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

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Who wins Game 3?

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Re: 2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 2-0) 

Post#342 » by scrabbarista » Mon May 26, 2025 1:11 am

djsunyc wrote:playoffs expose everything. for however great brunson and kat are on offense, they are equally as bad on defense. thibs has to devise an entire defensive system to hide and protect them. the knicks defense is unable to expose anything on indy because those 2 are really bad.


And to give those two bad defenders any chance on that end, you have to at least keep them fresh, which Thibs will never do.

Well, Brunson, anyway.
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Post#343 » by YogurtProducer » Mon May 26, 2025 1:11 am

Indianas defence has been so much better than expected
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Post#344 » by ___Rand___ » Mon May 26, 2025 1:11 am

Knicks are going to need a sports psychologist this summer to get over the choke job. They need to work on mental aspect of their game right now.
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Post#345 » by Nuntius » Mon May 26, 2025 1:11 am

Not a great foul there by Sheppard but I do admire the aggressiveness to go after what could potentially be a 50/50 ball.
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Post#346 » by Mamba81p » Mon May 26, 2025 1:11 am

If Bradley makes 3s Indiana can bench turner lol
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Post#347 » by durden_tyler » Mon May 26, 2025 1:11 am

Handlez wrote:So Haliburton whines about every call now.

He has every right to do whatever the F he wants— a true clutch time performer and a real underrated leader and game manager.


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Post#348 » by jokeboy86 » Mon May 26, 2025 1:11 am

Stone wrote:This is nothing like the last two games. The Knicks are falling apart. Do they have an answer?


Yes send Spike Lee and every celebrity Knicks fan to Giannis’s house and convince him to come to NY next year
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Post#349 » by Wargreymon » Mon May 26, 2025 1:11 am

EastonEddy wrote:Knicks look like a lottery team

I think they owe all their picks to the Nets for the Bridges trade?
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Post#350 » by GiannisAnte34 » Mon May 26, 2025 1:12 am

The Bucks not looking so bad now. All they needed was Dame as a decoy to take a game, too bad he got hurt immediately after that nice g3
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Post#351 » by knicksfan974 » Mon May 26, 2025 1:12 am

Woodsanity wrote:
ibraheim718 wrote:
Woodsanity wrote:Thibs is such a mediocre coach cant wait for him to be faired


That's not going to turn Jalen Brunson and Karl Towns into an average defenders unfortunately.

Would have been better off not trading for towns. :noway:


Dude still All-NBA. The whole team looks shook now.
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Post#352 » by Appleshampoo » Mon May 26, 2025 1:12 am

objectively ask yourselves if Nemhard is not hitting Brunson the same way the entire series
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Post#353 » by CelticSooner » Mon May 26, 2025 1:12 am

jokeboy86 wrote:Pistons and Celtics have to be kicking themselves. Both of them blew some games against the Knicks.

C’s weren’t beating this Pacers team with a one legged Brown and zombie KP.
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Post#354 » by ___Rand___ » Mon May 26, 2025 1:12 am

Brunson... oh Brunson.
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Post#355 » by Airmiess » Mon May 26, 2025 1:12 am

If this was happening with the Raptors fans would be jumping off buildings...
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Post#356 » by RookieStar » Mon May 26, 2025 1:12 am

Lol... every time i skip/watch something else rather than the game, IND goes on a run but if i do watch it, NYK takes a lead. Weird
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Post#357 » by Bergmaniac » Mon May 26, 2025 1:13 am

Brunson is pulling a KAT today, another dumb foul.
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Post#358 » by Mamba81p » Mon May 26, 2025 1:13 am

Brunson checked out. He sucked all game
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Post#359 » by Nuntius » Mon May 26, 2025 1:13 am

___Rand___ wrote:Knicks are going to need a sports psychologist this summer to get over the choke job. They need to work on mental aspect of their game right now.


The Pacers actually hired a sports psychologist after last year's playoffs. She worked wonders as evidenced by our comebacks in this year's playoffs.
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Re: 2025 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: #3 New York Knicks vs #4 Indiana Pacers (IND leads 2-0) 

Post#360 » by JDR720 » Mon May 26, 2025 1:13 am

Knicks put all their energy into beating the Celtics, they're running on empty against a fast paced team like Indy.

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