Bombarded 6 consecutive wins, quietly rose to 4th place in the East, and the trade and signing were worth it!
The NBA's regular season continues, and in the late season, every team will enter the white-hot stage, and the competition for the standings will become more intense, and it will not be easy to keep their victory at such a critical moment. Both of them won 5 games. The Thunder is really powerful, the junior team is getting more and more fierce, and the three newcomers of the Thunder are also very young, and the young people on the Thunder's side also have their own strengths, Alexander has an average score of 31 this season3 points, 56 rebounds, 64 assists, which has reached the level of the top three All-Star stars. Jalen Williams has improved a lot, and as a defensive player, Jayway has been very good on the defensive end, and he's improved a lot this season, and he's 72The 7% shooting percentage is the highest in the league.
Che Holmger, a player who averages No. 3 per game, has been outstanding since he came on the pitch and as the team's interior stalwarts, he is second only to Wemban-Hades in the rookie scene this season. Add to that the youngest triple-double king in NBA history, Josh Giddey, will they be a dark horse this season?The Clippers, on the other hand, are on a five-game winning streak, and they have started their counterattack since the arrival of Harden, and they have come out of their previous difficulties to enter the ranks of third in the East. After the win over the Celtics, the Clippers are 22-4 in 26 league games, and it's no wonder they're called the most expensive luxury club in the league.
The Thunder have five wins, while the Clippers have five, with the longest six wins in the league coming under the Knicks. To be honest, at the beginning of this season, the Knicks' results were not very good, just an upper middle in the East, but in the middle of this season, the Knicks soared, winning six consecutive rounds, and after 14 rounds, they were 12-2, and during this time, they defeated many strong teams, such as defeating the Timberwolves, who were first in the East, defeating the 76ers in the East, and defeating the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat. 6 wins in a row. The Knicks also have a 12-2 record in their last 14 league games, beating the 76ers, the Denver Nuggets and last season's Miami Heat.
In fact, the Knicks have not been vegetarian in the last two years, and they reached the second round of the playoffs last year, and this season is likely to go further. The Knicks' real turnaround came when they signed a four-year contract worth $400 million with Jalen Brunson two years ago. Before Brunson joined the Knicks, he was just a member of the Eastern Mavericks' Ci Shiping, and if it wasn't for Brunson's outstanding performance in the Finals in the '22 season, the Knicks would not have signed him for $100 million. But the Knicks didn't look wrong, they signed Brunson, which made the Knicks' shortcomings on the defensive end greatly improved and became smoother.
Brunson also made Randle more energetic and took him out of the game so he could focus more on shooting. Compared to the 21-22 season, Randle's attack efficiency and other basic stats were greatly improved in the 22-23 season. This season, Brunson has been greatly improved again, he is already a regular player for the Knicks, he can get the best position in the NBA, he can get 266 points 39 rebounds 65 assists, 48 percent three-point shooting, and 43 percent three-point shooting. Compared to Lillard, who started in this year's All-Star Game, Brunson is not necessarily worse than Lillard, but not as popular as Lillard. When the Dallas Mavericks lost Brunson, the Warriors were also interested in Brunson, but in the end they chose the latter.
When he commented on Brunson, former Golden State Warriors manager Bob Myers said, "Brunson is a winner. I'm not going to ignore this, it takes skill to win. Someone loses, someone loses, it's a pity I didn't choose him, it's clear that I messed things up. The greatest victors in NBA history have been produced, both in terms of transfers and signings. Not only did the Knicks have been hugely successful by signing Brunson, but every trade this season has made them a fortune, exchanging Bamot and Quickley for Anunoby and Aqiuwa, which is an instant gain.