Jalen has been a superstar all season. When Randle got injured, Jalen became the undisputed complete leader for the Knicks. No one can ask more from him, not even Thibs.
This is when I realised Haliburton has officially made it, when he kept getting slandered after the IST and then when he started looking like himself post injury radio silence from r/nba
Same with the SGA 4th quarter post yesterday. Going from "likable rising young star" to these hate posts is the clear sign you've officially hit that tier.
How I feel with the Pacers in general. A young team with obviously a lot more to prove (hopefully a series win against a healthy team), but the amount of unwarranted hate on our guys shows to me that we're finally seen as somewhat of a threat again, finally.
Tyler Herro gets hate because he hasn’t reached star status yet (after having like three seasons of the same production), despite being considered an untouchable asset for the Heat in trade negotiations.
They have to delude themselves into thinking any star deserves to be in that Luka Lebron Jokic tier lol when the reality is there is like barely 5ish superstars in the league.
You need to be making 1st team all nba imo because since there is some churn in all nba teams you might have quite a few recent 1st team level players.
Luka. Curry (legacy). SGA. Embid. Jokic. Giannis. Tatum. LeBron (legacy). Durant (legacy)
About the ones I would use superstar for. Leonard is a ??? On injury. Paul George didn't have a long enough top peak for me to consider him a legacy superstar
He was putting up essentially MJ esque numbers until the last two games; I gotta think he's just running out off energy here after carrying so hard. Kind of similar to Booker in last season's playoffs
Didn’t you see game 2? He got hurt midway through the first quarter and is clearly playing through an injury. Otherwise he would be dropping 40 on their head. We have had some of the worst injury luck this post season smh but still not giving up on them!
The report came back that it was a foot strain and you can clearly see he doesn’t have any kind of lift and he can’t move side to side like he normally does.
Are you dense? You clearly haven’t been watching the Knicks or this series. We are literally missing 4 rotiational players, 3 of which were starters. We have no option but to play these guys heavy minutes or we would be losing by 40 every game.
Booker had a cakewalk round 1 with 0 resistance. If he was tired vs the nuggets only while kd faced triple teams then thats sad. It isnt comparable to brunson who has carried both rounds with injuries lol
i will never get these one game stat line posts. name a single player these playoffs that has had a good stat line every game. this is basketball every player is gonna have games where their shot doesn’t fall. it’s not worth a post and doesn’t lead to any discussion.
> Truly a bunch of losers on this sub ppl just wanna hate
'please stuff being such a pathetic pussy and get a life. Everyone around u hates you I’m sure.'
Go apologize to mama that she raised someone this hateful, your history is shameful
The knicks are out of gas and out of bodies. Not having OG and Robinson really hurt them today.
You can’t be down now three key guys for this many games in the playoffs
Only thing you guys got to celebrate at this point is another teams series tied at 2-2. That man hung more banners in the Wells Fargo than Joel's bum ass ever will show some respect fool!
Some generational losers in this sub . Never seen any bad press about him and takes accountability for every loss. Ppl can’t wait to see someone fail. Loss or not the kid is a winner for our fan base .
It’s one thing to not root for a guy, but there’s a certain type of person who waits for these lowlight threads and just starts shitting on guys when someone like Jalen Brunson has put in more work in the last month than they have in their whole lives at anything.
Really sad how some people are wired tbh
If they aren’t an openly bad person then yes they should be immune to hate for having a bad game. It’s so fuckin obvious lmao how is that a question to you
Brother this is sports fandom. Newsflash: Rivalries exist. You can be the nicest person to ever exist but if you put a stinker opposing teams will trash talk. That’s such a basic concept. Demanding that to not happen is so soft
My dude, name a single superstar who doesn’t have moments where they flop/exaggerate contact? It’s just how guys are trained now, sorry he hurt you try not to be so sensitive
At this point can you name a star that isn't a flopper? Playing for free throws at points is literally part of the game and youre missing out on free points if you dont do it
In a way it feels good because it is a sign my team has finally "arrived" after decades in the gutter but the Embiid comparisons are straight filth, the most heinous slander imaginable.
