{"id":545861,"date":"2026-01-19T02:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545861\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T02:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:25:14","slug":"mikal-bridges-disappearing-acts-arent-his-only-knicks-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545861\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikal Bridges&#8217; disappearing acts aren&#8217;t his only Knicks problem\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many keyboards have been tapped to stress the struggles of Karl-Anthony Towns, whose transition to Mike Brown\u2019s system has gone about as smoothly as a car ride on square wheels.<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s another underwhelming campaign that\u2019s drawn less attention than it deserves: that of Mikal Bridges.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easier to miss because Bridges is easy to miss, which is part of the problem. He\u2019s too often not aggressive enough, not driving enough, not embracing the contact, not at the foul line, not stopping the opposition as the point of attack defender, not there when it matters the most.<\/p>\n<p>The stats match the eye test of Bridges\u2019 performance arc:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many keyboards have been tapped to stress the struggles of Karl-Anthony Towns, whose transition to Mike Brown\u2019s system&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,304,1260,6,1136,191,3810,3806,66,198,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-545861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-knicks","10":"tag-mikal-bridges","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkknicks","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-columnists","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115919397198838264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545861","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=545861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}