The Posts Knicks-Hawks first-round playoff predictions

The Post’s experts give their Knicks-Hawks predications:The Hawks have playoff unknowns in Jalen Johnson, Onyeka Okongwu and Dyson Daniels, so their reaction to the pressure — and to the intense atmosphere of Game 1 at MSG — is a wild card.They could rise to the occasion.

They could shrink.Either way, the Knicks are more talented and that will carry them to victory.

Prediction: Knicks in 6This won’t be easy.Like the Pistons in the first round a year ago, the on-the-rise Hawks will give the Knicks problems, stealing Game 2 at MSG and forcing a winner-take-all Game 7.

In the end, Jalen Brunson and Co.do just enough to advance.

Prediction: Knicks in 7The Knicks almost certainly got a harder matchup with the surging, upstart Hawks than they would’ve with the Raptors.The Hawks are athletic, long, fast and full of belief.

But much of their rise came against lowly opposition.And the Knicks should be far more talented with far more experience. The Hawks can hang around, but the Knicks should put them away with relative ease.

Prediction: Knicks in 5Maybe I’ll be proven wrong but I don’t buy the Hawks’ late-season surge as anything much more than the byproduct of fortunate scheduling.I try to find an area that I’d give the Hawks the advantage.

I don’t see one.Prediction: Knicks in 5...