Jon Krawczynski

I just think it's going to take them a while.

I mean, their offense has been weirdly incendiary in a way that, yeah, we talked a lot about them early in the season and the way they were playing, but I think this surpasses even that in terms of the actual output of this recent stretch for them.

When I watch them play...

Yeah, you see the size of the wear BAM combination.

Yeah, you see heroes, heroes, better nights, for example.

They just feel like a team that has so many facilitators on the floor basically at all times in a way that makes them for me a very pleasant watch and also makes them like hyper functional.

And I think even just getting this kind of stretch from Yaka Tunis, who was a zero for them in the rotation earlier in the year, found another guy.

He's pretty good.

He's pretty good, and Pella Larson, I'm a big-time fan, other than randomly going off for 28 tonight.

That's even beside the point.

I just think he...

just guys who facilitate good flow.

And they have so many of those players.

Jaime Hawkins, another one of those players.

Like they have so many of those guys in the mix that I feel like maybe they're finally tapping into the right balance of the size and the skill and the collective playmaking necessary to sustain something that's just like a little more stable than one-on-one pick and roll less offense.

They do feel like the definitive favorite and the safest of all these options.

The Sixers just aren't healthy enough.

The Magic, even though I think their defense has been much improved, they still have to work overtime to beat the Wizards.

They have that in them on occasion.

The Heat feel really stable, and I don't know that I was expecting that given the way that their season has taken place.