New York approaches game 10 with a 6-3 record and in the midst of a four-game win streak. The offense has been rejuvenated. Everyone is touching the ball. Everyone is scoring. The shots are, more often than not, of high quality. The Knicks are the best offensive rebounding team in basketball. There’s a lot to believe in, a lot to get behind.

“I think we’re growing as a team. It was definitely a problem for us last year, third quarters, especially the playoffs, [they] were not our friend,” Jalen Brunson said after the Knicks’ 134-98 win over the Nets on Sunday night at Madison Square Garden. “So we’re trying to address it as best we can. It starts with the little things.”

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Karl-Anthony Towns’ role on offense was much more defined under Mike Brown’s Knicks predecessor, Tom Thibodeau.

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But at its core, the simplest metric tells the story best: No team is erupting for big quarters as often as the Knicks, who scored 83 points in the second half against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday before blowing the Nets out of the water with a 40-point first quarter at home on Sunday.

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If the Knicks can find a way to get that number back towards the league's average, they could be even better than they were before. That should come with time, so the Knicks should not be pushing the panic button anytime soon as the season approaches the one-month mark in the coming days.

New York shot 45.9% (17-of-37) from outside Sunday - the fourth time in five games it's drained at least 40% of its 3-pointers. The Knicks are averaging 128.6 points in those five games and have topped 130 points in each of the last two contests, including a 137-114 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves last Wednesday.

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