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 evening at MSG, making 22 of them — good for a stellar 40.0 p.c. And that’s with OG Anunoby going 1-for-10 from deep.
The earlier document was 54 in a recreation throughout the 2021 season.
Jalen Brunson led the way in which within the division, taking pictures 6-of-9 on 3’s.
“We’re emphasizing it, however I feel the most effective factor proper now’s that lots of them are good photographs,” Brunson stated. “We could have some finish of shot clock photographs, however the way in which we’re getting them is nice. We simply obtained to maintain producing them the way in which we’re and simply maintain making benefits for one another.”
Brown began the evening blaming himself for Guerschon Yabusele’s early-season struggles.
Then, he trusted him together 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 every of Brown’s first subs within the recreation.
“Yabu performed onerous and he’s gotta maintain taking part in onerous,” Brown stated. “I believed his tempo was actually good, particularly offensively. The occasions he wanted to ball display, he did an awesome job sprinting into the ball display, creating separation — he did a unbelievable job setting the display and getting out of the display.”
Mitchell Robinson missed Tuesday’s recreation, a part of the group’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 12 months as they attempt to load handle his left ankle, which he had surgical procedure on previous to final season, leading to him lacking many of the common season final 12 months.
The Knicks performed on their 2025-26 metropolis version courtroom and wore their metropolis version jerseys for the primary time this 12 months. The jerseys are a part of their collaboration with trend model Kith.
