What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson?

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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#221 » by TwitterFingers » Tue Apr 25, 2023 7:49 pm

Damn some of these posts aged like milk
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#222 » by KnicksGadfly » Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:10 pm

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KnicksGadfly wrote:Man this FO sold us on KD and Kyrie and somehow we’re gonna end up with Randle and Brunson


That's how you under-promise and over-deliver! :wink:


I seriously overrated Kyrie back then
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#223 » by NowWHYcee7 » Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:53 pm

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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#224 » by Shock Defeat » Tue Apr 25, 2023 8:56 pm

Brunson is better than Kyrie even if you ignore the off court stuff. Good job Knicks. Lol at the Mavs...gutted their team for a worse player when they could have just kept Brunson
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#225 » by GusFring » Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:18 pm

Brunson is such an awesome player and such a smooth fit for a thibs squad, I've never been jealous of the knicks before but hey times change.
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#226 » by JPriest » Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:27 pm

Brunson's a **** player. Good on the Knicks.
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#227 » by bronxknicksfan1 » Tue Apr 25, 2023 9:32 pm

:lol: love this
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#229 » by Rainwater » Tue Dec 5, 2023 7:32 am

I am man enough to say I was wrong and I regret creating this thread, lol.
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Post#230 » by RHODEY » Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:54 pm

Rainwater wrote:Could someone tell me what the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson is? He is a 3rd option (which the knicks have plenty of) at best but they are treating him like a superstar. Someone please educate me. He is a good player but not a great player.


Come again?
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#231 » by cgf » Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:23 pm

RHODEY wrote:
Rainwater wrote:Could someone tell me what the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson is? He is a 3rd option (which the knicks have plenty of) at best but they are treating him like a superstar. Someone please educate me. He is a good player but not a great player.


Come again?


Literally the post above you :lol:

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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#232 » by cgf » Thu Apr 11, 2024 2:16 pm

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cgf wrote:
KnicksGadfly wrote:Man this FO sold us on KD and Kyrie and somehow we’re gonna end up with Randle and Brunson


That's how you under-promise and over-deliver! :wink:


I seriously overrated Kyrie back then


I get it. His Brooklyn stint was a disaster, but if you get past how naive & susceptible to conspiracy theories Kyrie is, he has amazing footwork & touch in the paint for a guard too, and he's more athletic than Jalen...though not as strong. The biggest difference between them is between the years and there was no way to know that that would be the case at the time.

Jalen's craftiness was on display as soon as he broke into the mavs lineup, but you can't really bank on a player just continuing to improve year after year the way Jalen has and I think RJ will. Guys usually plateau / stagnate before becoming this good without having really special tools.
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#233 » by sisibilio » Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:00 pm

Maybe Brunson is a better batman but Irving a better robin?
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#234 » by blueNorange » Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:38 pm

wow this thread was the last "lolknicks" thread.

now you all get to enjoy the next decade of us being great and having 30+ national tv games.
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#235 » by blueNorange » Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:40 pm

Tor_Raps wrote:Hes a Knicks type player... one dimensional who will get overpaid for a short stretch of playing well. I have always said that he's a great backup guard but a bad starting guard.

This will be another contract that Knicks will regret when you consider the draft assets they had to move out to make it happen. Just a horribly run franchise.

the true irony is the raptors being locked up to barnes, rj, and iq with overpaid contracts.
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#236 » by cgf » Thu Apr 11, 2024 5:27 pm

sisibilio wrote:Maybe Brunson is a better batman but Irving a better robin?


Brunson's been killing it since Julius went down...though his efficiency has dipped significantly...but before Randle went down they were 1a/1b. Brunson's USG rate last season was 27.2%, Randle's was 29.5%. Before Randle got hurt both were around 28-29% this season. And Jalen didn't exactly struggle as Luka's Robin.

I think Jalen has just become better than Kyrie at this point, regardless of role.
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#237 » by UcanUwill » Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:40 pm

Man, I was about to post that Robert Downey Jr. Relief Meme jpeg with simply addind - when you scroll through a bumped thread and you do not find a stupid comment you made. - But nah man.... post #40.
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#238 » by cgf » Sat Apr 13, 2024 1:33 am

UcanUwill wrote:Man, I was about to post that Robert Downey Jr. Relief Meme jpeg with simply addind - when you scroll through a bumped thread and you do not find a stupid comment you made. - But nah man.... post #40.


:dontknow: You're good. Jalen, like Julius, will also be a multiple Allstar/All-NBA guy.
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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#239 » by Rainwater » Sat Apr 13, 2024 3:37 pm

UcanUwill wrote:Man, I was about to post that Robert Downey Jr. Relief Meme jpeg with simply addind - when you scroll through a bumped thread and you do not find a stupid comment you made. - But nah man.... post #40.


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Re: What is the Knicks fascination with Jalen Brunson? 

Post#240 » by stuporman » Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:00 pm

Sure the bad takes from haters is what makes threads like this fun to read in hindsight but dam the cringiest takes are from Knick fans... oof :lol:
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