{"id":625996,"date":"2026-02-26T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625996\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:03:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:03:15","slug":"whats-behind-knicks-disconnect-between-karl-anthony-towns-mike-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/625996\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s behind Knicks disconnect between Karl-Anthony Towns, Mike Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND \u2014 At this point, you have to pick a side. Or assign blame. The system or KAT? KAT or Mike Brown? They\u2019ve left us no choice.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season, their messaging, if not the results, reflected congruity. The Knicks\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/06\/sports\/karl-anthony-towns-blames-adjusting-to-knicks-different-system-after-another-poor-performance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new offensive system<\/a>, predicated on pace and conceptual basketball over playcalling, was the problem. As Brown often said, Karl-Anthony Towns\u2019 adjustment was the most difficult given the vast responsibilities of the center.<\/p>\n<p>There was a learning curve.<\/p>\n<p>But Brown\u2019s messaging has shifted lately, emphasizing repeatedly since the All-Star break that Towns <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/22\/sports\/karl-anthony-towns-has-big-night-after-getting-vote-of-support-from-mike-brown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is \u201cright where he should be\u201d<\/a> in the offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 At this point, you have to pick a side. Or assign blame. The system or KAT?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[7,20219,563,304,3357,6,1136,191,3810,3806,3823,66,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-625996","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-inside-the-knicks","10":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-mike-brown","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-knicks","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkknicks","18":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116137073407650789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625996","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=625996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}