SAN ANTONIO — Imagine having a long NBA career, shooting with the same line of vision to the rim, the same arc on the ball and the same muscle memory mapped out. Then imagine a 7-foot-4 alien being dropped in front of you, destroying all senses that helped you get to the sport’s highest stage.That’s where the New York Knicks found themselves Wednesday night. A team that breezed through the Eastern Conference with elite shooting was now in the NBA Finals facing the San Antonio Spurs and Victor Wembanyama, an extraterrestrial being capable of altering everything you think you know about the human body.It made sense to approach Game 1 with the idea of tracking how successful New York’s jump shooters could perform when Wembanyama was either the closest defender or somewhere in the picture. The Oklahoma City Thunder had struggled to make jump shots late in the Western Conference finals when Wembanyama was nearby, whether within inches or 5 feet away, and jumping just to force a shooter into an unnatural recalibration on how to deliver a shot over such an elongated creature. The thought was that the Knicks’ success, or lack thereof, in these opportunities could determine the outcome of the game.That proved correct. New York’s jump shooters were terrible when Wembanyama was around.The Knicks won the game, 105-95.“The biggest thing, you want to get shots up,” Josh Hart said. “It doesn’t matter what shot you get up, just get it on the rim. With Wemby contesting it, now he’s out of the play and someone like (Mitchell Robinson) is down there by themselves.”Unofficially, New York shot 2 of 16 from the floor on jumpers when Wembanyama was either directly contesting or close enough to make the shooter stop and think. So how did that benefit the Knicks and play a part in New York taking Game 1 of the finals? The Knicks had 23 second-chance points on the night and, again unofficially, scored 10 points directly off of second-chance points that came from Wembanyama contesting a shooter.