2023 East Semifinals | (5) New York Knicks VS (8) Miami Heat (MIA leads 3-2)

[Lilseb93]

Tru, but Boston and Philly both got better and have more depth this year as well. If miami continues this clutch shot making they will make it a series but if Philly or for more of the matter Boston claps down on them it may get challenging especially with no herro to alleviate the pressure(unless he comes back of course).

I do agree though that Miami's shooters aren't reliable and playing this poorly can definitely backfire against the better teams. There is just something about this team that just defies stats and paper. I thought this Heat team was terrible and I wanted them to blow it up at some point this season and now they are 1 game from the ECF. I don't know **** I guess.

It's truly incredible. Everyone was calling them done in the play in game against the hawks. To see the turn around they have had after is almost something I never seen before.

The thing that didn't make sense to Miami fans is that they had basically the same roster as last year minus PJ and the 3 point shooting just completely collapsed. They went from one of the best in 3 point shooting to one of the worst if not the worst with the same shooters. It didn't make sense. We knew size was going to be an issue as always but we didn't expect the offense to be that bad all year. I guess the laws of average have taken 82+ games to finally catch up offensively.

It does help to have Jimmy though. Overall, the Heat has a quality coach, system, and foundation that players buy into where you can beat better teams just with execution and hustle.

[Upperclass]

Knicks are ass lol Jimmy literally coasted the entire game

Lol he really was

[daviddpc]

Only 9 more wins for a championship. Hope its GS or LA we will have Home court advantage...

Task at hand bro

Miami home court advantage in the finals??? There the 8th seed. Wouldn't they start on the road?

Not if GS or LA Go to the finals we have a better record than the LA and wer're tie with GS but, we won our division.

[JujitsuFlip]

Silver already got the "extender" on speed dial

BAW GAHWD THAT'S SCAHTT FAWHSTERZ MUZIK!

[heatlejuice]

Task at hand bro!

Miami home court advantage in the finals??? There the 8th seed. Wouldn't they start on the road?

Seeding doesn’t matter in the Finals. Record and tie breakers will. Heat have better record than Lakers and tied with Warriors. Not sure what the tie breaker is with them.

Heat win tie breaker with Warriors

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Complaining about the refs but you got absolutely bodied on the boards and Brunson can literally just travel his ass off all game.

This series was never in doubt, we have the 2 best and easily most impactful players in the series and the best coach in the league. You can’t teach things like that.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Brunson is literally just Raymond Felton with a Harden whistle and Lukas phone number.

[B_Creamy]

You aren't wrong but that's what they always do. Win grind out ugly games. They played poorly on offense against Boston last year and they were still a shot away from the FInals.

Tru, but Boston and Philly both got better and have more depth this year as well. If miami continues this clutch shot making they will make it a series but if Philly or for more of the matter Boston claps down on them it may get challenging especially with no herro to alleviate the pressure(unless he comes back of course).

I do agree though that Miami's shooters aren't reliable and playing this poorly can definitely backfire against the better teams. There is just something about this team that just defies stats and paper. I thought this Heat team was terrible and I wanted them to blow it up at some point this season and now they are 1 game from the ECF. I don't know **** I guess.

Nah bro. I can assure you they looked like utter trash MANY times this regular season. This is a complete fluke/miracle.

[rate_]

Rude awakening: Miami Heat =/= Cleveland Cavaliers

[joeschmo]

Gonna go lurk in the knicks board, cuz there aint any here anymore lol

[iamoti]

Rude awakening: Miami Heat =/= Cleveland Cavaliers

but but but they said we are gonna be destroyed on the boards because they owned the Cavs?

but but but they said if they beat the Cavs in 5 Miami would be a cakewalk?

whats happening?

[AlCelticFan]

I'm so glad my Celtics haven't ran into the Heat so far. You know they're always going to execute so well, and play so hard, that even if you win the series, they don't make it easy.

