Knicks Morning News (2025.11.12)

So now that we’re 10 games in, here are some trends I’m seeing:
1) we are dictating how the game is played. We shoot lots of 3’s and relatively few 2’s, and so do our opponents. It’s a bit unsettling that opponents are shooting .391 while we shoot .385, with a similar deficit on 2’s.

2) On the other hand, we are taking 4.5 more 3’s and 4.9 more 2’s per game. We are just annihilating teams on the boards, and we are also generating more turnovers.

3) We neither get to the line nor send teams to the line very much.

So while the results have largely been splendid, I’m a bit worried about this being a different version of the “moneyball” approach, one that is very dependent on rebounding. We’re 24th in 2PT% and don’t get to the line much, so it seems like if we run into a team that knows how to box out and protect the paint, we are highly vulnerable to 3PT variance, since we aren’t defending the 3 or the 2 particularly well.

But we’re piling up points and wins, and our SRS is high, so that’s good. However, I think this next stretch of 5 games will tell us a lot more than the last 10.