These 2 Players Are The Key To The Knicks Winning Streak

A deep dive into how the Knicks fixed their defensive problems, and how the impact of Duece McBride and Quinten Grimes completely changed everything for the Knicks in their current 6-game winning streak.
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[@RawHebrewRemnant]

NIcely done. In fact, Well done. From what I gathered, Deuce, Grimes and Mitch are the only Knicks with any level of consistent defensive IQ. Then RJ is a little less so, Then Randle and Obi have almost nil. This was a bit of an eye opener on Obi, but Cam? Wow. Yeah, I have to agree, I can see why he is on the block.

[@HikeMaui30]

Keep up your content Raw! Love your material and also how you spread the Word! Soli deo Gloria!!

[@unk1537]

Maaaaaaan, I thought about you while watching this, and was gonna send a link for you to check this Cats work out; but of course, you ALREADY KNOW! LOL

[@unk1537]

AND YEEEEEEAH, NOW WE SEE WHY THIBS SOURED ON CAM, WOW!!!! GUESS WE DOOOON'T WATCH ENOUGH FILM! LOL

[@omaribelgrave9350]

Uncle Raw, you’re the best. I’m subscribing to this channel because it’s great content but also because you watch it lol. Remember you predicted This would be Thib’s finest coaching job if the FO got rid of the temptation of vets. Amazing work!

[@mgtow-balance3409]

as was said already, great breakdown man. it's about damn time the knicks fixed that defense. last year top 3 in defense giving up 106ppg; this year dropped to like 24th giving up 114ppg. but after this little win streak, they're now in 12th place giving up 111ppg. that's a HUGE jump

[@danielballer2730]

Moral of the video: Randle, Reddish, and Toppin are defensive atrocities

[@Buelr]

Tippin is comical

[@CC_0413]

17:55

[@josephchavez9525]

Reddish? And they was winning with toppin before he got injured fym

[@talktozay]

If you watched the games, you'd know that Reddish was consistently one of the team's best defenders before his injury. A lot of the gaffes he made in the video were reflective as the Knicks' defense as a whole, not necessarily Reddish individually.

[@ParthPatel-zy4pg]

Reddish a good individual defender but clearly not a great tam defender. Also Brunson is culpable too

[@donnellbarber9733]

Man I'm such a toppin supporter but dammit his defense drives me crazy sometimes. Great video man 👍

[@anthonyriche552]

Same!! With his athletic ability and all I'm suprised that he's a subpar defender.

[@ricardoquinones5114]

Really appreciate this and that the Knicks has started to play better defense since I always felt their defense sucked, specially Fournier and Randle. Stuff that I was taught on defense. 1on1 defense: always try to force your player to make a spin move or turn the back to you. Team defense: always be on the lookout to double the spin move. In transition our goal was always try to stop the ball below the 3 pt line and free throw. Once everybody was on the same mindset everything became easier. My goal on defense was always to make sure my player received the the ball when I helped and recover since I trusted that I could keep up with him. If the player was standing behind the 3pt line and ready to shoot I would almost always fake jump and prevent him from driving left. 8 out 10 times players will drive left if they are right handed. Regarding Toppin, his problem is that he is very "bouncy" because of his jumping ability. This transits to his defense to also by bouncy and he anticipates the wrong things. Regarding over helping. Some players are doing this out of pure lazyness, thinking "I help now so I don't have to actually help and recover later" This is bad assessment to the players holding the ball, his passing ability and also not respecting the player that you are guarding.

[@buzzerbeater3350]

Did you prevent him from driving left or did you force him to go left? Yes, the Knicks were grossly over helping mainly because Meech was out. That strategy did not work. As far as Toppin is concerned he was leaking out when he should have committed to his man.

[@ricardoquinones5114]

@@buzzerbeater3350 Hi, I anticipated left so I prevented them from continuing their drive usually at their first step. But as soon as a player recognizes this, they either shoot or go right which is better since their first step to the right is slower than to the left. If the player I'm guarding is an above average shooter a hand in the face and an annoying early boxout was usually the best thing to do.

[@jhank0cean]

Fournier benched 🙌🏻

[@anthonyriche552]

Great breakdown. You spotted a lot of things I've noticed as well. One thing the Knicks seem to do is ball watch time and time again. You'll have 5 guys watching the ball allowing for backdoor cuts or getting beaten to the rim on rebounds. They're also quick to help because their primary defense can't stop anyone except for Grimes and McBride. This causes a breakdown which leads to easy passes to the open man. They have to do better on their one-on-one matchups. Hate to say it but one of the worse offenders is Brunson- but then we knew that about him coming in.

[@aubreywallace7918]

Ill say it we one small foward short an no OBT he opens up the floor we get better shots i still not worried thìs Learning-Curve is wat it is hope they fix it wasted a gem by IQ an RJ-40.

