INDIANAPOLIS — Karl-Anthony Towns was down bad.
After spending the bulk of the fourth quarter of the New York Knicks’ Game 2 loss to the Indiana Pacers on the bench, watching his teammates try to climb out of a hole that he’d helped dig with missed shots and defensive lapses, he’d compounded the trouble in Game 3, missing 6 of 8 field-goal attempts with four fouls and four turnovers. Towns was far from the only Knick misfiring, though: Jalen Brunson and Mikal Bridges were a combined 10-for-30, emblematic of a game full of clanks and cough-ups that had at one point pushed the Pacers up by 20 and had New York down 10 heading into the fourth quarter.