Synciere wrote:I’ve been a Knicks fans since 1989. My early years my immigrant African parents believed TV was literally the devil and didn’t let me watch, but my father loved ball, and he would sneak around my mother and watch games with me. I grew up loving the Knicks because Jordan notwithstanding, we were good. Then Ewing got old and we went through basically two decades where we were only good two or three years. Watching this team and being on this board is somewhat surreal to me. We’re a very good team right now. Maybe we’re not true contenders yet, but we’ve made excellent moves the past five years. Us complaining about Thibs, minutes, or losses to good to great teams is what my family would call ‘First-World Problems.’ I remember the terrible years with guys like Ared Effries and Jerome James on long term deals. We’re literally complaining about a 3-seed team. First World Problems.
Watching this game, even without our best player, each starter was over 50% from 3. Hart with another almost triple double. OG playing the best basketball of his career. For all the complaints about Thibs, he’s actually been very good developing our players into impact players. Even the minutes argument doesn’t hold water this game. Maybe Thibs is actually listening to Mikal. Maybe not.
I simply can’t find the will to complain about any aspect of our team right now. We’re still a move or two away, but this is the right of passage for most teams to gain a championship. This iteration of the Celtics went to the Conference Finals something six straight years. We have to go through this in the playoffs to see where we’re at. These regular season games aren’t the barometer, so I post less during the season bc it’s the playoffs where we will make our bones.
This Brunson injury might end up being a blessing in disguise. Wright has been good. And he’s big enough to still play next to Jalen when he returns. We’re deeper than we think, which means come the offseason we’ll be able consolidate a little bit without being gutted. Maybe we don’t get a Durant, but there are always smaller deals/ways to get it done. No one predicted we’d get OG. Mikal was always on the radar bc thank god the Nets are/were basura. I’m looking forward to the playoffs.
This was a nice, solid win against a team we should beat. We can’t let go of our true perspective.
Hooray for your dad - yeah TV isn’t the devil. Glad your parents moved here, though. Great post!
