The Dallas Mavericks embarassed the Knicks at The Garden on Tuesday night, and just 24 hours later, they found themselves in the locker room with a loss to the 4-20 Atlanta Hawks.

Atlanta was guided to the win by the veteran play of Antoine Walker and the solid performances of three rookies.

"I think it's great," Walker said. "They are the future of this team and we need them. They catch a lot of teams by surprise, because some teams don't know what they're good at."