07 Pats. To come that close to the greatest season ever only to lose to a New York team led by a crappy QB was super brutal.
It was especially bad because I was a freshman in college and I was surrounded by Giants fans despite the fact that I was at a school in Boston.
The 2010 team played like dog crap for much of that season and then "flipped the switch" in the playoffs. But their biggest weakness the whole time was energy and rebounding, and that was ultimately what did them in. If they had home court in Game 7 and/or Perk didn't blow out his knee in Game 6, maybe they win anyway. But in some respects that loss made sense. They were good but not quite good enough to beat Pau Gasol, Andrew Bynum, Lamar Odom, and Ron Artest. Yeah, I'm leaving Kobe out of that list because it wasn't Kobe's shot making that won the Lakers that series. It was their size and strength inside.