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

Post #1 » by **bisme37** » Mon May 12, 2025 4:06 pm

Game 4: Monday May 12, 7:30pm ET on ESPN

Continued from here: https://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2458022

Castle Black · Post #2 » by **Castle Black** » Mon May 12, 2025 4:10 pm

Castle Black · Post #3 » by **Castle Black** » Mon May 12, 2025 4:13 pm

Celtics are clearly the better team and should take it, but we all know about their propensity lately to go ice cold in 4th Qtrs. I do expect the Knicks to put up a better fight tonight though as this is a must-win for them imo. But it's also a must win for Boston as well cause they can't afford to go down 1-3. Winner of tonight's game wins the series imo. It's gonna be a dogfight. MSG will be rockin'. Should be fun.

Moose · Post #4 » by **Moose** » Mon May 12, 2025 4:25 pm

I see this as a must win for the Knicks if they want to take the series.

Riverwalk2021 · Post #5 » by **Riverwalk2021** » Mon May 12, 2025 5:02 pm

If the series is tied 2-2, the team that wins two more games wins the series. The Celtics' clutch offense has reverted to the pre 2024 version where Tatum tries to be Kobe so any game within 15 points in the 4th Q is still winnable for the opponent. That gives the Knicks a fighting chance in the series with a closer like Brunson.

cgf · Post #6 » by **cgf** » Mon May 12, 2025 5:32 pm

You back from the bahamas yet ark? *looks around nervously*

:-P

excited to see how this goes. Really weird feeling more confident about game 5 on the road, but with two teams who seem to hate playing at home, that's where we are lol.

cgf · Post #7 » by **cgf** » Mon May 12, 2025 5:33 pm

Castle Black wrote:

Damn it. Well Karl was injured anyways, so fouling him out in the 3rd quarter won't have as much impact as it could have...*sigh*

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #8 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Mon May 12, 2025 5:44 pm

cgf wrote:You back from the bahamas yet ark? *looks around nervously*

excited to see how this goes. Really weird feeling more confident about game 5 on the road, but with two teams who seem to hate playing at home, that's where we are lol.

This Boston fan wired me 1k to stay another day abroad :lol:

cgf · Post #9 » by **cgf** » Mon May 12, 2025 5:45 pm

ArksNetsSince99 wrote:
cgf wrote:You back from the bahamas yet ark? *looks around nervously*

excited to see how this goes. Really weird feeling more confident about game 5 on the road, but with two teams who seem to hate playing at home, that's where we are lol.

This Boston fan wired me 1k to stay another day abroad

Clever bastards :-?

They know they can't beat us with our victory talisman

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #10 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Mon May 12, 2025 5:47 pm

Moose wrote:I see this as a must win for the Knicks if they want to take the series.

Knicks already won , I mean Dolan with MSG ticket prices :lol:

Boston in 6

cgf · Post #11 » by **cgf** » Mon May 12, 2025 6:23 pm

Need to bring it in the first half one of these days

Game 1
1st quarter - BOS +1
2nd quarter - BOS +15
3rd quarter - NYK +7
4th quarter - NYK +9
Overtime - NYK +3

Game 2
1st quarter - BOS +11
2nd quarter - NYK +2
3rd quarter - BOS +3
4th quarter - NYK +13

Game 3
1st quarter - BOS +16
2nd quarter - BOS +9
3rd quarter - BOS +1
4th quarter - NYK +4

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #12 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Mon May 12, 2025 6:27 pm

cgf wrote:Need to bring it in the first half one of these days

Game 1
1st quarter - BOS +1
2nd quarter - BOS +15
3rd quarter - NYK +7
4th quarter - NYK +9
Overtime - NYK +3

Game 2
1st quarter - BOS +11
2nd quarter - NYK +2
3rd quarter - BOS +3
4th quarter - NYK +13

Game 3
1st quarter - BOS +16
2nd quarter - BOS +9
3rd quarter - BOS +1
4th quarter - NYK +4

So Boston needs to win 3 quarters to win the game

cgf · Post #13 » by **cgf** » Mon May 12, 2025 6:32 pm

ArksNetsSince99 wrote:
cgf wrote:Need to bring it in the first half one of these days

Game 1
1st quarter - BOS +1
2nd quarter - BOS +15
3rd quarter - NYK +7
4th quarter - NYK +9
Overtime - NYK +3

Game 2
1st quarter - BOS +11
2nd quarter - NYK +2
3rd quarter - BOS +3
4th quarter - NYK +13

Game 3
1st quarter - BOS +16
2nd quarter - BOS +9
3rd quarter - BOS +1
4th quarter - NYK +4

So Boston needs to win 3 quarters to win the game

Can't let us get to the 4th quarter in Brunson-range 8-)

mademan · Post #14 » by **mademan** » Mon May 12, 2025 7:19 pm

Boston wins by 20+ today and it comes back 2-2 with the C's as big favs to end it in 6.

