Brian Scalabrine

And to me, the tell with the Knicks is bald movement.

And when they're moving the ball, they are really, really hard to guard.

And so like when, when teams blitz, there's no great answer for Brunson, right?

Unless you can switch everything and not expose yourself elsewhere.

And like Boston is pretty well equipped to do that.

Actually.

Yeah.

But when you drop, he just rains fire over you from the mid-range.

And when you blitz, that's actually to me when the Knicks look their best because when he gets off of it early, even if he doesn't hit the roll man, if he hits like Hart on the wing and Hart is just so unselfish, like I'll hit the roll man and the ball starts popping, you're like, damn, this is like...

For a team that has a rep as predictable and, oh, there's too much Brunson and it's too much ISO, when they get it moving, that's when they ascend to a level like, yeah, this team could beat the Celtics in a seven-game series.

They could beat the Cavs in a seven-game series.

And I don't know who's going to win the East, but I think I would rank them and the Celtics as one and 1A in the East with apologies to Detroit, who's obviously dealing with a major injury and their offense has some questions.

I am curious to hear...

Cleveland to me is the hardest team of these four to get a handle on in part because their four best players have basically barely played together because Jared Allen's been injured for so long.

They're 15th in defense now, which is not great.

The heart and Mitchell combination has been as dynamic as advertised offensively.

Strews is back.

Merrill has made a nice little jump.

Do you believe in this team?

Like, I kind of don't know what to make of them.