[JujitsuFlip]

Rude awakening: Miami Heat =/= Cleveland Cavaliers

But I was told the Knicks won the regular season series against the Heat LOL

[Lilseb93]

Knick fans can bitch and moan all they want but there is no excuse to get outrebounded by a small Heat team and allow your bench to get completely outscored by the Heat. The biggest reason this series is 3-1 (could have easily been a sweep) is Miami's bench production is destroying the Knicks' bench. Jimmy hasn't needed to be Superman like in the Bucks series.

[Heat3]

Heat 0-8 from 3pt in 4th qtr but Knicks couldn’t be bothered to hustle for a rebound. Easier to blame the refs.

Hear clearly out hustles us no question about it! But after you miss all then shots and we grab a board... Foul... I'm the last 5 minutes the Knicks got hit with a lot of fouls that just weren't there. All I could do was laugh it was so blatantly wrong.

In the last 5 minutes Knicks got called for 4 fouls and Heat for 3.

One Knicks foul was a charge. 2 were intentional in the final minute of the game to stop the clock.

[iamoti]

oh i forgot the take where the Knicks had 6 of the best 8 players in this series

Miami bench this game 32 with Duncan shooting 1-8 )
Knicks bench 10

[Lilseb93]

Tru, but Boston and Philly both got better and have more depth this year as well. If miami continues this clutch shot making they will make it a series but if Philly or for more of the matter Boston claps down on them it may get challenging especially with no herro to alleviate the pressure(unless he comes back of course).

I do agree though that Miami's shooters aren't reliable and playing this poorly can definitely backfire against the better teams. There is just something about this team that just defies stats and paper. I thought this Heat team was terrible and I wanted them to blow it up at some point this season and now they are 1 game from the ECF. I don't know **** I guess.

Nah bro. I can assure you they looked like utter trash MANY times this regular season. This is a complete fluke/miracle.

Yah. In hindsight, I can see why people aren't surprised when they say we have arguably the best coach in the league right now with a great system of execution on offense and defense with Playoff Jimmy, but to beat the Bucks in 5 and be 3-1 up on the Knicks after watching this team be trash all year, I don't get it. This team looked incapable of doing anything right for most of the year. That same team is 1 game from the ECF.

[El Alonzo scowl]

The KnicksFix wrote:
game 1: knicks win , heat fans " not scared, just game 1, spo will adjust"
game 2: knicks win, heat fans " they were supposed to win both, we just need to protect home court"
game 3: heat win, jimmy goes off, heat fans "told you we would adjust, knicks can't stop jimmy at home"
game 4: knicks win, heat fans "we were uddermanned, knicks get all the calls"
game 5: knick win closeout, heat fans "well what did they expect, we were playing 2 guys down, they would never beat us if evenly matched"

talk that talk after game 5, keep that energy bro

LOLOL anyone seen this guy???

THEY SCARED NOW

[Jmonty580]

Heat 0-8 from 3pt in 4th qtr but Knicks couldn’t be bothered to hustle for a rebound. Easier to blame the refs.

Hear clearly out hustles us no question about it! But after you miss all then shots and we grab a board... Foul... I'm the last 5 minutes the Knicks got hit with a lot of fouls that just weren't there. All I could do was laugh it was so blatantly wrong.

In the last 5 minutes Knicks got called for 4 fouls and Heat for 3.

One Knicks foul was a charge. 2 were intentional in the final minute of the game to stop the clock.

That charge was questionable imo, if it was Jimmy it would be blocking no question. Also there was a phantom rebounding foul around then as well as a fool on Hart when he was too far away to touch anyone or the ball. Then bam runs into the back of brunson who wasn't moving and goes to the line. Also all those fouls were on Knicks key players. I think the only heat player in foul trouble at that point was Zeller with 4 fouls. When they Knicks got to the line we were using picking ourselves up off of the ground too.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Heat started the 4th 1-30 from the field and the Knicks answered by doing the same. This loss is in the players for being trash.

We won like 7-8 straight quarters, just outplaying them every step of the way. Series hasn’t been close at all