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New York Knicks: Five Reasons The Triangle Offense Still Works

By Maxwell Ogden

Jan 28, 2015; New York, NY, USA; New York Knicks president Phil Jackson watches a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the second quarter at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 28, 2015; New York, NY, USA; New York Knicks president Phil Jackson watches a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the second quarter at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports /
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The New York Knicks will continue to utilize elements of the triangle offense in 2016-17. Here are five reasons why Phil Jackson is right to continue pushing the system.

Jan 28, 2015; New York, NY, USA; New York Knicks president Phil Jackson watches a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the second quarter at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 28, 2015; New York, NY, USA; New York Knicks president Phil Jackson watches a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the second quarter at Madison Square Garden. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports /

For better or worse, Phil Jackson is the team president of the New York Knicks. Many have maintained the stance that his status is detrimental to team success, but there are multiple facts that point in the opposite direction.

Rather than beating the dead horse that is the way he’s helping the Knicks build for the future, it’s time to address the misconceptions about the triangle offense.

Hiring Jeff Hornacek as head coach effectively pushed the Knicks away from the traditional use of the triangle offense. Hornacek runs a multifaceted system that doesn’t rely on any one form of offense as the exclusive manner of execution.

Hornacek will, however, utilize elements of the triangle offense in New York—just as he did as head coach of the Phoenix Suns.

Thus, while many Knicks fans have soured on the system, there are merits to its presence in New York. It’s not weak or incomprehensible; it simply needed a few modern tweaks to return to its former form of prominence and dominance.

Here are five reasons to believe that the triangle offense can still work for the New York Knicks.

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