Shandon Anderson could laugh yesterday. But it was not so amusing on Tuesday night when he endured a miserable Knick debut at Madison Square Garden, or even in the locker room after the game when teammates perused the stat sheets and offered some subtle jibes.

"A couple of guys afterward were asking, `You make a shot?' " Anderson said with a smile after the Knicks' workout at SUNY-Purchase. "You're going to get that. You've got to take it."

It is the price that Anderson had to pay for his performance against the Washington Wizards. Wanting to make a good first impression with a packed house, a huge news media contingent and an international television audience, Anderson, a six-year swingman, found himself in a nightmare scenario.