Really good article on grantland.com today about the Knicks. Here's a couple of quotes from the article:

The Knicks are a product of the league’s evolution, and their 3-point numbers, while outliers in some respects, fit snugly within that evolution. There's consensus now that the 3 is a powerful and necessary weapon against shifting defenses that can use zone principles to overload the strong side of the floor. The average team has taken 20.1 3's per game this season, compared to 14.6 a decade ago and about 10 per game in the early 1990s. The Knicks have attempted about 1.45 times this season’s average, or about 45 percent more 3's than a typical team. The mid-1990s Rockets, often cited as perhaps the first NBA team to embrace the 3 as part of an inside-out attack, attempted 1.58 times more 3's than the average club in 1993-94 and 1.4 times as many the next season. Other teams trailed them fairly closely, and ratios in the 1.4 range have been common for the league leader in 3-point attempts — and sometimes the top two or three in that category — in most seasons since then.

Another reason not to worry: New York is generally getting really good looks from outside, owing mostly to the development and health of Carmelo Anthony and Tyson Chandler. Anthony has embraced the power forward role and the post-up responsibilities that come with it. When opponents guard him with a traditional power forward, he is using his quickness edge to drive hard to the hoop. When opponents hide their power forward on Ronnie Brewer or Jason Kidd, and use their small forward to check Melo, Anthony is taking his guy to the block and posting up aggressively. Melo has finished 18.3 percent of his offensive possessions via post-ups this season, up from 12.5 percent last season, and he has shot 51 percent and drawn a ton of fouls on those plays, per Synergy Sports. He’s also passing out of the post more often, and as I’ve written before, he has shown real skill in reading defenses and finding the open man in the best position to inflict immediate 3-point damage.

Chandler has supplanted Dwight Howard (at least the current version) and Amar’e Stoudemire as perhaps the most devastating pick-and-roll finisher in the league, and he has somehow done so without a single reliable post move or the ability to do much of anything when he catches with his feet on the ground. The mere threat of Chandler dunking a lob sucks in defenders from all over the perimeter, opening up spot-up chances for everyone. The work Chandler put in to transform, mid-career, into a steady 70-plus percent free throw shooter has been crucial in that regard; teams can’t simply wrap him up and hope for the best. Jason Kidd’s presence as a second quarterback has also been huge; no one is better at reading defensive rotations from behind the arc and rifling a pass to the shooter those rotations are about to leave open.

Maybe someone should tell Mike Woodson that MDA didn't invent the pick-and-roll

High-speed pick-and-rolls with shooters spread all over the floor sounds a lot like former coach Mike D’Antoni’s system, and Woodson said before the game he has indeed swiped some of his predecessor’s philosophy. “I’ve used a lot of Mike’s system,” Woodson said, “but I’ve obviously tried to expand it to other things I like to do.”

For all the focus on offense, the bigger challenge might come on the other end. New York has slipped to 15th in points allowed per possession, and Stoudemire is only going to hurt in that regard. The record-setting 3's are fascinating, but it’s unlikely they'll be New York’s undoing. A mediocre defense might be.

It's very good article that's definitely worth a read. I still don't completely believe that our 3-point shooting is sustainable but it helped wash some of my fears away.

Chandler has supplanted Dwight Howard (at least the current version) and Amar’e Stoudemire as perhaps the most devastating pick-and-roll finisher in the league, and he has somehow done so without a single reliable post move or the ability to do much of anything when he catches with his feet on the ground

imagine Amar'e playing center again.