An especially long film session may have sparked Knicks' current streak

Sometimes, a little kick in the behind is all a team needs to get going in the right direction. For the Knicks, that foot nudge came after a fourth-quarter during which the Bulls outscored the team 31-8 in Chicago. The Knicks got run out of the gym during that New Year's Day game, and apparently, Knicks coach Derek Fisher wasn't happy.

So, according to Marc Berman of the New York Post, Fisher set up the team's longest film session of the year to review the Knicks' poor defensive effort and lackluster offensive execution. The normally even-keel Fisher wasn't too pleased with his team's performance, so say Langston Galloway and Carmelo Anthony, via Berman:

Sometimes, that's all a team needs. Maybe the extended, one-hour film session paid some dividends. The Knicks have won three straight since the Chicago loss, and they're all strong wins: Atlanta at home by 14, Atlanta on the road by six, Miami on the road by eight.

Those are arguably the second- and third-best teams in the conference, and the Knicks plowed through both of them relatively handily. Meanwhile, New York has been moving the ball on the offensive end better than it has probably all season over the past few contests, no time better than during the first two-and-a-half quarters of the road Hawks game, which was stunning basketball to watch from a team that doesn't normally fling the ball around the court like the 2014 Spurs.