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The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
"dylan brunson" Discussed on The Crossover NBA Show with Chris Mannix
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Buckle up Virginia and help save lives on our roads. Learn more at DMV now dot com, a message from Virginia DMV. All right, I want to talk about Chris herring's favorite team, the New York Knicks, they are surging right now. Winners of 9 in a row, they are sitting in the number 5 seed at the moment in the Eastern Conference. They just won a thriller in Boston a couple of days ago, being the Celtics in double overtime, manual quickly, a tour de force in that game. Just a ridiculous performance by Emmanuel quickly. The Knicks are in, I believe, as we speak, the top 5 or 6 in offensive rating, they are top 15 in defensive rating, they're playing with confidence, they have all stars and Jalen Brunson and Julius Randle, Julius Randle rather Dylan Brunson on that level. I guess the question I'm going to ask you herring is that two years ago we kind of saw this, right? We saw a great Knicks regular season team. Is this team different? Does this team have playoff success potential or at least more playoff success potential than the team we saw a couple of years ago? Yes, just to put it bluntly, yes. I think two things. One, yes, they are not an elite team defensively on paper. They are a lot more formidable when Mitchell Robinson is there. And he missed a lot of time and they were playing 500 ball. During the time he was out, which, you know, for them is not bad, but they are an elite team, defensively, especially now with Josh Hart. They've got so many wings they can throw out there. That are disruptive. They've got everybody kind of playing on a string, playing hard. Was a sneaky good pickup. Josh Hart. Thank you. He was and to Chris point. I don't give a damn the Knicks win, lose what have you. But I do pay more attention to them just by having covered them before. I follow so many Knicks fans who were kind of like angry that the Knicks were giving up on reddish, angry that they're giving up first to get Josh Hart, and I was like, have you watched him play? Like the team struggled, particularly with Mitchell Robinson was out with rebounding. Josh Hart is great at rebounding. He's great and transition. He was one of the best single transition players in the league, just coast to coast. He's a guy that hustles like he's Tom thibodeau's fever dream. Like he's perfect for them. And that's even if he's not shooting well, he has a role on that team. Not to mention that I think advertently inadvertently he's someone that went RJ Barrett is shooting you out of a game that you can plug in. And it puts pressure on RJ Barrett that he doesn't just have carte blanche to shoot poorly to not play with effort. It is a great pickup for them. And so I think the addition of him and their rotation, Quentin Grimes has obviously been there. It also puts pressure on him from time to time when he's not playing well. You don't have to use Barrett, who was shot poorly at times, but has been okay lately. And, you know, to the other part of Chris's question, do they have more of a ceiling than last time, yeah, they have a point guard now. They don't have to rely on Derek rose playing 35 minutes in a playoff game off the bench or having to start him all of a sudden when he's come off the bent all season because you have Alfred Peyton as your point guard. So Jalen Brunson, it goes without saying that he's a guy that can go out and get you 40 if he has to. And that they're also winning games without him. They're beating elite teams without him or at least the Celtics without him the other night because Emmanuel quickly might be the 6th man of the year this year. So there's no question in my mind there are better team there a little bit more experience. Julius Randle looks far more comfortable and you don't have to rely on him to do everything the way that you were trying to do the last time, which that, you know, as much as I love Brunson, the big question is, how does Randall do? Because he looked totally overmatched when they played Atlanta a couple of years ago on that stage. He wasn't ready. He wasn't able to kind of take on the double teams. He wasn't making the right decisions when he was doubled. Having Brunson there is a guy that can dictate a lot of that dictate where the ball goes and also having more shooters than they had on that roster. I think we'll take them a lot further in addition to Mitchell Robinson if he stays healthy. They are scary. The Knicks are good. First of all, just incredibly fun to watch. Especially the last couple months, you know, I do the entertainment rankings for a side before the year every year. And I always put the Knicks low because they always play these grind out games, the offense generally under tibs has not been very good. It's been a complete flip of the script this year where they have a really good and fun offense. You mentioned Julius Randle can you hold up? Like oh, Julius Randle and apology because I thought the season he had a couple years ago when they made the playoffs when they had the first constraint against the hawks. I thought it was a little bit of a fluke. I'm like, this guy had 9 months off. Some players are coming back. After 70 days, the Knicks had all this time and they make a run, you know, remember the Celtics get swept the first round that you're like, the heat got swept in the first round. They were the Conference Finals here before. It felt like a weird season. Then last year he comes back down to earth, but we're seeing now a team that's built so well around its two best players and Brunson and Randall. That they're in much better positions to thrive. I mean, Randall has turned into one of the best isolation players in the NBA, his three point percentage is way up.
Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"dylan brunson" Discussed on Open Floor: SI's NBA Show
"I want to talk about Chris herring's favorite team, the New York Knicks, they are surging right now. Winners of 9 in a row, they are sitting in the number 5 seed at the moment in the Eastern Conference. They just won a thriller in Boston a couple of days ago, being the Celtics in double overtime. Manual quickly, a tour de force in that game, just a ridiculous performance by Emmanuel quickly. The Knicks are in, I believe, as we speak, the top 5 or 6 in offensive rating, they are top 15 in defensive rating. They're playing with confidence, they have all stars and Jalen Brunson and Julius Randle, Julius Randle rather Dylan Brunson on that level. I guess the question I'm going to ask you herring is that two years ago we kind of saw this, right? We saw a great Knicks regular season team. Is this team different? Does this team have playoff success potential or at least more playoff success potential than the team we saw a couple of years ago? Yes, just to put it bluntly, yes. I think two things. One, yes, they are not an elite team defensively on paper. They are a lot more formidable when Mitchell Robinson is there. And he missed a lot of time and they were playing 500 ball. During the time he was out, which for them is not bad, but they are an elite team, defensively, especially now with Josh Hart. They've got so many wings they can throw out there. That are disruptive. They've got everybody kind of playing on a string, playing hard. Hot heart was a sneaky good pickup. Josh Hart. Thank you. He was. And to Chris point, I don't give a damn the Knicks win, lose, what have you, but I do pay more attention to them just by having covered them before. I follow so many Knicks fans who were kind of like angry that the Knicks were giving up on reddish, angry that they're giving up first to get Josh Hart, and I was like, have you watched him play? Like the team struggled particularly with Mitchell Robinson was out with rebounding. Josh Hart is great at rebounding. He's great and transition. He was one of the best single transition players in the league just coast to coast. He's a guy that hustles like he's Tom thibodeau's fever dream. Like he's perfect for them. And that's even if he's not shooting well, he has a role on that team. Not to mention that I think advertently inadvertently he's someone that went RJ Barrett is shooting you out of a game that you can plug in. And it puts pressure on RJ Barrett that he doesn't just have carte blanche to shoot poorly to not play with effort. It is a great pickup for them. And so I think the addition of him and their rotation, Quentin Grimes has obviously been there. It also puts pressure on him from time to time when he's not playing well. You know, you don't have to use Barrett, who was shot poorly at times, but has been okay lately. And, you know, to the other part of Chris's question, do they have more of a ceiling than last time, yeah, they have a point guard now. They don't have to rely on Derek rose playing 35 minutes in a playoff game off the bench or having to start him all of a sudden when he's come off the bench all season because you have Alfred Peyton as your point guard.