“Horrific,” Jalen Brunson said. “I’ve got to be better.”
Put in a current-day context, you might have probably thought Brunson was talking about his performance on Wednesday in the Knicks’ preseason finale loss to the Wizards.
Devoid of context you could have thought whatever. Maybe, even, about a potential comment made after a playoffs’ second-round loss against the prospective NBA Finals runner-up. No joke.
“I was horrific,” Brunson said after the Game 1 loss to Miami all the way back in April. “I’ve got to be better.”
Good for Brunson, he holds himself to the same sky-high standards in the most meaningful of games as well as the most inconsequential of them.