J. Kyle Mann

And it was the opposite last year.

The Knicks did this a little bit in the first round last year, and he didn't really want to shoot threes.

I just wonder if that's a card that some team is going to play and be like, go ahead.

We're not going to let you get into the lane.

Now he's he and the Pistons collectively are big enough and strong enough to make mincemeat out of that strategy on some possessions.

But I just think it's a card we're going to see going to the rest of the East.

Oh, by the way, a Thunder Pistons, February 25th.

That's an eight days.

Mark your calendars.

Zach Lowe show will be the day after that.

We'll be talking about that game.

Yeah.

The rest of the East, I think, just like in the West, I think there are only four teams that I can take seriously as you can actually win the East.

And you named three of them, I think.

It's Detroit, Cleveland, New York, and Boston, to me, has earned the right to be in that conversation.

Before I ask you about Boston and those teams, if we would extend this discussion to a fifth team to take seriously to get out of the East...

Are we at the point where we're ready to say it's Charlotte?

Is Charlotte the fifth best team in the East?

Because look, here's my case.

Let's hear the case.