OG Anunoby has UNLOCKED The New York Knicks…

OG Anunoby has UNLOCKED The New York Knicks…

Firing OG anobi has unlocked the New York Knicks as Jaylen Brunson and Julius Randall are playing the best basketball of their lives post trade and also the New York Knicks have gotten on an incredible run since acquiring OG being nine and two since the trade and then obviously eight And1 without Jaylen

Brunson in the two games that he missed and we are going to break this all down so what’s up guys welcome back to Nick’s digest it’s Chris here and we are going to jump right into the video as we always do because Jaylen Brunson and Julius Randall have been unlocked since

The Knicks acquired OG on anobi who also himself has had a nice start to his Nick season now a lot of people said that the trade was a steal for the Raptors once it was H or once it made or once it was made sorry about that but

Really it just looks like that on the surface I guess I don’t really see why people believe that so much I mean RJ and IQ have not always been the most consistently efficient players the way that anobi is and essentially what OG has been able to do for the Knicks has

Been huge obviously these are his career stats but if you look at the bottom you’d see that he’s averaging 15 points per game while shooting 40.8% from three and over 50% from the field he’s getting 1.2 steals per game he’s also getting an assist he’s getting 1.2 blocks per game

The man is a defensive Menace he has been so good for the Knicks and and really the biggest thing that OG has done is just help the Knicks become a more fluid efficient team because RJ didn’t fit with the Nicks I had said that for a while he just did not fit

There were too many lefties who wanted the ball in their hands and want and wanted to go downhill they’ve replaced that with OG who requires way less of a usage rate who can sort of actually play offense without the ball in his hands and that gives a chance for Bronson and

Randall to work with the ball in their hands and both of them have succeeded wildly since then as Ian Begley points out in his article both players have been performing at a high level since the trade brunson’s avering 29 Points and 8.4 assists in nine games post trade

The Knicks are outscoring opponents by an average of 18 points with Brunson on the court in that stretch and randle’s averaging 25.6 points eight rebounds and five assists per game since the trade and New York is as scoring opponents by an average of 11.5 points per game when

Randall is on the floor in that span now something that Brunson said is that we’re flowing out there I think the chemistry is just unexplainable we’re able to flow and feed off each other just making plays while still being aggressive we’ve been in a Groove so

We’ve got to keep doing that and keep doing what we’ve been doing keep giving each other confidence and keep moving forwards the Knicks are n and two since to trade as I mentioned and eight in one with Brunson on the court and New York is plus

124 in the last 258 minutes that Brunson and Randall have shared the FL there’s sort of always been some questions if Ken Brunson and Randle work together and there have been some Nicks fans who don’t like Julius Randle who claim that Brunson and Randall don’t like each other obviously that’s BS Brunson and

Randle get along very well we saw after the Raptors game they had that moment together which was very nice they’re messing around with each other look clearly they’re friends they’re playing at an elite rate they really right now look like one of the best Duos in the

NBA and nobody’s talking about it both of them should be All-Stars Brunson should probably be an All-Star starter he’s not going to be but he should be and the Knicks are a perfectly fluid team obviously there’s still the problem with the bench the Knicks see Duce

McBride as more of a two guard if you look here with the unlikelihood of a blockbuster trade materializing until the summer the Knicks ACC according to teams negotiating with New York are focused on acquiring a ball handler because McBride is viewed as more of an undersized two guard and a big man

Because of Mitchell Robinson’s kind of ambiguous season future there’s also a willingness to take out multi-year deals to be packaged in a later Blockbuster and a source said the Mavericks have expressed interest in Grimes along with qu along with the Atlanta Hawks who have also possessed interest and gmes could

Be used for Deon Murray trade but as we know the Deon Murray price seems to be pretty high and the Mavericks have Tim Hardaway Jr if the Knicks want to stick with Mig brde at the one but it seems like they’re looking at him as more of a

Two guard but the Knicks are looking for more ball handling Off the Bench but outside of that this starting lineup has looked great I don’t see a reason to change the start starting lineup as of right now I think the Knicks should roll into the playoffs with this starting

Lineup of Brunson D venzo an aobi Randall and hartenstein it feels like that’s working it feels like they’re just absolutely clicking there’s a reason why they’re nine- two and again one of those losses is a without Jaylen Brunson lost and it was a close game against the Mavericks that Tom Tibido

Just coached horrifically so that happens like those are games that we just going to drop the magic are good it’s not like they’re a bad team it was a close game the Nicks blue lead because they just could not tibs just Managed IT poorly and Randle got exhausted it is

What it is they didn’t have Brunson if they had Brunson they would have won the game so it’s not really something to be worried about but the Knicks now are entering this perfect position of basketball where they just look like one of the best teams in the Eastern

Conference it feels like they can contend with anyone I mean they have two allars Brunson is playing better than Steph Curry is this season he’s having an elite season he’s only averaging 0. five points per game less than Jason Tatum his efficiency numbers are better than Jason Tatum’s Brunson is a 1A star

