Knicks ready for unique defensive issues Sixers pose to Jalen Brunson: 'He'll continue to find a way'
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And when the ball leaves his hands, it will go to one of a number of Knicks whose job it will be to step up when a Sixers defense attempts to cut off the head of the snake.
The Knicks, of course, have been working at this all season.
They are ready, as is Brunson, for the different defensive tactics the Sixers will vault their way.
“It won’t be the first time a longer wing has been on him,” head coach Tom Thibodeau said after practice in Tarrytown on Thursday.
“Jalen’s just — he finds a way,” added OG Anunoby. “So he’ll continue to find a way.”
How it could work
Isaiah Hartenstein is in the dunker’s spot. Anunoby and Donte DiVincenzo are in opposite corners. Josh Hart is setting a screen.
Brunson is methodically calculating the defense’s every move.
If he takes Hart’s screen, the defense has an option. Blitz is the frequent poison of choice.
When a defense blitzes the pick and roll, both the screener’s man and the ball-handler’s man “blitz” the ball-handler.
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