The New York Knicks started the new season with point guard James Harden, scoring guard Petrus, small forward Yi Jianlian, power forward Kenyon Martin, and center Tyson Chandler.

And the last "big trade" in the league, Ray Allen was put on the bench by D'Antoni.

Of course, there is also Ray Allen's own meaning in this.

After all, Ray Allen can now be called a veteran, and a veteran like him is naturally impossible to play more than 30 minutes per game in the Knicks, which mainly play bombardment.

Even though he is one of the most disciplined players in the NBA, he must admit that he can no longer seem to never get tired like he did when he was younger......

Yi Jianlian remembered that the original James Harden also really transformed from an All-Star player to a V-level player after meeting D'Antoni.

And now, I don't know if it's natural fate, James Harden, who transferred to the Knicks, met D'Antoni again.

And just like the original, D'Antoni directly put James Harden in the No. 1 position after watching James Harden's training for a hundred years, and let him play the starting point guard.

One thing to say, James Harden, who has the ball in his hand, has grown up and is indeed one of the best players in this league, Yi Jianlian naturally approves of D'Antoni's approach, after all, he knows that this is beneficial to James Harden.

And James Harden, who has become stronger, can make the team improve even more.

One of the biggest reasons why Yi Jianlian reiterated that the New York team will continue to win the championship this season on the media open day is because he believes in the transformed James Harden.

As for some of his bad habits.

To be honest, he didn't take it to heart.

Habits are cultivated, whether it is a good habit or a bad habit, although James Harden is not active on the defensive end, but if the whole team is very hard to put into defense, then for James Harden, he must not be indifferent, the team can drive the individual.

As long as he doesn't completely empty people on the defensive end and cooperates with the entire team's defense, Yi Jianlian believes that James Harden will not become a breakthrough on the defensive end.

As for the rest, naturally there are no problems!

James Harden is naturally safe on the offensive end.

However, the New York Knicks suffered two straight losses in the first two games of the season, and in those two games, the New York Knicks did not play the chemistry they wanted.

After James Harden became the main controller, he often fell into the hesitation of his offense and passing to Yi Jianlian, and it was also the hesitation of the No. 1 position, which made the entire offense of the New York Knicks always seem a little muddy.

As for the defensive end, it is obvious that after taking some of the main players, the original defensive system of the Knicks has been destroyed, and Kenyon Martin has indeed declined a lot, he has lost his original dominance on the inside, if it is not for Tyson Chandler's support, the entire defensive system will inevitably have problems.

While it doesn't seem like a big deal to lose two games in a row, with 82 games in the season, losing two of them doesn't really make a difference for a season.

But this is already the worst start for New York in two or three seasons.

This also caused some discontent among New York fans.

Of course, it is impossible for these dissatisfaction to go to Yi Jianlian, Yi Jianlian can contribute an average of 355 points per game in these two games, which is still the first in the current scoring list, and has opened a 25-point gap with Kevin Durantra, who is in second place, and the gap between others and Kevin Durant is naturally even larger.

Besides, in terms of Yi Jianlian's performance in the past two years, it is not a big deal to have a gold medal for avoiding death!

They pointed the finger at James Harden, believing that he should not be in the No. 1 position, and should continue to play the No. 2 position that he is good at.

"He's only the sixth man on the Thunder, and he won the league's best sixth man award at that position, which in my opinion is his achievement, and it proves that he should be in that position to play his normal role!"

"I don't know what D'Antoni was thinking, he should understand that moving Ray Allen to the starting line-up and putting James Harden on the bench would make the lineup more suitable, wouldn't it? I don't want to see that happen, we're aiming for a triple crown, so D'Antoni, stop your curiosity! ”

"For the entire New York Knicks, the only thing they can trust is Yi, they don't need to play how well they play, they can play better than they used to play with the help of Yi, I don't know what they are thinking!"

James Harden was put in the No. 1 position by D'Antoni, and he was blamed by the fans, so he was naturally scolded together.

However, Yi Jianlian knows that this is just a pain, after the run-in this team will go in the right direction, of course, the current two consecutive defeats will indeed cause some unnecessary situations, so after the two consecutive defeats, he said directly to reporters: "I believe in my teammates, we are on the right path, I believe we will be more and more smooth after that, but before we really get to that position, we still need some patience, however, we will win the third game, we don't want to have three consecutive defeats!" ”

Yi Jianlian made a military order in front of the media that he would win the first game in the third game, but, combined with everything he said, it is clear that what he wants to say is that if we can win the third game, then please give us a little more time and let us continue to run in according to the current situation.

Yi Jianlian's words are authoritative in the eyes of fans, even in the eyes of New York fans, and it is because of Yi Jianlian's words that the outside world's criticism of James Harden has suddenly decreased a lot.

And Yi Jianlian did not break his promise, he fulfilled his promise, in the third game, he shot 5 of 8 three-pointers, 9 of 11 free throws, and scored a season-high 46 points, in addition to 13 rebounds and 12 assists.

It was his first triple-double of the season.

Yi Jianlian used this performance to help the team successfully end the losing streak and get the first win of the season.

It was also after this game that the fans' accusations against James Harden were much less, and the New York Knicks won time to continue the run-in under the outbreak of Yi Jianlian, but they all know that the speed of this run-in must be accelerated, because if the results are not seen all the time, the criticism will still come!