{"id":311402,"date":"2025-11-28T01:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311402\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T01:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:43:09","slug":"knicks-have-lineup-plan-as-mike-brown-owns-mistake-he-wont-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/311402\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks have lineup plan as Mike Brown owns mistake he won’t repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 At least until OG Anunoby comes back, it sounds like Mike Brown is rolling with his small ball starters.<\/p>\n

That group, which includes Miles McBride and Josh Hart, felt like a success in the last two games, easy victories over the Nets and Hornets. <\/p>\n

It also means Mitchell Robinson, whose injury history and load management program renders him unreliable, is coming off the bench.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I\u2019ll] continue to stay with it to see what direction it goes,\u201d Brown said. \u201cEverything is fluid in this business. Anything can happen at any time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"KnicksKnicks guard Miles McBride (2) reacts after a basket against the Brooklyn Nets during the second half at Barclays Center. Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The lineup of Jalen Brunson, McBride, Mikal Bridges, Hart and Karl-Anthony Towns breeds familiarity and chemistry since the players, other than Towns, have a multiyear history of being teammates. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s also probably the fastest and most offensively talented lineup without Anunoby, who is scheduled for a re-evaluation Sunday on his strained hamstring<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like when we have a faster lineup out there we just get the pace going, we get stops,\u201d McBride said. \u201cWe have guys that want to guard, get stops and then get up the floor. And then we\u2019re just good with sharing it. When KAT\u2019s going, we\u2019re looking for KAT. Obviously JB, he\u2019s dominant. And then we all just feed off that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Added Brunson, \u201cThere\u2019s obviously chemistry there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown said he settled on this lineup after sifting through his mistakes, adjusting via trial and error.<\/p>\n

One error, he acknowledged Wednesday night, was leaving Josh Hart on the bench for consecutive fourth quarters earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Hart has been playing more minutes lately and, not coincidentally, has been playing better.<\/p>\n

\"JoshJosh Hart (3) passes over Charlotte Hornets guard Kon Knueppel during the second half of an Emirates NBA Cup basketball game in Charlotte. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be the first to say that wasn\u2019t the right thing to do [to bench Hart in fourth quarters] because he does so many great things for us and our group and our coaching staff,\u201d Brown said. \u201cAnd obviously as time has gone on, we\u2019ve gotten a better feel for how we\u2019re going to play him and he\u2019s got a better feel, too. But back then he obviously could\u2019ve b\u2014hed or complained or threw a fit. He didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd he continued to believe in the process, even though what I was doing was wrong at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bridges collected his second Defensive Player of the Game after Wednesday\u2019s blowout win over the Hornets<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s an award handed out by the coaching staff after every victory, whether on the road or at home.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a breakdown of the 11 DPOG winners for the Knicks:<\/p>\n

Hart (3x), Anunoby (2x), Bridges (2x), Robinson (1x), McBride (1x), Landry Shamet (1x) and Jordan Clarkson (1x).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2014 At least until OG Anunoby comes back, it sounds like Mike Brown is rolling with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,27805,18712,83777,459,2901,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-311402","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-josh-hart","11":"tag-mikal-bridges","12":"tag-miles-mcbride","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}