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

Post#1 » by bisme37 » Tue May 27, 2025 4:09 pm

Game 4: Tuesday May 27, 8pm ET on TNT

Enjoy the big game, you guys.

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Post#2 » by Castle Black » Tue May 27, 2025 4:13 pm

Teams that win Games 1 & 2 on the road have never lost that Playoff series. Pacers better win tonight or they might be the first.

That said, Pacers haven’t lost back-to-back home games since December 8th, when they were 10-15. Just throwing that out there.
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Post#3 » by SpurNani » Tue May 27, 2025 4:13 pm

Does Thibs continue to go to the bench or does he stubbornly go back to playing starters 40 minutes if no foul trouble
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Post#4 » by Castle Black » Tue May 27, 2025 4:16 pm

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Post#5 » by UcanUwill » Tue May 27, 2025 4:17 pm

Random, but I think Jalen Brunson kinda looks like the predator, you know, the alien from hit Predator series. The fact he grew braids didn't help. I also think him and Jaylin Williams (the other one from OKC) look alike, just different size categories.
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Post#6 » by Big FatKAT » Tue May 27, 2025 4:37 pm

UcanUwill wrote:Random, but I think Jalen Brunson kinda looks like the predator, you know, the alien from hit Predator series. The fact he grew braids didn't help. I also think him and Jaylin Williams (the other one from OKC) look alike, just different size categories.

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Post#7 » by TrentTuckerRule » Tue May 27, 2025 4:58 pm

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Post#8 » by Mikistan » Tue May 27, 2025 5:12 pm

Go team!
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Post#9 » by durden_tyler » Tue May 27, 2025 5:16 pm

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Post#10 » by God Squad » Tue May 27, 2025 5:27 pm

IMO the Knicks defense locked the F in for game 3. They have the personnel to do it again, but we'll see.
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Post#11 » by cgf » Tue May 27, 2025 5:43 pm

LFGK wrote: for sure but this last game did raise an interesting new wrinkle of having 4 plus defenders with one of KAT/Brunson in with them and that can work for some stretches of the game.


That isn’t really new. Thibs has staggered Brunson & Towns’ rest all season. It’s the combinations for those staggered lineups that Thibs has had to experiment with. But we’ve seen either one + 4 defenders all year.
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Post#12 » by GiannisAnte34 » Tue May 27, 2025 6:06 pm

Think game 3 was the “backs against the wall” desperation game for New York and now the urgency will be back on the minds of Pacers
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Post#13 » by xBulletproof » Tue May 27, 2025 6:08 pm

Haliburton and everyone went all out for the arrival of the man Knicks fans were throwing trash at.


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Post#14 » by bronxknicksfan1 » Tue May 27, 2025 6:32 pm

xBulletproof wrote:Haliburton and everyone went all out for the arrival of the man Knicks fans were throwing trash at.


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I’ll say one thing. I hope the energy is the same for this Pacers fan as it was for the Knicks fans.
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Post#15 » by Tnasty4l » Tue May 27, 2025 6:45 pm

UcanUwill wrote:Random, but I think Jalen Brunson kinda looks like the predator, you know, the alien from hit Predator series. The fact he grew braids didn't help. I also think him and Jaylin Williams (the other one from OKC) look alike, just different size categories.

Too me he looks like the cartoon character Droopy with those bags under his eyes.
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Post#16 » by Capn'O » Tue May 27, 2025 6:45 pm

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Post#17 » by Nuntius » Tue May 27, 2025 6:57 pm

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xBulletproof wrote:Haliburton and everyone went all out for the arrival of the man Knicks fans were throwing trash at.


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I’ll say one thing. I hope the energy is the same for this Pacers fan as it was for the Knicks fans.


What the ****? He stabbed them? Send his ass in prison.

Also, what do you mean "I hope the energy is the same"? Did you seriously expect people to defend assault with a deadly weapon because a small percentage of Knicks fans justified the trash bag assault?
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Post#18 » by bronxknicksfan1 » Tue May 27, 2025 7:16 pm

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bronxknicksfan1 wrote:
xBulletproof wrote:Haliburton and everyone went all out for the arrival of the man Knicks fans were throwing trash at.


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I’ll say one thing. I hope the energy is the same for this Pacers fan as it was for the Knicks fans.


What the ****? He stabbed them? Send his ass in prison.

Also, what do you mean "I hope the energy is the same"? Did you seriously expect people to defend assault with a deadly weapon because a small percentage of Knicks fans justified the trash bag assault?


You’re right. The energy should be even louder here. I expect pages in this thread disparaging this fan like many in here were doing to Knicks fans over the trash bag.
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Post#19 » by xBulletproof » Tue May 27, 2025 7:34 pm

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I’ll say one thing. I hope the energy is the same for this Pacers fan as it was for the Knicks fans.


What the ****? He stabbed them? Send his ass in prison.

Also, what do you mean "I hope the energy is the same"? Did you seriously expect people to defend assault with a deadly weapon because a small percentage of Knicks fans justified the trash bag assault?


You’re right. The energy should be even louder here. I expect pages in this thread disparaging this fan like many in here were doing to Knicks fans over the trash bag.


I mean, there's going to be less conversation because nobody is going to defend it. There's no back and forth needed.

There will be several felonies. And he's double screwed, he's in Carmel. It's the rich area outside of the city, not really the best area to do that ****
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Post#20 » by Capn'O » Tue May 27, 2025 7:50 pm

There were some people on the board extrapolating what the trash bag fans did to the fanbase generally but those weren't the board's Pacer fans.

Frankly, I'm beginning to find your politeness unsettling, Pacer fans. Are you really who you say you are? Like, if there was an alien invasion in Indianapolis... who would know? There's the Reggie looking like an alien connection. Then we've got Nuntius who somehow found the Pacers from "overseas."



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