After losing their first four road games of the year, the Knicks have an opportunity against the lowly Hornets to secure two straight road wins and end this current five-game road trip with three wins.<\/p>\n
As this road trip comes to a close, here are five things we have learned:<\/p>\n
Adapting defensively without OG Anunoby<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not exactly a new revelation how good he is on that side of the ball, but this road trip showed the Knicks defense doesn\u2019t have to just unravel without him.<\/p>\n
He is by far their best on-ball defender, playing a key role in keeping ball handlers out of the paint. Without him, there is even greater importance on Miles McBride, Mikal Bridges and Josh Hart as point-of-attack defenders to keep opponents in front of them and prevent the defense from collapsing and needing to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing their first four road games of the year, the Knicks have an opportunity against the lowly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[32315,61628,36782,355,361,19560,99,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-313812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-jordan-clarkson","9":"tag-josh-hart","10":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-og-anunoby","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}