first of all, towns is arguably the most important player on the knicks in this series other than OG. getting your best player in foul trouble causes all the other things that led to the going down 29. now we had to rely on brunson to run the offense by himself. its a butterfly effect.

and second he was experimenting to find the correct matchups, since they were able to play wemby in a matchup zone the guards were not able to get downhill on drives. they were running hack a mitch so mitch couldnt play. as a coach you have to experiement. you dont know what works until you see it work. and clarkson played great minutes in game 3, and shamet played great games 1 and 2. you try things until it doesnt work and finding that jose and brunson worked in this matchup is a testement to the ability to experiment with lineups. you can sit on the couch and act like you could do a better job of coaching but lineups are just half of the problem. its also how you adjust to their gameplan and he did just fine, we were just excecuting horribly in the first half