All-Star Jalen Brunson Drops 40 To Secure Knicks 9th Straight Win | New York Knicks

All-Star Jalen Brunson Drops 40 To Secure Knicks 9th Straight Win | New York Knicks

SZCZERBIAK. ALAN HAHN WILL BE BY SOON AND SO WILL MONICA McNUTT. DONTE DiVINCENZO WILL BE OUR GUEST COMING UP. NO RANDLE AND NO GRIMES AND NO ANUNOBY. KNICKS DOWN BY 15 EARLY. THEY TRAIL FOR ABOUT THE ENTIRE GAME AND YET THEY PLAY SEVEN

GUYS AND THEY OUT-BOARD INDIANA 60-44 AND ABLE TO SHOW THE RESILIENCY NECESSARY TO COME BACK. AN AMAZING PERFORMANCE TONIGHT. YOU SUMMED IT UP PERFECTLY. BY THE WAY, THAT IS WHY THERE ARE NBA FANS OUT THERE AND EVERYBODY NEEDS TO GET TO MADISON SQUARE GARDEN TO WATCH

THIS TEAM PLAY. THE ATMOSPHERE IN THIS BUILDING WAS ABSOLUTELY ELECTRIC. ON JALEN BRUNSON’S FIRST TIME HE IS NAMED TO THE ALL-STAR TEAM. HIS TEAMMATES WOULD NOT LET THIS TEAM LOSE. HE WOULD NOT LET HIS NEW YORK KNICKS KEEP LOSE. ONE OF THE GAMES FOR THE AGES.

KNICKS GOT EVERY SINGLE REBOUND IN THE SECOND HALF. FREE THROWS. ACHIUWA HAS GOT IT. ON THE DEFENSIVE BOARDS, HARTENSTEIN HAS GOT IT. THE MOST TELLING STAT IN THIS GAME, I’VE NEVER SEEN A STAT SHEET LIKE THIS. NORMALLY, I DON’T GO TO STATS ESPECIALLY MY FIRST COMMENT. PRECIOUS 12 REBOUNDS AND

HARTENSTEIN 19 REBOUNDS AND THAT IS 47 REBOUNDS FROM YOUR FRONT LINE! THAT IS A DOMINATING PERFORMANCE. KNICKS HAVE WON NINE IN A ROW AND ONLY HALF A GAME BEHIND THE BUCKS FOR SECOND IN THE EAST AND THEY WON THE FOURTH QUARTER BY NINE EASEMENT THAT’S WHAT THEY

DO BECAUSE THEY HAVE THAT GUY IN A NEW YORK KNICKS UNIFORM. HE IS SO CLUTCH. HE IS ABSOLUTELY IN THE TOP FIVE IN THE MVP LADDER RIGHT NOW. ISAIAH HARTENSTEIN HAS BEEN PHENOMENAL SINCE TAKING OVER FOR MITCHELL AS A STARTER. BLATANT FOUL TO THE HEAD THAT THE REFS MISSED.

WHAT I LOVE ABOUT THE KNICKS THEY DON’T GET DOWN AND GAVE UP THE LEAD BY ONE AFTER THAT BUCKET. JALEN BRUNSON COMES BACK AND GETS THE AND ONE. TWO-POINT LEAD. THE KNICKS CONTINUE TO GET STOPS. DONTE’ DiVINCENZO WAS OUTSTANDING AND ESPECIALLY IN THE FIRST QUARTER AND HITS THAT BUCKET. THEN PRECIOUS ACHIUWA.

WHAT I MEAN. THE KNICKS GOT EVERY SINGLE REBOUND IN THE SECOND HALF. IT WAS SUCH A DOMINATING PERFORMANCE AND WHAT TOM THIBODEAU LOVES HIS GUYS TO DO IS DOMINANT THE BOARDS. THEY TRAILED UNTIL THEY WENT UP BY TWO AND WIN DESPITE SHOOTING ONLY 8 OF 38 FROM DOWNTOWN. I’M JOINS BY DONTE’ DiVINCENZO.

AN AMAZING WIN. YOU GUYS ARE DOWN BY 15 IN THE FIRST HALF. YOU’RE MISSING SO MANY PLAYERS. HOW DO YOU GUYS HAVE THE FORTITUDE TO COME BACK? BECAUSE WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, AN ALL-STAR AND MVP CALIBER POINT GUARD WITH US. THAT IS FIRST AND FOREMOST.

