1.   And we know better than to ask if they were more of a halfcourt team in the past.

2.   In the process, they helped transform the Knicks into a faster, younger team from a plodding halfcourt team built around Ewing.

3.   More like the cumbersome halfcourt teams in New York earlier this decade.

4.   The Knicks have been a methodical, halfcourt team that does not produce easy baskets on a consistent basis.

5.   They are still primarily a halfcourt team that needs to score more easy baskets.

6.   This is not good news for Stanford, a strong, halfcourt team that has had problems with talented, quick teams like Kentucky.

7.   They resembled less a frenetic Showtime team and more a cerebral halfcourt team.

8.   Van Gundy still sees the Knicks as a halfcourt team, and they can certainly play that way in spots.