{"id":549247,"date":"2026-01-20T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/549247\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:23:14","slug":"jalen-brunson-makes-soul-searching-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/549247\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson makes soul-searching demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/knicks-news-mike-brown-makes-inappropriate-comment-loss-mavericks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks dropped their fourth straight contest<\/a> as they fell 114-97 to the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night. Despite a generally strong start to the regular season, Knicks captain <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/aabb091a\/jalen-brunson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Brunson<\/a> understands that his team will have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/47665479\/fans-give-knicks-earful-struggles-continue-vs-mavericks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">take a long look in the mirror.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere&#8217;s been a lot of things to pinpoint, but I mean as a team we know what we have to do,\u201d captain Jalen Brunson told ESPN. \u201cIt&#8217;s either we do it, we care enough to do it, or we don&#8217;t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brunson tallied 22 points and six assists in the losing effort, while <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/new-york-knicks\/knicks-news-karl-anthony-towns-reveals-why-hed-be-disappointed-too-in-mlk-day-mavericks-loss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karl-Anthony Towns posted 22 points,<\/a> 18 rebounds, and four assists. New York head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/tag\/mike-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Brown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/19\/sports\/knicks-booed-off-court-after-worst-loss-of-season-to-mavericks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">did not mince words<\/a> when speaking about his squad\u2019s effort.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey scored 75 points in the first half,\u201d Brown told Jared Schwartz of the New York Post. \u201cHalftime, we usually do the clips and talk about technical X\u2019s and O\u2019s and all that crap that coaches do, teams do. There was nothing to be said at halftime. Except for lock in and do your f\u2013king \u2014 do your job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Veteran guard <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nba\/players\/be37098c\/josh-hart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Hart<\/a> finished the game with eight points, six rebounds, and three assists. Like Brunson and Brown, he was not afraid to share his opinion on the Knicks\u2019 poor showing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI haven&#8217;t seen this kind of effort that we had today. It was embarrassing,\u201d Hart said.<\/p>\n<p>New York is now 25-18 on the season. While they are still poised to make the playoffs, the group will have to do some soul-searching before re-establishing itself as true contenders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should&#8217;ve started a couple weeks ago, but we&#8217;ve got to start tomorrow,\u201d Brunson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Knicks dropped their fourth straight contest as they fell 114-97 to the Dallas Mavericks on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,288,327,304,3357,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-549247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-jalen-brunson","10":"tag-josh-hart","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-mike-brown","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115928590277607005","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}