Is Jalen Brunson The Knicks Savior?

Is Jalen Brunson The Knicks Savior?

So I finished the video just before last night’s game started having no idea what Jaylen Brunson was about to do which was singlehandedly will his team to Victory with 40 points overall and 11 crucial points down the stretch and he did it exactly the way he’s been doing it all

Season with a mix of every type of shot from all over the floor leading to MVP chance from the crowd and an incredible moment in his postgame thoughts when asked about earning his first Allstar appearance I [Applause] mean I got I got nothing to say I got

Nothing to say and what he said about how they could keep coming back against the tough Indiana team encapsulates everything about this special team we can’t fighting man I mean no matter what we’re going to keep fighting that’s what we do don’t keep F every single night

That’s what we do especially here man this place is unbelievable especially here congratulations Jaylen thank you so much the New York Knicks are the hottest team in the NBA in the midst of a nine-game winning streak and with their new additions they’ve turned it up a

Notch on both ends of the floor they’ve got someone who should officially be in the MVP race a physical presence who can be unstoppable at times and a collegial group of players who shut their mouths and know their roles so let’s go through the footage to figure out are the New York Knicks

Legit under the steady barking of Tom Fido everything starts and finishes with Jaylen Brunson before their streak you can see Julius Randall had the highest usage rate but over the last nine games of this winning streak the numbers have flipped in a significant way and based on the lineups tips are throwing out

There it’s even more impressive what he’s doing far too often Brunson is surrounded by three non Shooters and that leads to as many as four players in his orbit as he gets to the basket but he’s the craftiest finisher in the league as Butler finds out the hard way

As he uses the Euro to the Baseline to finish with a strong inside hand also it’s not a travel because he ends the dribble with his right foot on the ground he’s then allowed to take two legal steps into the jump in order to shoot it perfect with Josh Hart Isaiah

Hartenstein and precious atua there aren’t many snipers for him to kick out to and the paint gets clogged very quickly but Brunson is one of the best postup players in the league and he generates many of them when his drives stalled because of the lack of spacing

The jab in to turnaround fade gets him all the space he needs from 14 ft one solution to the spacing issue is to get hartenstein in the dunker spot on the weak side this pulls his man out of the lane and if they use another non-shooter

In heart as the ball screener with sharp shooter Dante D vinchenzo on the strong side where his man surely won’t help there’s not much the defense can do against an off foot scooping floater that bounces at the top of the box before going right into the hoop with

Only one shooter out there you can see how much easier it is to contain the pick and roll as Brunson has nowhere to go without his teammates pulling any gravity this is a typical play and explains why he covers the six most distance in the NBA and has me worried

He’ll be ground down to dust by the end of the season but he never runs out of energy and another great post move at the end of a drive as he utilizes the Up and Under from the elbow and drops it in for the and one with just two Shooters

Around him see how much more open the paint is for him to come off the ball screen Bridges is worried about a skip to OG in the left corner cam Johnson cannot leave divincenzo in the strong side corner so Brunson demonstrates his two- foot floater game for the kind roll

Here’s the same concept two Shooters in either corner and a Chua hiding in the weak side dunker spot you have to be careful of Brunson rejecting the ball screen and the lane is wide open for him to find another floater while he doesn’t take a ton of three-pointers he’s at a

Career-high by far in threo attempts and percentage and if you go underneath the screen to stop him from exploding into the lane he’s going to make you pay there’s so much you can learn from Jaylen Brunson and the things I’m pointing out will not only make you a

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He’s probably going to go over eight and a half on that one uh D’Angelo Russell’s been really on a tear recently so I’m thinking he’s getting over 18 and a half easy against the Rockets uh Brook Lopez Denver I don’t think he’s going to grab any boards doesn’t usually do it anyway

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You waiting for terms and conditions apply see sleeper terms of used for details currently operational in over 25 States check out sleeper today next up is Dante dienzo who’s been a big part of the vill Nova value primarily as a spot up shooter that plays off of brunson’s

Gravity br brilliantly first off he needs almost no time or space to get it off as his man is focus on the pick and roll out top while Double D utilizes The Hop to get into his release before the defender can react they seem to have their own Rhythm and Brunson knows

Exactly when to snap the pass to div venzo when his man has gotten entranced with the potential pick and roll on the other side of the floor watch to venzo no to send Grimes to the wing so he can stay in the corner already knowing that

Brunson is going to suck his man into the paint on his Drive and then kick it from midair for a wideopen shot to regain the lead Dante does drive it just enough to keep the defense honest as Brunson back down into the post lures foolishly helped from one pass away by

RJ Barrett Dante attacks on the catch immediately Blowing by the help and finishing nicely with the off foot Lefty layup dienzo also lets the offense work for him to generate great looks from Deep here’s Spain pick and roll where Dante comes up to back screen the ball

Screener man notice how Kelly oen moves into a to drop position first despite Kesler already being there and that makes him two steps late getting out to the open to venzo then they run some princ in action on the weak side as the ball is dribbled

