Jeff Teague on Knicks vs Cavs: “They don’t got nobody who can guard Jalen Brunson, this sh*t over with. I want James Harden to get to the Finals definitely, but ain’t nobody on that team can guard Jalen Brunson.”
Keon Ellis redemption time
Someone pull up the clip of Brunson frying Keon Ellis on an imaginary pick
Per Request
Loony toons shit
Head on a swivel (derogatory)
Someone please post the screen cap of Keon’s face when he realized what just happened
That screen cap
I opened it half expecting the Peyton Manning pic
Uffdah
I will always love Keon. I saw his first game during the summer California classic (like Preseason), but his game has some serious holes and IDK how well they can expect him to guard him. I think they’ll probably use Dennis more.
What the fuck lmao
If I remember right that was for the game also. Absolutely torched
It was
Ellis would have more reach in fouls than he would minutes if he was expected to guard Brunson.
Everyone’s better than Dean Wade til it’s time to be better than Dean Wade.
If he had confidence in his shot he’d be the most elite role player in the NBA
If Heat Duncan Robinson had Kelly Olynyk’s shot selection he’d be better than Klay Thompson all time
If Zion had the work ethic of Udonis Haslem he’d be Lebrons father and Jordan’s grandfather. Many people are saying.
If Sonic the Hedgehog had the spinach of Popeye, he’d have Joey Chestnut level glizzy powers.
Sentences I’ve never heard before
Well, you and I have apparently never had an irl coffee date
Most believable comment of the thread
Many people are saying this.
I’ve always told myself that Duncan Robinson is the Tyler Herro of Mike Millers
Man so many of his shots were halfway down and jumped back out in this series. It was crazy.
greatest D.Wade to touch the floor in a Cavs jersey
Dean W.
Don’t forget Max Strus!
Honestly just throw Strus/Schroder/Tyson/Wade/Merrill at him nonstop and wear him down over 7 games.
That man played under thibs for like 3 years, ain’t no wearing him down lol
This guy Dean Wades.
This sounds like a joke but we actually did tend to play Wade on Brunson and Wade’s size really bothered him. I don’t think people realize Wade is a genuinely elite perimeter defender. I’d guess Wade, Mitchell, Schroeder will all take turns on Brunson while Brunson basically just runs through screens until he can get matched up with Harden.
One of the best rebounding impact guys in the league, wish we had him so I don’t have to see Pwat at the 4 anymore, also a sneaky good Shai defender. Wemby is probably the best defensive rebounder ever with the individual DREB% in the context of opposition OREB% allowed with four guards and Champagnie at the 4 ever since he benched Barnes but Clingan had some fun in the first round crashing the glass, I think Wade would be a great pickup
And the Mavs refused to pay him 4 for 55….TWICE.
He really is way better than I could have ever imagined when he was in Dallas.
Was I just not paying attention or was there legit signs of him becoming this good and they didn’t keep him anyway?
Not this good, but he saved them from a first round exit as the #1 guy when Luka was hurt. The contract he got from the Knicks also wasn’t an overpay at all at the time. Even if he ended up more like a fringe all star.
I could be wrong, but I thought general consensus at the time (before he played a single game for NY) was that it WAS an overpay? I vividly remember many saying the Knicks were throwing the bag at Fred Van Vleet 2.0 to save their franchise (which obviously is the funniest take in hindsight)
Many people said that. It didn’t make them right. They were ignoring the fact that salary cap had significantly increased and it was a reasonable amount as a percentage of the cap. The deal Dallas passed up giving him was for even less money too.
Here’s a video showing how people thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXiIJp5Fow0
It was considered somewhat high cause it wasn’t thought he’d get $100+.
but also not a big overpay. As others have said, got paid as the 16th highest PG contract in the league at the moment…which isn’t some big wow. Also, as the video says, the knicks NEEDED a PG and brunson showed he could score AND that he could pass and orchestrate.