3 games in and 3 games of 20+ 2nd half leads. That it is 2-1 for the Knicks is insane as is...i dont have them winning another game this series.

LFGK · Post #15 » by **LFGK** » Mon May 12, 2025 7:23 pm

mademan wrote:Boston wins by 20+ today and it comes back 2-2 with the C's as big favs to end it in 6.

3 games in and 3 games of 20+ 2nd half leads. That it is 2-1 for the Knicks is insane as is...i dont have them winning another game this series.

tamaraw08 · Post #16 » by **tamaraw08** » Mon May 12, 2025 7:31 pm

cgf wrote:Need to bring it in the first half one of these days

Game 1
1st quarter - BOS +1
2nd quarter - BOS +15
3rd quarter - NYK +7
4th quarter - NYK +9
Overtime - NYK +3

Game 2
1st quarter - BOS +11
2nd quarter - NYK +2
3rd quarter - BOS +3
4th quarter - NYK +13

Game 3
1st quarter - BOS +16
2nd quarter - BOS +9
3rd quarter - BOS +1
4th quarter - NYK +4

OG already had a big game, Hart in game 2, back to back 21 pt game from KAT. Brunson will bring his 25 pts.
It’s time to Bridges to get hot, not necessarily 30 pts but they will need about 23 from him.
Maybe McBride hit 3-4 crucial 3’s, OG rediscover his touch with 16.

tamaraw08 · Post #17 » by **tamaraw08** » Mon May 12, 2025 7:32 pm

tamaraw08 wrote:
cgf wrote:Need to bring it in the first half one of these days

Game 1
1st quarter - BOS +1
2nd quarter - BOS +15
3rd quarter - NYK +7
4th quarter - NYK +9
Overtime - NYK +3

Game 2
1st quarter - BOS +11
2nd quarter - NYK +2
3rd quarter - BOS +3
4th quarter - NYK +13

Game 3
1st quarter - BOS +16
2nd quarter - BOS +9
3rd quarter - BOS +1
4th quarter - NYK +4

OG already had a big game, Hart in game 2, back to back 21 pt game from KAT. Brunson will bring his 25 pts.
It’s time for Bridges to get hot, not necessarily 30 pts but they will need about 23 from him.
Maybe McBride hit 3-4 crucial 3’s, OG rediscover his touch with 16.

Post #18 » by **Capn'O** » Mon May 12, 2025 7:34 pm

Moose wrote:I see this as a must win for the Knicks if they want to take the series.

Agreed. Winner of this game likely takes the series. Tied series is a clear momentum shift back to Boston.

ArksNetsSince99 · Post #19 » by **ArksNetsSince99** » Mon May 12, 2025 7:34 pm

LFGK wrote:
mademan wrote:Boston wins by 20+ today and it comes back 2-2 with the C's as big favs to end it in 6.

3 games in and 3 games of 20+ 2nd half leads. That it is 2-1 for the Knicks is insane as is...i dont have them winning another game this series.

Mademan is right , you know ?

hugepatsfan · Post #20 » by **hugepatsfan** » Mon May 12, 2025 7:39 pm

This will be the 8th matchup between these two teams this year, In the first 7 matchups, Celtics built a 20+ point lead in 6 of them. I know regular season =/= postseason and certain guys were out for certain matchups, but there's a trend there.

It's hard for to see the logic anyone would have in picking NYK for any individual game at this point really. I don't see how anyone could have any on court reason for picking them in a game. BUT game to game results don't always follow the on paper logic and by virtue of going up 2-0 they basically gave BOS no margin for error in this series.

So I'm going to keep picking BOS for each individual game on paper but teams win games that they "should" lose on paper all the time so based on that 2-0 lead I still think NYK takes the series.

Who wins Game 4?