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well now, it’s a brand new day…
I have to say this here, because anywhere filled with Jets fans I get downvoted to hell. But here is the mountain I will die on:
Joe Namath was not a great NFL QB, and doesn’t deserve to be in the HOF based on his skill. The Jets won SB III on their defense (forced 3 INT) and running game (Snell 120yds/1TD), not Namath (17/28 206 0/0). Namath supporters argue that his poor stats (173TD 220INT!) are from his downfield game or the era, but other QBs in the same time period have better TD/INT ratio (Tark, Lamonica, Griese, Dawson, Jurgenson) and yds/att. Joe had 2-3 good seasons, and the rest was somewhere between average and bad.
You can say he was valuable as a figure who helped legitimized the AFL, was the face of the league, etc. But he was an average NFL QB over the course of his career.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
As someone who was not yet 12 years old when my beloved Jets won their only championship, and at the time, easily swayed by the narrative put forth in the media, I agree with pretty much everything Mike says about Joe Willie Namath.
He was never really all that good as an AFL/NFL quarterback when I started watching in 1968 or so. I remember watching him play during that championship season and buying into all the “greatness” hype, but from that point on being sort of unsettled at the gap between the hype and the actual performance.
What stood out the most to me was how completely immobile he was. He might have been one of the slowest non-kickers I ever saw. He literally couldn’t move out of the pocket. His knees were totally shot.
He seemed to have a decent arm, but threw a zillion interceptions.
Now looking at this stats for his first two full years, they looked better than the did from 1969 on. He did lead the league in attempts, completions, yards, and yards per catch, including a 4,000 yard season which was sort of a gold standard. But he still threw tons of interceptions.
Joe’s “fame” was mostly about his flamboyance, his legendary womanizing, and his backed-up guarantee. But the magnitude of his fame can’t be overstated. In that year, he was as famous as any athlete was in any year.
And the Jets winning the Super Bowl wasn’t just a case of an underdog winning. It is on the Mt. Rushmore of the greatest Cinderella Stories of my team sports lifetime, along with the Miracle on Ice, the Miracle Mets, and the first Villanova championship over Georgetown. And no single figure in those other upsets was as “heroic” as Joe Namath, not with his play, but with his guarantee.
(The truth is, that Jets team was stacked with talent on both sides of the ball and should never have been such an underdog. Just like the Knicks vs. the overhyped Lakersand Mets against the overhyped Orioles of that year were far better than the narratives made them out to be. But Joe put the credibility of his league on his back with his guarantee and willed his team to win.)
Great, really great, post Z-man. Better than almost all of your posts about the Knicks (and that’s not a diss). And kudos to Mike inviting the debate. Pertinent to where we are.
Measuring greatness at the QB position can’t always be captured by stats alone. Probably more than any other position in sports, there’s a heavy intangible component that’s often expressed in terms (cliches?) like “leader of men” or “face of the franchise.”
Can’t really comment whether or not that applies to Namath as I was too young at the time of SB III as well as a Giants fan. That’s why I’ll instead bring up Eli Manning as an example of a QB whose greatness transcended a statistically middling career. While the ‘07 championship was largely about the D, the 2011 run was very much a product of Eli’s iron will. His game in the NFC Championship against the 49ers was arguably the single greatest performance by a QB in a high stakes contest ever. 32/58, 316 yards, 2 touchdowns while being sacked 6 times and hit countless others.
Despite that, Eli is not yet in the HOF and may well never be due to a .500 regular season W-L record and a lesser statistical profile than one normally expects in Hall QBs. But, oh, those intangibles of his were as good or better than most (including his HOF brother)
More thoughts while my son runs through water…
Maybe we keep winning titles because no one can stop Jalen Brunson.
What if Brunson’s the best player in the NBA now and it doesn’t matter if we get a backup center because he’s in his 90’s MJ or late 00’s Kobe era and is just going to beat all these clowns because he can?
What if he’s just that good?
His best 82 games won’t ever compare to SGA, Luka, Giannis, Jokic, etc.
