The Knicks are not playing Knicks basketball: ‘It’s almost like we’re in the water’

With 20 seconds on the clock, Jalen Brunson has pushed the ball past half court. He finds Karl-Anthony Towns trailing, but Towns gives the ball right back. Brunson fakes the swing to the right corner, blows past VJ Edgecombe, gets both feet into the paint, draws two defenders and finds OG Anunoby in the left corner. On Paul George’s early closeout, Anunoby swings the ball to Miles McBride, target-practice for a knockdown shooter in yet another breakout season in New York. And because Philadelphia’s Dominic Barlow helped off of McBride to cheat on Brunson’s drive, there isn’t enough time for him to then recover when the ball zips from Brunson to Anunoby to the very shooter he left open. Just...