The Knicks give voice to the defense

Not in attack yes Nix knew victory in Toronto. The performance wasn’t bad, but with 16 turnovers and 34% 3-point success, Jalen Brunson and his teammates weren’t particularly brilliant either. It was all decided on defense, as it often has been in recent weeks for New York.

“We were getting stops. We were trying to get as many easy shots as possible. We had some big shots. But it really started on defense.”, confirms the leaderimportant in the last quarter with his 10 points.

Mike Brown’s players will receive only 95 points in Canada. This is in addition to 89 and 98 against the Spurs and Bucks. In the last three games, all wins, the Knicks have allowed an average of just 94 points. For comparison, that’s 13 points less than the league’s best defense this season in this area! The Celtics are actually scoring 107 points per game.

“When our team plays at a high level defensively, and I know we can, we’re pretty good.”Karl-Anthony Towns announces. “We have to play like this if we want to have a chance to go far in the playoffs. Every round is a challenge and we can’t sell the bear skin before we kill it, but if we want to be our best version, it will be played on this side of the field.”

Best attack of the week

Things have been working very well in this area of late, with just 104.4 points conceded per 100 possessions in the last ten matches. No one in the league is doing better during this streak.

“Our defense fuels our offense. In games like this, where we have little black holes in the offense, we have to make sure we don’t let them score. We’ve been good at that.” analyzes Josh Hart. “There are times in games when things don’t go our way, but we manage to put things in place at the right time.” continues Jalen Brunson. “We have to keep going like this.”

That’s good, the next opponents will be big attacks. Between this Wednesday and next Monday we have to welcome the Thunder (6th in the ranking of the most effective attacks) and the Nuggets, who are simply the benchmark, with 120.3 points scored per 100 possessions. Then the Lakers and Clippers, 10th and 12th respectively.

			Shots			Rebounds
Players	MJ	Min	Shots	3pts	LF	Off	Def	That	Pd	Bp	Int	Ct	Ft	Pts
Jalen Brunson	57	34:37	47.0	37.8	84.5	0.5	2.9	3.4	6.2	2.2	0.7	0.1	2.4	26.7
Karl-Anthony Towns	58	31:11	48.0	36.7	85.5	3.1	8.7	11.8	2.8	2.6	0.9	0.6	3.5	19.8
And the Anunobi	48	32:59	47.7	36.4	79.2	1.3	3.9	5.3	2.2	1.9	1.7	0.7	2.5	16.1
Mikal Bridges	62	33:57	50.2	38.7	83.3	1.0	3.0	4.1	4.0	1.1	1.5	0.8	2.0	15.6
Miles Mcbride	35	28:02	43.4	42.0	81.4	0.6	2.0	2.6	2.8	0.8	0.9	0.2	1.8	12.9
Josh Hart	50	30:16	49.0	38.3	71.1	1.4	6.0	7.4	5.3	2.0	1.2	0.3	2.4	11.8
Landry Shamet	37	22:23	45.4	41.8	71.2	0.5	1.3	1.7	1.5	0.5	0.6	0.2	1.5	9.9
Jordan Clarkson	53	18:19	42.8	32.8	79.2	0.8	0.9	1.7	1.3	1.0	0.4	0.2	1.7	8.8
Jose Alvarado	10	19:42	41.1	30.6	62.5	0.4	2.3	2.7	4.0	0.9	1.6	0.2	1.8	8.0
Mitchell Robinson	45	19:24	70.1	0	39.3	4.4	4.3	8.7	0.9	0.6	0.8	1.1	2.2	5.0
Tyler Kolek	52	12:28	42.5	35.9	66.7	0.3	1.4	1.7	2.8	1.0	0.4	0.1	1.2	4.6
Mohammed Diawara	51	7:45	44.4	40.2	70.0	0.2	1.1	1.3	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.7	3.2
Guerschon Yabusele	41	8:56	39.3	29.4	66.7	0.6	1.5	2.1	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.9	2.7
Ariel Hookporty	44	8:50	55.2	25.0	75.0	1.0	1.9	2.9	0.5	0.5	0.2	0.5	1.2	2.0
Kevin McCuller Jr	18	7:00 a.m	38.2	35.3	40.0	0.5	0.8	1.3	1.1	0.6	0.3	0.0	1.0	1.9
Dillon Jones	5	4:48	20.0	33.3	100.0	0.4	0.8	1.2	0.8	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.8	1.4
Jeremy Sochan	7	5:34	33.3	0.0	50.0	0.1	1.0	1.1	0.4	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.4	1.0
Trey Jemison III	11	5:33	57.1	0	100.0	0.7	0.7	1.5	0.3	0.5	0.1	0.2	0.8	0.8
Pacome Dadiet	20	3:24	23.1	12.5	100.0	0.1	0.6	0.7	0.5	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.7
Tosan Evbuomwan	5	1:36	0.0	0	0	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.0