For the Knicks to have a chance to oust the favored Celtics, Jalen Brunson may have to be even better than he was against the Pistons.

The final points of Brunson's 40-point performance carried the weight of a franchise and avoided an alternate universe.

For a while on Thursday, the Clutch Player of the Year was having an uncharacteristically difficult fourth quarter. In Game 6 of the New York Knicks' first-round series against the Detroit Pistons, Jalen Brunson missed eight of the first nine field goals he attempted in the final frame,