But he just made Wemby his bitch. Do we really think he can’t do that to everyone else, too?
if you era adjust namath’s stats for his 1965-1972 prime his numbers look very HOF-friendly. his mediocre completion % and int % would be outweighed by elite sack% (3.4% adj), yards/att (7.7 adj) and volume (319.8 yards/g adj ) relative to the league and he would have a qb rating of ~98 and an elite any/a of 7.6. the jets were typically top 2 in net passing yards per play until he missed much of 70 and 71 with injuries, when they dropped toward the bottom of the league, and then he came back in 72 and they were first out of the expanded 26 teams. it’s not an open and shut case and there’s a lot of translation fog in era adjustments but there is a lot to like. i didn’t get to watch joe namath play but i did get to meet him a few times, including one long ride to lga when he was long retired and i was 19. his parting advice: “it’s all confidence young man.”
It’s all confidence and a rocking IQ.
As for the Knicks, JB can definitely be shut down for a few games, just not all 7. The real reason their success is sustainable, though, is the excellent defense they built and sustained over many games. The only thing that can keep them from going deep again is injuries…
…which they’d be less susceptible to if they still had Mitch, but anyway.
PTM does football too
I want to fool myself into thinking that this Knicks team could be something like the pre-Durant Warriors.
That team was obviously very good under Mark Jackson, but they found something under Steve Kerr and put it all together. And once they did, they became monsters.
Sure, they benefitted from Kyrie Irving being mostly out for the entire finals (and still lost 2 games while LeBron was the most ball-dominant player in Finals history and had a .477 TS%). And then they lost in the finals after having the best regular season of all time (and also took 7 games to beat the Thunder in the conference finals). But that was an all-time great team no matter how you slice it, and it kind of came out of nowhere, an organic hybrid rebuild…not the result of a tank job and long rebuild.
I don’t think we will come close to winning 73 regular season games, but I can see us being just as good of a playoff team as that team. Brunson may not be as great as Steph over the course of a series, but he might actually be as clutch in big games as Steph was at that time in his career. Steph didn’t really come up all that big in any of the 3 straight losses to the Cavs, especially in the game where Draymond was suspended.
Then if you go down the rotation from there, it’s Klay and Draymond vs. KAT and OG. I don’t think it’s outlandish to compare those guys.
Then in terms of minutes played (Bogut was only a nominal starter) it’s Barnes and Iggy vs. Mikal and Hart. Again, I don’t see much daylignt.
Then it’s Bogut, Livingston, and Barbosa vs. Drummond, Deuce, and Shamet. Obviously this is where losing Mitch really hurts the comparison. But if Brown can conjure the 99th %ile version of Drummond, Mo steps up a notch, and Clarkson gives us something, it’s not like the benches are night and day.
So can we be an upper-middle class version of that all-time team? I think it’s at least possible, especially if they are buoyed by getting the 53-year monkey off of their backs. I really think that KAT and Mikal still have some juice to squeeze out of their games, and that Leon will somehow bolster the rim protection prior to the playoffs. Mike Brown seems like the right coach at the right time, and is sort of a Kerr disciple.
Also broadway geo. Bout to treat me and hubby to death of a salesman with lane and metcalf. Fuck yeah.
One of most thoughtfull threads ever.
I’m with you in spirit, Z-Man, but not in letter.
The Knicks probably aren’t going to dominate a regular season because Brunson won’t ever put up the 10+ bpm seasons Steph did.
But the playoffs are a different sport.
And even going back to Dallas, it has always been really hard to beat this guy in a playoff series.
That’s why I keep coming back to the same question: is it possible that Brunson is the best player in the NBA even though he’ll never put up the regular-season numbers of SGA or Jokić?
As long as he has KAT and OG around him (arguably the best supporting stars in the league right now), I find myself believing that no team can actually solve him over seven games. He will keep finding answers.
FFS he had Wemby on skates!!! Wemby! Dude’s supposed to be an alien and Brunson made him look like John Starks flailing after MJ.
I can’t shake the feeling that we’re watching something reminiscent of Jordan or Kobe: an apex predator who can’t be beaten.
Yes it is.
Stats and analytics are a great source of information for sports and evaluation of quality.
Unfortunately they can’t measure heart.
And Brunson is The Heart & Soul of bball right now.
Fuck the numbers.
He’s the Undisputed Leader of the Nba champs.
Not your average stat stuffer.
He’s the TRUE MVP of the League.
I would like to anoint Brunson on that level, and it’s certainly not impossible that he will go down as the best playoff performer of his era. But we’re not there quite yet. We can only say that his performance this year was among the best ever.
And the title “Best Player in the NBA” is really hard to bestow on someone after one excellent playoffs run.