To the wing auua cuts to the basket which forces D Vincenzo’s man to pick him up on a switch while Jordan Clarkson is so turned around he has no hope of recovering in time OG anunobi has been everything the Knicks needed in a remarkable trade that has them keeping

Their eye on the top of the conference and offensively tibs has been using pistol action a ton for him as he gets a pin down out of the corner into a handoff near the wing they’ve been smart to always start this action out of the

Left corner so he can get the ball and turn into the lane using his strong hand to dribble he can show off both his finishing package as well as his pullup midi game depending on how the defense plays it and if you sag underneath too much he can also get himself behind that

Line and earn an extra point teams no doubt will adjust their defense for this action during the in the playoffs probably top lock in to prevent the catch but keep your eye on whether that will even matter that leaves us with Julius Randall a guy who can look

Incredible on a series of plays one moment and then completely disjointed and Unworthy of playing time the next during this streak he’s finding ways to play off of Brunson a lot more as a spot up player and this is what he needs to do even more of watch how Brunson brings

Two Defenders all the way to half court while they don’t pass the ball a ton relative to the rest of the NBA check out easy these shots are once the defense is scrambled again here is Brunson penetrating the defense into the paint Barnes crashes down along with another teammate and Brunson will always

Find this pass back out for wideopen threes Julius just needs to move into a position so Brunson has a good angle since his low three-point percentage will usually mean his man will go to Brunson and even a poor shooter becomes a good one with that much space to shoot

It they run Brunson off a pistol action out top throw a little Spain Pig and roll out there and that forces randle’s man to bump down on Haren Stein’s roll Brunson then weaves his way through traffic and finds Randall wide open for another three brunson’s gravity will

Also open up drives for Randall where he can get to his comfort zones like the right Baseline for the fade with his left shoulder already aligned to the hoop or if Jaylen Attacks An Early offense and collapses three Defenders into the paint it directly gives Randall

A close out to attack and he can find his pet spot right near that right elbow for another jumper the problem occurs when Randall tries to do too much by playing like a player he’s clearly not the biggest issue is with his multi- dribble isolations whether they’re in

The post or start from outside teams know he’s not a great passer from this position and they can gamble with the double from one pass away and catch him with his eyes down for steals his efficiency and post UPS is already very low for a guy who posts up as much as he

Does and they’ve simply got to get him to stop doing it so much since the biggest value of these isos is that you should at least get a shot up to the rim but these turnovers just kill an offense without his ball stopping Tendencies the offense does flow a bit better what he

Does well in the post is the turnaround jumper where he can get some space after muscling in close if you can do this three or four times a game great and eliminate the other times where he tries to force his way to the front of the rim

He gets blocked too often when he doesn’t see the help coming and the help knows he isn’t going to pass it from there this has always been the big conundrum for the Nicks in the Randall era and the forced ISO shots he sometimes likes to take go from high

Level difficulty in the regular their season to impossible to make in the playoffs defensively with the arrival of OG and precious and more time for hartenstein they become an elite bunch in the way we’ve become accustomed to from a thibo coach team watch how physical hartstein is with embiid to not

Let him just Walts down to the block then Brunton rotates to the front of the rim to support OG’s pressure on the cutter Divan chenzo picked up the cutter before hartenstein CHS his chest to embiid and then Randall with a cherry on top this Knicks team took down an elite

Offense by holding them under 100 points with hustle and desire just check hartenstein starting his Sprint at the elbow with UB way ahead of him only to catch up and cleanly block the dunk attempt they rarely miss a rotation even when doubling the post as OG times his

Double perfectly on the catch while Hart Grimes and Brunson form an l and lure the bad pass into a turnover they like to rotate the weak side Corners man all the way to the strong side block to protect against the pick and roll I think teams would get killed Le a skip

To the corner wide open but they’re able to hold their positions well on the weak side and get MB to shoot an a rhythmic shot to get Randall engaged like this is a huge Plus for the Knicks as he rotates again off his man on the weak side

Corner to pick up and beid above the free throw line Hua hustles back down and divon chenzo takes away the corner pass at the exact moment precious can cover UB more good positional defense from Randall gets another stop hardenstein is very mobile for such a

Big man and he can switch out on a pick and roll and maintain the ball handler then OG is strong enough to guard centers gets respect from the referees as well and there’s hardenstein to Hoover up the rebound while Brunson is usually the smallest guy on the court

Look how his pressure makes patum catch this a lot higher than he wanted to be and then move backwards while passing to allow hartenstein to deflect it into a steel and the biggest bonus Brunson is second in the league in taking charges watch how OG covers for him on the

Cutter so he can step up and catch Maxi unaware with the charge they won’t Force the most turnovers or block the most shots but they’re just a tough bunch to score on and that’s what’s going to help them the most come playoff time how many teams could they beat in the Eastern

Conference in a seven game series they’re in third place right now behind Milwaukee who’s already struggling under dock but barely above Cleveland who’s been just as hot recently but I’m not sure any of the Eastern Conference teams would be overwhelming favorites in a series and this might be the moment they

Finally get back in the spotlight after way too many years of mediocrity

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