"Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said sudden sensation Jeremy Lin has an innate feel for the flow of the game that you just can't teach, and forward Steve Novak likened the second-year point guard to another heady playmaker he used to play with: Tony Parker.

Lin has gone from unheralded to indispensable in two short games.

"He has a pace to his game," D'Antoni said. "First of all, he has real good speed, he gets in the lane, he gets by people, he has a sense of setting the guy up, a sense of where the openings are. It's hard to teach. Some guys have it.""