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SACRAMENTO \u2014 Opposing teams have regularly used a wing to defend Karl-Anthony Towns and a center to defend Josh Hart. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a strategy built to stop Towns on the perimeter while allowing Hart, who has struggled on treys this season, more room on the 3-point line.<\/p>\n
The Knicks, for the most part, have failed to take advantage of the size mismatches heading into Monday\u2019s 133-104 win against the Kings.<\/p>\n
It killed their offense.<\/p>\n
Hart and Towns offered two ways they can counter the strategy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re going to put an undersized player on me, you get a chance to put me in the mid-post, the low post,\u201d Towns said. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s probably best.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hart said he should get more involved in the offense and pick up the pace if he\u2019s defended by a center.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably more so to play through me or put me in actions. It\u2019s something that I\u2019m comfortable with \u2026 did pick-and-rolls with [Jalen Brunson] and those kind of things. So I\u2019m comfortable with it,\u201d Hart said. \u201cOther thing is, just playing faster, making whoever that center is guard and move.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether that\u2019s transition, dribble handoffs, having me handle on pick-and-rolls because obviously centers, I don\u2019t think they ever guarded a pick-and-roll while really guarding the ball handler. Other stuff like that, to make them move. I think that\u2019s the biggest thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Knicks\u2019 struggles with that defensive alignment are partly why their offense has plummeted since the All-Star break.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we could do a better job everywhere. We can be sharper all around,\u201d Towns said. \u201cWe just got to get both sides to match up with each other. I think the last game we did a good job on defense, and we just didn\u2019t have the offense to go with it. The funny thing is the offense has carried us all year and the time we needed the offense to be just a little there, we couldn\u2019t get it there. So these are good tests for us to see how we can win in different ways.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a lot of times, we\u2019ve won close games because of our offense and not really our defense. And now we have a chance, we put ourselves in these games against great opponents where our defense stood up but our offense didn\u2019t show up. So we need to find different ways to win because when it comes that time at the end of the year, it may not always be us scoring 120, 130 points. It\u2019s going to sometimes be 90, 80-something for the Knicks. So this is a good test for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Kings, who were facing the Knicks on the second night of a back-to-back, were missing All-Star Domantas Sabonis, who suffered a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n
The Knicks were healthy outside of Brunson, who left the team to recover from his severe ankle sprain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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