Mitchell Robinson takes big step toward being Knicks’ rim enforcer again

Miami’s Duncan Robinson dribbled around a screen that created space and might have driven into the lane — but Karl-Anthony Towns loomed toward the top of the paint.

So he tried his second option, Bam Adebayo rolling off that screen and toward the hoop.

Robinson passed to Adebayo, who came to a stop just inside the free-throw line because Towns jumped onto him and Mitchell Robinson loomed behind.

With nowhere to go, Adebayo tried for a cutting Kel’el Ware, but Robinson’s long arms knocked the ball away for one of the Knicks’ 12 steals on the night.

“When you have two 7-footers out there,” head coach Tom Thibodeau would say later, “if you get by one, you’ve got another waiting at the rim.

“I think that has a huge impact on the game.”