Im Coming Home wrote:Capn'O wrote:Im Coming Home wrote:You know what the worst part is for me?
Realizing Brunson isn't the seemingly perfect player who would always make the right play and never let us lose big games
He seemed when he first came here he could do no wrong, and I don't mean that in a rose tinted glasses kinda way, I mean it literally, like when he first got here he just always seemed to come up big at the most important times, or if he didn't we always had some way to logically excuse him for it
But now? I really don't know man, he's my favorite Knick of the last 20+ years, he took a huge pay cut, etc but man.. we've routinely **** the bed against teams we could/should beat or there's an opportunity to come up big and we never capitalize on the series.
Started with the Heat series years ago, then last year I know injuries but still we had a shot and blew it, now this year, Pacers are not more talented on paper, they have B level stars, we have 2 A level starts IMO, yet we come up short again.
I'm sad because I had such assurance in my mind that Brunson would lead us to the promise land if we gave him a talented roster around him, but once again he comes up short as the leader and loses to a clown like Haliburton.
It's just disappointing man, I want to believe in him but year after year I'm realizing he is a normal player with flaws and stuff, I thought his life long of growing up with basketball and how level headed he is would assure us he would always come up big and never let stuff like this happen to the team, but he doesn't prevent it, it keeps happening now every year ends up disappointment and feeling like "we should have beaten that team they weren't better than us" it's never "damn that team just was so much better than us that we lost" were losing series we should win.
I'm not too hard on Brunson right now. Indy's a nightmare matchup for him and he's not getting much guidance from his coach.
Thibs and Brunson were great against Boston. This was a KAT series and only once have we just spammed his actions. This was a length/speed series and only once did we stick with length/speed.
The troubling thing is... OKC is like Indy but with better players. If we aren't beating Indy we damn sure weren't beating OKC.
I don't lay the blame fully on Brunson I just used to feel like "no way would Brunson let this happen to us" in terms of losing a series to a team that's nearly equal talent wise(in fact I think Knicks are more talented even if the series doesn't show it, individually we have more talent)
It's kinda like thinking he was Jordan-like mentality wise, and he seemed like it at first, always did the right thing, played right, played smart...
Now we see it's not a flawless player, he makes dumb mistakes, gets killed on defense, and does allow us to lose series that we should win..
I thought him growing up around basketball and how cool and collected he seemed it meant he would ALWAYS show up when it mattered most, but we've lost multiple series against teams we "should beat" prior to the series in his Knicks tenure now. And it's just disappointing to realize he's human, he's not as special as he seemed to be.
It just hurts me to realize that.
Yeah, I love the kid and his moxie too but he's been very dissapointing this series. I thought he was more cerebral than what he's shown in this series.
If I was the point guard, I would be foaming at the mouth after what Kat did last game to get him going this game. Spam the one teammate I have that's averaging 30 **** points per game against them this entire season, but he just does the same thing over and over and over again. I knew he was a scoring point guard, but I thought he was smart enough to pull out the passing when the game required it. I've seen him have double digit assist games after falling short trying to carry the team by himself.
He lost something this playoffs....and it might have to do with his head...might have gotten a little too big for him, and it doesn't help that we have a coach that plays favorites. I was fully expecting him to have 25 point 10+ assists the rest of the way after his blunder in game one, but he didn't. That surprised me.
Bring in a coach that has no player agendas, no personal favorites, and run it back. I think we'll be fine with just two tweaks....new coach, because obviously this one won't change, as he proved again tonight, and cutting Hart's role to that of the role player that he is, but is treated and given minutes and the long leash of a superstar.
It will be nauseating to watch this team come back with this guy and play the same way again. Remember those beautiful post ups Kat was doing when he was feeling this team out, giving dimes to cutters, bombing threes, cutting and driving, before Thibs reminded him that he didn't go to Villanova and needed to simmer down...lets bring in somebody who can utilize him for that instead of this guy who has one style....letting his point guard pound the rock....this is why JB's stats are inflated.
Bring in somebody who will make this Kat's team, he is our best player now. It bothers me to say this but, JB is the reason he looks bad. Give this guy to Haliburton, put him on the Pacers, and he would be a nuclear weapon, somebody who would actually get him the ball while he's on flames instead of his point guard "reading and reacting" and giving his college buddies the shots because the defense DECIDED to leave them open.
Remember when Neismith got hot, and his point guard went to him again...and again...and again....and again....and again. Why can't we do that? Because the game tells us what to do.
No you stupid ****, that's the defense telling you what to do, and you fall for it. **** that, I say no more to accidental basketball.
