Ian Begley Sat, October 31, 2026 at 5:32 AM UTC · 3 min read About Our Ads Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement PHILADELPHIA -- Six games in, the Knicks are still "working" their "way into the season," according to veteran Josh Hart .
"I think the flow's tougher... the ball gets stagnant… I think that that's part of it. We got to be more deliberate with cuts and movements. And taking care of the ball," Hart said after New York (2-4) fell to the Sixers on Friday night .
Static offense and untimely turnovers are two of the reasons New York lost to Philadelphia on Friday. Fatigue may have been another.
Hart referenced fatigue when answering questions from reporters in Philadelphia – where the Knicks were playing their third game in four nights.
"We all feel the fatigue. So we got to fight through it. Six games in. So we got to find a way to make sure we get our bodies ready to play every day," Hart said. "I think mentally we're there. We just gotta find it physically."
The Knicks certainly looked flat in the first half on Friday. They allowed 17 points off of turnovers in the first half. They coughed it up eight times. The Knicks also allowed Philadelphia to score 26 points in the paint.
Sure, the Knicks made it close late in the game, but they couldn't come all the way back against a tough Sixers team.
Philadelphia and LeBron James have looked sharp in both games against New York this year. The Sixers have defended well against the Knicks and have leaned on Tyrese Maxey to lead the offense. It's early, but Philadelphia is playing with the kind of cohesion that many thought would be missing at this point in the season.
Of course, it's way too early to make bold proclamations about anything you see in the NBA right now. We're six games into an 82-game season. But while the Sixers (5-1) have gotten off to a strong start, the Knicks, as Hart said, are still finding their way.
One issue for the Knicks early on? Turning the ball over. New York has been a low-turnover team for most of the last two seasons. But they rank 16th in the league in turnovers per 100 possessions so far this season.
"Just a little careless," Jalen Brunson said. "And sometimes it can be us being hesitant as well, wanting to make the right play, but they're also not trying to turn over, and then it's just a little late to our decision making. It could be a lot of things, but obviously, we got to clean it up."
Head coach Mike Brown sees a correlation between his team's turnovers/sloppy passing and poor offense.
"It's been going on all year," Brown said of the turnovers. "Like, we're trying to hit a home run every time we get the ball. And we have to hit singles. We can't hit a home run. We gotta hit singles offensively and then if our play breaks down, we have to move. There's too many times where we have too many guys trying to iso and the other four guys sitting there and staring at the ball a whole possession."
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