That simple.
Even I’ve forgotten it, to a degree. I remember looking a few deals that offseason and really needing time to adjust to the amount of money players around the league were getting under the new cap
At the time that contract was 16th highest for point guards in the league. Online people just like to troll. anyone calling that an overpay after his run with the Mavs just wasn’t watching. Sure it was somewhat risky but every free agent signing comes with risk. It also just made a ton of sense for the Knicks who needed a point guard after the disaster of Kemba.
Seriously. We paid him mid starting PG money which IMO he had already shown he was capable of in Dallas.
People in that thread (the signing announcement one) were insanely delusional, even if we factor in the hindsight. We needed a guard, he had proved himself to at least be star-adjacent, and we gave him a large amount yes but it wasn’t ridiculous considering our cap space at the time. As usual, it was a massive overreaction from people who don’t actually watch games. Was I personally expecting him to carry us to our widest playoff berth of my lifetime, and have an actually realistic chance of making the finals or winning a chip? Not really, but to say that he was FVV 2.0… whoever said that probably has a personal handler is all I’m sayin
They had both him and Luka and got rid of both.
Lol
After that huge series against the Jazz in the 1st round, they could have assumed the knicks were overpaying based on a small sample size.
History definitely proved the knicks right.
Now he’s worth 60m+ and he’s only getting paid 30-35 for the homie deal to give the team more spending money.
to be precise, he did sign for the max he was able, he just did it a year early. took security over dollars
But he’s still getting that money back for his next contract so it cancels out
Dennis the menace renaissance?
Just Dennis the renaiss
I would have gone with menacessance.
Dennaissance the remenaissance
Perfect.
Dennis is always tough to play against
He makes every team he plays on better (except Sac but he’s not a miracle worker) and yet every team keeps letting him go. I don’t understand this league.
He is good enough to be a valuable trade piece but he is not good enough to be kept and paid as a #1 option. Also him dumb dumb declining that Lakers contract.
Thing is Brunson playing more off ball is gonna tire out the defense because they have to chase him around with KAT being the offensive hub
Yeah it definitely seems that this iteration of Brunson is much more dangerous.
It’s a trap game with the off ball actions. Do you commit to Brunson or let OG and Mikal get get easy cuts or flashes to the middle. If you switch, Brunson will hunt Harden, Mitchell and Allen
I’m probably OK with Allen or Mitchell guarding him for short spurts - not like they’ll shut him down but he’s a much more technically proficient player than bully-ball dude (unlike Cade and Barnes.) Harden does worry me because he doesn’t move his feet well and Brunson might make him look stupid.
Looking forward to seeing what JA turns up to MSG as well, that matchup with KAT will be big.
Role players hitting 3s will be decisive too. Our guys have been shooting lights out, we have like 5 rotation guys shooting over 40% from 3. KAT and OG like 50%.
Gonna be a fun series aha
Yeah JA has been a huge playoff riser this year. If you don’t play KAT and Mitchell Robinson together then we may instead put Allen on OG because he’s a great cutter and Allen is actually really good at defending cutters. If you park KAT at the 3-point line and have him run the offense from there than I probably want Mobley there instead.
I appreciate the both of you talking actual ball rather than out your asses. Quality sports banter here. Rare sight in this sub lmao
I also think it’s going to be a very competitive, very entertaining series
Harden is big enough to make Brunson work. I’m not saying he’s a GOOD defender, but I think his size will help
I don’t think Brunson really relies on size though, he’s much more about getting you leaning the wrong way than shoving you. Maybe inside the paint, but I do not want to see Harden guarding Brunson on the perimiter.
His big head helps him shift his gravity. This is known
The secret is a stacked starting lineup lol
A KAT that can pass is an insane attribute. His shot is so good you have to defend him anywhere and its tough to cover all options 4v4 as Jokic has shown us lol
I think Mobley is as good of a matchup as there exists against KAT outside of Wemby, but I’m sure he’ll still be good. Just about limiting uncontested shots and getting boards.
