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they could only win the Eastern Conference title when Jordan was playing baseball…. and they still couldn’t win the championship this year… nothing special about the knicks…. the 90s belonged to Jordan, and when he wasn’t there it was Hakeem.
This makes me so nostalgic. I was 11yo and cant express how obsessed with the knicks i was. The nba used to be the best sport on the planet. Its just not the same
@carlburton3152 dont get me wrong i still watch. Not as much as i did as a kid in the 90s but i follow it. But the 90s, especially the playoffs, was edge of your seat.
I agree..I was 13 at the time..watching that Knicks team made me fall in love with them and the game of basketball. It's definitely not the same anymore 😞
I grew up in this era… Chicago Bulls… Detroit Pistons… Miami Heat… Knicks… Pacers… But my God watching these highlights how physical was this style of basketball?
5:29 - 5:35, listen to that crowd... I cant tell you the last time I heard a crowd like that in a NBA game... Utah, and Sacramento as well. it almost hurt your ears on TV! Kids can say what they want about how much better their generation is, but you just had to be there. The Stars, the presentation, the drama, the rivalries... nothing can top this era of NBA basketball. ♥️
I’m an nba fan and grew up in the 90s, I remember this feeling watching these games and it just felt so important. You could feel and sense how important this was to New York City and Indiana. I miss this feeling in the nba
Yeah the Knicks make it to the finals but lost to the Rockets. They got lucky in the series against the Bulls because of that phantom foul call against Scottie Pippen. If that call is not made the Knicks would’ve lost to the Bulls without Jordan and they wouldn’t have made it to the finals.
That was the hardest played series ever. So intense on defense... Knicks needed apart from one game the full distance of games played in their 1994 playoff run
@@Frankieefootballmundial no, it wasn't. that's really dumb. The teams that stood the best chance of beating him were always eastern teams. Not one western conference team was able to even make it a game 7 in the finals. The Knicks and Pacers at least pushed it to game 7 vs MJ.
@@Frankieefootballmundial i like the fact that centers are allowed to shoot 3-pointers now, but other than that, I miss the good old fashioned hardcore defense plus post-ups, inside, & inside-out offenses of the 90s and early-to-mid 2000s.
@@Frankieefootballmundial basically, it seems like every single NBA team is trying to be like the golden state warriors of 2015-2019 and there hardly any uniqueness in any teams anymore. Yes, you can make a similar case for the 90s where almost every team had a big man who can score in the low-post, but at-least you had some teams in the late 90-early 2000s that had offenses that were different than much of the league at that time (the Sacramento Kings of 1999-2003, the Indiana Pacers of Reggie Miller's era, and Dirk Nowitzkys Dallas man's of 1999-2017, all who used today's style 3-pointer offenses). Is there a single team in the NBA that uses low-post offenses of the 90s anymore? Better yet, is there any team today that doesn't live and die by the 3-pointers? There's no uniqueness anymore with today's NBA teams. Yes, some are better than others, but every teams style today is pretty much the same.
@@carlburton3152 you make sense and no disrespect AT ALL but out of all his 139 nba playoff games if you ask me this was the #4 best nba playoff game for superstar patrick ewing
After Jordan retired, the Knicks were the ONLY team in the East that deserved to go to the Finals. And if I recall, Bulls in 7, Pacers in 7 and took Rockets to 7! Give me a team that was a harder challenge and I'm a Bulls fan! Much respect to this '94 team!
Yeah I agree Patrick's career 1985-2002 and outta that span his prime was 1988-1995...7 years and 8 seasons he was one of the top 10 players and most dominant players in the league on both sides of the ball but like you said he NEEDED HELP if Barkely or Mark Price or even a Shawn Kemp would have gotten them over the hump.If Spreewell who was fucking unstoppable and Allen Houston had been around during Ewing's prime at least during the middle of it ?'91-94ish I say they beat Chicago in 1992&1994
Yeah if only for that 99 teams run with Spre and LJ Camby etc... Ewing could've been in his prime or had sone type of physical flashback for the finals at least we could've grabbed one ring for all them guys and the Knicks would have a much more recent championship instead of the 70s. It's been rough since I was born 88 for NY.
Die hard Knickerbocker fan, and loved these teams sooo much, I lived and died with their ups and downs......I consistently see these comments about the league being so much better in this period, and i just wanted to say........not so much .......the basketball is not of a higher quality at all......the game continues to evolve as a whole, and has become something entirely different and frankly better today.....beautiful thing about hoops, it just gets better.....but the effort is a lot greater in this era........skill level, lower but effort level much higher.....in this league with all the physicality that was being allowed and the lack of consistent dynamic long distance shooting, plus the analytics hadnt hit yet, so it was easier to follow, and easier to root for your team because the game was being played in a less open way.....so stops were abundant, u couldnt get run over so much.
@@TheSands83 um, YES. They were up 3-2 and choked it away thanks to Pat Riley continuously giving the ball to John Starks in game 7, and we all know what happened there. And the rockets only won game 6 because of a lucky fingertip that stopped what would have been the series winning three pointer
So sad that the Knicks (Al Bianci) just rested on their laurels and never gave Ewing help. The only all-time top-75 player to never play with another top-75 player his entire career. And only one other HOF (Bernard King for a microsecond before his injury). Compare him with someone like Bird who never played with fewer than 2 HOF his entire career (Tiny, Maravich, Cowens his rookie year, then DJ/Parish/McHale the rest of his career; Tiny was 2nd team all-NBA during the 1981 season). All Ewing needed was a LITTLE help...it’s sad. Very much like Garnett was in MIN.
This was the first ECF since 1979 to not involve either Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, or Dr. J. After sort of a "meh" first four games, the last 3 were all classics.
Ewing may have gotten away with offensive interference on that last putback, but they were never going to make that call. I forgot just how down to the wire this game was, ended ironically with John Starks flopping like a little woman on that foul. Ticky tack way to end what was a gutter war of a seven game series.
@@handlebucket6285 And the Rockets needed Hakeem to barely deflect a Starks 3 at the buzzer of game 6 when Starks was on fire to narrowly avoid losing the championship right there.
love rockets fans who are like "yeah we kicked their ass"......um no that seven game series was the closest series of any nba series up until that point.
Tears rolling down my cheeks after wathing this. I was never able to attend a game at the MSG when Jordan and the Bulls came to town. I used to look with envy (not anymore) at those white collars from Wall Street rushing to the arena to watch those unforgettable games. Taxi drivers used to be handsomely tipped if they were able to get those suits on time. Today's NBA sucks. It has turned Woke.
Playoff tickets were less costly in '94, so you had many more genuine fans in attendance as opposed to a bunch of millionaires and six figure snobs who are just there to be seen.
