Yes, ladies and gentlemen, your New York Knicks took the right medication to get healthy. Taking belt-to-behind against the Brooklyn Nets on Wednesday night resulted in a mind-boggling 120-66 win against the little brothers, representing the largest margin of victory (54 points) in franchise history.

Not only was the victory badly needed — after the team had lost nine of its last 11 games, as well as 11 of the last 16 — but this one travels well beyond the impact on the standings.

For Mike Brown’s Knickerbockers, the intent of change was apparent. More importantly, the Knicks’ intent was to get back to who they are as a roster.

The Knicks’ head coach wasn’t shy to admit he needed to put his players “at their strengths.”

The Knicks flipped the mentality in a way that fans of yesteryear can recognize and applaud. Instead of upping the pace and chucking threes all over the lot, they didn’t settle for lower-percentage shots and got after it on the defensive end of the floor.

A decrease in 3-point volume

Despite pouring in 120 points, New York shot just 32 threes all night (making 16). That volume ties the sixth-lowest 3-point-shooting output of the season.

On the surface, this Knicks team can operate by shooting threes at a high volume. Shoot, we saw it earlier this season when the team caught fire en route to the NBA Cup victory.

The devastating problem arises when they’re not shooting the lights out, an inevitable reality every NBA team has to handle.

When shooting from beyond the arc at an average or below-average rate, longer rebounds occur (particularly without Mitchell Robinson on the floor), which create more transitional defense opportunities for the opposition. This causes debilitating issues for this specific Knicks roster, which is slower, not that long, and simply cannot keep up with the elite NBA teams athletically.

Beyond the athletic (and overall speed) deficiencies, New York is crummy on the defensive end of the floor. Although Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns shouldn’t shoulder all the blame, these two players, given their positions — (point guard (1) and center (5) — make it nearly impossible to defend effectively.

Lateral quickness simply cannot be coached up.

Effort and intensity, however, can. And that’s exactly what we saw against Brooklyn, not only because of a focused, rabid approach, but also because of an offensive strategy that made it easier for them on the defensive end.

Mindset shift: Attacking the rack, grinding pace

The first possession showed the Nets their intent.

Off the opening tip, the Knicks play Brunson off-ball, while giving Mikal Bridges the point-forward honors. Brown’s familiar five-out offense materializes with Towns at the top of the key.

Brooklyn is overplaying New York in a not-so-subtle way. Rookie Egor Demin sticks to Brunson’s hip, high and aggressively, playing the outside shot while daring the Knicks to the hole (back-cut):

The dribble-handoff action at the top of the key turns into a keep, which is then executed by a cut-and-dump into the action man. Brunson buries the easy jumper thanks to the overplay.

Sure, the Knicks took what the Nets were giving them, but that’s sort of the point. They made the emphatic statement, “We are going to make sure we get our high-percentage looks early in the game.”

This sort of offensive mentality helps New York on the defensive end as well. The concern over keeping up with a potentially more athletic squad (not necessarily the Nets) doesn’t exist due to the nonexistence of a longer-type rebound (on a missed 3-pointer).

The Knicks’ first defensive possession of the game featured attention to detail on the game-plan front, with Towns and OG Anunoby allowing enough space for Bridges to chase his man underneath the stagger action:

It wasn’t all pretty early in the game, but that’s to be expected. Brunson even bricked a dead-on, top-of-the-key 3-pointer while coming off a zipper action via BOB.

However, for the most part, the team’s aggressive intent not to settle held firm throughout, forcing the Nets to adjust defensively — something they did not want to do so early.

They decided to go back to their roots by grinding it out. Something like Towns aggressively first-stepping to the rim on a semi-transition trail sequence is the cherry on top of what this team’s DNA actually is, at its heart.

What to anticipate

If the Knicks are to continue to succeed, expect the pace to slow a bit. This isn’t to say they cannot use Mike Brown’s sets or offensive-action movement; it’s to say the action cannot be run at a breakneck pace.

That is simply not who they are as a personnel group.

This slower and outdated Knicks roster needs an intentional break in the action.

If and when the 3-point volume happens, they need to ensure it happens in a complementary fashion. As long as the mindset is attacking-the-rim in nature, first and foremost, the threes will support that mentality perfectly.

Be on the lookout for a downturn in 3-point volume and an increase in defensive rating — that is, if the Knicks turn things around for the better. The two go hand in hand, explicitly for this roster, which is anything but fleet of foot.

While there’s no doubt the New York Knicks can catch fire from downtown again, and go on a torrid stretch (identical to that of the cup run earlier this season), it’s not a sustainable long-term strategy…

Not for this group.