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New York Knicks: Five lineups to experiment with in 2017-18

By Maxwell Ogden

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 3: The New York Knicks stand for the National Anthem before the preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets on October 3, 2017 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 3: The New York Knicks stand for the National Anthem before the preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets on October 3, 2017 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images) /
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NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 3: The New York Knicks stand for the National Anthem before the preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets on October 3, 2017 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 3: The New York Knicks stand for the National Anthem before the preseason game against the Brooklyn Nets on October 3, 2017 at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. Copyright 2017 NBAE (Photo by Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty Images) /

The New York Knicks have a deep roster, but only so many minutes to go around. Which lineups should head coach Jeff Hornacek experiment with?

The New York Knicks have accumulated a roster with a respectable level of talent. The star power is debatable, but the rotation is flush with players who have the potential to become high-level contributors to current or future rotations.

Due to the fact that there are only 48 minutes in regulation, however, finding those players the ideal measure of playing time will be difficult to do.

New York has a deep backcourt that features Ron Baker, Damyean Dotson, Tim Hardaway Jr., Jarrett Jack, Courtney Lee, Frank Ntilikina, and Ramon Sessions. It also has four quality small forwards in Michael Beasley, Mindaugas Kuzminskas, Doug McDermott, and Lance Thomas.

Throw in the logjam down low with Willy Hernangomez, Enes Kanter Joakim Noah, Kyle O’Quinn, and Kristaps Porzingis, and Hornacek will find crafting his rotations to be a difficult task.

With a vast number of options and only so much time to go around, the Knicks will need to keep an open mind. That means experimenting with lineups and thus determining who fits with whom, and how the talent can best be utilized.

The question is: What are the five-man lineups that head coach Jeff Hornacek and the New York Knicks should experiment with in 2017-18?

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