Knicks Face Crucial Crossroads: Will They Rise to the Challenge or Resist the Change?
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Brown’s first major “who to play” decision: identifying his preferred fifth starter to slot alongside Bridges, the All-NBA tandem of Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns, and mauling 3-and-D forward OG Anunoby.
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Throughout last season, that spot belonged to Josh Hart, completing a lineup that played far and away the most minutes of any five-man unit in the NBA … and one that got outscored by 40 points in more than 700 minutes between the start of January and the end of the postseason. The persistent slow starts came back to bite New York in the first two games of the Eastern Conference finals against the Pacers, prompting Thibodeau to remove Hart from the first five in favor of center Mitchell Robinson — a move that Hart actually suggested — from Game 3 through Indiana’s eventual conference-clinching Game 6 win.



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