SECONDARY, WE PLAYED TOGETHER. WE HAVE A JOY RIGHT NOW AND KEEP IT UP. YOU GUY GRAB IS A SEASON 24 OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS AND THE DEFENSE AGAINST THE HIGHEST SCORING TEAM IN THE LEAGUE WAS FANTASTIC AS WELL. WHAT WAS THE KEY ON THE BOARDS AND ON THE DEFENSIVE END?

PROBABLY BECAUSE OF ALL OF MY MISSES TONIGHT. BUT NO. JUST BEING AGGRESSIVE. WE KNEW OPEN SHOTS, THEY WERE SCRAMBLING ON THE DEFENSIVE SCRAMBLE, THERE WILL BE OFFENSIVE OPPORTUNITIES TO GET REBOUND. WE STUCK TO THE GAME PLAN AND STAYED TO GETHER AND WON. CAREER HIGH 26 ATTEMPTS.

YOU KIND OF TRYING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE GUYS BEING OUT AND TRYING TO HELP ON OFFENSE? NO. JUST TAKING WHAT THE DEFENSE GIVES ME AND TRY TO BE AGGRESSIVE AND MAKE PLAYS FOR MY TEAMMATES. A COUPLE OF DRIVES AND KICK-OUTS AND BIG THREES AND WHAT WE NEEDED AND WHILE JULIUS IS DOWN

AND OG IS DOWN, YOU KNOW, WITH YOU JUST BE AGGRESSIVE AND MAKE PLAYS. YOU DID FINISH WITH 20. THANK YOU FOR STOPPING BY AND CONGRATULATES ON A GREAT WIN. THANK YOU. DiVINCENZO WAS JOKING ABOUT HIS THREE-POINT SHOOTING 4 OUT OF 16 BUT HE DID FINISH WITH 20

POINTS AND 8 OF 26. OUGHT OG AND JEWEL YULIUS RANDL THE LINEUP HE HAS HELPED THE SKAUS O ALAN, YOU WERE THERE FOR MOST OF THE GAME AND TALKED WITH JALEN CAUSE ON OFFENSE. A BRUNSON AFTER THE GAME. WHAT WAS THE SCENE ON THE COURT

AFTER THE WIN? IT WAS BEDLAM AND A LOT OF EMOTION AND INCREDIBLE. A LOT OF RESPECT BETWEEN THE TWO TEAMS PLAYING HARD AND PHYSICAL. OUTPOURING OF EMOTION THERE WITH JALEN BRUNSON. I THINK WE FORGET THESE GUYS ARE SO TALENTED AND THEY MAKE MONEY WE CAN ONLY DREAM ABOUT

BUT A LOT OF SACRIFICE THAT GOES INTO THIS. YOU SAW AFTER THAT MOMENT WITH YOU HE HAD A CHANCE TO TAKE A PICTURE WITH HIS WIFE AND HIS MOM AND EMOTION THAT SHOULD BE FELT AND SO MANY PEOPLE MAKE SACRIFICES FOR HIM TO GET TO THIS MOMENT. I HEARD YOU SAY YOU DON’T

NORMALLY LOOK AT THE BOX SCORE BUT THIS IS A BOX SCORE TO REMEMBER. IT’S THE OTHER EFFORT NUMBERS THAT YOU’RE LOOKING AT AND 62 POINTS IN THE PAINT WHERE THE KNICKS FIGURED THE PACERS CAN’T STOP THE DRIVE. LET’S KEEP GOING AND KEEP DRIVING ON THEM AND THEY

COULDN’T STOP THE DRIVE. HOW ABOUT ALSO, THE REBOUNDING. 60-44. I BELIEVE AND I HAVEN’T CHECKED IT YET BUT I BELIEVE THIS WAS A CLOSE REBOUNDING. AT THE HALF, THEY MUST HAVE ABSOLUTELY DOMINATED THE BOARDS. I WANT TO SAY TWO REBOUND MARGIN AT THE HALF. POINTS IN THE PAINT. 62 POINTS IN THE PAINT.

PACE RERRS GIVE UP THE MOST IN LEAGUE IN THE PAINT BUT THIS BOX SCORE IS A DOCUMENT THAT SPEAKS TO THIS TEAM’S RESILIENCY. HE MISSED TEN STRAIGHT THREES AND YOU HAD TO BOUNCE BACK AND HIT A HUGE ONE. JALEN IS CLOCKED IN THE PACE.

