If you watch enough Knicks games, you start to pick up on patterns, particularly on the defensive side of the ball: bad pick-and-roll coverage, five players collapsing into the paint while 2-3 quality shooters wait uncovered around the three-point line. The 2017 Summer League squad isn’t exactly flush with regular-season Knicks outside of Chasson Randle and Marshall Plumlee—not exactly huge contributors, themselves—and yet they somehow defend exactly the same way they always have.
One of their biggest problems was diagnosed during Monday afternoon’s 99-87 loss to the Thunder by none other than Vince Carter, moonlighting as a broadcaster this summer, who said, “There’s such a thing as over-helping.