Allen and Mobley can both easily keep up with Towns. Issue is both give up a lot of strength to Towns and Robinson.
Allen is probably strong enough to hang with KAT, but yeah Robinson is a load down there
You realize he is going to have to defend too right? He is going to be spending a lot of energy on defense himself.
We are gonna stick him on Struss and Wade while rejecting any switches
Good luck
Wade that will work. For Strus he’ll probably hit 7 threes.
He’s so good as a shooting guard
I also think KAT is a difficult matchup for them. He’s a big dude and the Cavs bigs are skinny
How has Kat been with foul trouble in the Cavs matchup this season? I feel like that determines how it’s gonna go because historically he cannot help himself against more active bigs.
He’s actually been good with fouls against the Cavs, which is different than what I’d imagine.
He hasn’t been an exceptionally strong scorer though; and he’s turned the ball over. However we’re running a totally different offensive system right now, obviously, so I am curious to see how the Cavs bigs adapt.
While this matchup is definitely better for Brunson, like Teague is saying, I do think the Mobley/ Allen pairing is going to be one of the better ones to slow down the Point KAT at the top of the key offense we’ve had working so well. Off ball Brunson though will have to go to work
KAT as the offensive hub worked well against teams with bad defensive bigs, but this series might be time to go back to Brunson as the key playmaker
Absolutely not, they need to continue it. You take the bigs out of the paint with KAT as the hub.
KAT as the psuedo pg and brunson as sg is dangerous
AAPI Month Jarrett Allen needs to show up every game this series to shut down the Knicks front court.
This is overly simplistic, Wade can do a good job on Brunson, and if they put Mobley on KAT like they should and they can switch those actions.
I am WAY more worried about Mitchell and Harden having to guard the cutters when KAT gets the ball up top or at the elbow
Ya i love how these podcasts still live in this like “oh well they cant guard one player so the teams must not match up well”
It was the same shit before the sixers series w maxey. Oh the knicks dont have anybody to guard maxey. Like it isnt the coaches job to scheme a defense that can neutralize what these players do.
Ya the cavs dont have an ausar or dyson but they can take away the paint and make things difficult for brunson in different ways that arent just perimeter defense, for whatever reason former nba players podcasts talk ab the game like its fucking checkers and not the insane chess match that actually takes place in a playoff series
What’s wild is that even in the era of man-to-man, teams schemed defenses to lock down players like Jordan. And now, the baseline defense is entirely a schematic concept and players still talk like its 1981 man defense.
Knuckleheaded bullshits.
Yeah and Mitchell and Harden are going to have better success against Brunson than they would against a guy like Maxey bc of their builds and the interior defense behind them. Idk why people are acting like it’s a forgone conclusion for the Knicks to advance.
Because there’s a reason those guys are podcasting and not coaching lol. They either can’t or don’t want to get into the real X’s and O’s in a matchup.
I mean you say that but JJ Redick went directly from podcasting to a NBA HC job and did a pretty good job all things considered
He was an analyst, Teague’s a fan speaking like a fan, nothing different than how we’d speak in real life shooting the shit
Shit a Knicks fan that is rational?!? Wtf
I just despise these former player podcasts like i have severe mainstream nba discourse fatigue. They make being online and trying to talk about basketball a nightmare like i genuinely believe it makes ppl dumber and is one of the biggest threats to the enjoyment of the sport.
That being said, hot hand theory and even the locked on knicks podcasts on youtube are incredibly refreshing and i think non knicks fans could enjoy those without feeling actively disrespected and irrationally angry. Ppl should support those, not jeff teague talking ab how a player lacks killer instict or whatever bullshit
I agree. Cavs defense vs Knicks offense is going to decide the series and its leaning for a Knicks win in that scenario.
Its the worst unit left of the conference final teams by far.
