Zach Lowe

Thomas Bryant is fine.

On a team with Evan Mobley and Jared Allen, he just shouldn't play.

And that's no short to him.

That's just the reality.

So I'm interested in the Cavs.

There's still a bit of a mystery box.

I would not pick them to win the East right now.

The Knicks.

I'm starting to think that the weirdness has just overtaken them and it may be the defining feature of their season.

They're still just rock solid by the numbers.

They haven't beaten really any good teams since they beat the Spurs at home and then came back and had a great run against the Rockets at home.

And there's just something about them.

I went on Ian Begley's show earlier this week and I compared it to the sensation you have

when there's a word or like a name, like a trivia answer on the tip of your tongue and you've got it, but you just can't quite form it.

That's what watching the Knicks is like to me.

It's like they...

For whatever reason, every third game, they catch a role.

They catch a vibe where the pieces suddenly click into place.

And you're like, that's the team.

That's the team I picked to make the finals.