🏀 Cavs Show Major Gap for Knicks

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What to know: I’m not one to overreact to a regular season NBA game, because, like many, I know that the regular season does not matter. But if you’re a Knicks fan and you saw what I did last night in their game against the Cavs, I’d be a little worried. Heck, even Stephen A. Smith got on the mic at halftime and said he was a little panicked by their performance, and he’s a Knicks believer.

The Cavs dismantled the Knicks, it was not pretty. They were up almost 30 through the whole second half, and it’s not like it looked all that hard. At the end of the 3rd quarter, when the Cavs started mixing in their bench players and resting their starters, the Cavs were shooting 61% from the field and 54% from three. Sure, the Cavs were hot. But the amount of wide-open looks they had was crazy. Easy dunks, no defense on the perimeter, no contest layups, it was just too easy. That worries me for the Knicks.

There’s a real gap at the top of the Eastern Conference right now, with the Celtics and Cavs being head and shoulders above the rest of the conference right now. The Knicks bench is pretty troublesome, as the depth of the Cavs suffocated New York.

The good news for the Knicks? There’s a lot of basketball left. LOTS! And they have a roster full of veterans, led by a great coach in Tom Thibodeau. The Knicks welcomed back OG Anunoby to the lineup yesterday and it looks like Mitchell Robinson will be back in the coming days. Are better things on the horizon?

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