2024 NBA Playoffs: East Semifinals: #2 New York Knicks vs #6 Indiana Pacers (IND WINS 4-3)

[dautjazz]

Whatever happens, hats off to Brunson, game 7 with all these injuries.

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[Butch718]

The Last Game 7 in the Garden. 27 years ago.

Guess What?

Spoiler:

The Pacers Won!

I don’t care to relive that awful missed ringer roll by Ewing.

[Hoop Hunter]

The Last Game 7 in the Garden. 27 years ago.

Guess What?

Spoiler:

The Pacers Won!

I don’t care to relive that awful missed ringer roll by Ewing.

Couldn't have hurt worse than "the 4 point play".

[Sign5]

Also is OG gonna play? Or is this fool just gonna keep getting injured while still expecting $40m in the off-season?

His impact is undeniable, we all know dude is getting paid despite being injury prone.

[Butch718]

The Last Game 7 in the Garden. 27 years ago.

Guess What?

Spoiler:

The Pacers Won!

I don’t care to relive that awful missed ringer roll by Ewing.

Couldn't have hurt worse than "the 4 point play".

Not a foul by Antonio, but I’ll take it.

[Butch718]

Also is OG gonna play? Or is this fool just gonna keep getting injured while still expecting $40m in the off-season?

His impact is undeniable, we all know dude is getting paid despite being very injury prone.

Knicks will pay him. He’s such a huge difference maker when he’s on the court. Knicks win at a very high percentage when he’s playing. He can matchup against any wing in the league defensively, and can hit those corner 3s at a good clip. I expect Knicks to take it to the next level next season with a few tweaks to their roster.

[jkvonny]

The last game 7 at MSG between Pacers/Knicks. 1995
EC SemiFinals.

Pacers won.
Advanced to ECF to face the Orlando Magic.

Watch on YouTube

[bronxknicksfan1]

The fact you guys made it this far with all the injuries is a credit to Thibs... now the reason why you guys have most of these injuries are also due to Thibs lol

Randle - taken out by Jaquez
Mitch - taken out by Embiid
Bojan - taken out by Batum

The only one you have argue is OG

You can also add Hart to the list. Brunson has been dealing with his foot

Also, Randle was in a game where he should have been taken out. It's just repeated instances of overplaying guys when he didn't have to. Oh and Derrick Rose also suffered his injury playing in meaningless minutes.

Hart got hit in the ribs. Should he have tried to play through it? Probably not. But the way he got hurt, not Thibs’ fault.

Brunson’s foot doesn’t have anything to do with his minutes. Injuries happen and he’s not going to sit out in the playoffs.

Randle was in a game where both teams had starters in with 4:28 left in a 17 point game. In today’s NBA, starters aren’t taken out at that point.

At this point, it’s a narrative that people will stick to about Thibs. He’s playing a 7 man rotation right now because he lost 3 starters and another rotation piece. There wasn’t an issue with minutes distribution when everyone was healthy and we were running an 8-9 man rotation. It’s the playoffs now, the best players play for every team. Kyrie and Luka average as many minutes as Brunson rn, nobody is coming with the narrative about Kidd.

[IMF]

The last game 7 at MSG between Pacers/Knicks.
EC SemiFinals.

Pacers won.
Advanced to ECF to face the Orlando Magic.

Watch on YouTube

That series also went to game 7.

I was a 10 year old kid who owned Shaq’s rap album on tape, I threw it in the trash when we lost that game 7 to the Magic, I was so mad. Not a great loss (that tape) in hindsight

[One Last Shot]

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[Hello Brooklyn]

Randle - taken out by Jaquez
Mitch - taken out by Embiid
Bojan - taken out by Batum

The only one you have argue is OG

You can also add Hart to the list. Brunson has been dealing with his foot

Also, Randle was in a game where he should have been taken out. It's just repeated instances of overplaying guys when he didn't have to. Oh and Derrick Rose also suffered his injury playing in meaningless minutes.

Hart got hit in the ribs. Should he have tried to play through it? Probably not. But the way he got hurt, not Thibs’ fault.

Brunson’s foot doesn’t have anything to do with his minutes. Injuries happen and he’s not going to sit out in the playoffs.

Randle was in a game where both teams had starters in with 4:28 left in a 17 point game. In today’s NBA, starters aren’t taken out at that point.

At this point, it’s a narrative that people will stick to about Thibs. He’s playing a 7 man rotation right now because he lost 3 starters and another rotation piece. There wasn’t an issue with minutes distribution when everyone was healthy and we were running an 8-9 man rotation. It’s the playoffs now, the best players play for every team. Kyrie and Luka average as many minutes as Brunson rn, nobody is coming with the narrative about Kidd.

LOL believe what you want. Its not a coincidence that Thibs teams always get hurt.

Bruson and OG injury def have to do with minutes.

[metalinguss]

Thibs just never learned his lesson with what happened to DRose.