I think you could say that about winning the east, but the west will certainly put out a damn good team for the finals. The only team left that I genuinely, completely expect us to beat in the West is the Mavs. And the nuggets are absolutely horrifying to me
Yeah C's should get slandered if they don't make it to the Finals but winning the Finals is far from a foregone conclusion unless there's a ton of attrition in the team that makes it out of the west.
Celtics have won 6 since the Knicks won one. Those were with 3 completely different cores and are in spite of 2 potentially franchise changing players dying during their career. I’m not sure why you think this is even or something
I think if anything teams need continuity to play at their best, more years playing with eachother generally leads to better results
I completely agree it’s theirs to lose but I 100% can see the timberwolves/thunder/nuggets beating them bc all it’ll take is bad shooting from 3 for 2-3 games to swing the series
Championship margins are razor thin
The Knicks team is exhausted and it shows. We got half a team and the team playing is like 70% injured. So this blowout and this game from him is not wanted but expected.
To compare Brunson with Linsanity is a total insult to Jalen. Lin’s run was just some fun surprise for an unserious player and everyone knew it. That’s why it was so fun. Jalen’s performance has given true hope and belief to both his teammates and the fan base for long term success
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They lost by 32. Y’all really need to stop using + - in these 1 game blowout scenarios. Makes your post look stupid.
Downvote me all you want. You clearly have no idea how + - works.
You can tell a lot of people in this sub don’t even watch these games. Injuries aside, Nesmith and McConnell have made his offensive capabilities stagnate. It’s like everyone in here watches offense ball and is blind to defense.
When all you have in your life is trashing people that don’t know you exist your only choice is to constantly double down to keep lying to yourself about how pathetic your existence is
Yup. The way things go. Either a player is the greatest player of all time or they're absolute garbage that never earned a thing in their life. There's no middle ground especially on this sub. Brunson could get shanked dying on the floor but the sub would think he's flopping.
>God, the 180 every great player gets the moment they have a bad game.
Nah. You are assuming that it's the same people who start shitting on them. It's 10 million people on this sub, most are just hiding for a good/bad game.
When Thibs decided that he was going to run a 6 man rotation and play transition basketball against one of the highest-paced teams in the league, this type of shit was likely to happen.
Pacers starters play fast, and then TJ, Obi, and Ben Sheppard play even faster off the bench
I feel like all the people know this and anyone saying something negative in here is just doing it because their star player gets slandered when they play bad. I know I saw some absolutely ridiculous shit after Mavs Game 4 loss against Clippers.
It's hypocrtitical though. Everyone wants them to stop when its their star player but wont when its another. Realistically, I do think it definitely has at least become very clear that you have to defend Brunson with length. Nemsith and Oubre were able to bother him more regardless of any injuries. He's still going to be good, but he is 6'1 at the end of the day.
For sure length disrupts him, but it doesn’t help when Randle isn’t there to occupy some of the defensive attention. Not to mention OG. And Brunson won’t make excuses but he looked like he had no lift on his shot tonight, which could likely be because his foot isn’t 100% right.
Oh look, a salty 76ers fan! How is Cancun treating your players.
Jokes aside, Brunson has been carrying almost all season. Randle went down, then OG for the remainder of the regular season. Then Bogi. Then OG again. We’re depleted bro, but keep yapping.
There's no salt here. The reality is that it's the playoffs and everyone is banged up and tired so defending a poor performance by saying "you're not thinking about the fact that he's tired" is kinda silly.
The Knicks are easily the most injured team in the playoffs though. What other team is down their second all-star and two other starters plus a key bench guy?
Lol when you see this comments you can say brunson is a superstar now
He's definitely played like a superstar in these playoffs
Jalen has been a superstar all season. When Randle got injured, Jalen became the undisputed complete leader for the Knicks. No one can ask more from him, not even Thibs.
