[Katz] The Knicks have allowed 57% overall shooting and 57% 3-point shooting in consecutive games. They’re the first team to do that since the Pistons in Jan. 2010. Before that, it hadn’t been done since 1993, and that was a different era. Sixers allowed 7-10 3-point shooting, then 4-4.
The Knicks have allowed 57% overall shooting and 57% 3-point shooting in consecutive games. They're the first team to do that since the Pistons in Jan. 2010. Before that, it hadn't been done since 1993, and that was a different era. Sixers allowed 7-10 3-point shooting, then 4-4.
— Fred Katz (@FredKatz) March 23, 2023
by Affectionate-Tea9224
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This is by far a huge concern, regardless of outcome, if you aren’t going to defend, you have no shot in the playoffs. I love brunson, but the last two nights seems more obvious, but teams are really going after him, it’s like a playoff preview.
Yes it’s a concern.
Unless you’re blind you can see that the defense has been dog shit and even Grimes who’s supposed to be a great defender has been getting cooooooked on d by any competent guard.
Come playoffs, this will get exposed even more.
Hopefully they nip this in the butt after two games. It’s been a real concern. One game ok but 2 and you let one of the worst 3 point shooting teams in the league go off last night. Whatever it is they need to fix it.
How is this possible?
The only positive thing I can say is that with our mini slumps, we come back hard and fix things up.
We really need to nip this in the bud over the next few games and come back strong on D for the playoffs if we want to make some noise.
Minnesota was just on fire the other night, not sure if our defense was solely to blame that night
The point of this tweet is to show how rare this is, not saying our defense sucks. Sure the defense could have been better, but role players going 8/8 from three is incredibly lucky.
Opponent 3pt attempts is usually a better measure of defense since teams typically take threes when they’re at least somewhat open. Threes are a high variance shot so the percentage being made can vary widely from night to night.
Last night they allowed 28 attempts. The previous night 24. The heat and wolves both average around 33-34 per night.
The defense could be better but that’s not why we lost these games. The other teams have had lucky shooting nights. I’ve been more concerned with our fouls and turnovers which honestly just make us look tired more than anything.
they picked a really bad time to stop playing effective defense, to be fair, in the Minnesota game their players had the MJ special stuff before the game because those mofos couldn’t miss
Our players are tired and need a break. Please change to a 10 man or even 11 man lineup, Deuce Fournier and Sims can play real NBA minutes, even if its only 8-10 minutes a game
Like half of this stat is due to bum ass, scrub ass, trash ass Taurean Prince turning into Dale Steph Reggie Ellis Miller Curry for one magical night at the Garden.
First of all ant and kat are injured and who are their stars and everything revolves around them and you can’t gameplan for a team who’s using players or schematics differently from what they normally do.
It’s like when professional poker players say the worst player to vs is a newbie because they’re so unpredictable.
If it happens again it’s worrisome but I’m not stressing
If we make the 2nd round this year that’s a major win for us.
Our guys are tiiiirreedd how does the coaching staff not see this. They been playing hard the whole damn season.
It’s only 2 games but I’d argue it’s even worse than it seems bc Miami is the worst scoring team in the league and Minnesota was missing their top 2 players.
I agree with the general sentiment that we are tired. Everyone praised thibs for his 9 man rotation and he deserves credit for engineering a way to get us on track this season.
But there’s a reason other teams run a deeper rotation and load manage – fatigue – and we might be experiencing the repercussions of our coaching staff not adapting that same policy.
We’re making history fellas
A lot of good teams have been sleepwalking this time of year. Not to dismiss the issue at hand, but potentially relevant.
Yes, this is super rare bad defense in a two game stretch, but our defense has been pretty bad all month – 118 defensive rating for March (23rd in the NBA), comparable to the Hawks, Rockets, and Wizards. Meanwhile, the Cavs have a 110 defensive rating for March (1st in the NBA). The only reason the Knicks are 6-5 for March is the offense – 120 offense rating (4th in the NBA). But what made the Knicks cook in February was the defense – top 10 defensive rating along with that great offense.
Hope Thibs can get the team to focus on defense over these last few games, secure that 5 spot, and use the break during the play-in to get their fatigue under control.
I think it’s time for Thibs to sit the guys out. Or start them for the first and that’s it.
They’re going to need the bench anyway when it’s playoff time.
Thibs needs to expand the rotation to 11 players and use McBride and Fournier for 5-10 minutes per game. We can go small from PG to SG to SF and play Randle at the PF position with either Mitchell or Harteinstein
The defense has been fine, just a fluke thing