New York Knicks reacts after hitting a three-point shot in the first half at Madison Square Garden in New York, Friday, November 28, 2025. JASON SZENES/ NY POST

Even in its three-on-three schoolyard/driveway form, basketball was an art form. An acquired taste at a required pace.

But if one of the participants was what we called “a chucker,” someone who regularly heaved it up from the far outside — and even if he was sometimes successful — he’d wreck the game for the other five. And, inevitably, he’d be told by all five to cut it out.

To that sustaining end, I’m not fond of how these Knicks, under Mike Brown, play offense as I increasingly say to myself “cut it out.” They seem more and more reliant on the uncreative, redundant and unreliable three-ball.

The paucity of three-ball coachi

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