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Mikal Bridges defends Brandon Ingram during the Knicks\u2019 win against the Raptors on Nov. 30. AP<\/p>\n
He\u2019s had mixed results in that role.<\/p>\n
But during their current four-game winning streak, Bridges has been more consistent, recording nine steals and six blocks.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust trying to do whatever to help my team win,\u201d Bridges said. \u201cThat\u2019s pretty much it. Just trying to be in the shifts, trying to make a play on the ball, try to help my teammates out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bridges\u2019 ability to keep opponents in front of him and out of the paint has been key to the Knicks\u2019 improved team defense as a whole.<\/p>\n
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It also sets a tone for his teammates to follow.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo hold a group like this to 94 points speaks a lot about us defensively tonight,\u201d Brown said. \u201cYou\u2019re not going to do this to the Raptors night in and night out. Our physicality without fouling while getting back in transition was huge for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mikal Bridges tried to be humble, claiming he didn\u2019t do a great job guarding Brandon Ingram. But then…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,4441,304,1260,2715,6,741,760,6834],"class_list":{"0":"post-445962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-ingram","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-mikal-bridges","12":"tag-miles-mcbride","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-og-anunoby","15":"tag-the-knicks","16":"tag-the-raptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115643528429991746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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