With a team that has prided itself on diversity of talent and role players as much as the New York Knicks have dating back to last season, finding a balance for that talent can sometimes be a difficult task.

That task is naturally up to head coach Mike Brown and he's been working to find that balance so far this season, namely on how to balance between some of his starters and some of his best role players coming off the bench. 

Neither star guard Jalen Brunson nor center Karl-Anthony Towns are at risk of losing their minutes, of course, and neither is forward OG Anunoby, but forwards Josh Hart and Mikal Bridges are the ones subject to Brown's rotational experiment, as are guards Landry Shamet and Miles McBride.

Both Hart and Bridges did stay in the starting five at least at the beginning of the Knicks' game against the Cavaliers, but they rotated in heavily with Shamet and McBride, who ended up playing the most minutes over the starters.

Shamet scored 12 points in his 29 minutes and McBride scored 19 in 27 minutes, while Hart scored six points with four rebounds in 26 minutes and Bridges scored just two points in 17 minutes, so the lack of rhythm in their rotation likely didn't work out in their favor. 

It didn't work out in the Knicks' favor as a whole, either. New York dropped the game to Cleveland 115-107 to snap a four-game winning streak and among the handful of issues for the Knicks to address, Brown's balance of minutes stands out as one of the biggest.

"Part of it is that we've got to guys that are playing really well in Landry and Deuce [Miles McBride], so it's gonna be hard to find minutes at times for Mikal and maybe even at times for Josh," Brown said (via SNY Knicks). 

Having a surplus of talent isn't typically a bad thing for any team and it isn't a bad thing for the Knicks either, they simply just need to find a better rhythm when it comes to rotating players in and out depending on need. 

Brown continued to emphasize that his implementation of Shamet and McBride didn't just stem from an impression that they made on him offensively, but also because of what the two of them can do on the defensive end. 

Should Brown be able to make all of those traits that Shamet, McBride, Bridges and Hart all possess work in the Knicks' favor, the team will still be able to utilize their myriad of threats to an advantage. 

But that rhythm will take time to sort out, and the first error of that trial-and-error process bit back at the Knicks after falling to Cleveland.