{"id":1586,"date":"2026-06-09T05:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:07:55","slug":"knicks-nba-finals-game-3-report-card-jalen-brunsons-inefficient-series-finally-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"Knicks&#8217; NBA Finals Game 3 report card: Jalen Brunson&#8217;s inefficient series finally hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Report card from the\u00a0Knicks\u2019 115-111 loss over the Spurs in Game 3\u00a0of the NBA Finals on Monday night at the Garden:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1584\">Knicks coach Mike Brown fumes at refs over free-throw disparity after Game 3 loss to Spurs<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Jalen Brunson<\/h2>\n<p>Not a good shooting night overall (11-for-25) and too many turnovers (five). Got going in the fourth quarter, but it was too late with little help from his teammates. Brunson\u2019s Finals have been inefficient.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1582\">Knicks drop Game 3 at raucous MSG as Spurs strike back in NBA Finals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade<\/strong>: C+<\/p>\n<h2>Karl-Anthony Towns<\/h2>\n<p>A quiet night for Towns after his strong performances in Games 1 and 2. He was a spectator on offense while reverting to the passive version of Towns, managing just 11 points on 10 shots. Only grabbed eight boards in 38 minutes while his counterpart, Victor Wembanyama, dominated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1580\">ESPN\u2019s Shams Charania says he was briefly stopped by Secret Service outside MSG<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report card from the\u00a0Knicks\u2019 115-111 loss over the Spurs in Game 3\u00a0of the NBA Finals on Monday night at the Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-knicks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Knicks&#039; NBA Finals Game 3 report card: Jalen Brunson&#039;s inefficient series finally hurts - Metro Transit Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=1586\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Knicks&#039; 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