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Every Knick came out of the last game okay and practiced, "a pretty good practice," Mike Brown said. Karl-Anthony Towns will pop out for jumpers a lot and has the green light to trail. Andre Drummond is told to keep rolling to the rim and shoot 3s only when wide open.
Karl-Anthony Towns may draw a power forward, not a center, in the 76ers' Oct. 20 opener at the Knicks: Nick Nurse is weighing putting his center on Josh Hart. The upside: more switching on screens. The risk: can Towns pass, rebound, post up and shoot over a power forward?
"Those 5, they gonna play... everybody else in this gym, you fighting." Knicks coach Mike Brown told his team Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby, Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart will play; everyone else is fighting to make the team or for minutes.
Brown wants more Karl-Anthony Towns at the elbow and more pick-and-roll for OG Anunoby and Mikal Bridges, but warned what worked in the playoffs "may not work during the regular season." He floated Andre Drummond as an elbow passer too: "Maybe Andre is too. I don't know."