Knicks’ ball movement has taken hit since Josh Hart’s injury

Josh Hart makes an impact in so many different ways.

At the moment, though, it’s one of his less talked about abilities that the Knicks are missing the most.

Without him, there is a glaring lack of a facilitator and playmaker.

One of Mike Brown’s big missions was to let Jalen Brunson play off the ball and take pressure off him to set up the offense.

And, after inserting Hart into the starting lineup, that was working with him often acting as the orchestrator and usually the one pushing the Knicks in transition.

But without him, the offense has become stagnant and undynamic with a lack of ball movement during this four-game skid. In their blowout loss to the Pistons on Monday night in Detroit, Brunson had zero assists and six turnovers, struggling to create for his teammates with nobody to take that load off his shoulders.