Mike Brown has positioned a serious emphasis on getting the Knicks to shoot extra 3-pointers.
His message is being heard — in historic trend.
The Knicks launched a franchise document 55 3-pointers throughout their 133-120 win over the Grizzlies on Tuesday night time at MSG, making 22 of them — good for a stellar 40.0 %. And that's with OG Anunoby going 1-for-10 from deep.
The earlier document was 54 in a recreation in the course of the 2021 season.
Jalen Brunson led the best way within the division, taking pictures 6-of-9 on 3's.
“We're emphasizing it, however I believe the perfect factor proper now's that loads of them are good photographs,” Brunson stated. “We could have some finish of shot clock photographs, however the best way we're getting them is nice. We simply obtained to maintain producing them the best way we're and simply maintain making benefits for one another.”
Brown began the night time blaming himself for Guerschon Yabusele's early-season struggles.
Then, he trusted him along with his second-biggest workload of the season.
Yabusele performed quarter-hour and recorded two factors and 6 rebounds. And it wasn't prefer it got here in rubbish time — 10 of these minutes got here within the first half.
Together with Josh Hart, Yabusele was one in all Brown's first subs within the recreation.
“Yabu performed laborious and he's gotta maintain taking part in laborious,” Brown stated. “I assumed his tempo was actually good, particularly offensively. The instances he wanted to ball display screen, he did an amazing job sprinting into the ball display screen, creating separation — he did a implausible job setting the display screen and getting out of the display screen.”
Mitchell Robinson missed Tuesday's recreation, a part of the workforce's left ankle harm administration for him. Tuesday was the primary leg of their second back-to-back of the season — they host the Magic on Wednesday. Robinson beforehand missed the second leg of their first back-to-back of the season.
In his place, Brown inserted Landry Shamet into the beginning lineup and moved OG Anunoby to energy ahead. Shamet, making his third begin this season, recorded 10 factors on 3-for-5 taking pictures from the sector.
Together with Tuesday, Robinson has missed six of the ten video games this yr as they attempt to load handle his left ankle, which he had surgical procedure on previous to final season, leading to him lacking a lot of the common season final yr.
The Knicks performed on their 2025-26 metropolis version courtroom and wore their metropolis version jerseys for the primary time this yr. The jerseys are a part of their collaboration with trend model Kith.
