{"id":523202,"date":"2026-01-07T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523202\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:39:11","slug":"carmelo-anthony-critical-of-knicks-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/523202\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmelo Anthony critical of Knicks\u2019 offense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carmelo Anthony<\/a> has an issue with the Knicks<\/a>\u2019 offense.<\/p>\n

The former Knicks star did not like what he saw in Monday night\u2019s 121-90 loss to the Detroit Pistons<\/a> \u2014 a road blowout that marked the Knicks\u2019 fourth consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe late-game offense becomes so, so predictable, man,\u201d Anthony, now an NBC analyst, said Tuesday night on the network\u2019s \u201cNBA Showtime\u201d studio show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shot creation, that burden on Jalen Brunson is too heavy on his shoulders from a night-to-night basis. \u2026 The margins are very thin, because without easy offense, the Knicks\u2019 missed shots turn into run outs the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brunson attempted 21 field goals in Monday\u2019s loss, compared to just four apiece from Karl-Anthony Towns and OG Anunoby.<\/p>\n

Towns finished with six points on 1-of-4 shooting in 23 minutes, while Anunoby ended up with five points on 1-of-4 shooting in 29 minutes.<\/p>\n

The Knicks\u2019 reliance on Brunson was a common critique of previous head coach Tom Thibodeau, whom Mike Brown replaced before this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was watching the game [on Monday] night, and I\u2019m like, \u2018Where\u2019s KAT? Where\u2019s OG?\u2019\u201d said Anthony, who himself was a star scorer with the Knicks over seven seasons from 2011-17.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t rely on [Tyler] Kolek like that. What he gives us is a plus. He can get down, he can play off of pick-and-roll, but on a night-to-night basis, who is gonna be the Knicks\u2019 second option? And the second option cannot be indecisive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kolek scored nine points on 3-of-8 shooting in 19 minutes off the bench Monday.<\/p>\n

Only Brunson, who scored 25 points on 10-of-21; Mikal Bridges (10 points on 10 field-goal attempts); and Miles \u201cDeuce\u201d McBride (17 points on nine attempts) took more shots than Kolek.<\/p>\n

For the season, Brunson entered Wednesday averaging 29.3 points on 21.8 shot attempts per game, while Towns ranked second on the team with 21.5 points and 14.5 attempts per night.<\/p>\n

The fourth loss in a row marked a season-long streak for the Knicks, who began Wednesday just 5-6 since winning the NBA Cup championship in Las Vegas last month.<\/p>\n

But the Knicks still went into Wednesday night\u2019s game against the Los Angeles Clippers at Madison Square Garden with a 23-13 record, which was good for third place in the Eastern Conference behind the Pistons and Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s game in Detroit marked the Knicks\u2019 first meeting of the season with the Pistons, whom they defeated in six games in the first round of the playoffs last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you just focus on Jalen Brunson and there\u2019s no movement, there\u2019s no offense, there\u2019s stagnation, and you\u2019re getting \u2014 I don\u2019t want to say \u2018get punked\u2019 \u2014 but you\u2019re getting punked in a sense,\u201d Anthony said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Knicks will take this game and build off of this. I don\u2019t think this is a time to panic, but they have to get their stuff together.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carmelo Anthony has an issue with the Knicks\u2019 offense. The former Knicks star did not like what he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,3628,288,563,304,3357,6,1136,191,3810,3806,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-523202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-carmelo-anthony","10":"tag-jalen-brunson","11":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","12":"tag-knicks","13":"tag-mike-brown","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-og-anunoby"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115855515045317645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}