J. Kyle Mann

Two teams, actually, by rule, have to make the Conference Finals in the East.

Cleveland, I've talked a lot about Harden's fit.

I don't want to overdo it.

He's been really good.

The fit's been really good.

They're an extremely dangerous team.

If you want to argue they're now the favorites in the East...

because of their track record prior to this season as a 60 plus one team.

I mean, like I can't quite go there yet, but I can, I can get with like, they can win these.

Sure.

The Knicks.

I just can't figure out the Knicks, man.

I just like, I picked the Knicks to make the finals before the season.

I'm sticking with it because I don't believe in changing picks willy-nilly.

But there has not been, even when they go 9-1 in a 10-game stretch, they're 8-2 in their last 10 games right now after hitting rock bottom against the Mavs in that disaster at MSG.

I just, I haven't, there's something about them that makes me feel unconfident in them at all times.

And it's not that they're not a mentally tough team.

It's not that they can't handle adversity.

It's just that they can't seem to sustain teams

a coherent, they're coherent at the highest level on both ends of the floor for very long.