Whatever Becky Hammond wants to say she is wrong Brunson is playing like a onea star 100% especially since the an no be trade it’s given him more spacing to work on the inside while also he has one of the best three-point shooting seasons of his career well the best three-point

Shooting season of his career honestly and now the Knicks are in position to roll into the playoffs have a starting lineup that really worked works together and if they can get one more bench piece they’re as dangerous as any team in the Eastern Conference other than a healthy Celtics like sure the

Bucks are good but they have their problems they can’t guard the perimeter at all if the Knicks and the Bucks face off against each other neither team plays that much defense on threes it should be a fire fight and it’ll be an interesting one to see obviously right

Now the Knicks are hovering around the middle of the Eastern Conference playoff picture so they’d probably avoid the bucks until the second or third round and maybe see the Heat or the Cavs or the Pacers or the Magic in the first round the East is a mess right now it’s

Pretty unclear who’s going to finish where but it feels like the Knicks for one thing are going to be in at least the top five of the Eastern Conference they’re playing like one of the best teams and it’s just been wild to see I

Mean if you look at them with OG on the court the Knicks have a 99.3 defensive rating with Adam they have a 120.7 defensive rating OG’s getting one 1.2 Steals and 1.2 blocks per game and it’s holding players to 27 .8% on shots greater than 15 ft and 44.4% from the field

Overall and as IQ for three did say we’re going OG an anoi for First Team all defense I think when we got OG we knew what he was great at we knew he was one of the best defenders in the NBA we knew we could shoot well I didn’t know

He was this good at defense like I’ll be real I’ve only seen o or I had only seen OG play a handful of times up in Toronto I wasn’t making the most time to watch Raptors games when OG an anobi was at his best because the Raptors had kind of

Fallen off and there was really no reason for me to watch them it’s not like they were that interesting it’s not like they were that good now I watch them because RJ and IQ are there but it is shocking to see how much better OG has made this basketball team it’s so

Clear that the like these Knicks are so good they just did not fit together with RJ with IQ there were too many cooks in the kitchen and now you get a guy who’s really right now your third or fourth best player depending on where you want

To put hartenstein I would say OG’s the third best player without Mitch there potentially the third best player with Mitch there and he just fits the team perfectly he doesn’t need the ball to be effective on offense he’s always effective on defense he’s the perfect player for this Knicks team the Knicks

Don’t need that many more guys to dominate the ball they need guys to play their roles Brunson is that guy he’s him Julius Randall is excellent as a second option especially when he has Brunson with him Randle is so much better with Brunson than without him I mean we could

See it from the 2021 to 22 season when Alec Burks was starting at point guard after the Knicks benched Kemba Burks was not really a point guard and in and thus Randall struggled a lot and he had one of the worst seasons in his Knicks career probably his second

Worst after his first season with the Knicks well certainly his second worst after his first season with the Knicks Bronson comes in Randle becomes an All-Star again Bronson’s here obviously again this year for the foreseeable future randle’s an All-Star again what we’re looking at is Julius Randle becoming a second option and it’s

Working perfectly and Jaylen Bronson as the first option and this especially works when you replace RJ with OG on aobi because one OG is a little better than RJ but also it’s more just the fit than anything else OG is not RJ they’re very different players and both of them

Fit better on their current teams and right now we’re looking at ogan anobi unlocking the New York Knicks if you look at the plus minus number numbers brunson’s assist numbers are equally as impressive as anything else because he was averaging six assists before the trade and now is up

To 8.4 which is the seventh highest in the NBA brunson’s assist ratio has also jumped from 20 to 25 since the trade and his assist percentage is up from 27 before the trade to 35.5 cents which would rank him sixth in the NBA and it could be as simple as adding OG and

Subtracting Barrett Begley highlights for the reason that his assists have jumped because Barrett’s usage was 26.6 which is nearly double OG’s 14.7 and Barrett shot 42% from the field and 32 from three while OG is shooting 51 and 40 OG is just a more efficient player

Than RJ he just fits on the Knicks better and it has unlocked this Nicks starting lineup especially to where they are both an elite defense with anobi and an elite offense this is how championship teams are made it feels like the Knicks are one piece away but

For right now just go get one more guy off the bench go into the playoffs and show the world how good you really are because right now I don’t think people realize how good the Knicks really are and they’re a team that’s going to show that in the playoffs because that’s when

Jaylen brunson’s at his best and OG anobi is going to make them work perfectly and if randle’s healthy I guarantee he is going to look like a different player than he’s ever looked in the playoffs before so like And subscribe to this video so you don’t miss any New York Knicks content Nicks

Digest to the Moon baby we’re making a few videos a day we’re gonna try to keep that rolling Nicks play the Nets tonight you know the Knicks are winning that game have a good day and go Nicks

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