Knicks Karl-Anthony Towns deal official with plenty of work on tap

CHARLESTON, S.C.— Karl-Anthony Towns officially became a Knick on Wednesday afternoon, but not before the All-NBA center missed three practices because the complicated megadeal required details ironed out for league approval. The delay is hardly catastrophic, but Towns’ style requires adjustment from a team that hasn’t had a 3-point shooting center since Tom Thibodeau took over. “I think it takes a little bit of time,” Josh Hart said Wednesday before the trade was official.

“For me, I haven’t played with that many shooting bigs in my career so I’m looking forward to someone we can isolate on the post, make good decisions, put the ball in the basket. “I’m going to tell him whenever I get a rebound and run, just trail to the 3-point line.I’m sure he’ll get some open 3s that way.

It’s going to take some time just to get the feeling down.Obviously [Jalen Brunson], Mikal [Bridges], myself, we played together for a while.

OG [Anunoby] played with [Brunson] and myself for a handful of games.It’s going to take a little bit and that’s what training camp and preseason are for — so we can hit the ground running on opening day.” The Knicks open their preseason Sunday in Charlotte, N.C., but Thibodeau said he’d give the younger players more minutes in that contest — “usually you build up to your last preseason game where you get a truer read of what rotation looks like.” The Knicks, according to Thibodeau, have spent training camp “putting in a new system on offense and defense.”He said Towns’ absence through the sessions — two Tuesday, one Wednesday — changed the order of training camp operations. Instead, they’re working on lineups other than the starters. “Yes and no [it’s a problem].

Obviously you’d like to have everybody here, but reality is we don’t and what it does do is it gets us to look at different combinations a little earlier in camp, stuff we were planning on doing anyway,” the coach said.�...