And I know others feel otherwise, but I think it’s one of the most deceptive “great” playoff runs in history. For example, I get that he got the better of Wemby time and time again. But Wemby is 22 years old and is gonna get a lot better. To put it into perspective, Ewing hadn’t played an NBA game yet at that age. Neither did Wilt. Kareem was a rookie. And two of his teammates were younger than him! And beyond Wemby, who was the next best player that Brunson played against in these playoffs? Spida? The corpse of Harden? The corpse of Embiid?
I would need to see Brunson vanquish the very best the league has to offer. Meaning SGA, Luka, Giannis, Jokic, and a more mature Wemby before calling him the best. Hell, in the prior season, he was outplayed in an elimination game by Tyrese Haliburton!
Sochan to the Blazers. I didn’t think he was the ideal solution to our center problem, so I’m not particularly upset. But we still don’t have a solution.
Thinking about the “Does Eli belong on the HOF?” debate got me to asking that same question with regard to Brunson.
Premature, I know, with the final chapter of his career yet to be written. That said, my guess is that the vast majority of pundits and fans would have answered in the negative as recently as two months ago. Going into the playoffs and right up to the start of the finals, the popular perception of JB seemed to be: excellent player but not quite good enough to be The Guy.
Like Eli, Brunson’s statistical profile falls short of what one expects to see in a true 1A player. Wonder how much the popular perception has shifted now that he’s shown himself to be the coldest of Stone Cold Killers when the stakes are at their highest.
As things currently stand, Brunson ranks 107th in career BPM, trailing such active players as Porzingis, Gobert, Love, (& KAT) Numbers alone won’t get JB into the Hall. Of course, leading a team to its first title in 53 years has significantly bolstered his case. If he manages to do it a second time, he’s probably a lock. But if he ends his career with roughly the same statistical profile & only has the one ring, will that be enough?
It goes by seasons!
He was the best nba player in 2025-26 if you like!
😁
The playoffs were there for Luka, Jason and Shai to face him.
If they can’t reach the finals it’s not JB’s fault!!!
It would take a catastrophe for Brunson to not get into the HOF. He’s made 3 straight all-NBA second teams, 4 time in the top 5 of the Clutch Player of Year voting, and has a finals MVP with an iconic game 7. I think another all-NBA season will do it.
Having a great regular season or grabbing an all nba seed are cool and they’re getting paid.
Being the Finals MVP tho is THE REAL DEAL.
“It goes by seasons!
He was the best nba player in 2025-26 if you like!”
Most impactful player of the year is probably the best way to put it. Or alternatively, Player of the Year, in a Time Magazine sense. But hey, to each his own!
“Being the Finals MVP tho is THE REAL DEAL.”
So I guess that as finals MVP, Iggy was the best player in the NBA the year they won their first chip, even better than his regular season MVP teammate Steph.
Not to broach a sore subject but a lot that was on Thibs.
I’ve watched the 2026 playoff highlights so many times that I recently went back and rewatched the 2025 run just to see something fresh, and the difference is startling.
It’s like watching the same team play in mud.
Thibs was smart enough to be one of the first people to know how great Brunson was, but he did nothing to help him, and actually made his job a lot harder.
Brunson before was like MJ in his one-on-one days. Brunson today is like MJ in the triangle.
WARNING: Saturday Rant.
Analytics do not accurately measure the overall value of clutch performance and its effect on the rest of the players. They all give an extra 10% of effort on everyplay becuase they believe in Brunson and themselves at the end.
Fight and scrape to just keep it close enough mentality earned them an extra two wins in both Cleveland and San Antonio series.
Analytics folks and coaches like Kenny Atkinson and Mitch Johnson do not understand this phenomenon, so they can’t even explain it and just treat it as a terribly rare & unlucky random type outlier outcome.
Another major thing that analytics folks can’t capture is in game and in series problem solving. JB fails multiple times, figures it out and then wins. Box score data at the end of the game is not made for capturing his ability to “find a way to win”.
The actual location of the shots he takes in first quarter and 4th are often identical but the context of the shot and success rate are often very different.
OKC and their MVP couldn’t solve Wemby dominance via help defense but we did. Someone came up with the idea to isolate Wemby on the Brunson island in the 2nd halfs and that was the biggest reason the result was Knicks in 5.
Its still impossible to capture the value of problem solving ability alongside clutch performance & team’s belief with raw data.
