When the Knicks and coach David Fizdale put the ball in the hands of Mario Hezonja three games ago, inserting him into the starting lineup and letting him run the offense, no one other than maybe Hezonja expected much.
Hezonja scoffed at the notion that at 6-foot-8 and spending most of his brief career as a power forward or small forward he wasn't equipped to serve as the point guard as the Knicks ran down the final days of a lost season.
And after he put up numbers in the three games that were unlike anything he'd done before, he shrugged at the question of whether he could have benefited his own pending free agency by being given the ball earlier. He remains confident that he'll do well this summer on the market _ and would love it if he could get some of the Knicks' cap space.
