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Dom da Dentist's avatar

Cheers to a great season Jon. Now rest up, cuz we got a long summer of tinkering and thinkering to do about where we go from here. Fitting to end the season on exactly #53wins

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John Reynolds's avatar

I fell asleep last night composing a soliloquy around "You win or you learn."

While last night's loss stung, I think I finally put my finger one what, short of a surprise run to the final, I wanted from these Knicks this postseason. You win or your learn, but what do you learn?

In the playoffs, the variance on what you learn can vary from grade school content to the NBA equivalent of a PhD. If you're the Suns or the Bucks, you learn that even having one of the 5 best players in the league sometimes isn't enough. If you're the Cavs, you learn the same lesson as the 2021 Knicks: the regular season and the playoffs are different beasts.

So what did the Knicks learn? As you pointed out in today's newsletter, the Knicks learned how close they are. They learned that changes in the edges -- to their roster, their game plan, their execution -- are the difference between goodness and greatness. They learned enough that when they're back in the playoffs next year, we won't be talking about a team that hasn't been there before. And that, I realized, is what I wanted from this team this postseason. They gave us that and then some.

What a ride. Thanks for shepherding us through from beginning to end, Professor Macri & Co. Thanks, one more time, to this fucking team, for the most enjoyable Knicks season since many of us were children. The Knicks are dead, long live the Knicks.

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