The New York Knicks have been on an absurd run through the playoffs, stemming back from when they fought from behind a 1-2 disadvantage against the Atlanta Hawks in the opening round.

They've won seven straight games since falling behind Atlanta, including a four-game sweep of the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

The Knicks have been a dominant team in the Eastern Conference throughout the season, but there's been something different about them in the playoffs.

Part of that is the monumental individual performances of players like Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart, just to name a few, but there's also been a difference in their scheme.

One different aspect has been their utilization of Towns, running the offense through him far more often and using him as a pivot point on the floor where he can facilitate passes to his teammates, rather than simply relegating him to being an option in the paint both offensively and defensively.

That was a suggestion that Towns said he came to head coach Mike Brown with when the Knicks fell behind the Hawks and Brown seems to have considered that suggestion. 

The new way that the Knicks have been playing also lends them the power of unpredictability.

Of course, teams playing each other in the playoffs will draw upon their existing film and past experiences from the regular season in order to to prepare for the next matchup, but the Knicks have been playing so differently that there isn't much film to work on compared to the regular season, so the opposition has less ways to prepare.

Brown credits the fast-pace and relatively few number of games in the playoffs as to why it's easier to experiment with plans and schemes than it would be in the regular season.

"In playoff time, it's a whole different season than the regular season. You can do a lot of different things in the playoffs that you wouldn't do in the regular season because you play so many games," Brown said (via SNY). "In the playoff time, you can really make adjustments and lock in on them."

Brown went on to say that because of the sheer number of regular season games, it becomes natural to simply rely on existing habits and comforts to get through games and the quick turnaround between different opponents is less conducive to trying out new plans or finding out if they really work. 

Now, they've been able to develop a new system that's led them to playoff dominance and it could carry over into their next series against the Cleveland Cavaliers.