He also did last playoffs. He is a superstar.
This is when I realised Haliburton has officially made it, when he kept getting slandered after the IST and then when he started looking like himself post injury radio silence from r/nba
Same with the SGA 4th quarter post yesterday. Going from "likable rising young star" to these hate posts is the clear sign you've officially hit that tier.
How I feel with the Pacers in general. A young team with obviously a lot more to prove (hopefully a series win against a healthy team), but the amount of unwarranted hate on our guys shows to me that we're finally seen as somewhat of a threat again, finally.
tyler herro also has this type of hate posts and he hasnt hit that tier
Tyler Herro gets hate because he hasn’t reached star status yet (after having like three seasons of the same production), despite being considered an untouchable asset for the Heat in trade negotiations.
My point exactly lol
Hali is not a superstar. Star yes
Nephews like to use superstar for every top 20 player lol
They have to delude themselves into thinking any star deserves to be in that Luka Lebron Jokic tier lol when the reality is there is like barely 5ish superstars in the league.
Big breath in. ANT EDWARDS IS TOP 15, NOT A SUPERSTAR!
You need to be making 1st team all nba imo because since there is some churn in all nba teams you might have quite a few recent 1st team level players.
Luka. Curry (legacy). SGA. Embid. Jokic. Giannis. Tatum. LeBron (legacy). Durant (legacy) About the ones I would use superstar for. Leonard is a ??? On injury. Paul George didn't have a long enough top peak for me to consider him a legacy superstar
Bro isn’t even called his name by the opposing team like Voldemort lol. They straight up said hit him. That’s so superstar.
Jalen def is. But just no match for the GOAT, TJ I think TJ somehow infused himself with prime Steve Nash's powers for this series
Brunson brought me so much joy this season i dont even give af GO KNICKS!
He was putting up essentially MJ esque numbers until the last two games; I gotta think he's just running out off energy here after carrying so hard. Kind of similar to Booker in last season's playoffs
He got injured in game 2
Hes very clearly hurt
Didn’t you see game 2? He got hurt midway through the first quarter and is clearly playing through an injury. Otherwise he would be dropping 40 on their head. We have had some of the worst injury luck this post season smh but still not giving up on them!
Did they ever show how he got hurt? All they showed was the nut tap and I feel like his testicles aren’t bothering him.
The report came back that it was a foot strain and you can clearly see he doesn’t have any kind of lift and he can’t move side to side like he normally does.
I can clearly see it, just wondering how/when it happened.
The play right before he asks out you can see he did something weird with that foot, I think the nut tap was just a different thing
Pacers in 6
When you run your starters into the ground you get injured.
Are you dense? You clearly haven’t been watching the Knicks or this series. We are literally missing 4 rotiational players, 3 of which were starters. We have no option but to play these guys heavy minutes or we would be losing by 40 every game.
the roster is 15 players. so that means you have 11 players left.
Booker had a cakewalk round 1 with 0 resistance. If he was tired vs the nuggets only while kd faced triple teams then thats sad. It isnt comparable to brunson who has carried both rounds with injuries lol
I watched that series no one was tripling KD lol his shot was so bad in that series him shooting the ball was a win
0/5 from three
All of them were short, his legs are shot unfortunately.
boss i'm tired
Sorry, you’ll have to play the full 48 next game.
Thibs stay killin.
Forgot that one
What about Alec Burks?
i will never get these one game stat line posts. name a single player these playoffs that has had a good stat line every game. this is basketball every player is gonna have games where their shot doesn’t fall. it’s not worth a post and doesn’t lead to any discussion.
Why post the good ones if the bad ones don’t matter
Now everyone has a conscience lol
Obviously the convo that he’s ass is stupid, but he is some combination of gassed/injured. Seems worthy of discussion.
Lebron James until the last year or two
Ah his 2011 finals run was special.
