This team's defense is strong enough to win 40 games. People are under estimating the weakness in the East. What team other than Milwaukee (41-41 6th seed Last year) has really gotten better?
Chicago (Still the same, if healthy they can win the East)
Cleveland (No true bench)
Washington (Nene, Gortot, Gooden, and Peirce are old and cracking)
Milwaukee (Adding Monroe ain't all that, kind of hurts their Defence)
Atlanta (Swapping Carroll for THJ
I should knock them down more)
Toronto (Losing Lou hurts, no bench)
New York (Afflalo replaces Shump, Rolo replaces Chandler, Grant replaces THJ, and Porz replaces Barg. Better bench and possible ROY)
Indiana (Hill and Turner up front
, M. Ellis is your second scorer
)
Miami (Can Wade, Amare, Deng, Haslem, and Bosh stay healthy? Amare was their biggest acquisition this summer)
The Knicks are possibly 41-41 team with great defense and I like how this team was built with D.Will being our biggest question mark, which isn't bad to have. People complaining about a 10 mil contract is laughable, D.Will can become a fan favorite just from his high lights. People also complain about his Defense in which he wasn't bad, nothing spectacular, but what player in Sac actually played Defense at 100%, please don't say cousins. We have a good mixture of defense and offense with Grant, Galo, Afflalo, Rolo, O'Quinn, and Porz all being above avg. defenders with Melo, Lou, and D. Will being avg (rather have D.Will than L. Thomas).