[bronxknicksfan1]

You can also add Hart to the list. Brunson has been dealing with his foot

Also, Randle was in a game where he should have been taken out. It's just repeated instances of overplaying guys when he didn't have to. Oh and Derrick Rose also suffered his injury playing in meaningless minutes.

Hart got hit in the ribs. Should he have tried to play through it? Probably not. But the way he got hurt, not Thibs’ fault.

Brunson’s foot doesn’t have anything to do with his minutes. Injuries happen and he’s not going to sit out in the playoffs.

Randle was in a game where both teams had starters in with 4:28 left in a 17 point game. In today’s NBA, starters aren’t taken out at that point.

At this point, it’s a narrative that people will stick to about Thibs. He’s playing a 7 man rotation right now because he lost 3 starters and another rotation piece. There wasn’t an issue with minutes distribution when everyone was healthy and we were running an 8-9 man rotation. It’s the playoffs now, the best players play for every team. Kyrie and Luka average as many minutes as Brunson rn, nobody is coming with the narrative about Kidd.

LOL believe what you want. Its not a coincidence that Thibs teams always get hurt.

Bruson and OG injury def have to do with minutes.

And you can believe what you want. Again, it’s following a narrative that isn’t true. This is the most injuries this team has faced in Thibs’ tenure here.

Last postseason, the only injured player was Randle, who turned his ankle on Bam’s foot. Freak accident.

The one before that, the only injured player was Robinson. Known injury prone player who was averaging 27 min a game that year.

Won’t argue OG’s injury being related to minutes related. But everyone else? Not so much.

[Oscirus]

It's time to talk about the effectiveness of this approach with winning a championship. Yea he gets a lot of regular season wins, but his teams are **** up by the time they reach the conference semifinals/finals and aren't as effective. He really needs someone to keep his worst instincts in check

[itrsteve]

It's time to talk about the effectiveness of this approach with winning a championship. Yea he gets a lot of regular season wins, but his teams are **** up by the time they reach the conference semifinals/finals and aren't as effective. He really needs someone to keep his worst instincts in check

Yeah but what’s he suppose to do, not win regular season games? Loaf around and hope that you can blaze through the play in?

You gotta get your team in position to punch their ticket to the playoffs and let the chips fall where they may. Let’s assume this is the end of the road for NYK (which I’m not). They’ve already won 7 of 16 games needed for a championship. That’s progress, big progress.

[Mr_Mojo_Risin]

The whole next man up thing with the Knicks with each person stepping up should indicate that Thibs should trust those players to play minutes off the bench in the first place and reduce the load. If he does that more, then maybe you don’t need so many next man up scenarios.

Sure not every injury is related, but there has been a trend with his teams.

[Oscirus]

It's time to talk about the effectiveness of this approach with winning a championship. Yea he gets a lot of regular season wins, but his teams are **** up by the time they reach the conference semifinals/finals and aren't as effective. He really needs someone to keep his worst instincts in check

Yeah but what’s he suppose to do, not win regular season games? Loaf around and hope that you can blaze through the play in?

You gotta get your team in position to punch their ticket to the playoffs and let the chips fall where they may. Let’s assume this is the end of the road for NYK (which I’m not). They’ve already won 7 of 16 games needed for a championship. That’s progress, big progress.

Reduce their load so they're not worn the **** out by the ECF. The First Thibs has ever made it is the ECF, and Thibs ain't a bad coach, but there's a reason for that. If you can't even make it to the finals, what's the point?

[itrsteve]

It's time to talk about the effectiveness of this approach with winning a championship. Yea he gets a lot of regular season wins, but his teams are **** up by the time they reach the conference semifinals/finals and aren't as effective. He really needs someone to keep his worst instincts in check

Yeah but what’s he suppose to do, not win regular season games? Loaf around and hope that you can blaze through the play in?

You gotta get your team in position to punch their ticket to the playoffs and let the chips fall where they may. Let’s assume this is the end of the road for NYK (which I’m not). They’ve already won 7 of 16 games needed for a championship. That’s progress, big progress.

Reduce their load so they're not worn the **** out by the ECF. The First Thibs has ever made it is the ECF, and Thibs ain't a bad coach, but there's a reason for that. If you can't even make it to the finals, what's the point?

Or play a bunch of deep bench guys and not make it out of the first round against Philly?

In his shoes I’d do the same. There’s no magical minute meter which you must stay below or nothing bad happens. This team caught fire at the right time and he had a duty to run with it

[tsherkin]

Whatever happens, hats off to Brunson, game 7 with all these injuries.

This has been a fun series, regardless of the outcome. And Brunson, G6 first half notwithstanding, has been very impressive. The Knicks in general getting this far with all the injuries they've faced has been quite impressive. That they have a shot at advancing is even crazier.

[LordCovington33]

Whatever happens, hats off to Brunson, game 7 with all these injuries.

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Jalen Brunson and Anthony Edwards have been the best two players in the playoffs so far.