The Knicks’ Defensive Crisis: 3 Alarming Flaws Threatening Their Season
The Knicks could make a move externally. Names like Jose Alvarado, Ochai Agbaji, and Keon Ellis have been floated as potential trade targets to improve the defense. But realistically, those players wouldn’t be focal points of New York’s rotation.
Brown has employed a zone at times to combat New York’s defensive issues and it’s been hit or miss. Most likely, the Knicks will have to improve from within to elevate the defense.
Defending behind the arc
New York’s lack of an elite point-of-attack option has bled into another part of the defense, the three-point line. The Knicks are overhelping in the paint to contain drives and shots on the interior.



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