Every morning throughout the season, ESPNNewYork.com will tackle a burning question about the Knicks in our "Opening Tip."

Today's Burning Question: How effective do you think the Knicks' three-man game can be, featuring a point guard and two frontcourt players?

The signing of Tyson Chandler not only gave the Knicks added interior defense and rebounding, but another potent pick-and-passer, in addition to Amare Stoudemire.

The question is: How would the two bigs work together? After about two weeks into the season adjusting to one another, Chandler, Stoudemire and the team are finally starting to find some offensive cohesion. Give credit to Mike D'Antoni for working in two key sets, which emphasize a three-man game with a wing rotation for the potential 3-pointer. Both were displayed against the Wizards and Pistons, which include:

1.) One example of this play occurred during the Knicks' first offensive possession against the Wizards -- Chandler set a perimeter pick for Iman Shumpert to give him room for the 3-pointer or the drive. While Shumpert was quickly reading the situation, Chandler then set a back screen for Stoudemire, who was on the opposite wing, so he could drop through the lane and look for a pass from Shumpert for the short jumper or close-range easy two. During the well-run execution, Stoudemire missed an open jumpshot. In regards to this play, D'Antoni said last week he plans to use Stoudemire and Chandler together more in the same set, like he did last season with Stoudemire and Ronny Turiaf/Jared Jeffries.

2.) Two examples of this play unfolded against the Pistons, taking place with 4:27 remaining in the second quarter and 8:49 to go in the third, respectively -- During the first play, Anthony, who was on the perimeter, dumped the ball to Stoudemire on the high post. Then, Mike Bibby set a backscreen for Anthony, who received the pass from Stoudemire for the right-handed dunk. Before that happened, Chandler set a down screen for Landry Fields when Stoudemire caught the ball. So if Anthony was guarded tightly, Stoudemire could look for Fields as the second option on the wing for the 3-point shot, or he could face his defender and go one-on-one.

The second play was a mirror image of the first, just with two different players. This time, Shumpert dumped the ball to Chandler, Anthony set a back screen for Shumpert and Chandler served an alley-oop to Shumpert for the two-handed dunk. Stoudemire and Fields were on the opposite side to plan for a potential down-screen opportunity.

The Knicks' past two wins showed there's not as much What should we do? going on. They're starting to develop a knack for getting right into their halfcourt sets and acting, more than reacting. That speaks to their collective voice of change after devastating back-to-back losses last week to the Raptors and Bobcats.

Against the Pistons, the Knicks had 26 assists, a very positive mark as it was above the league high of 24.6 per game, held currently by the Heat. The ball movement was flowing so well that Anthony and Stoudemire, who are both usually the top scorers, were the team leaders in dishes (seven for Melo; four for STAT).

One main area the Knicks still need to work on is running Stoudemire off the pick-and-roll more, like he did with Raymond Felton and Chauncey Billups last season in New York. While Toney Douglas wasn't really the team's solution at starting point guard, Shumpert is showing early signs that he can facilitate better and help Stoudemire thrive off the two-man (and three-man) game. That will help STAT adjust more seamlessly to playing with Baron Davis when he returns.

How effective do you think the Knicks' three-man game can be? Leave us your comments below.

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