Colin Cowherd

It doesn't look like it.

But they did not use him optimally, I think, at all in this series.

And that's how I'll remember it despite a Knicks great run, too, because I don't want to be negative about New York here.

Yeah, and it's interesting.

There's always this thing about confirmation bias or recency bias.

And I mean, when Jalen Brunson's dad, who I covered back in Portland, when Jalen Brunson's dad says, I didn't think he was going to be this good.

Dads always give you kind of the benefit of the doubt.

Are we falling into a little, because I think we all love Villanova guys, the toughness, but he wasn't necessarily, even on those Villanova teams, the best scorer, the go-to guy.

In Dallas, nobody projected this.

Is there a little bit of the Knicks were so likable and so collective and so smart that we're all like, Brunson, top eight player.

Or do you buy it and have we just under-reported and under-discussed him since he's been in the league?

I don't think that we have.

I don't know how this has happened.

So him getting praise and being a top five player, like, look, if you'd asked me a few years ago, do you think there'll ever be a serious conversation of who you would rather have, Luka or Jalen Brunson?

I mean, of all the laughable suggestions for a show topic.

OK, but it's totally valid to bring it up right now if you want to do it.

But I voted him either.

There was one year there.

I think it's two years ago.

I voted him fifth for MVP or I voted him first team all NBA.