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00:00According to Cleaning the Glass, the Knicks are 17th in the NBA in defensive rating.
00:04How do you assess the Knicks' defensive issues so far?
00:08They're only slightly behind where they were in defensive rating last season.
00:12So they haven't really slipped much.
00:13They were about middle of the pack in the high teens last year.
00:16They're in like the mid-teens now.
00:17They're facing the same issues, concerns that they had under Tibbs.
00:22And Tibbs was regarded, obviously, as a defensive-minded coach,
00:25and they were still in the middle of the pack.
00:26Why?
00:27Well, when you build a team around two superstars who are both incredible offensive players
00:33but are both net-negative defenders in Brunson and Towns, this is what happens.
00:38Jalen Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns are who they are at this stage.
00:41And so you try to shore it up everywhere else.
00:43And by the way, the Knicks have done a really good job of this architecturally, right?
00:47They traded for Ananobi.
00:48They traded for Bridges.
00:50They tried to find the kind of players around Towns and Brunson
00:54to play the defense that those guys can't.
00:56When everybody's out there and healthy, it works.
00:58And that includes, of course, again, Mitchell Robinson.
01:01But Mitchell Robinson gets hurt a lot.
01:03I'm afraid this is just the challenge that they're always going to face
01:06as long as the team is built around Brunson and Towns.
01:09You have to find enough capable defenders to fill in.
01:12And there aren't a ton of elite guys out there to go get.
01:16That's how great.
01:17And this is how great we can do it.
01:18All right.
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