"Of course I think we can win this season, do you need to say? We're just one win away from fourth place in the East, and with so many games left in the season, it means that we have a good chance of climbing into the top three in the East, maybe second in the East, or first in the East, and that's all possible. ”

The heat of this roundtable continues, and as a Knicks player, it is inevitable that the same question will be asked.

Xiao Si didn't think much about it, and nodded directly, why can't he win the championship? Just because their No. 2 position is too weak? The bench doesn't have a reliable substitute who can stand up? And Felton is overrated?

But are these problems?

The Pistons in '04 were still questioned about not having a superstar! They didn't win the championship anyway!

And the '06 Heat, who were thought to be very likely to be swept by the Mavericks in the Finals, and the result? This team completed the craziest comeback show in NBA Finals history!

So, no matter what team is, even the final championship team, it will be questioned until it actually becomes the championship.

Moreover, these experts only talk about the weak links of the Knicks team, but turn a blind eye to their strengths!

In the five games he partnered with Yi Jianlian, the two of them combined averaged nearly 60 points per game, isn't this data also rare in the league that can be achieved? The closest should be the Thunder's Kevin Durant and Westbrook, who together average about 53 points per game, which is still nearly 7 points less than them.

What does an average of 7 points per game mean?

That's already a good role player!

This is only the difference between the Thunder duo who are closest to them in terms of overall scoring, and the duo of other teams is even more different from them, and some even differ by more than 15 points.

What does averaging 15 points per game mean?

Manuginobili, who is known as one of the best sixth men in history, his average points per game is only about this number!

That's their advantage!

And this advantage was ignored by those experts!

"There are a lot of good teams this year, such as the Chicago Bulls, and the Spurs, and of course the Big Three of the Heat, although they had some problems at the beginning of the season, but they played a wave of eight consecutive wins after that, and the rankings are slowly catching up, these are very strong opponents, I think we will have a big difficulty, but I believe we still have the strength to compete for the championship, at least, not as favored as the voting in the round table!"

Yi Jianlian also answered this question, his tone was not as strong as Xiao Si, but he also expressed dissatisfaction with the results of the roundtable, in his opinion, even if the Knicks do not have the absolute strength to win the championship this year, they should not be as reflected in the roundtable, so unfavorable!

But it's useless for them to say more, the show is already on the air, and all they can do now is to slap these guys in the face like crazy by moving forward!

***

The Knicks continued their strong streak for the rest of the game, grabbing three more wins after a five-game winning streak, extending their winning streak to eight.

With these three wins, the Knicks finally squeezed out the fourth-ranked Magic team and ranked in the top four in the East.

When the day of the official change in the rankings came, many New York fans posted "crying" expressions on the relevant news......

It's not easy! The top four in the East is a really tiring wait for New York fans, who made the playoffs five years ago, but at that time they were in the playoffs with the seventh place in the East, which is a far cry from the upper circle where home court advantage can be obtained in the fourth place in the East.

It's also sad to think about it, as the most prosperous city in the United States, the New York Knicks have finally climbed to the top of the East since 2000 until today.

Looking at this ranking from this perspective, it is not difficult to understand that some Knicks fans will make a "crying" expression, they will not really cry because of this ranking, but their mood must be a little complicated, especially some old fans, when they last ranked the top four in the East when the Knicks last ranked, it was impossible to imagine that the Knicks would be back in the top four in the East after more than ten years!

It is worth mentioning that the Magic team was squeezed to the fifth place in the East by the Knicks, and was quickly squeezed behind the Miami Heat, who were once at the bottom of the East at the beginning of the season, and finally got back on track after a difficult run-in period, and they, like the Knicks, have won all of their games in recent games, and their winning streak has also been improved to 11 games after these wins.

This is currently the only team in the league with more than double digits in winning streaks!

It's also a testament to how scary it is to have multiple superstars on a team, and even if they don't perform well for a while, once they develop their own chemistry, they can definitely dominate a lot more than the average powerhouse.

The third place in the East is the Bucks, after they lost Yi Jianlian, the whole strength has dropped I don't know how many times, the last ten games, 7 games have been lost, if it wasn't for the beginning of the season to play a wave of dominating highlights, just the speed at which they lost, they would have to fall to the seventh and eighth positions in the East.

Like now, it is still firmly in third place in the east.

It's just that the Knicks and the Bucks have won less than 2 games, and the current trend is that before the "Christmas War" arrives, the Knicks will be able to successfully complete the overtake of the Bucks and drive them to the fourth position, and the fourth in the East, the Bucks should not stay long, at most two days, the Heat will also overtake them!

At that time, the top four in the East will become the Bulls, Celtics, Knicks and Heat!

If you compare it with the same period last season, except for the Celtics, the other three teams in the Eastern Conference Final Four have been replaced by new teams this season, and the change rate has reached a terrifying 75 percent!

"From the continuous transfer of heavyweight players this summer, it has been predicted that there will be huge changes in the East this year, especially in the top four in the East, but no one expected that the changes will be so big, this is definitely a year of renewal in the league, but at least so far, we don't know how far-reaching this change will be!"