So how did the Knicks lose to the Bulls on Saturday?  Judging my recent comments what you come away with might be dependant on what time you ask.

Lenny Wilkens, the man at the helm of the Knicks, didn't exactly clear the air yesterday when he twice altered his account of what had transpired. At the Knicks' morning shootaround, Wilkens stuck with his original story that he told Shandon Anderson to foul Jamal Crawford with Chicago leading 83-81 and a 2.7 second differential between the game clock and the shot clock.

"I was telling Shandon to give the foul at half court," Wilkens said early yesterday. "He grabbed the guy but they didn't call anything."

However, 90 minutes before last night's game against the Hawks, Wilkens said hadn't wanted to foul but instead wanted the Knicks to play defense. Wilkens reasoned that he wanted to avoid falling behind by three with Tim Thomas and Allan Houston both sidelined by injuries.

"I wanted them up and real aggressive," Wilkens said. "Then if there's a foul that's fine. We had just stopped them the time before."

The Bulls, leading by two, took possession with 26.7 seconds remaining. Crawford held his dribble until Anderson went for a steal. Crawford spun past Anderson and passed the ball to Kendall Gill, who quickly passed back to Crawford. With the shot clock winding down and Penny Hardaway chasing him, Crawford hit a fadeaway jumper with 3.6 seconds left.

Immediately after the game, Wilkens insisted that he had screamed for Anderson to foul and that Anderson had been unable to hear those instructions over the crowd noise. Television replays showed Wilkens signaling for a foul by tapping his forearms together.

Anderson, though, continued to stick to his original version that at no point did Wilkens instruct him to foul.

"You can't be turning your head without losing your guy," Anderson said. "It was hard to get a feel on what he (Wilkens) was saying."

So, what did happen?