Doesn’t college career count ? Brunson has 2 national championships and 1 Wooden Award from Villanova.
The game is won by the team that scores most points.
And the team that scored most points in the last game of the playoffs is considered as the best of the league.
Not the team that had the most wins in the regular season or the team that had the toughest schedule or…
It’s a team sport so choosing the Best player of the league is somehow subjective but choosing Brunson as the best nba player of the 2025-26 don’t sound extremely weird after these playoffs imo…
#So I guess that as finals MVP, Iggy was the best player in the NBA the year they won their first chip, even better than his regular season MVP teammate Steph.#
If by not having Iggy meant that Steph wouldn’t win that title then Iggy definitely brought it home so… despite not being statistically dominant Iggy WAS THE MAN.
To make it even better it’s like being dominant in most of the games and SUDDENLY Out of Nowhere lose 1-4!
Which is the best team?
😉
BTW, an injury sidelined Iggy got the best out of Andrew Wigging in the 2022 finals. Wiggings was a two way monster & outplayed Jason Tatum in the finals, especially in the deciding game 5 and put them up 3:2 when Steph coudn’t buy a bucket. The impact Iggy had on that finals by not even playing is legendary.
Go capture that with analytics.
If you know, you know.
“Clutch” and “Heart” are subjective.
I’m saying Wemby was supposed to be the best player in the NBA and Brunson made him his bitch.
That Spurs defense is incredible. They dominated Anthony Edwards and made SGA ordinary. And then they were helpless against Brunson.
Maybe Jalen just had a good week, but if those guys couldn’t stop him who is going to?
It hasn’t just been “one excellent playoffs run”, either. Brunson’s been dominating the playoffs since he joined them in 2022.
Only Steph’s Warriors got him in ’22 (after he single-handedly took out the Mitchell/Gobert Jazz & helped beat the top seed Suns).
Thibs’ coaching did him in in ’23 and ’25.
And injuries derailed him in ’24 after he literally performed like MJ.
It’s called Finals MVP for a reason.
And if your “Best” player can’t get it then he probably choked or he was injured.
This award don’t go to Chokers and Role players.
Only to those who brought the goods home.
It’s that simple.
And the game ends with this format called playoffs.
Now if your team can’t win the title you probably never win this award.
But You can still consider yourself as the best player ever lived by stuffing triple doubles and all nba selections….
Or can’t you?
🤔
Mj having 6 finals mvps helps a bit here over the Hardens, the Westbrooks and the Chamberlains of this world…
In actual Knicks related news, apparently Sochan is signing with the Blazers.
Brunson is a lock for the hall of fame now. Best player on a title team that won its first title in over 50 years and multiple NCAA titles. I think he’s a lock if he retired today.
It ain’t all stats either the HOF. Team accomplishments and narrative carry a lot of work.
Everything is subjective until someone figures out a way to measure it & value doesn’t come from being able to effectively measure it.
Think something similar to BPM. We didn’t have it Jordan era but we saw it with our own eyes. Now we can go back and confirm what we saw with analytics.
One day, they’ll fighure out how to measure “clutch” + “problem solving” & it’s impact on the team’s playoff winning percentage.
Then we will all go back and realize that Brunson was that dude in this era. Until then, it’s subjective and depends on your viewing lense.
Hope this helps.
Interestingly, I think Iggy and Cedric Maxwell are the only two Finals MVPs not in the Hall of Fame (or an absolute guaranteed lock for more recent MVPs). That goes back to like 1969.
Just like the recent World Cup the Nba season has 2 phases also.
Phase one
The Endless Regular season that gives you the privilege to earn a playoff seed and
Phase two
The much shorter playoffs that give you the chance to win the chip.
Since the nba is primarily a business the reg season should be exciting and the stats, awards and all star selections etc make it more fun and colourful while also giving gambling a good amount of info
Having a great Reg season don’t mean much if you don’t win the chip.
And being in the best shape during the playoffs is the smartest thing to do.
Giving too much credit to Reg season’s numbers is often misleading since Not always the Top seed gets the chip.
And the goal of the game is the chip.
Nothing else matters as Papa Het would say!
Iggy averaged a whopping 16ppg when he won Finals MVP while Brunson averaged 32ppg.
In his 4 seasons as a Knick in the playoffs Brunson is averaging 29.4ppg with 6.6asts while the Knicks have the most playoff wins in the NBA since Brunson joined them. The Knicks are also the only team in the NBA during the past 4 seasons to advance to the 2nd rd every season.
