-- The feeling was familiar for John Starks. With the clocking winding under 10 seconds in a fourth quarter at the Garden, he stared in the face of an opponent. It was a vision of the past, back to a time when the Knicks were good.
At the top of three-point arc, Allan Houston owned the ball and a chance to give the Knicks a quality win. The Knicks and Houston were down one to Starks' Jazz.

Houston, hoping to prevent the Knicks from blowing another double-digit lead, took two dribbles to the left of the foul line. Starks, having played with Houston for years, wanted to keep Houston off the elbow.

"If he got to that elbow, his percentages go way up," Starks said.

Starks mirrored Houston's movements as if it were one of the Knicks' Finals years and Houston was Reggie Miller.

After Houston's second dribble - 17-feet away and not on the elbow - he pulled up and fired with 4.8 seconds remaining. It didn't look good from the beginning. It wasn't.