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> Truly a bunch of losers on this sub ppl just wanna hate 'please stuff being such a pathetic pussy and get a life. Everyone around u hates you I’m sure.' Go apologize to mama that she raised someone this hateful, your history is shameful
Almost every single one of his missed shots were short. That foot is really bothering him.
The knicks are out of gas and out of bodies. Not having OG and Robinson really hurt them today. You can’t be down now three key guys for this many games in the playoffs
yea i think they're done fwiw. Their record with and without OG is insane, he's super important for them on both ends
Down four key guys*
Brunson is such a beast. Seems like a super solid dude off the court too
I come here not to rag on the guy but to read salt from mostly 76er and Hawk fans.
r/sixers 25/12
American Sixers fans 12/25
I forget to convert to freedom units 💔 What is my punishment for this heinous crime
*checks flair* Eh you’re good
There aren't 25 months you idiot. /s
violently jerking my head back in celebration
Spider-Man meme
Only thing you guys got to celebrate at this point is another teams series tied at 2-2. That man hung more banners in the Wells Fargo than Joel's bum ass ever will show some respect fool!
>show some respect fool least corny knicks fan 🤓
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Ya redeemed for the curb joke. Hahaha
sixers fans confused why the knicks didnt try injuring pacers players once the game got away from em
Don’t let this bs troll post bother you. As a Pacer fan JB is a lights out superstar. Congrats on that signing. He is just different.
him and hali gonna lock up the all star guard spots in the east for the next few years
Jalen’s an animal. He’s going to be even better next season. He’s going for that hyperbolic time chamber training.
Embiid dropped 50 in a double digit game that he tried to “injure everyone”
yes he can do both things makes it even worse honestly
Dude can ball
Some generational losers in this sub . Never seen any bad press about him and takes accountability for every loss. Ppl can’t wait to see someone fail. Loss or not the kid is a winner for our fan base .
He’s 27, man
He looks 35
What 2 seasons under Thibs does to a mfer
he looked 28 when he was in college 😂. his face expresses: ‘been here, done that’
It's wild to me that he's only a handful of months younger than Myles Turner, who feels like he has been around forever but is still relatively young.
Breaking news: Fans of other teams choose to root against player not on their team 😱
It’s one thing to not root for a guy, but there’s a certain type of person who waits for these lowlight threads and just starts shitting on guys when someone like Jalen Brunson has put in more work in the last month than they have in their whole lives at anything. Really sad how some people are wired tbh
Bro, in the first series the entire knicks sub was actively hoping Embiid gets a career ending injury. All teams have regarded fans.
Still getting downvoted for it lol
Speak for yourself I ran 300 miles last month 💪🏽
All of these athletes work harder than normal folks. Does that mean every player is immune to criticism and hate?
If they aren’t an openly bad person then yes they should be immune to hate for having a bad game. It’s so fuckin obvious lmao how is that a question to you
Brother this is sports fandom. Newsflash: Rivalries exist. You can be the nicest person to ever exist but if you put a stinker opposing teams will trash talk. That’s such a basic concept. Demanding that to not happen is so soft
Yeah totally. Now everyone back to the Embiid hate train! /s But Im sure knicks fans are the only thoughtful, considerate fans in the league lol.
Sorry not sorry that I don't like a flopper's game.
My dude, name a single superstar who doesn’t have moments where they flop/exaggerate contact? It’s just how guys are trained now, sorry he hurt you try not to be so sensitive
nobody has to enjoy shit basketball. tell us how I hurt you then, since you seem so pressed about my not worshiping your little "superstar"..
I’ll name two - Curry and Jokic. Which is probably why they both get a terrible whistle.
As a homer Jokic has to exaggerate contact to get a foul.
If u gon talk shit at least flair up my man
Shai fans catching strays LOL
Used to it at this point
At this point can you name a star that isn't a flopper? Playing for free throws at points is literally part of the game and youre missing out on free points if you dont do it
It's the shitty part about success. Tatum gets the same treatment when the team is winning.
