"If we want to win ballgames we have to play defense the way we did in the fourth quarter," Marbury added. "We can't do this every night, fall behind and exert all that energy just to get back in the game." (W @ Philadelphia)

Does this mean NY will be a better defensive team from now on?

The Knicks d has no place else to go but up.

Posted by Mac:

"If we want to win ballgames we have to play defense the way we did in the fourth quarter," Marbury added. "We can't do this every night, fall behind and exert all that energy just to get back in the game." (W @ Philadelphia)

Does this mean NY will be a better defensive team from now on?

They better work harder on D as he sais. The thing is that this is not the fret time he mentions how they must improve defense, but, they did see the positives of playing it effectively. They won a game that was a blowout under 11 minutes in the 4th. If that doesn't tell them how good they can be if they play D, then I don't know what.

They do have been playing better D in the last games compared to the beginning of the season...

Posted by gunsnewing:

yeah they've been saying it all year long but hopefully now they convinced themselves that they can play great D if they try

And, Defense is more important than trying to outscore the other team