Carmelo Anthony knows where the blame for Knicks’ skid lies: ‘Where’s KAT? Where’s O.G.?’

Carmelo Anthony certainly knows what it’s like to have to carry a Knicks offense on his back.

But these current Knicks invested heavily in a supporting cast so that Jalen Brunson would get help. But during the four-game skid the Knicks entered Wednesday, that supporting cast disappeared.

And that made the Knicks predictable. It was poignant during their blowout loss to the Pistons in Detroit on Monday.

“This made me tight,” Anthony said on “NBA Showtime” on NBC on Tuesday. “I watch the game, the late-game offense becomes so predictable. The shot creation, that burden on Jalen Brunson, it’s too much on his shoulders from night to night. The margins are very thin. Without easy offense, the Knicks miss shots that they turn into runouts the other way [for the other team]. You’re just focused on Jalen Brunson and there’s no movement, there’s no offense, there’s stagnation and I don’t want to say you’re getting punked, but in a way you’re getting punked.”

In that loss to the Pistons, OG Anunoby and Karl-Anthony Towns managed just four shots apiece and finished with five and six points, respectively. Mikal Bridges had just 10 points. Brunson, meanwhile, made 21 shots — more than double that of any of his teammates — and recorded 25 points.

“I was watching the game [Monday] night and I’m, like ‘Where’s KAT? Where’s OG? We cannot rely on it [Tyler] Such a Kolek,’ said Anthony. ‘What he gives us is an asset. He can go down, he can play pick-and-roll, but who will be the Knicks’ second option on a night-to-night basis? And the second option cannot be indecisive. … KAT can’t have six [points] and one [rebound] and OG needs to step up.”

Entering the season, one of coach Mike Brown’s main missions was to take some of that exact pressure off Brunson and let him play off the ball, giving others more responsibility to set up and facilitate the offense. That, Brown believed, would create an easier, more open look for Brunson and lead to a more dynamic offense.

It requires ball movement. For most of the first half of the year, Brunson did a good job of getting the ball out of his hands and cutting off the ball. But with Josh Hart sidelined with a sprained ankle, there aren’t many options to handle the playmaking duties and let Brunson do that – and also create open looks for Anunoby, Towns and Bridges.

That has led to a return to the isolation-heavy offense — with long stretches of the ball in Brunson’s hands and little movement — that was common last year under Tom Thibodeau.

“We’re not getting rid of it like we did in the past,” Brown said. “You have to make quick decisions and as soon as you feel another body coming towards you, you have to get away from it. And right now we’re not doing it. We’re holding on to it too much and trying to force the issue too much. We have five basic principles and we’re not playing or sticking to what our basic principles have been lately.”