The data is revealed: Why Brunson of the New York Knicks has become the No. 1 guard in the East

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2024-05-17 17:15Posted in Hebei Sports Creators

Mavericks owner Cuban looked at Jalen Brunson's performance in the playoffs and said with great chagrin: "There was once an All-Star player Brunson in front of me, but I didn't cherish it, and I regretted it when I lost it, the most painful thing in the world is nothing more than this, if God gives me another chance to start over, I will not hesitate to give him the top salary, if I have to add a term to this contract, I hope one!" Ten thousand! Year! ”

There is no regret medicine in this world, as the saying goes, gathering is a fire, scattering is full of stars, fortunately, the Mavericks' playoff record this season is also good, otherwise fans say that Brunson has brought Doncic to undue heights, which is a bit exaggerated, but relying on the highlight performance of the regular season and playoffs this season, Brunson's popularity has skyrocketed, and some people have praised him as the first guard in the East, so is he well-deserved or exaggerated? Today's star test will bring you Brunson's regular season data analysis.

First of all, this analysis uses regular season data, the playoffs are not yet over, let's wait and see what height Brunson can lead the New York Knicks to reach in the future, don't look at Brunson's big head, in fact, he is only 1.88 meters tall, with an arm span of 1.93 meters and a weight of 86kg.

Throughout Brunson's six-year career, he has really moved forward step by step, playing 77 games this season, averaging 28.7 points (fourth in the league), 6.7 assists, 3.6 rebounds, and 0.9 steals in 35.4 minutes per game, all of which have reached career highs, and he was selected to the All-Star team for the first time, ranking fifth in the league in the selection of the most improved player and key players in the league, and the most commendable thing is that he scored 142 points in the regular season MVP selection, lower than Jokic and Alexander, Doncic, and Antetokounmpo are ranked fifth in the league, and this honor alone is enough to show that Brunson's regular season performance this season is amazing, he has entered the MVP discussion, and the title of No. 1 guard in the East is not for nothing.

At the level of in-depth detailed data, Brunson's ball usage rate this season is as high as 32.5% ranking fourth in the league, only lower than Doncic 36%, Brother Alphabet 33%, Alexander 32.8%, such a high ball use rate not only needs to have a personal performance, the most important thing is whether you can lead the team to victory, otherwise it is a negative effect of the cancer play, this season the Knicks have a 50-32 record and rank second in the East, which is the second best record in the team's history since 2000, Just below the 54-28 record in the 12-13 season, Brunson's personal PER efficiency of 23.4 ranks seventh in the league, and his plus/minus per 100 possessions is positive 11.8 and ranks ninth in the league, and he can be said to be the most indispensable ace core of the New York Knicks.

In particular, it should be emphasized that the Knicks' excellent record was achieved under unfavorable circumstances such as the team's main Randle only playing half a season and the team's change of starting lineup in the middle of the game, Brunson, DiVincenzo, Josh Hart, OG Anunoby, and Hartenstein played an average of 21.6 minutes per game, ranking second in the league, only lower than the Denver Nuggets' starting five, with a total of 50.5 points and 19 rebounds ranked second in the league. 3.3 blocks rank first in the league, and the most incredible thing is that the total salary of this five-man group is only $76 million, which can be called the league's most cost-effective core lineup.

Brunson and DiVincenzo, Josh Hart have a Villanora college classmates bond effect, Brunson assisted DiVincenzo a total of 121 times, Devon three-point line outside Brunson passed 221 shots and shot 86 shots, shooting rate as high as 40.8%, with Brunson's support, DiVincenzo played the highest performance of his career, Hart's role is more on the defensive end, he has terrible attendance and playing time, Brunson outside the three-point line to shoot 93 times to hit 27 shots, shooting only 29%, If his three-point shooting can be more accurate, he will be the best 3-and-D player in the league.

In the NBA league, there is a world of difference between the passing effect of tall and small players, tall people have a wide field of vision, and they can even stand at the top of the arc to easily deal cards, small people have limited vision, and simple passes may be interfered with or broken, Brunson is trapped by his height and size, his assists rely more on the ball after breaking through to attract the defense, and the breakthrough pass rate of 35% is decent, The assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.52 is at a high level, ranking 26th in the league in 96 bad passes and 11th in the league in 67 ball turnovers, although his assist ability is not outstanding, but all teams in the league have begun to adopt a wrap-and-roll defense strategy in order to limit him, and Brunson ranks 4th in the league with 1727 encounters this season, which alone fully illustrates his threat.

He is the scoring arrow of the New York Knicks, the first scoring weapon is to break through, the current top striker in the league, with a total of 1,500 breakthroughs in the regular season, ranking second in the league, only lower than Alexander (1,748), breaking through the frame 741 times to hit 382 balls with a shooting rate of 51.6%, compared to Alexander's shooting rate of 57.3% and Doncic's shooting rate of 61.6%, it is indeed almost meaningful, but it is still that sentence, Brunson's physical talent is worse than the two of them, and his breakthrough attack frame is based on his height, arm span, weight significantly stronger than their opponents.

Talent is not smart enough to make up, Brunson is a typical representative of playing with his mind, can make full use of the blocking and dismantling to create scoring opportunities, this season holding the ball to launch 809 blocking and dismantling offenses ranked first in the league, relying on the blocking and dismantling average of 11.2 points per game to rank 3rd in the league, 8.7 shots in the frame after blocking and dismantling, 4.1 shots and 47.4% shooting rate, on the contrary, he ranked 7th in the league in 1 to 1 singles 301 times, and the shooting rate of 97 goals in 247 singles was only 39%, he and the opponent's singles are disadvantaged, A comparison of the two scoring percentages shows a huge difference in efficiency.

Brunson is also becoming more and more magical, in addition to the top breakthrough frame, he also improved the number of three-point shots, ranking 25th in the league in a total of 526 three-point shots this season, hitting 211 goals and hitting 40%, which is a very good shooting rate, including 329 three-point shots 323 shots, a shooting rate of 37.4%, 191 three-point shots, 85 shots, and a shooting rate of 44.5%, all of which are very good levels. If he continues to improve his three-point attempts in the future and maintain that percentage of shots, his scoring stats may even improve.

He brought a long-lost leadership temperament to the New York Knicks, a perennial superstar black hole team, Randle has been criticized by fans and the New York media for being soft and stealthy in key games, while Brunson is really hard, he really has the style of a king who is not the same at the most critical moment of the game, ranking 9th in the league in key points of 106 points this season, and ranking 10th in the league for 20 key assists.

Still trapped by his size, he is definitely at a disadvantage on the defensive end, the opponent averages 11.5 shots in front of him per game to hit 5.7 shots, limiting the opponent's shooting rate to 49.8%, and the opponent increases the shooting rate by 3.2 percentage points per game under his defense, especially the outside defense, the opponent's three-point line outside the Brunson defense shooting rate can reach 40.8%, his height and arm span are difficult to interfere, the opponent is almost all open shooting training, once it encounters a misalignment, it is directly handled, Under Brunson's defense, the forward shooters shot 45.6 percent from three-point range.

Looking at the current Eastern guard line, Lillard, Mitchell, Haliburton, Trae Young, and Jaylen Brown have their own characteristics, but in terms of the ability to lead the team alone, there is a certain gap between all and Brunson, watching Brunson play reminds me of Iverson in the 2000-01 season, they all have the kind of courage and tenacity that knows that there are tigers in the mountains and prefers to the tigers, Brunson's success once again proves to everyone that even if the talent is not enough in the NBA, it can also be successful by relying on unremitting efforts, come on Brunson, Continue your performances on the nation's top basketball stage in New York.

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