You can argue the Knicks have been the best team in the NBA since Brunson arrived.
Yeah, Brunson did!
Everyone else in the league ran away from this guy.
Jalen Brunson called for screens to get him switched, and then fucked him up.
Maybe I’m overrating this, but it makes me think he’s the NBA Alpha and he knows it.
It’s probably the Celtics… they’ve averaged 59.5 wins and won a chip… but we beat them once and I’ll go to my grave believing we would have beaten them in ’24 if Randle, OG, and Mitch didn’t all get hurt.
The biggest reason the result was Knicks in 5 is that nba tried to give the Spurs a chance!
It should have been Knicks in 4!
🤩
Could not disagree more.
I was a 17 yr old HS QB for a Jersey prep school who wore #12 and painted my shoes white…. so I’m a little prejudiced 🙂
Namath’s career doesn’t look so hot but it is amazing he played a single down. He had a devistating knee injury his senior season at Alabama and before MRIs and arthroscopic surgery, he continued to play his entire senior year. He reinjured it before the Orange Bowl championship game and didn’t play til Bama trailed by two touchdowns where he convinved Bryant to let him play and he brought Bama back until Tommy Nobis stoned Namath on the goal line with the game on the line as time ran out.
When Werblin signed Namath, Dr James Nicholas opened up his knee and did what he could, but told Werblin, “Cheer up… I bought you 3 or 4 seasons!”
His first 3 or 4 seasons he was spectacular, even though he was a great option QB at Alabama his knees where so trussed up he was practically immoble.
You folks have to remember the game was played differently 55 years ago where QB’s didn’t regularly complete 63% of their throws. For example Namath’s Y/A was 14.7. The GOAT Tom Brady’s was 11.5.
The Super Bowl was a different thing. The first two games were lopsided where KC and Oakland (clearly the 2 best AFL teams) were crushed. Baltimore had just come off a 13-1 season and a demolition of Cleveland in the NFL championship 34-0. It was worrying Pete Rozelle that the AFL teams had no credibility. Then Mr Namath stepped into the breach.
Someone wrote the Jet defense was so good they forced 3 interceptions. The Jets had a legit underated defense, but two of those 3 ints were flukes, and the Sample int was a defensive PI for water skiing.
On the Hudson int to Matte, we’ve all seen the tape of Jimmy Orr waving 20 years behind the defense while Morall tried to force the ball into a covered Matte. The Randy Beverly end zone int hit tight end Mitchell in the hand and he popped it straight up into the air.
The game was won by the Jets ball control offense WITH NAMATH CALLING EVERY PLAY FROM SCRIMMAGE. They ran the ball most effectively to their left, away from Bubba Smith and Winston Hill blocked a very good Ordell Brasse into retirement.
The Jets were so petrified of Ike Lassiter of Oakland and Smith of the Colts, they benched rookie RT Sam Walton and moved Dave Herman to RT, Randy Rassmussen from LG to RG and inserted Bob Talimini at LG.
With this makeshift OL, Namath called a brilliant game mixing runs and a quick efficient accurate passing offense that held the ball the majority of the first 3 quarters with a 16-0 lead.
Very few 1968 QBs could do what Namath did that day.
For those of you that thought Namath couldn’t run… https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1466877364440731
I agree that Brown did a better job of coaching than Thibs. If there was a single player for whom the switch from Thibs to Brown made the least difference, it was Brunson. He iso’ed his brains out under Thibs. He iso’ed his brains out under Brown.
As I see it, the main difference is that Thibs faced Rick Carlisle and Brown faced Mitch Johnson. And the reason we lost to Indiana was as much about defense as it was about offense. I think Carlisle is also a better coach than Brown, but at least Brown knew when to listen to his assistants. Would we have beaten the Pacers with Brown coaching instead of Thibs? We’ll never know. But it wasn’t Thibs that kept Brunson from dropping 45 in game 6 vs. Indiana, and it wasn’t Brown that got Brunson to drop 45 in game 5 vs. the Spurs.
