“Knicks vs Cavaliers Playoff Preview: Can New York Finish the Job and Advance to Semifinals?”

The Knicks are just one short leg away from finishing the job. And yet, we already imagine that this task will be complicated to finish, at 1am in a room in Cleveland decided to push its players to the feat. The will is good, but it will be necessary to hope that the Cavaliers show another face than that proposed in New York. If this is not the case, the adventure in the Playoffs risks being cut short.

First game of a night that promises to be wild, the Knicks travel to Cleveland with the opportunity to qualify for the Eastern Conference semi-finals if they win. The challenge is therefore simple for the Cavs: go big or go home. A phrase often used, which will have to be validated three times in a row for the law of the regular season and the ranking hierarchy to apply. This is also the whole flavor of the Playoffs: everyone sublimates and the tables are reset.

The Knicks stunned Cleveland, before managing to crush the Ohio men twice in a molten Madison Square Garden. In front of the 2500 spectators of the Grand Rex, they imposed their law with authority on Sunday evening during Game 4. Donovan Mitchell? To absent subscribers, just like Darius Garland. The two major elements of the team will necessarily have to do better tonight, otherwise ciao good evening.

There is no doubt that the Bockers will take the meeting very seriously, behind a Jalen Brunson who should not miss the opportunity to humiliate Donovan Mitchell again, but in a different conference. Mistreated defensively, the Cavaliers have often shown a nonchalance in the game. While adopting a sharing of the ball far too stereotypical offensively, which greatly facilitates the task of the Knicks. The Game 2 formula was the right one, you just have to apply it, but… are the players mentally still in the game? Nothing is less sure.

And this could therefore be the first upset of the evening, and of the Playoffs. A good symbol to unite a group, and to make it want more. In the event of victory, the Knicks would face the winner of the series between Heat and Bucks. A series where there too, the scenario could take an unexpected… and historic turn.