Forty seconds. This is Jalen Brunson's playing time against the Cavaliers since the Knicks leader was injured at the start of the match! A simple screen exit, then a shot, and he immediately winces and falls to the ground.
As he is unable to get up on his own, we fear the worst for his left knee. Especially since he will remain in the locker room for the rest of the match, and even in the second half. In the end, we will have to wait for the press conference to find out more.
“He hit his knee. That's what happened “ explains Tom Thibodeau. “He had X-rays and was examined by a doctor. Everything is negative. We’ll see what happens tomorrow.”
A strange injury
It would therefore be a simple blow, knee to knee, and there would be no injury. In slow motion, we see that he does not touch the knee of Isaac Okoro and finally, it would have been earlier in the action that Jalen Brunson would have touched the knee of his teammate Isaiah Hartenstein. And it was only when he took his impulse that he would have felt pain.
Paradoxically, it was without its leader, and therefore with four fewer starters, that the Knicks won in Cleveland! “When you are understaffed, your margin for error is slim” recalls Tom Thibodeau. “So you have to play with great intensity, great concentration on each action. It's the only thing I'm proud of. While we are already playing without our starting “frontline”, we also lost Jalen. But the guys who were there did the job.”
Notably Miles McBride, author of 16 points and 5 assists, without taking a single second! We will not change Tom Thibodeau…
