ESPN SC | “Jalen Brunson is playing like an MVP” – Stephen A. on Knicks DESTROY Jazz 118-103

ESPN SC | “Jalen Brunson is playing like an MVP” – Stephen A. on Knicks DESTROY Jazz 118-103

18 to 103 great to have you with us from our Delta MSG Studios from the garden wow indeed Bill pedo along with W zerak going to talk to Josh hard here in a couple moments Alan Han will join us as well all right January ends now with the

Knicks going 14 and2 tying the franchise record for the second most wins in a month and again now they’ve won two straight without Julius Randall and without OJ anobi and they dominated the jazz tonight yeah it was a really impressive effort especially by Dante D

Venzo he came out the Knicks got off to a little bit of a slow start on a backto back uh Utah built themselves a little bit of lead of a lead the first five minutes of the game and then you could see him make a few shots and he and he

Showed emotion and the garden crowd got fired up after that you have to lean on your crowd and home back to backs the Knicks are now 17 and five at home they’re defending home court this is becoming a tough T tough place to come

In and play and get a win and that was just a phenomenal effort by Dante and Company last night in Charlotte the Knick scored with 44 points in the third quarter best quarter of the year they were close again tonight at one point the Knicks in the third quarter tonight

Went on a 30 to six run to blow the game wide open yeah it was and that’s what great teams do they make adjustments at halftime in that third quarter they come out of that halftime locker room and they just step on the other team’s throat and that’s exactly what the

Knicks did the ball movement was outstanding they saw some things could they could do to make adjustments defensively that would create some easy baskets and how about the chemistry between Jaylen Brunson Josh Hart and Dante demenzo I mean those guys play so hard their effort is just Max on every

Single possession and then when you put those three on the floor together it’s just such smart basketball I mean the turnovers there only four turnovers as a team which is incredible excuse me five turnovers as a team preus aoua just fitting in perfectly the trade from the

Raptors he is embraced playing at the world’s most famous arena and I love watching that jump shot I will tell you from one jump shooter to another Dante that is beautiful to watch that stroke look at the numbers uh divon chenzo 33 Brunson 29 hartenstein 14 and 12 aoua 18

And Josh Hart with a triple double we’re now joined by Josh Hart Josh thanks for stopping by congratulations on uh your first career triple double how have you guys been able now in two games to do so well without Julius Rand and ogan and Obi um obviously Tay’s been playing playing you

Know amazing shooting the ball uh well give JB credit um but we’re just doing we’re doing a lot of little things we’re out rebounding might hope we I rebound him today while I say that but doing a lot of little things just um playing within the florid offense um and just

Kind of you know getting stops playing fast how do you have to adjust your game personally when you’re in the starting lineup um so a little it’s a little different um you know I I got to find my shot somewhere um somehow but um just try to be aggressive uh you know

Just try to be a little bit more of a playmaker and decision maker um I think that’s the biggest thing just kind of being a little more aggressive tell us about the team defense this team Utah has been averaging 128 a game over the last 12 and you hold them way down below

That and you guys keep doing this night after night how do you guys play such good defense so consistently um you know we we’re able to be aggressive um obviously Tay’s Tay’s a ball Hawk um obviously OG for the most part obviously you know he didn’t play today um dece

Gives good minutes off the bench um you know pressure has been playing great um so we’ve been making them making them have tough shots and you know we’re finishing rebounds finishing possessions with rebounds and you know when we do that we’re able to play in transition

Have fun and kind of play the style that we want to play thanks for stopping by congrats we’ll see you on Thursday appreciate it all right so the Knicks 14 wins tied for the second most wins in a month in franchise history of course the 99 1994

Team Wally loss of the Spurs and uh loss of the rockets in the finals and the 69 team in November uh went on to win the title in 1970 so those teams that have won these 14 games in a row have done great things in the postseason uh let us

Now bring in Allan Han from the court Allan you call the game tonight on ESPN Radio 98.7 FM how about Dante dienzo 22 shots last night and he matches his career high again tonight that’s one guy that’s getting a lot more shots with the injuries to OG and Randall and certainly