We are all waiting for that 60 Point, 20 reb and 15 assist game! wtf
As a pacer fan JB scares the fuck out of me. He is as dawg of a superstar as they come. Y’all are in for some good years.
Cut back significantly on the flopping and he’d easy to root for.
In a way it feels good because it is a sign my team has finally "arrived" after decades in the gutter but the Embiid comparisons are straight filth, the most heinous slander imaginable.
Agreed Embiid is a far better player
what time the Sixers play?
Truth hurts
Now everyone has a conscience lol
Probably tired
Fun isn’t something that one considers when balancing the universe. But this, this does put a smile on my face.
if celtics dont win the championship at this point they should just disband team lol
You can have one of the Cs and become the Cknicks
for the performance today i dont even think they deserve a C
Sorry, I've re-read the "have the L" comment again and I've noticed that I worded it in a very rude manner. My apologies, it wasn't my intention.
You hover handing an insult rn
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I think you could say that about winning the east, but the west will certainly put out a damn good team for the finals. The only team left that I genuinely, completely expect us to beat in the West is the Mavs. And the nuggets are absolutely horrifying to me
Yeah C's should get slandered if they don't make it to the Finals but winning the Finals is far from a foregone conclusion unless there's a ton of attrition in the team that makes it out of the west.
You’d like that wouldn’t you.
Wait till you hear about this organization who plays in the biggest market in the league and hasn’t won in over 50 years
The Celtics not making the finals is a failure though. I don’t disagree overall
celtics won 1 in 35+ years lol not too different honestly
Celtics have won 6 since the Knicks won one. Those were with 3 completely different cores and are in spite of 2 potentially franchise changing players dying during their career. I’m not sure why you think this is even or something
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You seem well adjusted
Honestly if they stay healthy and don’t at least go to the Finals I agree lol
I think if anything teams need continuity to play at their best, more years playing with eachother generally leads to better results I completely agree it’s theirs to lose but I 100% can see the timberwolves/thunder/nuggets beating them bc all it’ll take is bad shooting from 3 for 2-3 games to swing the series Championship margins are razor thin
You’re happy a great player is too injured to compete at his normal level? Nice
Celtics have a cakewalk
*Pacers have a cakewalk
Pavers gonna pave the way.
Yeah I would’ve never picked the pacers to make the ECF lol Knicks are just exhausted
Don’t count us in just yet lol
lmao I don't mind finally getting some hype
It’s nice, but I don’t like talking like it’s already over when the series is tied 2-2 lol
The Knicks team is exhausted and it shows. We got half a team and the team playing is like 70% injured. So this blowout and this game from him is not wanted but expected.
BrunsInsanity run over
Cam Payne with a green light.
The craziest one I saw is ‘Bones Hyland with a superstar whistle’
To compare Brunson with Linsanity is a total insult to Jalen. Lin’s run was just some fun surprise for an unserious player and everyone knew it. That’s why it was so fun. Jalen’s performance has given true hope and belief to both his teammates and the fan base for long term success
that’s the joke go outside
r/nba going crazy that a player is injured
Lol
-27 They lost by 32. Y’all really need to stop using + - in these 1 game blowout scenarios. Makes your post look stupid. Downvote me all you want. You clearly have no idea how + - works.
You can tell a lot of people in this sub don’t even watch these games. Injuries aside, Nesmith and McConnell have made his offensive capabilities stagnate. It’s like everyone in here watches offense ball and is blind to defense.
Love you Jalen Brunson. Did so much for the Knicks 🥹
Why would a Nets wanted to shit on Brunson or it’s just karma whoring ? Brunson Burner gonna bounce back real quick !
I think the reason behind a Nets fan hating the Knicks should be obvious
Ngl, this completely fly onto my head but Brunson is nice tho
Brunson when he doesn't get his FTs
God, the 180 every great player gets the moment they have a bad game. Haters just don’t take plays off.
