"Tracy McGrady is often asked how he's feeling after playing extended minutes.

He simply smiles and says "I'm fine, I'm fine."

In nearly 29 minutes Sunday, McGrady put together his best game of the year: 13 points, six rebounds and three assists.

So he must be feeling pretty good, despite the Pistons' 125-116 double-overtime loss to the Knicks a The Palace.

McGrady scored all his points in the second quarter, and appeared to look like the "T-Mac" of old.

He knocked down jumpers and burned the Knicks on a back door cut for three-point play.

It was the kind of effort that gives McGrady some extra motivation as his new team faces Orlando, one of his old teams, on Tuesday in Florida.

"I will just try to be aggressive," he said. "Hopefully I will have the ball and I can be the playmaker and score the ball - do what I did (Sunday). (If) I continue, consistently, to do that, I think it will help the team and myself moving forward."

The next step for McGrady is to see if he can push his playing time further, closer to an entire 48-minute game."