PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Mike Brown, you’ve caught up to speed. It took Brown 44 games (45 if you include the scrubbed NBA Cup Final) as the new New York Knicks head coach to pick up where Tom Thibodeau left off in the Eastern Conference Finals, implementing a substitution pattern in Saturday’s 112-109 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers that felt all too familiar to those who’ve been paying attention in class. The Knicks played an even first half against the Sixers at the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday and trailed by four entering the halftime break, largely due to a monster opening two periods from Joel Embiid, who had 28 points before the start of the third quarter. The Knicks’ best minutes of...
