It’s easy to forget now, because of how well he has performed in the postseason the past two years, but Jalen Brunson hasn’t let the memory fade completely from his consciousness.
He still remembers his playoff debut, and how much he struggled in a opening-round, seven-game series loss to the Clippers as a member of the Mavericks two years ago.
“Knowing how I played that series and knowing what I could’ve done — I could’ve been better — it was always on my mind,” the Knicks’ point guard said Tuesday, before the team flew to Cleveland for Wednesday’s Game 5 owning a 3-1 series lead. “It still is.”Dallas lost in seven after taking a 3-2 lead.
It was his third year in the league, and it was somewhat of a wake-up call, a reminder of how far he still had to go. “For me, it wasn’t my best, but I think I wouldn’t really trade anything, any experience,” he said. “Going through that experience was enough [for me to learn]. Just staying composed, staying poised, just really taking it one day at a time, one possession at a time, not being worried about getting rattled or anything like that.”There has been no rattling Brunson in the postseason since.
He helped the Mavericks reach the Western Conference finals last year, carrying Dallas in the first three games of their first-round series win over the Jazz when Luka Doncic was out, and he has been just as potent so far in these playoffs.
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