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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 5440882, member: 767"]
I dont think it is just that, but even within the players he relied on there wasnt a lot of mixing and matching.  This is a combo of stuff I stole from people and I looked up myself.

The knicks starting 5 played 2,550 possessions together this season (regular season and playoffs, non garbage time, per Cleaning the glass).  They were barely positive (net rating of about 2.2).  The second most common lineup was the Minnesota starting 5, they played 1,788 possessions together (net rating of +7.3).  So he played a bad starting lineup 40% more than any other 5 man unit in the league.

If you go to cleaning the glass and look at the best 5 man lineups the Knicks had all season, one player appears in every one of the 5 best 5 man lineups the team had.  It was Deuce McBride, who of course wasnt a starter.

Related to this, the guy refused to play a 5 out lineup and really weaponize the shooting ability of KAT.  They played 383 possessions during the regular season with anything I would call 5 out spacing (most common lineup was Payne, McBride, Bridges, OG, and Towns).  In those lineups they were a +7.3 with a 126.4 offensive rating.

To take it a step further, what I would consider the best version of their 5 out lineup (Deuce in for Hart) played 82 possessions all regular season.  +5.5 with a 130.5 offensive rating.  It played 16 possessions during the playoffs, +50 with a 175 offensive rating.  (I dont want to get too wrapped up in the playoff stats, the sample is so small, they may have been in when there was fouling going on, etc).

The last one, during the regular season KAT and Brunson played 3925 possessions together.  85% of those possessions included Josh Hart! (Ok this is kind of related to the one above)
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