In fact, the Bucks have a decent hand this year, or at least it looks a little better than last season. After all, they bought Greg Monroe from the free market, the 211cm tall and 114kg big center got 15.9 points, 10.2 rebounds, 2.2 assists, and 1.1 steals last year, after all, there are not many centers who can get 15+10 double-doubles in the NBA.

Coupled with the Bucks' last year's star Jabari Parker returning from injury, coupled with Chris Middleton, who averaged 13.4 points per game last year, and OJ Mayo, who scored 11.7 points from Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Bucks' scoring ability is naturally more than one notch higher than last season, and with the newly signed Monroe, the power of both offensive and defensive ends has been improved to a certain extent.

The Knicks' coaching staff naturally did their homework on this, especially the old fish Fisher attached great importance to the first game, because he hoped to save himself from the shame pillar of the season with a good start, so she and the coaching staff developed a lot of tactics, but most of these tactics revolved around Anthony and Lopez, as for Li Wu and Porzingis, Fisher did not spend too much energy.

However, the Zen master rejected Fisher's tactics, and he added the combined tactics of Li Wu and Porzingis to the team's playbook, and emphasized that the two of them could not execute their tactics less than Anthony's singles, to which Fisher objected, but his objection was futile, because the Zen master was the main person in charge of the Knicks.

Therefore, the core tactics of the Knicks are formulated around Li Wu's various blocking and pick-and-roll combinations with Porzingis and Anthony's singles, as for scoring guard Afflaro and center Lopez, one is only responsible for point guard shooting, and the other is responsible for rebounding and defense of blue-collar centers.

In addition to the Knicks coaching staff, another group of people are also worried about the Knicks' tactics, that is, the media in New York, whether it is the New York Post or the New York Times, are not stingy to give advice to the Knicks to play the Bucks, they believe that the key to victory or defeat is actually the scoring of the bench players, what Middleton, Antetokounmpo, and the Knicks Anthony can eliminate their influence.

The real threat of the Bucks is the OJ Mayo, who was once known as a foreign comparable to Kobe Bryant, this 2008 scout has now become a bench bandit, in the 2014-15 season, he played less than 24 minutes, but was able to score 11.4 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.8 assists, which is very efficient, while the Knicks' current bench lacks such a scorer.

But these concerns are limited to the sports pages of the two media giants in New York, and the rest of the New York media are very optimistic, and their reasons are simple: OJ-Mayo? Can he beat the NCAA's all-time No. 1 shooting champion? Can it compare to Li Wu, who has achieved in the NCAA and is comparable to Davis, the strongest rookie in recent years? This self-controlled and outdated shooting guard can't fill the Knicks' advantage over Li Wu.

As a New York Knicks player who won the NCAA championship with New York's fish belly university, Li Wu really got the favor of the New York media.

On the other hand, Milwaukee's media is not to be outdone, they also list various ways to deal with the Knicks lineup, and they think that the Knicks, the new leader, should not be as good as their Milwaukee last year's list Jabari Parker, although many fans do not buy this, to say that Li Wu's achievements in the NCAA are at least unprecedented, Jabari Parker is incomparable, but whether Chinese or foreigners, it is better to be their own children.

In response to this situation, the media in Milwaukee also interviewed last year's top star Jabari Parker, asking him what he thought of this year's top star Li Wu as last year's top eye, Jabari Parker only played 25 games last year and missed all the rest of the season because of a torn cruciate ligament.

"First of all, I don't play the same position with him, and I don't think this year's NCAA confrontation is as fierce as our NCAA last year, so I can't make a judgment, but I can be sure that any rookie entering the NBA needs to pay tuition, and now that my tuition has been paid, obviously these rookies who are new to the league this year will also have to pay tuition."

This statement is interpreted by the media in New York: this year's NCAA level is not as good as last year's! So of course, this year's list is not as good as me as last year's leader, and he is a rookie who needs time to adapt to the rhythm of the NBA game! There won't be a good performance at all.

Then, someone asked Li Wu with the interpreted words, and Li Wu just said with a smile: "I think Tang Si has the most right to speak in this matter, after all, he is the champion." And he's still teammates with the top picks of the previous year, and I think which rookie is the best, they're the ones who have the most say, because they get to know each other every day. ”

This answer immediately pulled the young wolves in Minnesota into the whirlpool, as Downs, who has the experience of being beaten by Li Wu alone, was slightly embarrassed when asked this question by the media, and just said: "Andrew Wiggins is a very good guy, I mean he has a lot of scoring tools, and he plays very smart, I am not in the same position as him, so I can't comment." ”

And Andrew Wiggins, the 2014 champion, just smiled at the question and said, "Oh, are you asking if the '14 and '15 rankings are good?" Won't you know after watching the game in a few years? As for me and Downs, I was often beaten by him when I was training, and he was often beaten by me, which of us do you say is great? Oh God, I don't know. ”

The answer was much more slick than Towns's, bringing the ball back between the Knicks and the Bucks before the good news broadened the conversation, which made many people start to unexpectedly focus on the game between the two teams in the middle and lower reaches of the East, as everyone's curiosity was piqued: Who was the best in 2014 and 2015?

Although Li Wu and Parker are in different positions, everyone is still ready to compare them, which adds a bit of heat to the upcoming game.

It was under these circumstances that Li Wu followed the team to Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest city and Lakeport, two days before the game, and that night, he met another of Abby's best friends: Milwaukee Bucks owner Wesley Addens's daughter Mallory Adhans, at a villa on the edge of Lakeport.

The first thing this handsome-looking sweet girl, who was about 170cm tall, said when she saw Li Wu, "Hey, Lee, you should come to our Milwaukee." ”