I agree about Brunson’s alpha mentality, but I’m pretty sure this was the strategy for the whole team. Hart went at him on the first play. OG went at him. Even Alvarado turned back into the paint after his initial instinct to turn around. Clearly the idea was to challenge him often and tire him out. Brunson took advantage in the fourth quarter, got his switches, and benefitted from running Wemby around all game
And Johnson never adjusted…
Fair enough, but…
…you’re really discounting the role coaching played here. Who came up with the schemes? Who created a very predictable offense without adequate secondary options? Who came up with the strategy to wear down the best defensive player and then abuse him when he was tired? Did Jalen just want to win more under Brown, or were there other factors behind his performance? Carlisle is a top coach, but I think you’re severely underestimating the difference between Thibs and Brown.
Sochan’s new contract is non-guaranteed, so he has to win a spot on the Blazers in training camp. I’m wishing him luck.
Actually I think Brown’s schemes were pretty predictable.
Brunson had a 38% usage for the series. Brown’s schemes eventually boiled down to “give the ball to Brunson and get the hell out of his way.”
Does anyone even remember the entire sequence in Game 4?
Brunson basically shot an airball that got tipped out to Fox ahead of the field. Did Brown draw that up?
Then after Fox bailed Brunson out by making one of the dumbest decisions in Finals history, OG blocked his shot.
Then after a TO, Brunson launched a 30-footer that came up short and was bailed out AGAIN by OG swooping in for the tip of a lifetime. Did Brown draw that one up too?
What about in game 2? Brunson missed a critical shot with the game tied, then Wemby bailed him out by passing the ball into Stephon Castle’s back. Did Brown draw that one up?
The bottom line is that Brown coached a great series, and Brunson played a great series, but Mitch Johnson was no Rick Carlisle and the 2026 Spurs were not the 2025 Pacers. The Knicks could not have been more predictable at the end of these games.
I just watched Brunson’s highlights from Game 5. I didn’t see a whole lot of brilliant schemes to make things easier for Brunson. What I saw is a guy who basically took matters into his own hands and who scored mostly in very predictable iso fashion.
Career playoff records:
Thibs 48-55
Brown 66-43
Carlisle 86-87
Brown and Carlisle have both made it to 2 NBA Finals each winning 1 NBA championship. Carlisle is obviously a very good coach but I think Mike Brown is better than he’s given credit for.
Couldn’t disagree more.
The quantity of ISOs may have been similar but the quality of them were night & day.
A Brunson iso under Thibs lacked all possibility. It started late in the shot clock. Josh Hart set the screen. The other 4 players were stagnant and hadn’t been involved in the offense for a long time.
Remember biggest story line of the 2025 ECF was (remarkably) that Brunson and KAT couldn’t play together. Thibs had completely abandoned KAT as a screener for reasons only he knew. OG & Mikal had no role other than to stand in the corner. Josh Hart was never guarded.
What Brunson was able to accomplish in that stagnant offense is arguably more impressive than what he did against the Spurs
“The quantity of ISOs may have been similar but the quality of them were night & day.”
And I couldn’t disagree more about that.
You’re right, and I was going to edit it to say everyone except his own teammates but I ran out of time.
That said, it’s one thing for KAT & OG to attack Wemby when he’s on them. It’s another thing entirely to have Dylan Harper on you and say “nah, give me Wemby.”
“Remember biggest story line of the 2025 ECF was (remarkably) that Brunson and KAT couldn’t play together. Thibs had completely abandoned KAT as a screener for reasons only he knew. OG & Mikal had no role other than to stand in the corner. Josh Hart was never guarded.”
<a href="Remember biggest story line of the 2025 ECF was (remarkably) that Brunson and KAT couldn’t play together. Thibs had completely abandoned KAT as a screener for reasons only he knew. OG & Mikal had no role other than to stand in the corner. Josh Hart was never guarded."
Here are the highlights from Brunson’s magnificent Game 5. I didn’t see a single screen set by KAT.
Here’s Brunson’s Game 4 scoring. Not a single KAT screen.
Here’s Brunson’s highlights from game 1. No KAT screens.
Lol I guess no one’s really broken up about Sochan.
who?
I’m shocked — shocked! — that the Dodgers got Skubal.
Apparently, the only guy who can beat Brunson is Thibs.
Some actual facts:
2025 playoffs
71% of Brunson’s FGs came from his own on-ball actions (ISO, post up, pnr ballhandler).
Only 19.3% of his FGs were assisted
2026 playoffs
56% of his FGs came from his own on-ball actions.
35.7% of his FGs were assisted
Those are massive differences.
Maybe he was the least impacted player under Brown’s offense, but he was still hugely impacted by Brown’s offense.
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