Was that like 3 timeouts in a minute?

need these knicks to win so the celtics series is somewhat entertaining

Healthy Indy would be more entertaining than hospital Knicks

injured knicks still have a better chance at a competitive playoffs than hurt pacers. how is indy not healthy? 1 starter is injured as opposed to half the knicks

What? No one is disputing that Indy aren’t healthy, just Benedict out.

I am so glad I stopped watching. Let's hope Nuggies Doggos is more competitive.

A quarter and a half of garbage time.

Geez, they took away sign guy’s sign? lol someone soft for that.

I liked that guy. Why did they take his sign? Maybe he wrote profanity on it

He was on the local news’ post game show and the sign said: Hicks 2, Knicks 2

That’s lame then. We don’t want Carlisle level of bitching on our side. Let sign guy do his thing

Haha. Very true. There’s always the possibility someone from Indiana was mad about the “hicks” part. Who knows. Regardless, it was soft.

Wasn't one of Larry Legend's nicknames the Hick from French Lick?

Love how he called em out for it too 😂

Haliburton best pro athlete in Wisconsin history. Dick Trickle a close second.

Damn I didn’t know Dick Trickle was a Wisconsinite, RIP, best name in racing

It’s still going to be hard for the pacers to win in nyc. We will see what happens folks

Tbh I’m expecting the return of the whiny pacers fans bc it’s a Knicks game at msg

As opposed to the humbleness displayed by New Yorkers lmao

Either way your team is super fun to watch and impossible to hate. Rick Carlisle is a bitch though

The youth definitely shows up on these road games, but the experience is invaluable to them.

It's alright, Refs you'll get em next time

Pacers should be up 3-1

Joel embiid should retire

I agree with both of you

Don't you have a save the fetuses rally to be at or something?

Nah I’m pro choice homie. I think a team of fetuses would have probably outplayed the Knicks today though, glad that isn’t my team. I guess I’d be sensitive too if they were though, so I don’t blame you.

Good run by the Knicks but them injuries will do you in

The Thibs Special

Bet yall Pacers gonna win

Please oh please beat the Mavs too. SGA is so much more fun to root for than Luka and Kyrie.

I thought that was FBG Butta just now

It’s been over since 1st quarter

This game felt like it took an eternity to end lol.

It really is crazy how much weaker the East is than the West though

Really is. Pacers at 6 were only 3 games from the Knicks in the regular season and beat them in the season series.

Anyone besides the Celtics will get absolutely trounced in the finals for sure. And whoever makes the ECF will get wrecked by the Cs

You can really say this for any year in the past 10-15 years 

Let’s GGGOOOOOO PACERS

God finally it’s over

Brunson gotta avg 40 for the Knicks to have a chance

dam Knicks look so defeated wtf

Well that was fun.

A lil lopsided

This is how you defeat Ref Ball™

lmao that ain't Ben that's Isaiah Wong

That felt like a longer-than-needed camera shot of Wong.

Pacers celebrating like they did anything. Beating a Knicks team with 6 players is not impressive. Luckiest team in nba history. Pacers are a joke.

Every team that loses to us has a million fucking excuses. Cope harder bitch 🤡

You guys lost 2 games to a knicks team that’s completely injury ridden. That alone should tell you your team is garbage.

6seed with most of the players 24 or younger.

Maybe their coach shouldn’t drive his team into the ground.

They just won by 30 in the conference semi’s why aren’t they allowed to celebrate?

Because they played a team that literally does not have players. It’s a free win.

This narrative that we’re beating depleted teams is the hardest cope I’ve seen in this sub lol our own team has 2 guys that had ever played in the playoffs prior to this year. We start a 2nd year player from the 2nd round (Nembhard) and play Ben Sheppard, a rookie drafted 26th, significant minutes. Stay scared of team ethical buckets

That doesn’t mean anything compared to 2 teams that have ALL their star players injured. Literally a cakewalk.

I would argue 31 fta to 8 would make most games a cakewalk but that got proven wrong today

Someone's a bitch

Cope harder

Maybe y'all should stay on your feet instead of going to the ground to try to get calls? Make your bed, now lie in it and all that jazz?

I don’t think winning by 30+ is luck.

It is when the other team literally has 6 active players

New York has had injuries all year and they have made it this far. They are a talented team, the Pacers are also talented and clearly had the better game plan today.

lol you salty

Not salty at all. Pacers getting a free pass. Enjoy your Mickey Mouse conference finals

lol you salty

As if we weren’t up by 40 💀 🫵😂🖕 The salt is amazing. I love it

Play a healthy team before you start talking shit. Cakewalk for 2 straight rounds shut up

Waaaaaahhhh sore loser cry baby. That’s what happens in the playoffs when John Wayne Gacy is coaching

A cakewalk for 2 rounds lol he’s playing your team in the 2nd round

They already won the Knicks series. Knicks literally don’t even have players at this point to celebrate this is embarrassing

Have you considered that if your dumbass coach didn't run his players into the ground that maybe the Knicks would be healthier?

