Knicks head coach Mike Brown says trimming his rotation has helped steady the team after a rocky start.

After an 0–3 road trip , Brown tightened his lineup to nine players — and the result has been back-to-back wins at Madison Square Garden.

“The last two nights were the best I’ve done for them in terms of rotations. They kinda sorta knew when they were coming out or going in, who was going to play together,” Brown said after Monday’s 119–102 victory over the Washington Wizards. “And so it’s a process of trying to get more familiar with what we’re trying to do on both ends of the floor, also with the rotation patterns that we’re using.”

Brown said at the start of training camp he planned to play a nine-and-a-half to 10-man rotation in his first season in New York. But over the last

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