NEW YORK — The Warriors’ Andre Iguodala has been noticeably more aggressive of late after quietly playing through physical discomfort and mental hurdles resulting from an early-season hamstring strain.

“You get little tweaks here and there,” Iguodala said of his left hamstring, which caused him to miss 12 games up until mid-December. “At night, you might wake up at 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning and something’s like, ‘What the hell’s going on?’

“But mentally, just overcoming it and not thinking about it at all, just trying to have the thought, ‘Everything’s all right.’ Things will play out the way they’re supposed to, so no holding back at all.”

According to coach Mark Jackson, the team’s prized offseason acquisition might have gotten back to full health, “but it wasn’t long ago.”

Through it all, Iguodala has collected 9.4 points, 4.9 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game, all averages that are down from last season. He had seven points, five rebounds, three assists and three steals in 26 minutes in Friday’s rout of New York. Not only did Iguodala help force Knicks star Carmelo Anthony into a 7-for-26 shooting performance, but he also displayed a willingness to push the ball up the floor that hadn’t often been seen in recent weeks.

“We’re a better basketball team when he does it and when he does it aggressively to score or to facilitate,” Jackson said. “I thought last night he allowed us to get it going in transition because he had that mindset.”

Told Iguodala was leading the Western Conference in the plus-minus category as the Warriors were a combined 426 points better this season when he was on the floor, Jackson said sarcastically, “What a bust, what a bust.”

“People look at him and say, ‘He doesn’t do this,’ ” Jackson said. “He wins.

“Coming back when he wasn’t 100 percent, probably people expected to see the Andre Iguodala that we went and got instead of saying, ‘OK, well, it’s a process.’ But we’ve been patient with him all along, and we know what type of player he is and the things he does on the floor to make us better. But I understand the pressure of everybody else not knowing that he wasn’t 100 percent, that he was stepping into new territory.”

Reserve guard Jordan Crawford hasn’t been shy about taking shots since the arrival of Steve Blake in another trade that has freed up Crawford to play more comfortably at shooting guard. Crawford came off the bench to take at least 10 shots for three straight games before going 0 for 5 and missing all four 3-point attempts to go along with four turnovers in 18 minutes against New York. Asked if he derived confidence in shooting from Blake being on the floor, Crawford said, “I think that’s up to me, really.” “I didn’t want him to be a total scorer when we first got him because he had point guard responsibilities also, but I think adding Steve releases asking him to be a facilitator a lot of times on the floor,” Jackson said. “He’s a scorer. That’s who he is, and it makes that second unit click.”