Once the Knicks' lineup was confirmed, no one knew whether they were stronger or weaker than last season's championship-winning lineup. After all, last season's Knicks bench lineup dominated the entire East, and it can even be said that the entire league, but during this offseason, the Knicks carried out a major change, although there were no major changes in the main rotation personnel, but last season, the Knicks' proud bench lineup was completely replaced, and the main thing is that the Knicks' current lineup is obviously "softer" than the previous reinforced concrete defense, but the Knicks have targeted their rebounding strength, This is also the Knicks' biggest reinforcement for themselves. To be honest, although the Knicks have a super interior line, no matter what period it is, the Knicks' rebounding ability has never been the best in the league, although it is also related to other teams in the same period also have top interior lines, but it is more obvious that the Knicks have obvious shortcomings in the rebounding area.

Under the watchful eye of many media outlets, the New York Knicks began their official summer training camp, but the most breathing thing is that the Knicks do not seem to plan to make the summer training camp public for media interviews. This really annoyed a lot of people, but who made the family the champion!

Quietly, the Knicks' training camp began.

The first training game in the team, everyone attaches great importance to it, especially this season, there are many newcomers, whether it is a newcomer or a Knicks veteran, they all hope to take this opportunity to prove themselves and win more opportunities for themselves in the new season.

Mo Xi did not play as the starting center of any team, on the one hand, Van Gundy also considered that the Knicks can really not cause trouble for Mo Xi in one-on-one defense, and on the other hand, Van Gundy saw the Knicks' daily bloated interior line and wanted to see everyone's level. Dale Davis and Elden Brand are in the starting lineup, and on the other side are Kevin Willis and Wang Zhizhi, who was recommended to the Knicks by Moxi.

It's just that soon, Van Gundy couldn't help frowning, in fact, whether it is the bench or the starter, in the defensive hill is half a pound, more of the gap appears on offense, the current Knicks except for Moxi, there are only three people with pure ball-handling offensive ability, Sprewell, Arenas and Tony Kukoc. Among the rest, Houston, Brand and Wang Zhizhi are undoubtedly the best points for non-ball-holding offense, but it is precisely this that gives Van Gundy a headache, even if Van Gundy does not attach great importance to offense, but when he sees his team in an unfavorable situation, he also has a bit of a headache, defense brings championships, but that always requires you to be less scum on the offensive end, otherwise the Nets are their role model.

The first training game was a bit bad, except for the two-gun Houston and Sprewell on the starting side, who had excellent cooperation, everyone else relied more on their own experience and spirit to run and attack.

Van Gundy also knows that although the Knicks are a championship team, but in fact he can be regarded as half a new army, Arenas has been a bench player last season, and after he came on the court, it was a mess, so that he suddenly came to the starter, and he is bound to be a little uncomfortable in terms of playing style, just like Mo Xi did back then, not to mention those other new teams, the Knicks' lineup needs a lot of time to run in, according to Van Gundy's estimate, it will take at least half a season to really run the whole team together, before that......

Thinking about it, Van Gundy looked at the proud disciple sitting on the bench, "Ice Volcano" Mo Xi, offense, organization, defense plus a little rebounding task, Mo Xi in the next season, I am afraid that he will really replicate the path of Wharton and Olajuwon back then, and become a super all-round center.

Fifteen minutes into the training session, Van Gundy made a change, moving Davis to the bench and bringing rookie Gazuric on the pitch. It's time for the Knicks, boys, to meet the true strength of their leader.

This summer, Mo Xi has been training on his own, not deliberately carrying out targeted training, just simply maintaining his condition and enhancing his physical fitness.

After Mo Xi came on the court, the Knicks, whether they were newcomers or old people, really felt that explosive dominance at this moment, and Mo Xi didn't seem to have come out of the state of the finals.

Hold off Davis and ask for the ball.

After receiving the ball with his left hand, Mo Xi turned around directly, pushed Davis away, pulled directly horizontally, handed the ball to his right hand, and pulled the bow to split the buckle.

There was a loud bang, and Davis was directly knocked to the ground by Mo Xi.

Davis looked at Mo Xi with a confused expression, although he already knew that he and Mo Xi were no longer of the same magnitude, but he didn't expect that the difference would be so much, even Van Gundy couldn't help but be a little moved, he could see that Mo Xi had not used all his strength.

On the defensive end, the Knicks' lineup has almost no offensive ability on the inside, so Mo Xi simply gave up the defense of the interior and faced Kukoc, who relied on his physical advantage, to meet him directly.

Kukoc tried to dodge in the air, but Moxi's position was very clever, just blocking all the angles of Kukoc's frontal shots, but Kukoc's sudden depth was too deep, and it was easy to be cut off in this position, and as a last resort, Kukoc had to choose to force his body sideways in the air and chose a very difficult sideways hook.

Van Gundy nodded secretly off the court, Mo Xi's interior defense ability is still very good, but in the face of those who are good at attacking with the frame, the defensive ability is not too good, and when defending some flexible interior lines, Mo Xi often misses, for a super center who has excellent foot movement, defensive awareness is also very good, and has always been known for his reaction speed, this is simply an incredible thing.

Of course, his poor rebounding is the most incredible thing about him. Van Gundy was thinking like this, when he saw Kukoc's difficult hook on the court, he turned back directly to grab the rebound.

Then I heard a "pop".

Dale Davis easily took the frontcourt rebound, and Mo Xi watched from the side with an embarrassed expression.

Mo Xi jumped early.

Houston and other old Knicks teammates who are familiar with Mo Xi secretly breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, Mo Xi is still the same Mo Xi, this taste is right.

But in the next moment, Mo Xi suddenly went down, cut the ball directly, and then, in front of everyone's eyes, Mo Xi directly dribbled the ball behind his back, got up, and pushed forward.

After passing half-court, he hit the ground again and passed the ball to Arenas, who received the ball and took three steps to make a layup.

After this round of fast breaking, everyone in the Knicks looked at Mo Xi with a hellish look, as a center, many people feel that having Olajuwon's footsteps and Robinson's dribbling is already the limit of an interior player. But now, there is an O'Neill, and now there is a Mo Xi, and the small skills are better than the other.

After only ten minutes of play, Mo Xi was won by Van Gundy, the goal has been achieved, so naturally there is no need to waste too much time on Mo Xi, even if he only played ten minutes in the training game, Mo Xi also scored 10 points, 4 boards, 3 assists and 1 block on five shots, and it turns out that Mo Xi is ushering in his peak.