CLEVELAND — It wasn’t exactly John Stockton to Karl Malone, but the new wrinkle the Knicks installed to their pick-and-roll sets in Game 4 certainly had the desired effect.

Rather than use centers Mitchell Robinson or Isaiah Hartenstein to be the primary screeners for point guard Jalen Brunson in the half-court offense, the Knicks mostly used wings RJ Barrett and Josh Hart in those roles.

The aim was to keep defensive-minded Cavaliers bigs Evan Mobley and Jarrett Allen out of those actions and pinned to the baseline.

According to The Ringer, using numbers posted by the sports tracking website Second Spectrum, the Knicks used Robinson, Hartenstein and Julius Randle as the intended screener for Brunson an average of 32.1 times per game during the regular season, yet that figure was down to 17.4 times per game in building a 3-1 lead entering Game 5 Wednesday night at Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse.