 what's the word y'all the nicks are 39 and 27 and it's got a lot of us wondering could they be more dangerous than we anticipated nine game win streak and those last two wins are so improbable that you got you got to tip your hat to it yesterday they go into the td garden without jaylon bruntz who's been ridiculous we're gonna talk about him and they win a double overtime game against the boston selts it's man a manual quickly play 50 plus minutes he got a little bit of rest in the first half and then after that from the start of the third quarter to the double overtime ended he played every single second career highs across the boards to shout out to him julius randall though there were so many bodies can thrown at him handle themselves at least decent enough to help them get this win and they beat the boston selts who again are one of the best teams in basketball and then we go one game before that they in miami and julius randall gets ripped up tyler hero go for a layer boom now they down jaylon brunson there's no time else 20 seconds in class jaylon brunson like chill you know i'm saying we had time as he hit his last shot let's win this game they throw two bodies at jaylon brunson he get it out of his hands to julius randall julius randall gets ripped up again but this time he recovers another body gets thrown at julius randall and he ends up taking a heavily contested three and it goes and it is so crazy that sequence was so crazy that they got mike brine to bring out the very very rare double bang you know when steve curry pulled up from right beyond half court against the okc thunder back in 2016 or something it's it's not a lot of double bangs and then be a history y'all he got one because that's how crazy of a win that was and that is the team that this team has been since since christmas they were a 500 team around christmas and here they are as the five seed it feels pretty pretty secured that they're gonna stay within four or five you know it seems like this match up between them and the cleveland cavaliers of course a lot can happen between now and the end of the season but like i don't see the brooklyn that's taking it and i don't see the calves fall far too too below that so it's just it feels like the cleveland cavaliers new york nick series is going to happen it's just a matter of who will have home court advantage and boy that series is going to be a dogfight of course if it happens if it happens um let's talk about jaylon brunson because of course he didn't play last night but he has been so ridiculous that even though he did not make an all-star appearance once we get to the end of the season and the ballots are in from these voters and stuff jaylon brunson is going to get all NBA votes for the guard position and that is saying a lot considering how crazy the guard position is right now when he comes to topian talents again i'm not saying he's gonna he's gonna end up making all NBA because i don't necessarily know exactly but but he's in the conversation a lot of the success that the nicks have had have come since the turn of the calendar year so since 2023 has started jaylon brunson and 27 games averaging 28 points per game we're talking six assists four rebounds 51 percent from the field 45 and a half percent from three and 80 percent from the free throw line that's insane before this little this little stretch he was averaging like 20 points per game and his shooting splits her down so what happens is to turn in the calendar year for him to not just elevate his play but like go above and beyond major thing that sticks out to me is his ability to get to the free throw line it's gone up since the beginning of the season and also his overall shot attempts he was averaging like 14 and a half shots per game before the turn of the calendar year now it's up to 20 so he's he's taking more shots ultimately hitting more shots and getting to the line more and i remember jaylon brunson signed his contract i ain't forgot the amount of tweets that i saw after i praised it i'm sending this an overpay and i don't know how you can even offend that opinion anymore considering how good he has been and how good the nicks have been we exaggerate all the time right we exaggerate heavily on this channel or just an NBA fandom in general the nicks they had a great point guard since 30 years ago guys that's damn near facts jaylon brunson is the best point guard the nicks have had in such a very long time and he is a testament to how much good guard play can overall just change a locker room change the success of a team because like the year that they made the playoffs last was a couple years ago when they surprised the world alfred pegn was just starting point guard and he won he won terrible but he knows jaylon brunson the the upgrade from alfred pegn two years ago to jaylon brunson is so large and even a year that they didn't make it last year uh kimba walker is there starting point guard for after season and then alec berks was starting point guard for the second half that's that's one of the reasons why it wasn't great i mean another reason was julie's rando kind of fell back into the old version of him and now he's back to playing a great great basketball but a lot of things are clicking right now and it's perfect the josh heart acquisition has been amazing he was just in in portland and he wouldn't take any threes the man genuinely did not want to take a three-point shot if he was wide open it was contested it was one second on the shotclaw he's gonna try to get a dribble and and take a midi instead of taking the three and sits coming over to the mix he's shooting 60 percent from three um i don't expect that to be the case for the rest of the season plus the post season but he is just hitting his shots now i can't even say unsung heroes anymore uh because yesterday i mean a man you quickly got a ton of flowers after the performance he put on but even before that a man you quickly has been such an impactful player and i remember before the trade that line there were a lot of rumors around you man you quickly they were listening to calls trying to upgrade here and there and it is a blessing that they did not trade that man away because he's in conversations for six man in a year it's like him it's like Malcolm Brogdon it's like norman pile these are the guys that are in conversation you man you quickly has a legitimate chance of winning that