WATCH: Nate In; Duhon Out At PG

Many Knicks fans' prayers were answered this morning when Mike D’Antoni sidled up to Nate Robinson at the free throw line in the team’s practice facility and told him to be ready to start at point guard tomorrow night against the Bucks.

We were at practice and got reaction from both D’Antoni and Robinson about the lineup switch (listen after the jump).

Ironically, Nate’s start comes against Milwaukee and Brandon Jennings…the guy the Knicks should have taken in the draft, which would have rendered this conversation moot; but that’s a whole different story.

Robinson’s rise to the starting rotation came in part because of last night’s third quarter surge against the Wizards, where Nate led the way to a 107-85 win.

And thank goodness, because I don’t know how much longer I could watch Chris Duhon run this team into the ground.

He’s a good guy and all, but it’s about time D’Antoni turned the keys to this season over to Nate.

At the moment the Knicks are 4.5 games out of the 8th spot in the East, and seeing how Milwaukee is a team they have to jump to get into the postseason, tonight’s a good night to start the Rob-olution (that’s Robinson + Revolution, in case you were confused).

At this point in the season the Knicks have nothing to lose and everything to gain by trying to become more athletic.

In the short term it should mean more steals and diving for loose balls and, who knows, by April Nate could will this team into a playoff spot.

If all else fails, watching Robinson with the ball in his hands every possession will be reason enough to watch Knicks games the rest of the season.

You never know when he’ll pop for 40 or dunk on a 7-footer.

Here’s Coach and Nate at practice today:

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