Mike Brown isn’t ready to change the Knicks’ starting lineup despite anger over a slow start

Mike Brown is tagged as a starter but he doesn’t think about changing the system.

At least for now.

“Right now I don’t see the need to do that,” Brown said Sunday after his team beat the shorthanded Warriors 110-107, but before falling into a 21-point hole in the first quarter. “But like I said, if I feel the need to, I can do it. I don’t see the need right now.”

When fully healthy, the Knicks’ starting lineup has always consisted of Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, Josh Hart, OG Anunoby and Karl-Anthony Towns.

However, Hart’s recent injury, in particular, has changed the lineup.

Landry Shamet has been a very reliable plug-in.

Meanwhile, Bridges struggled and was benched again in the fourth quarter on Sunday.

He logged just 21 minutes while Shamet and Jordan Clarkson soaked up most of the playing time at the two guards.

“It’s never too late to do anything. And if I feel the need, I will,” Brown said of the change of schedule. “I don’t think about that right now, I don’t focus on each person because, as you say, we started different people at different times.”

Brown said he has been disappointed by starting in four of the last five games, including their entire three-game winning streak — all against underdogs.

After Warriors coach Steve Kerr campaigned for a few more games in the program, Hart agreed to help the NBA brand but doubted the right teams – meaning owners and players – would sacrifice money.

“Do I think it will improve the game and the quality of the court? I think so. Do I think it will? Maybe not because everyone is money hungry and money driven,” Hart said. “I think everybody puts that above everything else.”

Kerr has been open to reducing the schedule due to the rash of injuries, believing that a lighter load will allow players to be more productive and available. Sunday’s game was another example of a diminished product on national prime-time television.

The Knicks were healthy without Miles McBride.

But the Warriors were missing almost all of their top players, including Stephen Curry, Draymond Green and Jimmy Butler III.

“If we look at the details, to hear our team’s experts talk about the burden these guys face and then you get older players like Steph or Al. [Horford] or Jimmy – we have to carry them to 82,” Kerr said. “So there are nights when you have to say, ‘I can’t play this guy.’ I get emails all the time from fans saying, ‘I spent $2,000 on tickets to this game and Steph didn’t play.’

“And it wasn’t a word of injury, I got him out. Shouldn’t we reconcile somehow?”

Kerr said Sunday he would take a pay cut.

“I’m willing to stick my neck out and say I’m ready for that because I think the quality of the product is the most important,” he said.