award that's how impactful he is and usually traditionally six man of the year goes and when it comes to the guards it's mostly about oh he gonna come off the bench he's gonna give you 18 points per game it's the little William says it's the Jordan Clark says he's these type of dudes even you quickly can do that but where he is really impactful is the fact that he gets onto that floor and he is going to fend his ass off and again i don't watch Collis ball but i don't remember that being his his archetype coming into the NBA where people saw him as a dude that was going to be a hard-nosed defender and overall he's an impactful player like that he's that and more the turn of the year for him sees him go to 15.7 points per game 50-40-80 shooting splits as well and he went from early in the season where Thebedo was playing him 19 minutes here then 26 minutes here and then again since the turn of the calendar season Bro has been averaging 33 minutes per game he has completely earned the trust of Tom Thebedo which is hard to do i saw here Chicago for years it is hard to earn the trust of Tom Thebedo but you see that from him and Kenny for all star Quinn Grimes that if you can defend and these are dudes that don't make a ton of mistakes i know that quickly um not quickly Grimes ended up fouling Zaylon Brunson at the end of regulation and that helped they go on to overtime but these are dudes that don't make a ton of mistakes and if you don't make mistakes and you play great defense that's a recipe to get into the the good graces of Tom Thebedo the team is so weird i'm looking at their their games played from December 4th to December 20th they went on a seven game win streak and then they backed it up with a five game losing streak they went in the four game win streak they went on the five game losing streak this team has been hella unpredictable but again recently they haven't planned their best basketball together and you know what i was really watching for yesterday of course i've been watching and seeing them on the at that point eight game win streak one guy that's been under the microscope a little bit more than normal it's RJ Barrett and i was thinking to myself okay there's no Jalen Brunson this is the time for RJ to kind of showcase some other stuff because that's be real i'm nix fans i'm only speaking for myself a guy that's watching neutrally you might have a different opinion i respect it but he has been underwhelming for me when i watch him if i remember correctly i'm gonna i'm gonna double check it during this streak he hasn't really closed out games you have four minutes here in the fourth quarter then josh heart came on and quickly came on so he's been a dude that's been playing great minutes over the three and a half quarters and then they sub him out and they put the better players in like this way he played three minutes in the fourth quarter and then josh hardy man you quickly played an entire 12 minutes you know so i was looking at rj like okay this this is your time to shine there's no jalen brunson and you're looked at to be the third best player now you're number two let me see you be number two yesterday that was fine he did most of his damage in the first half i don't think he scored in any of the over times um but but you know he is a extreme wild card at this point a couple years ago he shot 40 percent from three and that that three point shooting is pretty much all all gone for some reason he just i mean people thought it was a fluke in a moment if you go look at that playoff series they were throwing two bodies of jules randall daring rj barrett to shoot a shot daring him to and i'm gonna be honest with you if i am coaching against the nicks in the playoff series i'm kind of doing that same thing you saw i worked somewhat with jules randall yesterday where they kept throwing bodies at him and it flustered him enough luckily he has some other people step up like immanuel quickly but if i'm coaching against his team i'm throwing bodies at julius and i'm letting rj barrett beat us and this is the time because the team is good where he needs to show that he can or you might end up in a situation in the playoff series with tom thibodeau is going to do whatever it takes to win a series and if that means not playing rj down the stretch so be it because quickly hit that shot and josh hard to shoot in 60 percent of three since we traded for him he'll hit that shot i mean you look at tom thibodeau led teams throughout the course of his career they always hung their hat on the defensive side of the ball that's where tom thibodeau is he's a defensive minded coach so you look at this new york nicks team you're like okay they went into all these games down the stretch they playing great defense which is true i mean the defense is cool i think it's like 11th in the league before last night i didn't look since last night um but the last time i checked since since christmas remember since christmas they're the second best offense in all the basketball a tom thibodeau led team tom thibodeau led second in offense is unheard of for them and the audience that was above them was the sacramental king so we know they just run a gun boy that's the most fun scene of basketball if you ask me but the but the nicks are right behind them offensively that is such a wild thing to put into your mind man this nicks team their offense is elite and i'm telling you all of this second best offensive basketball since the since christmas all of that they don't even shoot threes like that they're not a great three-point shooter team y'all somehow they figured out a way to have an elite level offense will be in a below average three-point shooting team so if you haven't been watching nicks lately i highly recommend it it is great basketball especially jaylon brunson is healthy in playing um shout out to him and y'all deserve it every single year me and pierre my cousin pierre we make a bet who gonna have a better record nicks or bulls we make it 250 dollars and i'm about to pay this man another 250 dollars they won two years ago we got our vids last season we i'm running it back every time i believe in my bulls unless we sail this off season then i'm just i'm a whole one way i'm not just giving money away all right let me know what you think about the nicks are you a believer in them being a team that can muck it up come play off time or is this just a crazy run