Reporter after reporter kept coming to Dan Majerle’s locker after yesterday’s 91-83 Knicks’ win over the Heat asking him if he was satisfied with the split in New York.

Each time Majerle’s response was spit out with the force of one of those Black & Decker nail guns.

“No, we’re not happy with a split,” Majerle kept saying. “We’re disappointed. I don’t think anyone in this locker room is satisfied with a split. We won a big game Friday night and could have put [the Knicks] behind the 8-ball with a win. But the way we turned the ball over in this game we didn’t give ourselves a chance to win.”

P.J. Brown was another player who refused to acknowledge happiness about regaining the home-court advantage in the series with a split in New York.

“I don’t feel good at all,” Brown said. “I wanted this game badly and it hurts. Now we have to go home, and we can’t relax and think everything’s going to be nice and good for us there.”

When it was suggested to Majerle, who scored 13 points on 5-of-10 shooting, that the Heat had regained the edge in the series with the renewed home-court advantage, he scoffed at the notion.

“If we go home and relax, we’re going to lose,” he said. “Home court obviously doesn’t mean anything in this series. It seems the team that’s the more desperate wins the game. I don’t think home court means a whole lot.”

For a while in the first half, it looked as if Majerle would prove to be an offensive savior for the Heat as he hit a couple of early three-pointers. He seemed to stop looking for his shot, though, and Miami’s offense never really got untracked.

“I had a couple of good looks early and they went in,” Majerle said. “But I don’t shoot that much, maybe six or seven times a game. I look to get the ball to Zo [Alonzo Mourning] and Mash [Jamal Mashburn]. If the shot is there for me, I’ll take it.”