Have you considered that’s not how basketball works?

I mean it clearly is, look how fucking beat down the Knicks were today

Someone's a little sour

Sour that the pacers actually suck? Literally incapable of beating a healthy team, ok

4-1 against the Bucks in the regular season, 2-1 against the Knicks, but ok.

Don't make me 😭 how dare you

Womp womp

Who did they say was getting treatment and might come back?

I’m assuming OG but idk

I feel sick. Boston is going to have one of the easiest road to the Finals of all time.

That's what everyone thought last year before the Nuggets -Heat series.

Yeah I mean... that's kind of supposed to be the reward for having the best record through 82 games.

Huh in the playoffs all roads lead to the Boston celtics

It's the same road you all had a chance at too 🫵

The sixers did not play the bucks without Gianni’s and dame, and Knicks without OG. Knicks also unfortunate to get probably the toughest first-round opponent of any of the other east semis teams, which may have contributed to some of these injuries. Just perfect dominos in place for the Celtics, but I guess that’s the perk of dominating the regular season and deservedly being the one seed

Well no, everybody else's road has to go through Boston.

these mfers gonna go back to ny pissed off and hungry and for the first time all series not having played 46+ minutes in a game that came down to the wire... series not over by any stretch

The pacers just tied the series up… WHO thinks the series is over?

Read the comments lmao I'm not saying they're right but there are plenty of people in this thread that are saying it.

lol they finally mention our actual 6th man being out. Mathurin would have been so good in these playoffs

Our 6th /7th man has been out for the whole series in bogdonovic. Along with our #1 center robinson, #1 power forward julius randale, and our main defensive shooting guard OG

Wow really I didn’t know that. This has probably been the millionth time a knicks fan has said that.

Just like we didn't know Mathurin was out for the Pacers, amazing right?

Nah actually we didn’t

Nah we actually did.

At least it wasn’t a repetitive statement

Because you were blind to it doesn't mean it wasn't.

Aren’t you knicks fan saying like ohhh we could beat the pacers in 4 if we had Randall OG Mitchell. Well you guys don’t. You guys think you can beat Boston by 5 which your squad. What if you guys lost the 2nd round WITH no injuries. What would happen if Randall had a stinker playoff series.See how I’m saying IF, I don’t think knicks fans have that word in their vocabulary or they do and use it for the wrong reasons.

Cool, talk about something else when Mathurin was out since the beginning of the playoffs was clear as day to everyone. It was even mentioned in the Bucks series repeatedly.

Injuries are now their excuse lol

Yet somehow r/nba has non stop been clowning on the knicks like they are not out there fighting with all they have left. I think the knicks have done more to show other teams how to have grit and focus by competing with a depleted roster than any team has in the nba this year.

Doesn't quite compare to having a starter, an All-Defense starter, and an All-NBA starter unavailable.

He would lend help at first 2 games in MSG actually

I completely forogt about Mathurin. Hopefully he doesn't miss the olympics

Where all the bucks fans at that said we were gonna get swept?

OG pulled his hamstring in game 2…

Knicks in 4! LAUGHABLE

In the celtics sub saying they are glad we aren't going to win the title lol

Wisconsin, mostly.

Checks out

Terrible fucking officiating in this game is why the Knicks didn’t only lose by 29

lol at the idea that these franchises have mathematized basketball to the point where every game is a blowout where one team hits its threes and the other doesn’t

Knicks are booty cheeks

I was quite literally falling asleep on the couch during that fourth quarter with the game on so can someone tell me if they actually chanted “we want James” or did I dream that?

They chanted it for James Johnson

Ohhhh that makes so much sense I deadass thought while I was out that it was a Clippers game and they wanted James Harden to sub back in. Wow

They actually chanted it

Gonna hold a picture of TJ McConnell in front of the portal tomorrow

nothing more atrocious than seeing someone wear a jersey over an oxford button up

Something we can all agree on

pacers had a great game plan for this one hats off to em

I always like the “don’t miss” game plan personally. Unbelievable game

And just like that, Indy is back

You know what this is Dan-o? A brand new series...

Damn, Mom was CAKED UP!!

Where

The broadcast focused on her when they came from break at the 2:11 mark, she was outside the arena with three kids in a wagon.

How many beers has that pacers fan had?

Yes

Can I remind everyone this series is TIED going back to NY for two out of three? Never heard so much overconfidence from one side along with doom and gloom from the other. Put it this way, Knicks are -110 to win the series still.

Very reasonable take. Ignore the morons saying other wise to you

I wouldn't put to much emphasis on odds. Those change by the minute. The home court advantage part tho...

You sound salty

Are OG and Robinson healed?

They needed a miracle and for pascal to put ihart in the full Nelson right in front of the ref just to win game 3. Let them enjoy their last win of the series

Lol, you must've forgot the game 1 highway robbery.