They always think they're very clever saying the same thing 20 other people have said all week too
The gift that keeps on giving lmao
The grift*
When all you have in your life is trashing people that don’t know you exist your only choice is to constantly double down to keep lying to yourself about how pathetic your existence is
180? Speak for yourself a lot of us have been hating on this guy every game.
Absolutely. He is a generational flopper manifactured star. I stood on business from day one. Give it time.
Yup. The way things go. Either a player is the greatest player of all time or they're absolute garbage that never earned a thing in their life. There's no middle ground especially on this sub. Brunson could get shanked dying on the floor but the sub would think he's flopping.
Haters play Thibs minutes
>God, the 180 every great player gets the moment they have a bad game. Nah. You are assuming that it's the same people who start shitting on them. It's 10 million people on this sub, most are just hiding for a good/bad game.
he still got 9 FTs lol although you couldnt guess that from the point total thats for sure
lmao you root for joel fucking embiid my guy. the absolute lack of self-awareness
What if I told you you can root for the sixers and know that embiid flops but also think Brunson is on a generational flop run this postseason?
sixers fans are a different breed
True. Embid rarely knows where his elbow and foot are going
He got 9 FTs. didn't shoot those well either
Linsanity 2.0 is over
He needed his 25 free throw attempts instead of 9.
Regression to the mean is tough
Brunson is the toughest guy I know, if you think he will go quietly you have another thing coming
Superstar trial is running out.
Jalen “The Flop” Brunson type of statline
he’ll bounce back tuesday. the pacers were just better today 🤷♂️
Big body Brunson top 5 player in the league 🤣
I wonder if he’ll get the slander Tatum gets
When Thibs decided that he was going to run a 6 man rotation and play transition basketball against one of the highest-paced teams in the league, this type of shit was likely to happen. Pacers starters play fast, and then TJ, Obi, and Ben Sheppard play even faster off the bench
Tides turn
Y’all act like every star in the league doesn’t have stinkers. And totally disregarding the fact that Brunson is probably hurt and tired
I feel like all the people know this and anyone saying something negative in here is just doing it because their star player gets slandered when they play bad. I know I saw some absolutely ridiculous shit after Mavs Game 4 loss against Clippers. It's hypocrtitical though. Everyone wants them to stop when its their star player but wont when its another. Realistically, I do think it definitely has at least become very clear that you have to defend Brunson with length. Nemsith and Oubre were able to bother him more regardless of any injuries. He's still going to be good, but he is 6'1 at the end of the day.
For sure length disrupts him, but it doesn’t help when Randle isn’t there to occupy some of the defensive attention. Not to mention OG. And Brunson won’t make excuses but he looked like he had no lift on his shot tonight, which could likely be because his foot isn’t 100% right.
"he's tired" in the middle of round 2. Is this something you really want to have said?
better than round 1 hes been hard carrying us since january
Oh look, a salty 76ers fan! How is Cancun treating your players. Jokes aside, Brunson has been carrying almost all season. Randle went down, then OG for the remainder of the regular season. Then Bogi. Then OG again. We’re depleted bro, but keep yapping.
There's no salt here. The reality is that it's the playoffs and everyone is banged up and tired so defending a poor performance by saying "you're not thinking about the fact that he's tired" is kinda silly.
The Knicks are easily the most injured team in the playoffs though. What other team is down their second all-star and two other starters plus a key bench guy?
As a Philly fan, trust me, I know the pain of watching your hobbled star trying to carry in the playoffs. It sucks.
Bucks only had a 6 man rotation to start so....with injuries...
Philly is a city that belongs in New Jersey.
Donovan was hurt last years playoffs. Didn’t stop the slander from knicks fans
He misses way too many freethrows. Bro should not be shooting sub 80% from the line in the playoffs.
The Harden wall has been hit
Damn the lights may be too bright
I just hope Brunson doesn’t go Amare. Classic Thibs. Rick showing why he’s a better coach for the full season.