KNICKS DISASTER: Brunson & KAT Have ZERO Chemistry

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The Knicks continue to send up red flags as their lack of chemistry becomes impossible to ignore. After another sluggish start and uninspired performance, the focus shifts from individual talent to a bigger question about whether this roster actually works together as a unit with the playoffs quickly approaching. Evan and Tiki break down the growing disconnect between Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns, the struggles of the starting five, and why the offense and defense both look out of sync. They also question coaching decisions, lineup adjustments, and whether this team can realistically fix its issues in time or if these problems are deeper than just a late season slump.

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0:00.0	What is jarring is how disconnected this starting five is.
0:05.0	And why that is so jarring to me is we had this conversation a year ago.
0:09.8	Yep.
0:10.1	Mike Brown comes in.
0:11.5	He's going to get the best out of cat, the best out of Jalen Brunson.
0:14.9	They'll actually be connected.
0:17.0	They'll work well together.
0:18.8	This starting five over the last month and a half has been awful.
0:23.3	And Mike Brown sits there after games and talks about maybe we should change it up.
0:28.5	Well, how about you change it up?
0:30.6	Do it.
0:31.4	Don't talk about it.
0:32.6	Be about it.
0:33.4	Because this game, you know, it annoys me when non-basketball fans, you just watch the last two minutes of the basketball game.
0:39.4	Not last night.
0:40.3	No, not when you go down by 17 to start the game.
0:42.8	You ultimately lose the game by 17, but you exhaust yourself trying to get back into it.
0:47.1	They set the tone with the kind of garbage, uninspired crap basketball we saw last night.
0:53.4	Now, the good news is it's not the playoffs yet.
0:55.9	The bad news is the playoffs are coming. And you brought this up yesterday and you put it in my
1:00.5	head as I was watching the Knicks embarrassed themselves last night in Houston on national TV.
1:05.3	Can you just flip a switch? And can you just develop chemistry? Because Jaylon Brunson and
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