THE LEAD GOES THE OTHER WAY AND THIS TEAM RESPONDS IN THE BIGGEST MOMENTS OF THE BALL GAME. AGAIN, THE OTHER NUMBER. I’LL BRAG. STAT TO WATCH. KEEP THE TURNOVERS DOWN AND EXACTLY WHAT THE KNICKS DID AND ONLY TEN TURNOVERS SO THAT WAS ALSO A KEY TO THIS IS NOT LETTING EVEN THOUGH YOU’RE

MISSING SHOTS AND NOT LETTING THE PACERS GET YOU TURNED OVER AND OPEN THIS THING UP. ONE MORE THING. I KNOW INJURIES SUCK, RIGHT? I WILL SAY IF YOU HAD TO POINT OUT A SILVER LINING. THE QUALITY OF MINUTES IN TERMS OF CONFIDENCE AND PUT A CONFIDENCE METER ON THE MINUTES

THAT ACHIUWA IS PLAYING. BIG TIME BLOCK THERE AND McBRIDE HIS POINTS AND REBOUNDS IN THE THIRD QUARTER I NEED MORE DEUCE MINUTES IN THE FOURTH QUARTER AND HE STEPPED UP HUGE. INTERESTING. McBRIDE PLAYED A LOT OF THE FOURTH QUARTER. EVEN DiVINCENZO DID COME BACK WITH 3:00 TO GO AND McBRIDE CRITICAL MINUTES.

BIG PICTURE HERE. BRUNSON, SMACKED IN THE FACE. NO FOUL CALLED. LOSES THE BALL. PACERS UP BY ONE AND BRUNSON COMES BACK AND LEADS THE KNICKS FOR THE WIN. IT MADE ME THINK OF ROCKY 4. RIGHT? SO MANY ROCKY MOVES! HE NOT GETTING HIT, HE IS GETTING MAD!

HE IS GETTING MAD! EXACTLY WHAT SEEMED TO HAPPEN IS THAT EACH TIME HE GOT KNOCKED DOWN AND THIS WAS A VERY PHYSICAL GAME. THEY LET THEM PLAY. THIS WAS OLD SCHOOL KNICKS AND PACERS BACK IN THE DAY. JALEN BRUNSON, I LOVE THAT HE SLAPS HIMSELF IN THE FACE.

I SAID TO HIM IT LOOKED LIKE A PRIZE FIGHT. IT REALLY DID. HE ANSWERS THE BELL EVERY SINGLE TIME. HE DOES. INDEED. JUST TO CLARIFY ON THAT REBOUNDS. IT WAS CLOSE. 28-25 AT HALFTIME AND KNICKS OUTREBOUND THE PACERS 35-16 IN THE SECOND HALF. ON THE BRUNSON POINT HERE.

I LOVE THAT THERE. GET HIM OUT OF HERE. HE FOULED OUT. GET HIM OUT OF HERE. HAD ENOUGH OF HIM. YOU HEARD DONTE’ SAY HE IS AN MVP CALIBER POINT GUARD. THAT CONVERSATION IS GOING TO START, EVERYBODY. THAT IS GOING TO START. OTHER PEOPLE IN THE NATIONAL MEDIA HAVE STARTED IT ALREADY.

HE CONTINUES TO PERFORM AT A HIGH LEVEL. I BELIEVE, GUYS, ONE OF THE BEST STATS INVOLVED WITH HIM IS HE IS A WINNER. WHEN HE IS PLAYED, HE HAS PLAYED 115 GAMES NOW WITH THE KNICKS AND IN THE LINEUP. 71-44. LIKE A 6:15 WINNING PERCENTAGE WHEN HE PLAYS. THAT IS A WINNER.

ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MY SONG YET? GET. I FEEL LIKE I HAVE TO REMIX IT. TWO ALL STARS. KNICKS GOT TWO ALL STARS. J.B. ALL-STAR. J.B. ALL-STAR. COME ON, LEARN THE LYRICS? ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, DON’T STOP NOW! I GOT TO GET TO THE SECOND VERSE.

On the night he was selected to his first all-star game, Jalen Brunson proved he is one of the best point guards in the league with a stellar 40-point performance to lead the Knicks to their ninth straight victory, 109-105 over the Pacers.

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All-Star Jalen Brunson Drops 40 To Secure Knicks 9th Straight Win | New York Knicks