It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network.

We come to you after the Knicks.

Now make it three straight against the Cavaliers.

And yes, pinch yourself.

The Knicks are going to the NBA finals now.

It might happen in four games.

Cavs might come up with a big effort and make the Knicks have their coronation back at Madison Square Garden.

Either way, this series is over in five games.

And I wouldn't be surprised the way the calves look if it it's over in four games because the Knicks are

just, let's be honest, they are just a vastly, right now a vastly superior team to the Cavaliers.

The Cavaliers couldn't handle anything the Knicks brought offensively in this game.

The Knicks were able to score pretty much at will throughout the game.

The Cavs, when you look at them, and forget the final score, forget some of the final statistics,

because, you know, you get a little padding or you get

something that makes the game look a little different than it should at the end. But the bottom

line is Cleveland played soft defensively. When you come out in a must-win game, and as I've told you, when the series

started, Cleveland has been perplexingly lackadaisical at times during the series. I'd hate to say it,

but I think it's going to cost the coach's job. I also think there's going to be some wholesale changes there, despite the fact they have talent,

they don't play to their abilities.

And you watch as they come out, they allow 37 points in the first quarter.

But you know what?

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