The article discusses the Knicks' dependency on Jalen Brunson during their playoff series against the Pistons. Despite his impressive performance throughout the series, concerns arise regarding the team's overall reliance on him. Brunson's late-game heroics were crucial but underscored the risk of depending heavily on a single player, especially when he is nursing an ankle injury. The chaotic loss in Game 5 exemplified the dangers of this reliance, leading fans to question the team's aspirations and strategies moving forward.
Admit it, you yelled at coach Tom Thibodeau. You yelled at the television. You even thought about yelling at your parents or whoever it was who made you a Knicks fan and signed you up for this kind of torture.
Yet as spectacular as it was to watch what Brunson did in four of the Knicks' first five playoff games, should it really have to be this way? Should a Knicks team that early in the season had aspirations of contending for a title be this dependent on a single player rescuing them every fourth quarter?
In the first four games of the series, Brunson scored 12, 14, 12 and 15 points in the fourth quarters. The Knicks won three of those games.
The Knicks' chaotic loss in Game 5, in which Brunson scored only three points and played only 5:05 in the fourth, shows just how dangerous it is for this team to be so dependent on one player.
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