Zena Keita

We've seen how the Timberwolves have been able to guard Nikola Jokic and bother him and bother Jamal Murray.

But they're also coming into this series a bit injured.

There's questions about Anthony Edwards and his health.

There's questions about Jada McDaniels and his health.

The Timberwolves have kind of stumbled into the end of this regular season.

And we just talked about how, you know, Denver has set themselves up for a hard path to the Western Conference finals or finals or however far they go.

But I ultimately am kind of curious how they're going to look in the first round against a team that has pretty much had their number in the playoffs in the past.

And if they can get over the hump with this new group, that is obviously deeper, that has more options with Jokic playing the way he is with Murray playing the way he is.

I just think it's going to be probably the best playoff series in round one.

It's also one of those things where it is 100 percent a harder matchup for the Knicks than the Raptors were.

And that was what they were grippling with grappling with today.

It's like, are they going to play the Raptors or they end up going to play in the Hawks?

To your point about the Hawks point of attack defense between Dyson Daniels, Nikhil Alexander Walker.

There's just so many bodies that they could throw at Jalen Brunson to make things hard for them.

And we've seen how this Knicks team can struggle against switch heavy defenses.

The Hawks love to switch.

They play one through five basically every single night.

I agree.

That's going to be a fascinating one.

I wouldn't be surprised if that goes seven.