Antonio Davis exchanged the perfunctory hugs and laughs with several of his former Knicks teammates, but that didn't preclude him from reiterating his refrain about the disarrayed organization that shipped him away earlier this month.

The veteran forward stopped short of branding Isiah Thomas' and Larry Brown's Knicks "a mess" or "a circus" - as he had in the first days following his trade to Toronto for Jalen Rose and a first-round draft pick.

But Davis certainly didn't sound like someone whose thought process has changed since making those comments before he started at center for the Raptors last night at the Garden.

"I don't know what the problem is here. I just know it is a problem," Davis said before scoring eight points in the Raptors 98-96 loss at the Garden. "I know that this team, to me, is better than what their record has shown. Hopefully they'll get it together and find a way to finish the season on a high note.

"You can always pick and choose the excuses why the team is losing. But the bottom line is they have to figure out a way to get it done. Right now nobody is figuring it out and nobody is doing it."