I’m going to start off this blog with a little story. It was 1996-97 season the Knicks won 57 games
made some pretty good of season signings and they were deep, extremely deep
allowing the Veteran player a good amount of rest during the season and
everyone was fresh for the play-offs.
They dispatched the Hornets and were on pace to obliterate
the Miami Heat to a coveted show down against the Bulls for the Eastern
Conference Championship… then the unthinkable happened in game 5 a fight broke
out. The Knicks were decimated by
suspensions and the Heat made the miraculous comeback from 3-1 to win the
series.
The Heat got blasted by the Bulls 4-1 and the Bulls won thier
6 championship of the Jordan era. That Knicks
team in my mind should have won.
The stars were aligning for the Knicks they should have beat
the Heat they could’ve beaten the Bulls, they would have destroyed the Jazz,
and Patrick Ewing would’ve been the MVP of the NBA Finals.
But that didn’t happen we got the shaft and ever since that
moment the Knicks haven’t been in a better position to win, sure the made it to
the Finals in’99 but with out Ewing the Spurs slaughter them in 5 games.
So what does this mean for the 2012 Knicks? I feel this team has potential to be a huge
spoiler an amazing heart breaker a under dog team that CAN win it all if the
stars align just right for them.
Melo is getting his groove back, if Amare and JLin make it back
they could stun opponents in the play-offs,
I don’t know HOW you can prepare for them because you don’t know what
you’ll get. But if they keep playing
gritty defence and taking advantaged of miss matches maybe after 2012 they’ll
be 15 stories about OTHER teams that should have won and the KNICKS will be
raising the trophy!!!!
GO KNICKS!!!
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