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After injury, he dumped promising postseason New York Knicks entered in the 2024-25 season with high expectations. And while Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Cities and Co. Has done well – Knicks is 40-20 and firmly in third place on the eastern conference – they lost each of their five games against the best teams of the conference Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics.

Against all other teams in the league, Knicks have a percentage of profit of 73%, but when it comes to Celtic and Snesve, New York is 0-5. In addition, many games were quite a patched, leading some fans and analysts to believe that Knicks are not truly competitors to reach the NBA finals.

Statistics seems to be thrown That line of thinking also.

“It’s not a rocket science: New York must defend at a far higher level – one of which Club coach Tom Thibodeau – To submit any chance against Cleveland or Boston in Plejoma, “but for several reasons, it is probably not a switch that can simply switch – mainly because the beginners have repeatedly from any other team, if they have higher levels left on higher levels.

“New York is in defense, but is crucial. (Behind Toronto Raptors), according to the ESPN research. It is a huge problem against Kelter and the caves, respectively. Less coverage is one potential repair and to be one potential repair Mitchell Robinson returns from his seasonal absence obviously helps. But other changes to the figures that need to be needed to close the huge gap, we saw the whole season between the Knicks and two teams in front of them. “

It is more about concern, however, is an error of an injury that seemed seemingly caught the slices of these two seasons. Last year in the playoffs, almost every starter was injured or played with pain, including Jalen Brunson, Anunobi, Josh Hart, and Mitchell Robinson.

This season, New York dealt with multiple injuries, although mostly its great people; Robinson just debuted his seasons last week, and cities And Ariel Hukportiri’s reservation fell in the last few weeks.

While injuries can be refused, the reputation of thibodeau is to cover them with injury, so skepticism will be able to stay relatively healthy in the playoffs, will remain solemnly not proven otherwise.