New York Vs. New Jersey First Round Playoff Series

Game1: NY 100 & NJ 75
Game2: NY 99 & NJ 67
Game3: NY 123 & NJ 65
Game4: NY 92 & NJ 85 (They played really hard in game4)

New York sweeps the first round playoff series.

NJN Vs. NYK First Round

Game 1:Nets will come into this round thinking, lets just go to sleep until weve passed this POS team, While were taking advantage of that. Steller 20 and 12 performance by Starbury, and TT puts up 30 for us. New York Wins 90-75

Game 2:Nets will try to play us, maching our intesity of last game in this round, but still find that the knicks can crank it up higher. Nazr: 12p 13r, Steph 30p,10a, TT 21p. New York Wins 99-97

Game 3: Nets Realize they are down 2-0 against the 7th seed, so they play like they would play in the last game of the finals. Nets win 97-86.

Game 4:Nets, fatugied from last game, come in here and sleep thw whole game Knicks win this one to pull the KNnicks ahaed 3-1

Nets win Game 5

Here it is ..:::Game Six::.. Knicks win this one in a blowout 90-76. NYK shows the intesity of past years as they pull away from the defending Eastern Conference Champions, 4-2!!!

We do match up well with the Nets.

Marbury and Kidd is an even battle and Marbury will outscore and out assist Kidd by a small margin just because he dominates the ball more.

TT is athletic enough to stay with Jefferson, he just needs help when Jefferson is uses his quickness to go past him.

KT can play good D on Martin, and all you really have to do is box him out, Kmart has no post game.

If Houston comes back we have a huge advantage at SG against Kittles. And at C we are much much better as all 3 of our C's are better then their scrubs.

The way I see interrior D will be the biggest thing that will decide the series. I say start Deke against the Nets because Collins is a good matchup for him and we will have the inside defensive presence necessary to stop the Net layup drill that happened the last game. Remember Deke had 10 blocks against the Nets in that game we lost in the 4th at home, but then we had no Marbury to matchup with Kidd woh basically took the game over all by himself, and Houston was too tired to conintue to carry us so we could not score and just ran out of gas. Put Marbury and TT who usually is still fresh in the 4th on that team with Deke negating any kind of paint scoring for the Nets and we win that game in a blowout before the 4th even starts.

Its Sweetney's rookie season, if he has to play minor minutes in the playoffs it won't take away from the great season that he had with us. Plus, why do you hate the Baker signing? Baker has won games for us with his clutch shots. He is exactly what we need right now.

Posted by jazz74:

okay, now we are getting a little too happy. i love the optimism and enthusiasm but after the spanking the nets delivered on us last week i do not know why some people are confident we can beat them. not to mention jason kidd and k-mart will be back. i think it will be a good series and the nets are beatable. my heart says we beat them but my mind says that we are going against the two time eastern conference champions with probably one of the best clutch playoff player in the game today in kidd. its saying nets in six.

I agree. I would've felt differently had we won that game instead of being embarrassed. As far as who should sit more, it would problably be between Baker/Sweetney. Depends on the matchups.

The nice thing about playing the Nets is there is a matchup that works for Deke. Deke can guard Collins without worrying about having to run around the perimiter to guard him. Match Deke up with Jermaine O'neal or the other teams that play a bit smaller and you are asking for trouble.

Who am I kidding, I know I will be glued to the TV when the playoff starts, no matter how good or bad they do. Yes, it's nice to be back. I hope they can work on developing some better chemistry in the next three games before the playoff.

BTW, I found that therapy place (Water & Sports Therapy Institute) that Houston is at, is about 10 minutes from my work place. I'm thinking sneak in there and give him some "inspiration" talk, who has some prep speech I can borrow?

Posted by NYK4:

guys, do u think the knicks will wear black shoes and shave thier heads like the knicks of the 90's? they always did in the playoffs...of course back then ewing refused to shave his head. hAHAHAHAHA.. what would be hot would be a black knicks jersey with blue trim on the sides....i would buy that in a hot minute

i dont think they would do that because they dont really believe they are going anywhere. theyd look pretty dumb shaving their heads and then going out in first round