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Featured Columnist IVDecember 25, 2023
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Jalen Brunson scored a game-high 38 factors and Julius Randle (24 factors) and RJ Barrett (21 factors) each had stellar video games because the New York Knicks earned a 128-121 win over the Milwaukee Bucks in Monday’s Christmas Day matchup.
The win atoned for the Knicks’ 19-point loss to Milwaukee at dwelling simply two nights in the past and led to a heaping pile of reward for Brunson on social media.
dean 🦂 @DeanScorpion_
Jalen Brunson: “Who am I?”
Damian Lillard: pic.twitter.com/VmPV0J8RZ1
J.E. Skeets @jeskeets
I will go loopy when Jalen Brunson is, like, fifth or sixth amongst East guards in the case of the primary fan vote returns for the 2024 NBA All-Star Sport. Knicks followers gotta have this man beginning.
Julito McCullum aka LITO @IamJulito
Jalen Brunson actually is the perfect level guard within the East. Idc who says anything.
joshua @recessbelljay
what number of elite PGs does Jalen Brunson need to utterly outclass earlier than he is proven any respect???
Shaun On Playback @iHateShaun
Wow. It is a disgrace Jalen Brunson is rarely the perfect participant on the ground it doesn’t matter what staff we play towards. If solely.
Brunson’s enormous efficiency comes amid every week through which he was the middle of dialog relating to the standing of shorter NBA gamers. Las Vegas Aces coach and former San Antonio Spurs assistant Becky Hammon mentioned Brunson is “too small” to guide the Knicks to a championship.
“They do not have sufficient personnel, they do not have the manpower that they should dangle with these guys,” Hammon mentioned of the Knicks. “I feel you are going to get a constant staff like they have been, they are a fairly good staff.
“They’re well-coached, they’ll be on their defensive recreation, however on the finish of the day, they do not have a dude. You gotta have a dude, you gotta have a 1A dude and so they’re lacking that on the finish of the day if we’re simply getting right down to brass tacks.”
Brunson did his finest to point out he’s a “1A dude” on a nationally televised setting and received huge video games from his supporting forged. Randle has scored 20-plus factors in 14 straight video games regardless of struggles capturing from distance, whereas Barrett had his first 20-point efficiency since Dec. 15.
Giannis Antetokounmpo and Damian Lillard led the best way with 32 factors apiece for Milwaukee, however the Bucks received little from their bench.
In the meantime, Immanuel Quickley gave the Knicks a fourth 20-point scorer as a reserve.
