GrandTheftRondo wrote:Triple7 wrote:GrandTheftRondo wrote:The Heat were scrappy but also incredibly smart and have been for a number of years. Thibs isn’t the coach that Spo is.
Brunson has never given us major problems and to say the Knicks have better players simply isn’t true. Give me Bam over anyone on the Knicks outside of Brunson and their bench right now is non-existent.
Knicks are a nice story and all but remind me very much of that Celtics team we had with IT which was eventually going to come up against a ridiculous talent gulf.
They are also going to be far more fatigued due to all the heavy minutes they are playing.
I give you bam, after that? Who else was on that squad? Bunch of overachievers brcause of Spo’s system. I’ll take
Divincenzo, hart, OG and hartenstein over strus, duncan robinson, gabe vincent and caleb martin. We have a better squad this year. This squad would easily beat the heat of last year. Also, i agree thibs would run his squad to the ground before this series ends. Hoping the pacers can take them to a least 6.
OG is better than those Heat guys yes but the other guys are all fairly similar to me. Role players doing well within systems.
I just don’t think the Knicks are as good the Heat were. The Butler Heat have sent the Bucks packing twice (albeit they did get lucky with Giannis missing games).
The Heat’s system has been on another level.
Butler has given us fits in games. Bam has given us problems at times. These two know how to maximise the role players around them.
Plus last season was a different Celtics team. They had a major flaw which got exposed. I don’t think we have nearly the same difficulty dispatching last seasons Heat with this one because we are far more loaded and have different ways to score.
There is a huge gulf between our talent and the Knicks right now. Far bigger than anything last season. They also are completely devoid of a bench.
I’m just very confident in my assertion that Spo is an excellent coach who had completely dialled in on how to make Tatum and Brown play down a level because he knew we lacked a big presence. Not the same anymore and I don’t see Thibs having answers for our threats.
They lack talent. All they have was Butler’s mentality, Bam and Spo. We have a better team this year. We should beat the knicks handily. We just can’t let the game be close in the 4th. Especially with the way JT is playing and missing shots, and with the way Brunson is making shots.