How surprising is the rise of Jalen Brunson to you?

I never thought he'd be a 27ppg scorer who would maintain his efficiency (48/40/85).

Honestly thought he peaked last year.

When he got the chance to leave Luka's shadow and come to New York, I figured his numbers would increase to something like a 21/6. So it's safe to say he exceeded my expectations by a whole lot.

extremely surprising to me. he won NPOY the year after frank mason and i thought he'd be much closer to frank mason than to to what he is now.

he's got much more of an nba body than mason and not saying i thought mason would be good whatsoever. just didnt really think brunson would be either.

I always thought he would be a huge defensive liability due to his size and that would cost him minutes which wouldn’t ultimately cost him contract money.

I was wrong.

Devils advocate… how much of what he’s doing is because Julius Randle has been out?

NY also picked up Donte DiVicenzo and Bogdanovic… also Mitch missed most of the season with an ankle but he’s back now

Mavs fans could see at the tail end of his time in Dallas he was going to be a legit scoring guard who could at least be a borderline all star.

It's painfully hilarious as a Mavs fan to have lived through Cuban fricking up and letting Nash go for nothing proclaiming he'd never mess up like that again and then doing the same damn thing w/ Brunson nearly 20 years later.

Also, it was never a Brunson needed to get out of Luak's shadow thing. He would have still become the same guy in Dallas had Cuban not trying to get cute w/his contract b/c he works his arse off at improving his game and anyone who has watched how well Kyrie plays w/Luka knows that Brunson would have been doing the same basic thing expect he'd be more likely to be healthy most of the year.

As a casual Mavs fan, I am not surprised at all. He was a heck of a player for the Mavs from all the games I watched over several years. High basketball IQ.

I'm a patriot as well