LENNY WILKENS says he isn't hearing footsteps and Glen Grunwald says he isn't taking them.

The Raptors coach professed surprise that, after merely 24 games ・many of them unsatisfying, including yesterday's 93-88 gag job against the Washington Jordans ・anyone would ask him if he was starting to feel any kind of squeeze.

"Why would I?'' he wondered, eyes lighting up, but he has been around too long to be surprised by anything, even at this point. "It's not something I'd worry about. If it happens it happens.''

Forget whether or not it would be fair to wonder about starting the Lenny Watch. Fair seldom has anything to do with it.

Everybody knows the oldest rule in sports: You can't fire X number of players, so you look at what you can fix ・although "fix" may not necessarily be the correct word. Change would be a better word.