In five games in the finals, Mo Xi cut an extremely strong statistic, five games, averaging 39.4 points, 12.7 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 2.9 blocks and 0.8 steals per game, which is not much better than O'Neal's 38+14 at that time, especially his 65% shooting rate and O'Neal's 78% free throw shooting rate. However, Mo Xi still has an average of 3.8 turnovers per game, which is quite eye-catching.

The Knicks' grand celebration parade lasted three days, and during these three days and three nights, New York was full of Knicks championship flags. Mo Xi also really relaxed himself in the past three days.

However, there is always something behind the victory in New York, and it is vague to see whether it is real or not.

Top coaches such as Popovich and Phil Jackson have carefully analyzed the main reasons for the Knicks' championship, and although they are in different places, both men have come to the same conclusion.

The Knicks' championship performance is certainly an indelible part, but there is another thing that is ignored by many fans, but is seen by many coaches, and that is the Knicks' strong bench lineup. The Knicks' bench lineup includes Ewing, Johnson, Camby, Arenas and others, which is bound to be a super luxury combination in the eyes of future generations, and it is this combination of offense and defense, with both inside and outside, to ensure that the Knicks suppressed the Lakers, and the Lakers are obviously a little stretched in the bench position, and last year the bench was also not particularly good, but when there was an Aaron McGee 76ers, this problem was not exposed, and this year, after consecutive games with the King and the Knicks, This shortcoming was immediately exposed in front of everyone.

But it doesn't matter if the Lakers' shortcomings are exposed, anyway, the Lakers are not short of money, and now, whether it's Phil Jackson or Popovich, they are interested in another thing, the Knicks players will leave the team in large numbers.

A week after the Knicks won the championship, the atmosphere that had begun to calm down instantly warmed up again.

Patrick Ewing and Larry Johnson have announced their retirements one after another. And Mark Jackson, the iron-blooded point guard during the Pat Riley period, is now hesitant, after all, he is not young after winning a championship, whether to continue to play, and whether to stay in the Knicks is a question worth pondering for him, the Knicks' follow-up point guard and Ward and Arenas are waiting there, especially Arenas, although the performance is not mature enough, but obviously Arenas's talent has been recognized by Van Gundy. In addition, there is the problem of Marcus Camby, according to various intelligence, Camby has not signed a contract extension with the Knicks at this time. Because of the loss of the starting position, Camby is still a little embarrassed in the Knicks, the starting center is Moxi, the first substitute is Ewing, and he can only find Ewing when he is injured or share the playing time of the substitute forward with Johnson, which makes Camby a little unbearable, especially, Camby definitely has the ability to become a starting center, after winning the championship, Camby wants to go to a team that can give him a stable starting position, he is still young, and there are still many games to play.

After looking at it for a while, the Knicks' super interior lineup in the league fell apart in an instant, leaving only Mo Xi and Kurt Thomas, the Knicks' outside championship main force was retained, but a Knicks who emphasized defense Van Gundy, what will happen after losing the interior barrier, this is simply self-evident, unless, Mo Xi has a Mutombo-level defense overnight, but even so, the bench lineup that won for the Knicks is gone.

In short, unless the Knicks can make some earth-shattering moves, the Knicks' strength will definitely be greatly reduced compared to last season.

However, there is another problem that is very depressing, the Knicks are in the East, even if the Knicks have become weaker, but there are still few teams that can break his wrists with him, if the performance of the Finals is broken, then there are even fewer who can stop the Knicks.

So how could a few old ruffians who saw the Knicks' weakness let go of this opportunity, and several of them almost unanimously reported the situation to the general manager.

With the undercurrents surging, the Knicks have to worry about their roster for next season.

In the Knicks' small conference room, a few people were sitting there frowning, and a smoke screen was filling.

"According to the results of my private conversation with Mark, he agreed to stay with the Knicks for another two seasons, I think we can give him a 2+1 contract, and he also agreed to play on the bench next season, with a bench lineup, Arenas will go to the starting position, but according to his style, we have to find someone to replace him in the team's organizational offense." Van Gundy reports to management

"Can't you just let Mo do it?" An operations boss asked.

Van Gundy replied: "He can do that, but his pass turnover ratio is too high, and if the responsibility of the organization is all on him, I am afraid he will not be able to bear it, my idea is to have Spreville and Mo Xi organize together, but we need a sixth man who is good at playmaking, and I think at the moment the good candidate is the King's Turkoglou." ”

Dolan, who was sitting in the right seat, looked at his assistant beside him.

The assistant shrugged helplessly and said: "I'm sorry, in recent times, almost all the big teams have been staring at us, and several of our transactions have been intercepted. ”

Hearing this, Dolan also had a headache, Lao Tzu obviously won the championship, how could there be so many things!

Dolan said: "Can you consider bringing in from an overseas league, a low-pick rookie, I remember, there seems to be a center on the other side of the ocean who is going to be in the draft this year, isn't it? ”

Van Gundy said helplessly: "Yao seems to have been bitten to death by Houston, they need a center, and Yao's performance in international competitions is eye-catching, and he will definitely not fall out of the lottery zone, we have no chance." ”

Dolan suddenly looked up, looked left and right, and asked, "Didn't Mo come?" He's been the absolute core of us for at least five years, does he have any ideas? ”

When it comes to his beloved apprentice, Van Gundy is even more helpless, he said: "After Ewing announced his retirement, he seemed to be pulling Ewing to the other side of the ocean. ”

There was silence in the room again.

The Knicks have never been targeted for trading like they are today, and Dolan's reasoning has always been that I have money.

At this point, Dolan's assistant suggested, "Why don't we take a look at the free agent market, there are still a lot of people who haven't signed contracts with the team this year?" ”

Dolan nodded, it could only be like this, but didn't it always feel like this was getting farther and farther away from the galactic battleship of his dreams?