Cavs are good. Not great.
Matchups matter. Raptors gave them a good scare and they survived.
They beat a good not great Piston team. In the age of parity there are not any great teams. Even OKC. They are the champs and credit is theirs. That SAS is this good is they have the Alien. HE scares me more then OKC's depth!
The age of parity excludes the 3x star roster construction. Now it needs more depth/role players. Leon figure it out. Giannis trade value will be interesting. Who gets him and whats left.
Knicks? Thibs was exiled becuase he had yet to get out what we are seeing the last few weeks. Took Brown a full season! This is not easy. These guys are playing brilliantly! The hate, doubt, what ever was warranted until proven otherwise. Yes many including some of us are eating crow.
Cavs played really well last night. Large parts of the game were back and forth. Still were defeated. We making them look confused on defense.
Jose hate? He is a set up guy. He is a pace changer. His role does not always look good but its about what he brings. Maybe he deilvers what comes before the knock out punch. Knicks remind me of some Giants teams that would wear down opponents then deliver the blow in the 4th. Its the whole body of work and its historical domination thru the east.
The west has had a better line up of teams clustered at the top and why SAS and OKC might be seen as favorites. Their records showed it. The east was deeper. Knicks are getting all kinds of media love because they are earning it now. They are plowing thru the conference not like a 53 win team. One more than Clev! Funny, the biggest homer this year was Dolan who had a Win or bust attitude as perhaps he and the FO understood the talent was there but getting them to play to it as a group was another story.
They figured it out.
few of us other than life long homers with no conscience like NYMentality truly believed. Why should we? There was no evidence this knid of run could occur.
I don't know what the future holds for the knicks other than im enjoying the journey. I have been on record all year as Pano's like to say "Policing". In other words its ok to be an idiot becasue we are fanatics. Thats a personal decision, but My point was not all seasons end as hoped. Last few years when team went further and further it was a joy.....At 3-0 unless karma has a historical collapse or Cav's surge we should prevail to the finals. Do it with health while others get banged up? Do I dare say the Gods/Silver would smile upon us?
Only in hindsight! LOL
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