As the start of the new season draws closer, countless experts and professors have come forward to brush up on their presence, and people have begun to evaluate the summer operation and lineup of each team in the league, and analyze what kind of performance the next season will be based on last season.

Mo Xi always thought that this was purely nothing to do, before the game started, where would anyone know who was stronger?

As last season's champion, the Knicks are naturally the target of public criticism and are the favorite subject of all pundits.

The strong performance of the Knicks in the finals last season has been completely attributed to the excellent performance of Moxi's overpower O'Neal and the Knicks bench lineup, and this season, Moxi is not yet thirty years old, and there are still a few years before the peak of his career, in other words, Moxi's strength will never decline, so compared to last season, the only thing that needs to be considered is the bench lineup, it can be said that in this regard, the Knicks are definitely declining, but things can't just be seen this way.

This season, the Knicks' firepower will be unprecedentedly strong, their starting lineup can be used as an offensive endpoint, and the mid- and long-range jumper is everyone's skill set, the worst two are still Mo Xi and Sprewell, but for a jump shooting team, defense is their real weapon, and this is no problem for the original Knicks, but this season is not easy to say, first of all, the No. 1 Arenas is criticized for his defense, He is no longer just a problem of defensive ability, but more importantly, his indifferent defensive attitude, just this point, it makes Van Gundy extremely headache, last season's playoffs, Arenas as the person with the most points on the bench, defense is not strong, it is not hard Anyway, the purpose of letting him play is to score, but if he is allowed to start, then the problem is a bit big, Arenas has All-Star level Huo firepower, but he also has the ability to let opponents have All-Star level offensive firepower, And Arians' organizational skills are also unreassuring, but fortunately they are much more reliable than defense; The second problem is Elton Brand in the starting four, Brand has excellent shooting ability, plus the huge tonnage makes its back shooting also a very powerful lethal weapon, plus the league's top ten rebounding ability, and excellent defensive awareness, he should not have been a hidden danger for the Knicks, but his predecessor Kurt Thomas is a pure blue-collar forward with excellent defensive ability, which becomes the problem, Brand's poor footwork makes it impossible for him to be a good helper, and he is helpless against an agile number four such as Garnett; And the third point is what everyone didn't expect, the experts actually pointed the finger at the "madman" Latrill Sprewell, the Knicks' usual defensive strategy is to use Sprewell to deal with the opponent's outside offensive core, but in recent years, too many quarterbacks or quarterback swingmen in the league have begun to rise, and the rise is too fast, Sprewell seems to have been left behind overnight, from the first quarterback after Joe's gang, he became a first-class outside knife in an instant, Sprewell has been a little unable to guard against the top scorers, and the regular season was better, but in the playoffs, this is fully reflected; Then there is the Knicks' current bench lineup, which has excellent rebounding ability, but defense is not only about rebounding, in terms of defense alone, the Knicks' bench lineup has only decreased compared to last year.

However, the Knicks are still included in the first series of favorites for the new season by ESPN.

And in this first series, after the Knicks, or the first in the real sense, is not the Lakers, in their ranking, this offseason is very surprisingly did not make any reinforcements Lakers can not even enter the first series, but came to the second series with the Nets, and the real favorites are the Sacramento Kings who hated the Western Conference last season.

Although the King did not make any big moves, in fact, because of Stern's compromise, the Knicks defeated a number of enemy troops strongly this summer, and in the case of people above, New York naturally inevitably targeted the competitors, several championship favorites were stirred up by the Knicks After a few small reinforcements, they simply gave up the free market, among them, Sacramento is the most decisive, because their average age is very small, as long as the rookies grow up, then once again enter the Western finals, Even the Finals are not a problem, and the King's gorgeous style of play has also attracted a lot of fans for them, which is also what Stern likes.

However, whether it is the Kings or the Lakers, the Nets or the Mavericks, Mo Xi only admits that they have a certain threat, but they do not have the strength to really impact the current Knicks, Mo Xi's attention has always been on a very low-key team, in fact, if there is no inside information, Mo Xi will definitely ignore this team.

San Antonio Spurs.

This offseason, the Spurs have made a series of personnel changes, but Mo Xi knows from others that the most critical changes in Popovich's hands are two, all foreign players, from Aheiting and across the ocean.

Murphy's source is from the last person, Battle was traded to the Spurs this season, Murphy got a glimpse of the Spurs' slightly targeted arrangement under the small side knock, even in the power center, Battle's strength is the top, even the best one, in the finals last season, Murphy and O'Neal had five hearty center duels, Popovich knew that Duncan might have a chance to fight them to an equal level, But if you give him a very targeted training, that "maybe there is a chance" can be removed.

And it is said that their new outside player this season is also a figure that should not be underestimated, defeated the "Dream Five" team at the World Championships, and became the European MVP, although the league players do not value the World Championships, and the people who go are not too strong roles, but that is at least the league's starting figure, and what level is the European MVP? The Knicks now have a former European MVP, and he has communicated a lot with Kukoc during this time, and he has at least understood one thing, being an MVP, no matter what name or place it is, it at least means that he was the best of those people during that time.

Mo Xi felt very heavy, it was easy to fight the country, but it was difficult to defend the country, this is the situation that the Knicks are currently facing.

The Knicks will face all the teams in the new season, but the more this happens, the more Mo Xi feels a little embarrassed and challenging? This is basketball!