** robot.

A healthy sexlife is an important part of a healthy life

[Jimmit79]

Curious to see how RJ does in this series. His career high came when he was sharing the court with Jimmy last season, and this season against the Heat, RJ has averaged: 21.5ppg (on 51.5|25.0|77.8), 5.0rpg, 2.75 apg...which is right around what he averaged the last 3 games against CLE; 22.0ppg (on 55.8|31.3|68.4), 4.7rpg, 2.67apg

We need his girlfriend to keep him happy otherwise he will revert back to a **** robot.

A healthy sexlife is an important part of a healthy life

Whatever helps the Knicks win

[KnixtapeH20]

I do, Bam is more battle proven player than him.

Why are u comparing Bam to Brunson?

Bam is about to find out just how dominant Mitchell Robinson is

[KnixtapeH20]

Curious to see how RJ does in this series. His career high came when he was sharing the court with Jimmy last season, and this season against the Heat, RJ has averaged: 21.5ppg (on 51.5|25.0|77.8), 5.0rpg, 2.75 apg...which is right around what he averaged the last 3 games against CLE; 22.0ppg (on 55.8|31.3|68.4), 4.7rpg, 2.67apg

We need his girlfriend to keep him happy otherwise he will revert back to a **** robot.

Shut the **** up jimmit

[hundreth]

As a Knicks fan, I really don’t know what will happen.

I respect the Heat, and think these are both great teams. Really looking forward to this one.

It’s basically Jimmy Buckets + 3 pt shooting vs Brunson offense + monster rebounding.

Throughout the season the Knicks have had trouble defending the 3 pt line. If this is exposed and happens again, we’re in big trouble. If thibs can come up with a scheme to limit both jimmy and the 3 point shooting at the same time, we will win.

[CyKnickal]

A team that lost it's play in game, barely made the playoffs, beat a team that didn't have it's best player for 11 of the 20 quarters played, a guy who came back on a gimpy back, missed double digit free throws in a two point game, a coach who completely shat his pants in the moment (two timeouts remaining? Benching your DPOY candidate center while the opponent chucks a lucky heave right underneath the basket???), a guy who is supposed to be their closer passing up the shot to Grayson Allen, a role player who didn't even get a shot off, a clearly missed offensive foul to tie the game, a team that blew leads in the last two games in crunch time....a team that completely got shook, a team that had no chemistry or rhythm after it's best player missed more than two games....

All of a sudden the team that beat them is the 96 Bulls led by Jimmy Jeffrey Jordan, unstoppable.

If the Cavs would've won, nobody would give the Heat a chance...they would say it was a great run and they have run their course...but since it's the Knicks, who people somehow think is the same one from two years ago led by Narlens Noel, Reggie Bullock, and Elfrid Payton...they're going to get waxed by them.

Atlanta kicked Miami's ass in the play in because Miami couldn't grab a rebound...Atlanta muscled their way to offensive rebounds, more possessions...Miami's weakness.

Yet the team whose entire system is built around doing this is going to let these walk on players led by a I'd rather not shoot but hey my teammates told me to, body them around after they just buried the best defensive team in the league with much more dynamic players, didn't let the team that had a guy score 70 one time, 57 in the playoffs, drop more than one 30 point game on them, didn't let his much more capable offensive team crack 100...yeah, they're going to let a guy run around and drop 40's on them while his team full of undrafted players scores 120 per game.

Get a grip...look past your bias, use logic and think. It's like nobody even watched the Bucks, a team that was a shell of itself in these playoffs, play. They lost this series, Miami didn't win. A string of luck, bad coaching by the opponent, and a choke job at the line from the best player in the league who can't shoot for ****, who would have rather thrown the ball out of bounds than go shoot free throws again, got them here...yeah that team is a gonna be a problem for the Knicks.

Miami, and the rest of the people that like to **** on the Knicks, are in for a rude awakening. These aren't Carmelo's Knicks and thank God, these aren't Donovan Mitchell's either.