I wonder if we are forgetting basketball is played on the court and not on paper.
Cade will be the best player in the series. After that you can go down the rosters and NYK will have more talent almost all the way down. But for whatever reason it never clicked for them this season. You can't tell me when they made that Bridge's trade, they would be happy with only 50 wins. They legit had a shot to drop to the 4th seed on the final weekend of the season. They were 0-8 against Cleveland and Boston.
The Knicks are beatable.