Chapter 70: Everybody Loves the Big Apple

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For the first time, many people mistake New York for the capital of the United States.

After all, the Statue of Liberty, an American landmark, is there.

Its relationship with Washington is like that of Shanghai and Beijing in China, an economic center, a political center.

As the richest city in the United States, it is natural that there are all kinds of teams here.

Several famous ball games in the United States, such as football, basketball, ice hockey, baseball, and New York, are all shared.

In the basketball world, the team in New York is also a veteran team, the New York Knicks!

The New York Knicks were once a powerhouse, reaching the highest point in franchise history after Willis Reed limped into the arena to give the Knicks a championship.

Later, they selected Patrick Ewing in '85, a man nicknamed "Gorilla" who once again held up the backbone of New York, bringing iron blood and indomitable fighting spirit to New York, and was called the "King of New York".

It's a pity that Ewing has no crown for life, and was first suppressed by Qiao's gang leader in the east for most of his life. finally took advantage of the two years that the Qiao Gang played baseball to reach the finals, and met his old opponent Olajuwon again, but he was defeated. Of the "four centers" in the 90s, only Ewing did not have the championship, although his strength would lose to the other three.

In Ewing's era, the Predator Knicks have become the most memorable memory for many old fans.

Unfortunately, after Ewing regretted his retirement, New York fell, and there was a long-standing saying that "if you love someone, send him to New York, and if you hate someone, send him to New York." ”

In the first decade of the 21st century, New York was truly a black hole of stars. No matter how talented a player is, how potential a player is, or a star who has already become famous, as long as he arrives in New York, he will immediately fall and never be able to regain his glory.

Moreover, the New York Knicks have been playing the role of "stupid people with a lot of money" in the first decade of the 21st century. Dolan is rich, he puts luxury tax on the league every year, and he signs a bunch of high-paid and incompetent fools.

The poor Knicks compete for the vice president every year, and pursue the champion every year, but the champion lottery every year does not have its turn, I have to say, the Knicks are really a tragedy.

And its home stadium, Madison Square Garden, has become a place for countless players to perform, as long as they can brush up on good statistics here, they can become famous overnight!

What a tragic Nicks!

But this year's Knicks (2012 in the book's timeline, the same below) are different, in the Spurs' conference room, Parker pointed to the information displayed on the computer with a serious face and said to everyone: "This year's Knicks, judging from the books, are definitely not weak." ”

Now every time the Spurs have a pre-game meeting, the job of presenting the opponent is handed over to Parker, because Duncan is too lazy to do a sentence or two every time he introduces. Ginobili is too demonic, and every time he talks about it, he goes astray.

"Tony, tell me about it." The old god Popovich sat down on the ground.

Parker nodded and began to elaborate:

"First of all, they poached Amare Stoudemire last year, and it made the team's results a little bit better.

"Secondly, this year Dolan has made a lot of money and brought in 'Little Melon' Carmelo Anthony from the Denver Plateau, who is currently in the top three small forwards in the league, to attack the kaleidoscope."

"In the end, they poached the old demon Kidd and the 'boxing champion' Tyson Chandler, which suddenly made the whole team luxurious."

Everyone at the Spurs had to be serious, and it was true that on paper, the Knicks were strong.

Look at their starters, Stoudemire and Chandler, the two big men who attack and defend, make the Knicks' interior strength unprecedentedly strong, although Stoudemire needs a good guard to play all his strength, but his own offensive ability is still okay.

And Chandler, his defensive and basket protection ability is indeed first-class in the center, and if the Mavericks didn't have him on the inside, it would have been impossible to kill the Heat Big Three to win the championship. The combination of these two people's inside line is directly after the inside line of the Ewing era back then.

On the outside, Anthony was the same person as James at the beginning, and he did have a lot of offensive means, for Leonard, whether he can prevent Anthony in this game is very important.

In terms of scoring guards, the Knicks have athletic newcomer Shambaugh, as well as the "nerve knife" JR-Smith, especially JR, who openly provoked Qin Yan again during the interview, and he will never admit that Qin Yan is the first quarterback in the future!

In terms of point guard, "Old Demon" Kidd, except for not attacking much now, does not lose to Parker in possession and passing, and his body is better than Parker.

It looks like this year's New York Knicks are going to blow up, and they will definitely become a super strong team!

But judging from the games at the beginning of the season, the Knicks' results are not too top-notch, and the games they win are not hearty, and they are all barely winning until the end.

"It's not going to be easy, so don't be careless." Parker concluded.

"But their weaknesses are also obvious, and they can't cooperate." Ginobili hit the nail on the head: "If it weren't for Jason's strong ability to control the field, their starters would have collapsed directly several times." ”

Indeed, judging from the footage of the first few games, it seems that the Knicks have not yet figured out how to play, and there is no clear coordination between their main players, especially the two attackers, Anthony and Stoudemire, have not yet had chemistry.

'Both of them need the ball. Qin Yan expressed his opinion, "Cameron is actually very good at playing without the ball, but his character is destined for him to be reluctant to play like that, and Amare, this guy is a superstar next to Nash, if there is no Nash to feed him the ball, he is a star at most." ”

"Jason won't lose to Steve." Parker said.

"But Amare is the main attacker in the Suns, the Knicks, he's not, with Cameron, his ability can't be fully realized." Qin Yan continued.

'As you can see from these game footage, Amare sometimes fights Cameron for the ball and there is still a problem with their distribution of the ball.

"Qin is right, so Cameron is still the most threatening point." Duncan agreed, and Stoudemire said honestly, Duncan didn't really care about him.

Although every time the Suns faced the Spurs before, this guy could brush up on good statistics in front of Duncan, but the Suns still couldn't beat the Spurs.

"Xiaoka, your task is very heavy." Qin Yan joked with his good buddies.

"Cameron, leave it to me, I'll make him uncomfortable." Leonard slowly clenched his fists, Qin Yan and Kobe Bryant, the first scoring guard, gained a lot after the battle, so this time, after fighting with the top three small forwards in the league, his strength should also improve to a certain extent.

"Then Jason will leave it to me." Parker is the engine of the Knicks, as long as Kidd can't play, the Knicks will have to scrap a bunch of people.

"No matter who comes in as a shooting guard, I'm going to beat him, especially JR." Qin Yan is also very serious.

"What about Chandler?" Popovich asked suddenly.

"That guy doesn't care, just don't let him grab the rebound and dunk." Duncan was relaxed: "He doesn't have a lot of offensive means. ”

Split swallowed, saying that this Chandler should be his opponent.

Ginobili and Dior, Green and the others looked at each other and smiled, "Then leave their substitute to us." ”

Bench, what other substitutes does the Knicks have, and those who have the ability to exchange with the Nuggets for Anthony.

So, Ginobili they should be the most relaxed!

New York, New York, you're the big apple~ Apples are meant to be bitten, aren't they?

In this way, before the game even started, the Spurs' gang of bandits were ready to carve up the big apple.

The Big Apple, everyone wants to bite!