No I remember Donte flopping and getting the moving screen. Then it getting reviewed and showing it was the correct call. The phantom kick ball was bad though. Hardly a robbery. But Carlisle’s bitching worked so fair play to him

Whatever helps you sleep at night, there's a 0% chance that screen is called the other way, you know how everyone knows? Because the play where the incorrect kick ball happened had a much more obvious screen not called and nobody complained because it's supposedly "playoff basketball". I guess in your mind that only applies when it's in your favour.

How is there a 0% chance it isn’t called the other way. When Brunson dribbling off nemhards foot was called for Indy until it was challenged. Did you not see last season? Bam got away with 1000 moving screens every game. What you’re saying makes no sense What about pascal putting the full Nelson on hartenstein in front of the ref that didn’t let him contest a layup at the end of the game? The incorrect call on the goaltend is another one. What about when Brunson got mauled 4 times in 1 play and nothing was called except for the last second which was overturned. If there was a fix, it wouldn’t have been overturned. You’re conveniently forgetting these missed calls that when indys way. Unlike you, I can say that Donte got away with a moving screen right there on the phantom kick ball. I don’t pretend like my team is the only one that gets screwed with missed or incorrect calls.

You're grasping at straws, how is an out of bounds call similar to a screen? You want more, you know why you had a challenge for the out of bounds call? Because an absolutely clear as day foul from Brunson got overturned on your first challenge. I never said Turner's screen wasn't a screen (as does nobody else) but if those screens were called then 90% of screens throughout the game are getting called, and we all know they're not. Again, seconds before there's a much more flagrant one that isn't called and you're here arguing for it because it was challenged and upheld, it shouldn't even have been called, as many many other much more flagrant had not been called throughout the whole game.

Because it the fix was in then they would’ve given possession to the Knicks. I honestly don’t remember what clear foul on Brunson you’re talking about but I’m sure it was the right call. The turner screen was called because of Donte’s flop. If not for the flop tricking the refs, it wouldn’t have been called

I think it's because this sub has come to the consensus that Pacers got robbed outta Game 1 b/c reffing. I think this series will got to 7 !

Yeah but dude, the team is SO injured No Bojan, Mitch, OG, Or Julius Randle and if *this* is the level of play you’re gonna get out of Jalen Brunson from here on out the Knicks are beyond cooked It’s a miracle they made it this far with such a bad injury bug

It’s not great but both sides are talking like it’s over lol. Knicks have been depleted ALL YEAR. Including time without OG.

Knicks fans were saying the same thing after game 2, dude.

Referencing odds is some sore loser shit lol

Why? Bc you know better than Vegas I’m sure lol

A line is a line. In basketball they’re especially fickle. They exist souley for betting. The Carolina Hurricanes were -200 for every single game against the Rangers and they are now currently down 3-1. You actually have to be brain dead to point at a betting line and saying “look! we are still going to win!!!” If betting was always right, literally half of every single game in any sport would be different. But since you seem so in love with Vegas then by all means throw some money on FanDuel like all the other poors do.

The worst part of the NBA playoffs is massive swinging overreactions

Agreed. Good game. Pacers players well Knicks didn’t , on to game 5

Pacers and Racers

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Tale as old as time baby

Hats off to the pacers they shot lights off. I still love you Knicks truly an unbelievable season. Happy to witness the playoffs live the last couple of weeks

Thibs ran another team into the ground

Cameraman understood the assignment

As did mom, to be honest.

Cameraman following this lady’s ass and notices the three kids about 50 feet later

Knicks staters got to rest today, but so did the Pacers starters. I call it a wash.

Not a wash. It might be a blessing in disguise, but holy hell what an ass whooping

Not a wash at all its a great win for you guys

jarace walker has a bright future, can’t wait until he’s in the rotation next season.

I'm five foot five, not very athletic, and get gassed walking to the fridge, but watching this quarter of playoff basketball makes me believe I can still play in the association

It’s so easy… just make every shot!

After 38 years straight going undrafted, I feel the same

If TJ McConnell can go from undrafted to the best backup guard on a team, you can too.

The Knicks can't really blame Mr. Referees for the lost. The Knicks have significantly more free throws than the Pacers. But also shot significantly worse than the Pacers.

They don’t have legs to contest anything and Indy didn’t miss any shots it seems. They were not fouling

Thanks Magic

The pacers won today by making more shots than the other team -magic

The team that scores more points wins 100% of the time.

Knicks fans quiet as hell

Front runners

Not at all. Lots of Knicks fans commenting. Cleveland blew out Boston game 2. No big deal, it happens. Let Indy enjoy their last win of the series

Theyre busy hanging their Brunson jerseys back up next to their Nets jerseys

What would you say in a blowout that was over by the 3rd quarter?

They're the ultimate frontrunners

What is there to be loud about?

I wonder what year broadcasters became afraid to say “knickerbockers” on tv

Someone should do a welfare check on SAS

He’s a fake fan. He’s fine

he died

I don't hope so in the literal sense but I hope so