Mikal Bridges, Karl Anthony cities bring Knicks to “another level”

Perhaps the best indication of what is important for these kinks – or what is the most relevant for your status as a candidate or a pronderer – was the topic of the postgame survey space interviews on Wednesday evening.

The players, who were already one of the best starting compartments in the NBA, had just set up a Knicks record for most points in three consecutive games.

They scored a ridiculous 136 points over this route. The franchise has been around since the 1940s and never achieved so much.

But it was something special in the way the Knicks dealt with their business this week. They suppressed two of the best crimes in the NBA against Memphis and Denver.

They both suffocated with the defense and were proud of it.

“We could show everything,” said Karl-Anthony Towns, “that we still have one or two levels.”

In fact, the levels for the Knicks are mainly measured in defensive improvement. Her offense was impressive, but always accepted and powerful from the start.

Above all, not limited to the cities and Mikal Bridges Connection.

The couple is most likely to be involved in pick-and-roll campaigns with bridges as a defender and cities in the center.

On the opening evening in Boston, they were lost so much that the first impression took a long time before they shake off – especially because the defensive fights continued most of November.

But as cities and bridges something about the preferences of the other learned and how they found out how the strengths and weaknesses of their teammates can best use-the Knicks turn into a very respectable, if not first-class, defensive unit.

“I just think it was about being connected. We are all new to play together. I, Kal, we are new people here, ”said Towns. “We just try to find out and understand what the strengths of all are.

“I think know? So Mikal did a great job at the point of attack. I tried to do my best to use my hands to get a few steals or use my length to make passports much more difficult and put it into the corner with a little pressure. This enables OG (Anunoby) and JB (Jalen Brunson) and Josh (hard) to do what they can best do, what is in the lane and get the theft, and then we can press the transition. For me it only got used to these boys and what they can do best. ”

After a victory against the Hawks on January 20, to which Trae Young was locked up on the route to start the current profit series of five games, Bridges said that cities that stay on the ball screens do not remain a positive adaptation.

“(When cities) fall back, the guards come around (the screen) snakes and come where they want. But he helps the team to defend the team and helps the man on the ball to come back, ”said Bridges, and hard repeated this feeling.

“For the boys who were previously here, it was a little different in relation to (cities) in the ball screens,” said Hart. “And I think this type of a second got into a rhythm. But I think we’re doing it now. He was astonishing in terms of communication. And people he has to get up (against the pick -and roll), he is and makes it difficult for the boys. ”

The numbers form a fairly longer improvement in the defense, which does not summarize with the profit. Before November 28, the Knicks 10-8 were the 24th defense.

Since November 28, the Knicks 22-8 with the second most common victories of the NBA, the defense and the statistics of the seventh assessment have improved significantly on the entire board.

They allow fewer 3-pointers, fewer free throws, fewer points and more sales.

In the meantime, the offensive was constantly fantastic-von 2nd before November 28th to the fourth post-Nov. 28.

What is the difference in winning more games?

The defense.

But it only felt real in this five-game winning shop when the Knicks, which were padded against the lower residents by the lower inhabitants in December, suppressed the good teams and their superstars.

Morant and Nikola Jokic scored an average of 13.5 points and four templates against the Knicks this week, while they shoot less than 40 percent. Next, LeBron James and the Lakers come on Saturday.

“Nobody ever judges us because of the crime – this team has offensive firepower,” said Towns. “But I understand that we did not show the best version of ourselves defensively, and I think that these last few games we could do on this page.”