way, they couldn't figure out that he was that good. because in today's "new york times," there's a story about all of his ex-coaches, waxing about how they knew, and saw something in him, boy, you bet. monday morning quarterbacking there. if i may mix my metaphors. everything was wonderful and on track until thursday night and that is when the knicks met up with the miami heat and it was a wild night. >> gregg: they are so good. it is hard for a point guard to penetrate those guys. >> i don't hold it against him, that's right. let me give you an idea of what "the new york times" said. they were measuring their words. harvey ericksson, sports writer said, in our desire to do justice to a story, we invariably overdo, if lin lit up the heat as he did the lakers and the mavericks, there might have been a groundswell of support for him to declare himself a candidate for the