<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Knicks face the Heat tonight in Miami, although that doesn't mean what it normally does. Shaquille O'Neal remains out with a sprained right ankle, so the riddle of how to defend him has been answered for Larry Brown. Now he just has to figure out another mystery: how to get something out of Quentin Richardson. "I'm trying to figure out ways to help," Brown said after practice yesterday at Greenburgh, "because obviously I haven't helped him." Richardson remains an enigma in his first month with the Knicks, averaging just 6.5 points after being acquired on draft night with Nate Robinson for Kurt Thomas. He was all but absent from the Knicks' 105-102 overtime victory over the 76ers on Saturday, going scoreless in 19 minutes. Even when Brown went to a three-guard alignment late in the game, Richardson still wasn't on the floor. Stephon Marbury, Jamal Crawford and Robinson, who hit the game-winning three-pointer, were. Richardson didn't gripe yesterday about playing time, though. "As long as we win, I'm content," said the 6-6 swingman, who did start the game. "I know I'll get it going eventually." To date, though, Robinson actually has been the more productive player of the two, averaging 6.8 points per game and delivering the Knicks a needed win. Fellow rookie Channing Frye has been brilliant in Kurt Thomas' old role. Frye had 21 points and 11 rebounds Saturday in his first start, feasting again on open jumpers and recording his fourth 20-point game in the last five. Marbury was comparing him to Tim Duncan afterward.</div> Source