Taking advantage of it as well right and and now you get your back quarter gave you 60 points last night gave you 62 tonight and it’s just the chemistry between those two players he Devan chenzo and Brunson it’s starting a show and I heard what you guys were talking

About Wally I’m with you they are they just are so smart of a team it is beautiful to watch because it’s not really just one player doing it all it’s the cutting it’s the moving it’s high motor I thought d never mind the threes he and Josh Hart turned it up a notch

Defensively in that first half and the two of them playing at a high motor high Pace really got this game going and I don’t know if you guys saw it but Colin ston early in the game got in the face of Jaylen Brunson he was playing him physical and then like started jawing

With him it was like the first couple minutes of the game next possession Dante checked him up shut him down got the ball went down and then drilled a three in his face and then turned to their bench and had something to say and from that point forward it was like the

Knicks if they needed to be woken up in the second game of back to back that woke them up these Villanova guys they play hard yeah definit I saw that play Allan Colin seon gave Brunson a little cheap shot it was under the uh the basket on the near side under the Utah

Basket and he hit him and then uh back down the other end of the floor Brunson was kind of jabbing at seon and that’s when Dante dienzo jumped in there but how about the defense Allan and be honest were you hoping they were going

To keep him under a 100 yes yeah I mean you guys are putting all these numbers out there I said you’re singing my song and that’s the one song I wanted is because you know why they came into this game for the month at 99.9 holding opponents per game in a

League where everybody’s scoring 140 150 you know the for the Knicks to hold the team for hold opponents for a whole month under 100 would have been something but obviously that number is going to tick up to about 100 but that’s still pretty remarkable but that’s one

Number the 14 wins in the month is a big number and how about at home this is now the start of a road of a home stand I should say we’re so used to saying road trip this is the start of a six-game home stand we talked about in the

Pregame 14 of the next 18 are in this beautiful building well they were 9- one in the month of January that ties a franchise record for wins at home in a month that also says something about what they’re doing and establishing here at the Garden where they’re are now 17

And five Allan it’s really remarkable in a way that no matter who Tom Tibido puts out there he’s getting production yeah precious atua now 18 points his second game with as a starter he’s put together quite a run and it hasn’t mattered here whether he’s coming off the bench or in

The starting five did you have on your bingo card that pre a would make up some of the offense of Julius randle’s absence cuz if you did you won tonight cuz who saw that coming I joked with him we interviewed him in the postgame or at

The end of the game and I said to him you know we keep calling it the OG anobi trade should we call it the precious auua trade as well and he laughed he said no no no no OG’s my guy he he said I look up to him it’s still the trade

But of course still he’s now contributing as well and he just said the offense that he’s contributing in this game is mainly stuff that he knows he can do he said it’s about getting Confidence from my teammates in the things I can do and can contribute and

We’re seeing him start to do that now just like Dante D venzo getting more fgas well prea sucha getting an opportunity to be involved in the offense and what you’re seeing Wally is a guy that’s not hesitating and you like to see that because that tells me that

There’s confidence in him where he says I can do these things if you give me the opportunity and he’s getting them and he certainly got it tonight another thing I know you love about precious AA is embracing playing here in New York yeah you know he’s a New York kid he comes

Here to the Garden I think he is really relishing this opportunity getting traded to the New York Knicks and being able to play in front of friends and family and play in this building I’m sure he has a little bit of history of watching games in this building as he

Was growing up so that is a big accomplishment for him and he is just relishing the moment Allen and taking a doing a great job it’s great to it is it’s great to see all the players that are ready to play and they when you go

Deep to your bench when you have to to see one after another the guys that can come in and contribute and do what they can Jericho Sims again I thought had good minutes in this game this was a big front line that the Jazz had and yet the

Knicks were able to outrebound them outwork them in the paint put up a ton of points in the paint it was still it was and it’s all because like I said I really believe while you mention the defense it all was predicated on them ramping it up defensively and it turned

Into a lot of offense going the other way and once this building got rocking you just had that feeling this was going to be another win okay Alan thanks we’ll see you Thursday night Nicks will be hosting the Pacers to begin the month of February you got it boys uh when we come

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ESPN SC | “Jalen Brunson is playing like an MVP” – Stephen A. on Knicks DESTROY Jazz 118-103