word14
Earlier this year
The Indiana Pacers 130-109 win over the New York Knicks sets up a Boston vs Indiana Eastern Conference Finals Series. Who have we got winning? My heart says Indiana but my head says Boston should get it done fairly comfortably
Another Anon
Earlier this year
Fair play to Pacers but they barely got past 2 injury riddled teams.
Boston in 5, potentially sweep.
Isaac
Earlier this year
Looking at the Knicks' regular season scorers and their injury list and it almost lines up.
Brunson, 28.7 PPG, day-to-day
Randle, 24.0 PPG, out
Anunoby, 14.1 PPG, out
Bogdanovic, 10.4 PPG, out
Robinson, 8.5 RPG, out
And Hart playing injured.
DeepWombat
Earlier this year
The Knicks might challenge the Celtics next season, if their key players can recover from injury over a sustained period and they keep improving their roster.
Cram
Earlier this year
Knicks did incredible considering their lack of health. Brunson has just gone next level.
If they can come back with the same roster next season.
They're gonna have to pay to keep Hartenstein which may be difficult. They'll probably have to move Robinson and/or Randle to do it.
Burks has done enough to get someone to give him a decent deal too, maybe a multi year mid level with a contender.
word14
Earlier this year
yeah Knicks are well set for the future. I agree the Pacers have had a fair bit of luck to get this far, but you have to beat whats in front of you and they've done that
Big Fudge
Earlier this year
Watch Orlando swoop in and get Hartenstein, they will be able to offer more than the Knicks and are in need of an upgrade at the C spot.
Knicks looking like the old Bulls team, run into the ground thanks to a coach who makes his starters play major minutes.
Cram
Earlier this year
Orlando has bigs (Wagner, Carter, Isaac) all under contract.
By far their biggest need is shooting.
Big Fudge
Earlier this year
JI is a team option (they will take up the option)
Carter I think you find will be traded for the shooting we need as he has 2 years on his deal still and its very team friendly. They will go for Hartenstein I think and if that fails they could end up resigning Goga.
SonicBoomer
Earlier this year
Indiana have absolutely shat the bed here and given away game 1
Isaac
Earlier this year
And a few more. At least they were consistent.
Cram
Earlier this year
Yeah they were probably more competitive overall than anyone expected, especially once Hali was out. They definitely looked rattled everytime it got down to the clutch though.
Good news is, their whole rotation except for Siakam and Toppin are under contract. You'd expect they'll pay whatever they need to for Siakam (there's not a lot out there to replace him with, especially being a small market) but may not have enough left to retain toppin. If that happens they'll need this year's rookie, Walker, to take a big step up.
They'll also have Mathurin coming back which should help them as someone else who can make plays. Basically everyone bar Siakam and Turner should expect to come back better too, so there's real reason for optimism for that team.
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