@mymixtapez This needs to be a @MrBeast video.
Sending money to random people over the phone, and if they send you it all back, they get a rocket ship or something 😭
The best team doesn’t always win, that’s that beauty of sports. Plus you said it urself, it’s a game of matches ups. But to have the spurs above the Knicks, a team the spurs couldn’t win a home game against is just ridiculous
@Eye4Impact_NBA Knicks were the best team last year. No on refutes it they proved it. If u assumed the winner would win the next year you’d be wrong 8 years running
Philly added LeBron and Jaylen Brown this offseason.
The Official NBA Power Rankings still has them second in the East.
The Knicks case isn't just recency bias, the receipts back it up.
Best 4th quarter team in the 30 seasons of play-by-play data, plus 11.7 per 100 possessions in the fourth.
Five corner threes a game, most by any team in 30 years of shot-location data. OG led the league in corner threes in the regular season and the playoffs.
6-2 when they trailed by double digits in the playoffs. Best mark in that same window.
Meanwhile, Philly's issue isn't talent, it's shot quality.
They ranked 29th in it last season, and Embiid, Maxey and Brown all landed among the 26 worst shot-quality scores out of 182 players with 500 attempts. You don't fix that by adding two more guys who need the ball.
Embiid also allowed 61.6% at the rim, the worst mark of his career.
The Knicks didn't catch fire. They built a closing formula.
Don't forget how hard the refs tried to extend the NBA Finals.
It's like the league watched the Knicks win the first two on the road and realized San Antonio didn't have a fair shot, and decided to help.
Game 3: 24 free throws to 8 in the second half. 14-3 in the third alone. The Knicks in the penalty for the final 9:18 at home.
They still only lost by four.
Game 4 they went down 29 and won it anyway.
You can tilt a whistle. You can't tilt a team that good.