NEW YORK — It’s been a strange season so far for the Knicks.
They’re 14-12 and owners of the fourth-best record in the Eastern Conference, yet they’ve also been outscored by 3.4 points per 100 possessions. They join the Oklahoma City Thunder as the only two teams with winning records and negative point differentials.
The defense, which allowed the Golden State Warriors to assist on 41 of 45 buckets Thursday night in a 103-90 win over the Knicks, has been atrocious (107.5 points allowed per 100 possessions, the NBA’s sixth-worst mark).
If not for the offense, which is putting up a solid 104 points per 100 possessions, good for 14th in the NBA, the first couple of months of new head coach Jeff Hornacek’s tenure in New York would have a much different feel.
But one opposing scout who watched the Knicks in person for the first time this week thinks the offense could be even more potent if freed from the shackles of the vanilla scheme the Knicks are running.
“I was a little shocked at how little creativity there was in the offense,” the scout told Blea ...
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