David Fizdale has come to abide by a few well-worn dogmas in his first months as the Knicks head coach. Among the handful is his crutch response when asked about his point guards and playing time. They are guards, he likes to say, emphasizing the lack of specificity. In Fizdale’s system, positions can be fungible. Anyone may take the ball up the court and start the offense.



While parsing exact roles has come to seem like semantics with Fizdale, even he admits that the point guard is the one who most often initiates the action. That position remains a source of intrigue for the Knicks, and no has earned more interest than Frank Ntilikina, their second-year guard.



“If you look at a guy like Frank, what do you call him?” Fizdale said. “You can play him as a two or a three and now you’ve got three point guards in your rotation. I think that’s where Frank really gives me a lot of flexibility from the standpoint of what he brings to the...