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Knicks puts up a shot as guard Josh Giddey #3 of the Chicago Bulls defends during the first half at Madison Square Garden, Friday April 3rd, 2026, in New York, NY. Jason Szenes for the New York Post<\/p>\nJalen Brunson is, for the most part, a known quantity.<\/p>\n
A good way to view the Knicks offense is that Brunson is the floor, and his supporting cast is the ceiling. A big part of that is OG Anunoby. When he is aggressive and involved offensively, it is usually a good sign for overall success.<\/p>\n
When Anunoby scores 20 or more points this year, the Knicks are 22-4. In their past two wins, over the Grizzlies and Bulls, he scored 25 and then 31 points.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the version of Anunoby the Knicks will need in the playoffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s starting to fully understand his areas where he can be aggressive within the offense, within the flow of the game,\u201d Josh Hart said after practice Sunday. \u201cThat\u2019s one thing about Mike [Brown], Mike never tells us not to do something. He always wants us to be aggressive, he wants us to shoot shots. \u2026 He doesn\u2019t really put limits on us, and I think OG is really starting to really understand \u2018where can I be aggressive? Where can I find my spots to go score?\u2019 He\u2019s an efficient scorer, physical, athletic, so he\u2019s starting to understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knicks puts up a shot as guard Josh Giddey #3 of the Chicago Bulls defends during the first half at Madison Square Garden, Friday April 3rd, 2026, in New York, NY. Jason Szenes for the New York Post<\/p>\n
Anunoby\u2019s primary role in Brown\u2019s offense is to stay in the corners and wait for drive-and-kick 3-pointers. At times, it can limit his contributions. And Brown has vocally set the hierarchy as Brunson first, Karl-Anthony Towns second, and everyone else after that.<\/p>\n
But having four strong scoring threats in Brunson, Towns, Anunoby and Mikal Bridges is what is supposed to make the Knicks offense dynamic. Finding a balance between accepting his role as a catch-and-shooter and actively looking to drive and get to the rim is something Anunoby and the Knicks are still, this late into the year, working on.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen OG is aggressive, he\u2019s hard to deal with,\u201d Landry Shamet said Sunday. \u201cThe beauty of our team is that we have so many different options. Sometimes the ball\u2019s just finding you. There\u2019s a certain rhythm about things. Right now, OG is the recipient of a lot of that. When he\u2019s in that situation and when it\u2019s finding him, he\u2019s being really aggressive, really decisive. He\u2019s hard to contain when he puts his head down and drives.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Og Anunoby #8 of the New York Knicks slams the ball and is fouled by forward Guerschon Yabusele #28 of the Chicago Bulls during the first half at Madison Square Garden, Friday April 3rd, 2026, in New York, NY. Jason Szenes for the New York Post<\/p>\n
Giannis Antetokounmpo confirmed, as part of his larger comments going at Bucks management, to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Milwaukee and the Knicks engaged in talks before the season.<\/p>\n
The Post\u2019s Stefan Bondy reported before the season that the two teams talked about an Antetokounmpo trade, but that discussions did not go far because the Knicks believed the Bucks lacked motivation to make a deal.<\/p>\n
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The Knicks have a clean injury report for Monday\u2019s game against the Hawks in Atlanta. Towns, after missing Friday\u2019s game due to a right elbow impingement, is not listed.<\/p>\n
So unless something changes, he should be good to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalen Brunson is, for the most part, a known quantity. A good way to view the Knicks offense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21,9,24,55,54,1104,56,6474,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-186820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-new-york-knicks","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-og-anunoby","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}