Mike Brown wasn’t kidding when he said the New York Knicks would be shooting more threes this season. The offense is getting them up. Yet, as some have plastered a red flag onto the team’s efficiency from deep, Karl-Anthony Towns’ play is actually the bigger problem. New York needs him to be more of a drive-and-kick threat—something he’s never done before.
Towns has finished 37 drives so far this year. His shooting percentage on these plays is a ghastly 38.1 percent, but that number will tick up. He’s offsetting part of the damage by drawing fouls on over 16 percent of his downhill attacks.