Cavs perimeter d will be there undoing
They got taken to 7 by 2 of the worst shooting teams in the league (with one of them down 2 starters)
All regular season, teams would shoot their season best 3pt% against us. It’s been a big problem
Wade has done a solid job on-ball, but good luck having him tail Brunson now that he’s working off ball more while they run through KAT
Yeah that’s the real test is having to basically chase after Brunson when KAT facilitates
The Knicks overall are uncomfortable when teams can press full court and put length on Brunson. Cavs just can’t do that. Wade is bigger, but he’s doesn’t have the quickness to stay up on Brunson. Both teams will hunt mismatches and both teams will run counters. I think the Knicks overall have a much better team defense, so they’ll probably be more successful.
Dennis Schroeder full court press on Brunson would annoy him.
Yeah, he’ll get some time on Brunson. Then he’ll just let Hart or Bridges take it up. They rarely did that under Thibs
Brunson rarely brings the ball up now, so its kind of irrelevent.
Strus/Merrill/Tyson/Ellis can and will absolutely do that
Sure, they can do that. The question is can they do that effectively. Sixers fans said the same thing about VJ and it didn’t work. Strus, Merrill, and Wade simply don’t have the athleticism to really disrupt Brunson. Even if they can, you know get off ball Brunson running around screens with Harden on ball.
Yes, but will this rotation be better or worse than Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels + NAW defensive lockdown rota on Brunson?
Because those two were freakin’ amazing at stifling Brunson in that series.
Strus is likely going to keep the starting spot and will more than likely play that type of D on Brunson
You have to be good at it though. The guys who bother Brunson are the super athletic wings. Strus ain’t it.
Dean wade???
Yeah, he’s very versatile defensively. Biggest issue is whether he can draw any respect from the defense
He is, but I don’t see him as viable now that Brunson is working off ball so much more- Wade isn’t an off ball chaser defender as much
Yea this is it IMO. Dean Wade can guard Brunson, and I think you have to Mobley on KAT. Those are decent defensive matchup for the Cavs.
The questions for the series then become whether Harden and Mitchell can hold up guarding Anunoby and Bridges on the off ball and cutting actions (and the OG bullyball), whether the Knicks can make the Cavs pay for Allen on Hart (or if they go with a shooter or second big over Hart), and if Dean Wade can do anything to keep the Knicks from ignoring him on offense.
Dean Wade cannot guard Brunson. He’ll have him on skates.
We’ll see….he has done a good job in a bunch of regular season matchups. I assume Brunson will figure some stuff out (he usually does, even against guys like Dyson Daniels) *and* I think the Knicks offense with all the off ball Brunson is now doing is much, much harder to defend….but Wade has been a good ISO defender against him in the past.
Dean Wade has held Brunson to like 30% shooting over like 70 possesions.
I’m trying to think of a 6-9 white guy who ever existed who could guard Brunson.
Flagg in 2-3 years lol
You’ll see a lot more Keon Ellis in this series. Wade might be on Brunson some, but that’s the adjustment I expect. He wasn’t a good matchup for the size Detroit has, but against smaller guards they’re going to call his number.
Schroder as well. They got guys willing to run and willing to be pesky against Brunson.
Probably a lot of Merrill tbh. He’s arguably our best guard defender when he isn’t at a major size disadvantage
I don’t think we will, Brunson is way too strong for Ellis, basically every guard with any strenght can go trough him
When you said “Mitchell and Harden having to guard the cutters” I got the clearest image in my head of one of them driving and hitting James Harden in the face lol
KAT pulling Mobley away from the basket is the exact problem. Making Mitchell and Harden fight through screen after screen is going to be difficult and you can no longer leave Hart open
You have to leave Hart open, honestly the Sixers did a terrible job at that, if you don’t have the personnel to switch those actions (hard when a small guard and OG are involve), this is how you guard it, you do a late close out on Hart and you dare him to ACTUALLY shoot 8⁄9 threes (of course it would be better if you had the personnel to switch, but I don’t think the Sixers did and the Cavs don’t either)
He shot 40% all year, though. Its become a big gamble.
