Justin Rowan

I thought, you know, if this team is healthy, the East is pretty open for them.

You know, they swept the Knicks last year.

They did not have issues with that matchup.

Even the game at MSG where Donovan wasn't playing and Darius was playing through his turf toe situation and he just completely took over that game.

The pick and roll offense is just so difficult for the Knicks to kind of deal with.

And now you have a maestro in James Harden that is like designed in a lab to expose the Knicks in the pick and roll.

So I feel good about that.

I have some concerns that maybe he's just going to get cat into foul trouble and the cats are probably going to want to keep cat on the floor.

But I feel pretty good about that matchup.

My biggest concern is health, though.

Donovan has broken down in the playoffs over the last few years.

Really, the only time he was fully healthy in the playoffs was going into the bubble after an extended period of time off.

So that's a concern for me.

But I do think if Boston gets Tatum back, and even if he's just the best role player in the league, that's a really good team, and I don't think he's that disruptive of a presence.

So I do think that they would be a big challenge.

As much as I joke about the Knicks, they're a big challenge as well.

Toronto can be physical.

So I do think if the Cavs are healthy, they can be.

I think, you know, in the spirit of NBA fairness, we got hit as Cavs fans with prove it in the playoffs and all that sort of stuff for years.

And we also got a lot of people telling us, well, you just can't win with JB as a playoff coach.