The offseason league teams began a snatching battle to prepare for next season, and the New York Knicks were one of them. First of all, he wanted to target the team's reinforcements on Irving, and after the pursuit was fruitless, he shifted the target to Brunson of the Lone Ranger.
Brunson's rookie contract is coming to an end and is currently awaiting a contract extension. This season's outstanding performance has allowed Brunson to be favored by many teams, and the Knicks are also looking at this, and the team has freed up a lot of space and is going all out to grab it. But with Brunson's ability and style of play, is it really suitable for the Knicks?
Brunson grew rapidly in the Lone Ranger's four seasons, averaging 16.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 4.5 assists in the regular season, playing in a tough style on the court, and became Doncic's most powerful assistant before Dinwiddie reached the Lone Ranger.
Brunson's performance was not only recognized by the Lone Rangers, but also attracted the attention of other teams, with the Knicks being the most. During the draft, the Knicks offered salary space to sign Brunson and sent Kemba Walker to the Pistons, a move that freed up about $16 million in salary space for the Knicks.
Kemba Walker did not have a good time in the Knicks this season, he is not the Knicks coach Thibodeau likes to use the player, Thibodeau is good at finding breakthroughs in defense, Walker is not good at defense, so many times not used by Thibodeau, was pressed on the Knicks bench.
Walker still has a good personal ability, this season in the Knicks due to the epidemic many people can not play, had to use Walker to start, three games walker averaged 31.3 points, 8 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game, the performance is like a dream back to the peak. But with the return of the Knicks, Thibodeau abandoned him again. Walker played in 37 games for the Knicks this season, averaging 11.6 points, 3 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game.
The reason why the Knicks gave up Walker to pursue Brunson was that he thought that Brunson's confrontational ability was stronger than Walker's, and he was younger, and he did better than Walker on the defensive end, but was Brunson really suitable for the Knicks? Can the introduction of Brunson solve the Knicks' fundamental problems?
Knicks management doesn't seem to realize where their team's weak link is this season, and Thibodeau's trusted defense has regressed significantly this season, but still doesn't want to break through on the offensive end, leaving Kemba Walker to no reuse. That's not all, the Knicks' main problem is on the offensive end, the lack of groomers on the court, the team often falls into a scoring drought on the court, and there are two games with less than 80 points this season, and there are countless games with 80-90 points.
The Knicks' lack of organizers is obvious, and it can be intuitively seen from a statistic that the member with the highest number of assists in the team is the team's center Randle, who averages just 5 assists per game. The second most assists is the 4 times of substitute Syros, see micro-knowledge, the Knicks on the court attack basically rely on singles, which makes the Knicks record decline all the way this season, falling to the bottom of the East.
Nowadays, the Knicks want to get Brunson from the Lone Ranger at a large price, with Brunson's style of play, not only can not solve the Knicks' problem, but also add another list of players for them, the team already has Barrett, Fournier, Box, Redish and Randall and other people, no player can connect the entire team, it is foreseeable that if according to the Knicks this lineup, the situation on the court will still be miserable, the offensive end is still a chicken feather, messy.
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