“Becasue he got other weapons” is the key here. Cade was out there by his lonesome, homie was dead tired by the end. Can’t carry that shit yourself
I was shocked at how little Cade was doing in that game last night, and then I realized this was his 14th game of the playoffs, and he didn’t have anything left.
These playoffs made me realize these feel more like Marathons that short series. The Sixers needed every single point to get past the Celts, and had zero left for the Knicks and it showed.
By this logic, Detroit is who I’d prefer to see this round, but I’ve see Harden laboring through his iso offense nonsense and I like the Knicks chances
Cade played 25 minutes more in that series than James Harden, the highest -usage Cavalier. Literally half a game more.
People didn’t learn from JB’s tenure in Cleveland; he hasn’t met a superstar player be won’t ride into the ground. He did it with Donovan Mitchell in Cleveland, and he’s going to do it to Cade I til someone stops him.
That might be true, but at the same time, who the hell else was gonna give them offense besides Cade? Tobias Harris is not reliable and Duren vanished. They needed to play Cade as much as possible due to the talent on the roster. Can’t really knock coaching for that this time around.
Shit they should learn from Harden. One of the huge reasons he’s always had bad game 7s is he was the one carrying the entire team and he would gas out every year.
It worked when they got him CP3 bc he didn’t have to carry but then CP3 got injured. He goes to Brooklyn to not carry but then he himself and the other two are injured. Then after that he’s no longer the first option.
So much of the playoffs is about stamina. People don’t seem to recognize that. Detroit f’d themselves by not putting away Orlando early. And yeah, Philly never had a chance against NY… Embid, Maxey and George were wiped and they don’t have a deep squad. Cavs will fair better because they have a legit starting five, young/healthy bigs and a bench but yeah I’m not sure if Harden is actually built for a deep playoff run and Mitchell has never been this far
Inshallah we are built for it this year but, even then, back to back 7 games wars vs the fresh Knicks who also play hard, fast, and strong is a tall order
Brunson went through a similar thing on a bum ankle and half his team injured while putting up historical playoff numbers in 2024. Every star player overcompensates when they don’t have the personnel. Never ends up well.
Brunson put up 40 against Miami in game 6 2023 when Randle and Barrett were digging in their ass
Think I read Brunson is shooting 1-15 when defended by Dean Wade this season
That’s a pretty small sample size, I’m not sure I’d derive too much from that.
Well he hasn’t hit a single shot against me so I’ll throw my name in the hat
Yo Koby Altman, get this man a 1-game asap
Yea Wade has had a bunch of good games defending Brunson to be honest. The question is whether he can stay on the court on offense, and if the Knicks recent scheme negates a lot of his 1 on 1 D… i.e. *half* of Brunson’s field goals this playoffs have come from him playing off ball. That’s obviously a big change from how teams have had to typically defend him.
Playoff Brunson is a different animal and Kat running the point frees him up more and spends less energy on iso ball
yar but Dean Wade fucks up their offense. I’m always okay with us playing 5v5 on our end and the other team playing 4v5 on theirs.
Dean Wade did a great job against Brunson last game; I’d expect Keon Ellis would be solid, as well, and Schroeder can be annoying, too.
The one thing I’d say though is that we’ve been running more offball action this playoffs, since most of our offense is going through KAT at the top of the key. Dean Wade is a good defender either way, but off-ball Brunson is a different sort of animal. Especially when having to account for all the extra space and OG/ Mikal/ Hart cutting.
Then there’s also the question of Dean Wade’s offensive production; he’s sort of a 1 side of the ball player. And I mean that as no disrespect, but it just also gives Brunson less mismatch when he’s defending, as well.