[@davidmarch395]

Fantastic analysis! Been looking for a video on the hopeless Knicks defence, glad this popped up in my recommended - keep it up! 😃

[@jaygiant10]

Not hopeless anymore

[@HikeMaui30]

This is insane! What a fascinating breakdown!! Great work

[@unk1537]

"Deuce tells Obi, I'm gonna send him that way, Obi says good, I'll go the other way" I'M SCREAMING!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shamptown]

This makes it seem like the Kings caught a reworked rotation that is trending in the right direction on a night where they were particularly locked in. As a Kings fan this makes me feel a bit better about last night's loss.

[@buzzerbeater3350]

De Arron Fox didn't play. He would've made a huge difference.

[@drich718]

someone needs to send this to MSG today...21:08 I would watch these games and see Randle and Obi's arms always up in the air when they are the one suppose to rotate. They are playing a lot better all around with Grimes and Deuce in the game. Great video !

[@nickadams370]

lmao Grimes' look of disgust at 21:20 when Randle doesn't switch

[@masonverdicchio8112]

dope vid!! i watch every Knick game and fail to notice a lot of this stuff.

[@danyalahmed4295]

Lesson: don’t listen to social media telling people reddish and toppin should be starting and saying thibs should be fired

[@andrewwian4921]

I love the Knicks playing good defense. McBride and Grimes are amazing defenders..

[@buzzerbeater3350]

This was fire my guy. Keep up the good work!👍🏾

[@bgvan37]

Best defensive backcourt is Grimes and Duece

[@TheKnicks2012]

Really does show that sometimes it’s not even about schemes or general coverage but simply player effort and awareness. Thibs has no control over how Randle ignores a switch or back door. He still does have his issues but majority of the poor defense comes form low effort and awareness.

[@justinherbert9146]

What turned it around was the current 9 man rotation -- starting Grimes - getting Deuce more minutes - Jalen Brunson finding his groove on a new team - after 29 games the team is playing like a team - Julius contributing on rebounds, assists as well as points - barrett defending well and improving after a slow start on his part -- not to many folks clamoring for firing Thibs these days lol

[@Eye_See_U]

I think you need to be on the Knicks film staff. You might be a savant like Erik Spolestra 😅. Great Video 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@JFDOOM7]

You should show this to a Knicks twitter feed. They swear it’s all Thibs fault. Great video! Really shows the flaws the players have.

[@buzzerbeater3350]

It was his fault. He's the coach! If your players aren't up to the task, you sit them down. And that's what Thibs did.

[@rw2382]

We drafted Obi, a player whose scouting report said he had a limited ceiling because of his age, had an inconsistent shot, didn't rebound well, didn't play defense, but was very athletic. All that did was cost us a PG that may start for the East in the Allstar game this year in Tyrese Halliburton. Way to go Leon.

[@ryanrecher6542]

I’ve been telling everyone forever now, the Knicks drafting set the team back a decade . Frank over Mitchell?? Knox over Shai, Simons, both Bridges, Obi over Haliburton, IQ over Bane. ALL BAD.

[@rg442]

@@ryanrecher6542 You do realize that the Knicks weren't the only team that passed on these players, right?

[@ryanrecher6542]

@@rg442 you do realize those other teams will at least make a good pick in another draft . Not botch damn near everyone like the Knicks and also not even draft players with value in only a couple years . Don’t even start, sound like a typical loser knicks fan always finding excuses. Other teams that passed on these guys still got better plays than Kevin Knox, Frank, Obi. Cut it out

[@rg442]

@@ryanrecher6542 Sheesh, rather be the loser knick fan than the angry, quick trigger miserable one. Calm down. It'll be aight. Quickley was an OK pick and let's not forget Robinson. Now we also have a PG. It's going to be alright man. Take a deep breath. haha wow man.

[@bradleynelson8754]

Would love to see some pelicans content. Best D in the last 15 games where it was predicted it would be really bad. Or maybe analysis on the point Zion 7 win streak

[@mdrake36]

I agree in depth why cam nits playing and why obi is hurt defensive lapses

[@anthony20331]

Great analysis

[@milenadeltorto7158]

Thing of beauty this new defense...

[@PTRonaldo331]

Great video, we need more knicks content!!

[@pesky19]

another great breakdown! keep em coming

[@Mitnik123]

Amazing video

[@angrypooh55]

Good Video Hope Knicks Fan could see this

[@nufonewhodis]

20:10 do you think Obi I is just writing off the possession here and bracing for an opportunity to leak out for a lob on the other end if if the shot is missed?

[@williamblake7386]

These breakdowns are pretty good with weed. You understand nothing but feel like something very important happening.

[@wilmaso]

How the knicks got better defensively: they gave more minutes to guys who defend better, lol.

