Knicks-Timberwolves Reaction: How Jalen Brunson BENEFITS from NY’s SPEED & transition play
Jason reacts to the New York Knicks continuing their hot streak with a win over Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves and breaks down the importance of Mike Brown’s new emphasis on speed and transition, which in turn helps Jalen Brunson be more efficient offensively.
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they are still a good defense with Rudy on the court, they are a top 10ish defense in Rudy minutes and literally the actual worst when he is not on the floor, I think they said we were like a 137 per 100 with him off the floor or something insane so he looks bad on the floor but is WAY worse off.
Naz is just terrible on defense and Conley and Divencenzo are dubious which when Rudy looked bad in Utah it was because their perimeter defense was awful. Now the Wolves perimeter defense is not holding up their end of the bargain and Rudy is getting a little beat up for it.
Jaylen Clark is the real deal, if we can run a Clark/Ant/Jaden with Rudy lineup we will be clamping teams we just need to also get scoring out of that 4 spot(or a true 1 if they put McDaniels at the 4)
Practically a perfect second half
Buddy don’t wanna talk bout the Celtics bc he know jb balling!
Benefit Brunson? Seriously. Over the last three games, Brunson has started playing like a selfless team first, elite point guard. He's moving and passing the ball quickly, thus generating great looks for his teammates. For those of you enamored by what Brown referred to in a past post game as "his 9000 points," you're probably missing how hard he's been fighting through screens. He's still lingering too much in the crash zone and should stay closer to his guy on the perimeter, but his defensive effort has been refreshing.
Jason is totally right about the Wolves having a bad defense to start the year and not falling for it being a long-term trend. Last year the defense was not good (but NAW was carrying it) for the first stretch until those home games against the Lakers and the Clippers… then suddenly it was back for most of the year.. and then it was the offense that kind of came and went (but occasionally the defense took a night off or three).