Either way I’m excited for this matchup - I think its going to come down to how the two Bigs on the Cavs deal with KAT, honestly, but we’ll have to see…
It’s going to be interesting on the other end to see how Jalen Brunson will handle guarding Mitchell and Harden as well
He won’t
Oh yea I assume they start him on Strus or Wade depending on who starts but the Cavs are going to hunt Brunson on switches pretty aggressively
If he’s on Wade and brought into the action, the Knicks are going to blitz the ballhandler and live with whatever Dean Wade does on offense. If it’s Stus that’s obviously a harder thing for the Knicks to defend.
catch drive and kick to mobley or dump off to allen if someone steps up.
Yeah I mean every team tries to hunt Brunson. Turns out we’re still pretty good
Maxey is about the worst matchup for Brunson you could imagine and the Knicks handled him pretty well. Strus is a better shooter than Oubre, so blitzing might leave him open, but the rotations have been pretty flawless.
Yea though to be fair the Sixers offense wasn’t as iso heavy on the wing as the Cavs are. Mitchell and Harden spent most of the Pistons series hunting mismatches and attacking them. It will be interesting to see how much they blitz and how much they give up the switch, I agree with you that they’ll blitz and go into rotations pretty often but that won’t be sustainable for the whole game.
That’s true. Embiid really slowed down that offense and kept Brunson away from the ball. They’ll probably concede the switch more against Harden as opposed to Mitchell.
Yea that makes sense, blitz Brunson more often since he’s the better scorer but worse passer and give up more switches to Harden who is the worse scorer now but a much better passer.
Being switched onto them is one thing but he won’t be be the primary
It is interesting how he guards which ever shooter starts (strus merril etc) bc they can’t be left open
Everyone tries to go at Brunson and KAT but big man has improved defensively this year and then we can send help and rotate really well.
Regardless this post-season Knicks are top 2 in offensive rating on a similar level to OKC.
Cavs are the ones who have to keep up.
Nobody knows Drippy Dean until he drips on them
Shoutout Perry Ellis getting ready for his 27th year at Kansas
If the same Cavs team that showed up last night does in the ECF, this series will be close. But if they don’t, I don’t see this going more than 5 games.
The Knicks have just been that much better than Cleveland these playoffs so far, closer to the Thunder and Spurs tier than the tier the Cavs are in.
Could argue that Cavs played much better teams. I don’t think anyone picked them to beat Detroit and here we are.
Toronto and then Detroit. Knicks took down ATL and then a hobbled 76ers.
I think the Cavs match up very well against the Knicks, Mitchell Robinson was gigantic in both series and he will be neutralized against Mobley/Allen tandem.
Nobody can neutralize Mitchell Robinson except the free throw line. Bad take
His only equal is the free throw line.
LOL funny as shit bro
Robinson has given the Cavs issues in the past. Hoping our bigs have learned from those experiences
If the Cavs play like they did last night while also cleaning up all the missed FTs, they’re a championship level team. They’re just inconsistent as hell. Not even between games or quarters. They’ll have a solid 4 minute run of great play followed by another 4 of dogshit. It seems the more they play these playoffs they are they are finding their identify
I assume they probably put Wade & Strus on him. I bet both of those guys can hold up relatively OK.
I think Wade is a pretty good Brunson defender. I’m skeptical Strus will make him uncomfortable - he ultimately does not have the kind of length that bothers Brunson.
I don’t think there’s anyone else aside from those 2 who are viable & I think a big push / pull of this series from the Cavs side will be who is playing between those 2, cause I assume Wade will largely be left open on offense, which you can’t do with Strus.
Strus is 6’5” with a 6’8” wingspan. He’s quite a bit bigger than Brunson. My concern is his lateral quickness. He lets quicker guys get on his hip pretty often, which is where he tends to overcorrect and commit fouls.
Honestly thrilled everybody is counting us out. If we steal Game 1 then take our first home game to go up 2-1, I’ll get to enjoy the bed wetting even if they ultimately take the series.