[@TheBadgerInMinecraft]

Randles that old head that just floats in the paint thinking no body can shoot them blames him teammates

[@TheKnickofTimeShow]

This video was amazing

[@mdrake36]

Great great job breakdown I love obi but glad he's not playing defense lapses

[@craigv367godsman4]

WOW... opened my eyes to how bad the defense has been at time. Reddish loses focus, Obi not knowing where to be, Randle lack of effort and Hartenstein slow of foot....

[@TheNameYME]

Great Video

[@geraldfilsaime9249]

Wow. Good stuff. I like the video.

[@franklin1419]

great video 🙏🏼

[@tmgf_2670]

Love to see it hope this counitnes Go Knicks

[@1kbellgb]

Every single one of those 2:21 was hartenstein

[@knotationmusic]

Mitchell Robinson, I feel, is pretty much an athleticism and size based defender. I don’t really think he has the best instincts or reads. He is quick to block and, with his length he does get a lot of them, but he falls for pump fakes and just takes the bait way too often.

[@TruthSpeaker4]

If he had high IQ it would get scary

[@ArTooViral]

I’m why we gotta streak because ever since my birthday they won every game

[@rdjqser3272]

Right to the point had to sub

[@LoveOCOC]

Well done.

[@stanleynowak9325]

So, what do we we do when Obi comes back? I hope he is watching this video on a continuous loop.

[@esbuenodun]

If you're on Twitter you'd think Cam was the second coming of Gary Payton smdh.

[@NoLayups]

Are you still using pre

[@ChrisTookFlight]

Good video I now understand why thibs took Cam out the lineups

[@thomaszarvis8813]

Minor adjustment

[@daroldgray5983]

You are so right there defense has to play ;better I like this team these kids 🧒 are going somewhere 6 straight wins

[@aubreywallace7918]

Tks new keyboard

[@flyrehash5124]

man imagine getting paid millions just to not hustle and get back on d

[@buzzerbeater3350]

Yeah, but when the league gets tired of your crap, you end up without a team like Carmelo.

[@Gboi8]

Man, their defense was comically bad.

[@chaike9001]

At least wait till all star break to say “fixed”

[@brucebanner4914]

Awesome

[@buzzerbeater3350]

You kept saying get behind the ball when the Knicks were in transition. Don't you mean get in front of the ball?

[@unk1537]

THIBS IN HIS MIND: "OBIIIIIIII, WHAT THE FLYIN FK ARE YOU DOING OUT THERE SON?!!!" LOL....this ONE VID, has shown me WHY Obi doesn't get more time under Thibs.

[@aaroncarl2493]

Nice analysis appreciate the work ...but I thinkbthe one thing the Knicks are doing that's responsible for there win streak is make 3 pointers that's all the NBA is now days

[@aubreywallace7918]

Its all comunication,,,t😎

[@harunalsamet3436]

Help!

[@vinnievegasYT]

I appreciate you making a video about the turnaround, but this video is 80% defensive lapses from before the improvement that you titled the video for. Makes me think you were making a video about how the Knicks defense sucks and then were forced to pivot when they actually made a substantial improvement, and went from the 26th defense to a Top 10 defense in the span of 5 games.

[@EsauistheCaucasian]

That's EXACTLY what this is. LMAO, you gotta salute him for adjusting on the fly.

[@nick-ky7ql]

🔥

[@Mindsetsandreps]

Man it's no coincidence we've been winning since Obi got hurt, he makes a lot of mistakes. Great breakdown!

[@leowang7977]

We were winning before he got hurt wym plus none of the teams we’ve played since Obi got hurt are good

[@rickpennington3692]

Good video. But I heard about what they did wrong and barely anything about what and how they fixed it. Change the title, my Guy😩😭🤣

[@seoradar5940]

yes, I noticed that too.

[@nickadams370]

hartenstein sucks bro he was involved with all the first defensive breakdowns you showed 😂

[@theBbnj93]

Knicks could be up by 20, and Thibs still looks like 😡

[@MarcoRafaelMNL]

The whole front court is the problem lol

[@crt6232]

Basic actions beat the Knicks 😂 no kidding

[@1percent___]

Randle is really bad at defense

[@lamarerickson274]

*PromoSM*

[@Mr.BMC2763]

Wow I knew Obi was bad defensively but watching this video makes think we might have to move from him.

[@MidtownMeezus]

So basically…Cam over Obi

[@josephchavez9525]

They fixed it cause thibs was about to lose his job and he did what the fans been telling him to do for a long time 🙄 sad a fan base knows more then the coach and their management

[@myhandlewastaken]

It's about contracts. The front office looks bad when guys on rookie contracts are starting over someone they paid free agent money to.

[@jaygiant10]

Fantastic video