{"id":537548,"date":"2026-01-15T04:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/537548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T04:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T04:23:11","slug":"knicks-karl-anthony-towns-encouraged-by-recent-3-point-rhythm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/537548\/","title":{"rendered":"Knicks’ Karl-Anthony Towns ‘encouraged’ by recent 3-point rhythm"},"content":{"rendered":"

SACRAMENTO \u2014 Knicks<\/a> All-Star center Karl-Anthony Towns said he\u2019s beginning to find his long-lost touch from three-point range.<\/p>\n

\u201cFelt good the last two [games]. Last two [games] felt really good,\u201d Towns said after morning shootaround at Sacramento State University\u2019s Hornet Athletic Center on Wednesday. \u201cJust working in different spots, taking the shots with a good feeling, in the flow. But just want to shoot the best I can for our team and impact winning. The last two games] felt really good. So a very encouraging sign.\u201d<\/p>\n

Towns is shooting 35.5% from three-point range this season, the team\u2019s first under new head coach Mike Brown. The mid-season shooting clip represents a 6.5% drop in three-point efficiency year-over-year after nearly matching his career-best shooting 42% from deep his first year in New York under former head coach Tom Thibodeau.<\/p>\n

Towns, however, shot two-of-three from downtown against the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday and two-of five from deep in Friday\u2019s loss to the Phoenix Suns. He has shot 40% or better from three-point range in five of his last eight games and shot a combined 7-of-15 from deep over the three games coming out of Christmas.<\/p>\n

Towns said he didn\u2019t change his shooting form over his hot-shooting stretch. His head coach has never lost faith in his star big man eventually finding his jumper.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve said this all along: KAT\u2019s had a harder job than anybody because he\u2019s had to learn all five positions, and KAT\u2019s done a heck of a job doing it. He\u2019s worked extremely hard and obviously he\u2019s got great feel, he\u2019s smart and all that, and he\u2019s stayed with it,\u201d Brown said ahead of tipoff at the Golden 1 Center on Wednesday. \u201cSo knowing that, that probably has weighed on him a little bit, just in terms of shooting the ball and trying to score, just finding where he\u2019s comfortable at.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown said he owns some of Towns\u2019 shooting struggles.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, I\u2019ve got to continue to find ways to make it easier for him and put him in position to have success,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do, and I think the combination of both of us continuing to work at it, constant communication, knowing at times I may falter a little bit, at times he may [too], but it\u2019s OK.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll have each other\u2019s back, pick each other up and keep finding ways to get him in rhythm. And we\u2019re starting to see the results of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Towns is averaging 21.2 points, 11.4 rebounds and three assists per game on 47.1% shooting from the field this season under Brown.<\/p>\n

SHAMET PRACTICING<\/p>\n

Injured Knicks guard Landry Shamet was a participant in practice at the Golden 1 Center on Tuesday, Brown said. Shamet has been out with what the team is calling a right shoulder sprain since sustaining the injury three minutes into a Nov. 22 loss to the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n

Shamet has been taking controlled contact, according to the team, but the Knicks did not practice with any contact on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

BRIDGES\u2019 THOUGHTS ON INCONSISTENCIES<\/p>\n

Mikal Bridges said the Knicks\u2019 inconsistencies stem from a combination of both new head coach and a roster that\u2019s been assembled, piece by piece, over the last three seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think [inconsistency] is everywhere when you get a new coach, you know what I\u2019m saying? And also, I know it\u2019s a lot about guys being in the league, but also I think it\u2019s the games we\u2019ve played together,\u201d Bridges said after Wednesday morning shootaround. \u201cI think being together is the most important thing. A lot of teams that be winning, look how long they\u2019ve been together: Denver, for example, they were winning, and they\u2019d been together for a while, so they\u2019ve known each other throughout the years and were with each other throughout practice every day, and they had the same coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think it\u2019s me and KAT\u2019s second year, OG\u2019s third and JB [Jalen Brunson] and Josh [Hart]\u2019s fourth or something like that. So I think we\u2019re all still learning each other and also getting to know the new coach. It\u2019s different from last year. It\u2019s a change for the guys that have been here for years, and it\u2019s a bigger change for everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO \u2014 Knicks All-Star center Karl-Anthony Towns said he\u2019s beginning to find his long-lost touch from three-point range.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,563,304,4988,6,1136,191,3810,3806],"class_list":{"0":"post-537548","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-karl-anthony-towns","10":"tag-knicks","11":"tag-landry-shamet","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-knicks","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkknicks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115897211565261122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537548","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=537548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}