I overreact to every game so you’re probably right lol
I would bet money that a majority of Knicks fans have not watched a single second of Cavs postseason basketball.
If you actually think most of us didn’t watch ATLEAST the Detroit series that’s just wild and I don’t know what to say.
They fucking crushed us in games 4-6 but man the reactions after game 3 were so sweet lmao
I think everyone is forgetting about OG
Oguagua is really the biggest difference maker here
I don’t see a huge problem. Is anyone doubting Brunson is gonna be fucking awesome? He is amazing on offense, I don’t think there are many “Brunson stoppers” out there.
BUT, more importantly, the Cavs just won two series in a row where they didn’t have the best player. Scottie dominated round 1 series and Cade was a monster.
I don’t think Brunson is the biggest issue, the biggest issue is the whole Knicks team is flyiing and playing super well right now.
Sir, Donovan Mitchell is better than Scottie Barnes. Stop it.
But wasn’t during that matchup
Everybody better than Brunson until…
Tale as old as time atp 🤷🏿♂️
Knicks defense has been playing as well as the Raptors and Pistons, but they actually have a great offense. The bottom line is if the Knicks continue to play like they’ve been playing, I don’t think this series will be that close.
God damn a single minute hasn’t even been played yet
People keep naming all these defenders to put on Brunson to be a Brunson stopper… but my question is are any of these guys better defensively than PG, VJ Edgecombe, or Dyson Daniels?
If not then I don’t see why they’d give him any issues…
They should really be afraid of Big Purr
He doesn’t know about Dean Wade
I am curious what the matchups will be. I’m guessing they start by leaving Hart open so:
Allen on KAT Mobley on Hart (but sagging off) Struss/Wade on Brunson Harden on Bridges Mitchell on…OG?
That doesn’t seem right. If they go traditional:
Allen on KAT Mobley on OG Struss/Wade on Brunson Harden on Hart Mitchell on Bridges
I think your first list is closer with just one switch: Mobley on KAT and Allen on Hart for sagging off him. Mobley is more mobile to match KAT and Allen will provide the extra resistance inside that would be needed to set off the negative effects of Harden and Mitchell on cutters in OG and Bridges. Makes more sense this way.
Wouldn’t you want the more mobile guy in that free-roaming role?
Also, who was on Ausar in the Detroit series? That might tell us more.
Not necessarily, if you can park Allen inside it would be better. And I think they will at least test a full open Hart on the perimeter to start with. (If Hart moves inside with him on offense instead of punishing that, all the better for Cavs with clogging.)
Ausar was mostly defended by Mitchell and Harden as far I saw (I did not watch all games though), but Detroit didn’t have a KAT or a reliable second option, so it does not tell much about this series.
What you mean they got dean wade lmao
Brunson is really good. He’s going to get his, just keep everyone else in check
Jeff Teague is a dumbass. Max Strus and Dean Wade had Cade in Jail.
Just remember everyone is better than Jalen Brunson until it’s time to be better than Jalen Brunson.
As a knicks fan I kind of disagree. I think Schroder did a great job last year on him. But then again JB had the last laugh and he always finds a way to get his
I guess it’s easier for casuals which is mostly Jeff Teague’s target demographic is, but reducing a matchup to “can x player guard y player” isn’t really a good start of discussion when the game is played 5 on 5 and you guard star players as a team.
How people been wrong so far by predicting the east coast teams I’m really starting to think the Cavs going to the finals
This is a super dumb take, generally what I expect from Teague. Knicks may win, but the Cavs definitely have guys who can give Brunson trouble, as much as anyone can.
Like who?
dean wade, keon ellis, max strus
Yeah no.
You have no idea what you are about to have to deal with
“yeah no”?
the hawks were a play in team that gives kuminga legitimate minutes so how would you be able to contain brunson?
Knicks in five
too many ppl think we got this, its a wrap cavs making the finals…..
Is he forgetting Dean Wade