The Knicks returned to New York with a 3-1 score.

The Knicks, who won by 18 points, did not stay in San Antonio for a moment, but chose to take a special plane back to New York.

The Knicks players who walked out of the airport received the warmest welcome from the fans, and the city of New York has not been cheered on by basketball in a long, long time.

At the beginning of this season, although the Knicks are still one of the championship contenders, there are very few people who are optimistic about the Knicks after the injury at the Bow Peak Olympics, and if it weren't for Jay's strong rise in the early part of the season, no one knows what kind of current situation the Knicks can present in the early stage.

After Gong Feng returned, many media or many teams had more 'expectations' for the Knicks' locker room, looking forward to what would happen, but what disappointed these people was that although Gong Feng showed a good competitive state after he returned, he was not as magical as he did in the Olympics, and he didn't do anything strong after returning, just did his duty, and the playing time was cumulative, instead of playing for about 30 minutes at the beginning.

On the contrary, Jay's proportion of ball possession did not drop much, but he was more comfortable on the bench, of course, it was Payton and Blake who made sacrifices, and after the return of the bow peak, Payton began to rest for a long time, and Blake did not have much opportunity to perform.

Fortunately, Payton did not show dissatisfaction with his positioning, but began to train the Knicks' rookie players and do a good job of logistics, which was agreed with Payton and other coaching staff before Payton came to the Knicks, and Blake was sent away by the Knicks in exchange for an X-factor in the future Knicks for three years.

After Gong Feng returned, the Knicks were back on track, all the players performed their duties, and Hill began to officially change his style of play, from using offense to drive the team's organization in the past to organizing the team's offense to drive his own offense.

Although Hill's body has been overhauled for a year and a half, close to two years, Hill, who has reached a certain stage of age, does need to make changes, especially in a team like the Knicks that does not lack offensive talent.

All this has the performance of behind-the-scenes heroes like Gong Feng, as well as strong later forces like Jay.

Of course, the Knicks were in a slack stage for a long time in the later games, and there were many potential factors here, but the Knicks finally came out, and Mill for some potential factors, but also from the overall style of play in the past to the individual performance time, reducing the playing time of some players with potential injury risks, and began to accumulate energy for the playoffs very early.

This approach directly led to the fact that the Knicks' results were not very stable, but they still came to the playoffs with the first place in the East, and the West was also not good because of the strong Suns and Mavericks' melee, and the Knicks were in such an era when they ranked first in the league with results that were not bad but definitely not good.

After the end of the fourth game of the finals, everyone suddenly realized, and it was also the hindsight that the Knicks still had the power to crush all teams in the playoffs, of course, this power was because of the existence of some players, and the Knicks coach's 'deliberate', using many small means to achieve their own victory, and also to achieve a victory that 'does not belong' to themselves.

The Knicks' crushing this season is not like the immobile mountain last season, but has become a scheming ghost, and has become a crushing victory for all rival teams in a daze, which can be regarded as a kind of crushing in disguise, right?

Of course, although this kind of crushing is rare, although the Knicks seem to be the first guy to eat the first crab, but this season, the Knicks have indeed encountered a lot less blame than in the past.

There are a lot of potential theories in this, but the league is really pushing the Knicks to the end this season, and has not taken two different approaches to the Knicks on the surface and behind the scenes like last season.

Every time Mir thought of this, there would be a smile in his mouth, although there was a slight smugness, but when he looked closely, he unexpectedly contained a hint of bitterness.

Since Stern's phone call with him, Mill has painstakingly done a lot of preparation, and is determined to study a lot of potential things, but the more he researches, the more Mill feels how difficult the path for the Knicks is to take.

The NBA is a complete, independent, and even a professional league circle that stands out from the crowd, and the NBA does not have a relegation system, and there is no way to adopt a relegation system, because this circle has the rules of this circle.

Football can have major leagues, these leagues are intersected with each other, equal, in this case, the top league can have a giant team that can hardly collapse, and other teams that are not giants also have their own way of survival.

But the NBA must not have a 'giant' team that cannot collapse, and all fans cannot stare at such a team every season.

The NBA can have invincible, or even season-threatening teams, but it is absolutely impossible to have invincible 'giant' teams.

What is a wealthy family? The giants are undoubtedly the teams in a league that are naturally qualified to chase the top spot.

But for the long-term and orderly development of the NBA, there are three consecutive championship teams in the NBA, but after Stern took charge of the NBA, there has been no team with four consecutive championships.

Maybe Jordan had a chance back then, but no one can really guess what the matchup between Olajuwon's Rockets and Bulls will look like.

The two three-time Bulls are different, this is what fans know, and in the context at that time, there was no doubt that the NBA needed the Jordan brand.

Even in the last few years of Jordan's career, the NBA chased Jordan's successor, and in his Stern mind, he had the consciousness of continuing to build a superstar, but he definitely didn't want the NBA's decade to be dominated by one team.

There will still be invincible players, but the teams against invincible players will also be presented immediately with the help of Stern and some people who stand 'behind Stern'.

Behind the Lakers' invincibility is a team like the Spurs to target, after the Spurs, there is the existence of the Mavericks, and the Mavericks immediately appear behind the Mavericks, such a phenomenal team as the Heat, the Cavaliers after the Heat is what Stern wants, but it will not prevent the establishment of the Big Three, and the opposing Lakers were born soon after the establishment of the Big Three era.

After the Lakers won three Western Conference championships, other teams, such as the Big Three, emerged from another team......

The NBA is a constant loop, and all teams also have their own rules of survival, the luxury tax, salary caps, player salaries, team markets, ...... These are all factors that the alliance can regulate, and can make this circle continue to expand and develop.

Of course, Mir, who found this, will make adjustments that suit the Knicks, and it is Mir's job to make the day when the league will take the initiative to adjust a little later, as for when such a moment will come, it is not up to Mir to control, all Mill can do now is to make his team have players and impact that match his identity.

In order to prevent long nights and dreams, the Knicks no longer want to return to San Antonio, in the fifth game, they will break all the pride of the Spurs and receive the victory that belongs to the Knicks, and the other point is that the Knicks have felt the breath of the arrival of a new era, and when some things are still brewing, the Knicks need to occupy the commanding heights first and make themselves invincible.

Spurs also felt this, and Manu's start in Game 2 was enough to show how prepared Spurs are for this game. With Mohammed back in the starting line-up, it looked like the Spurs were looking to play up their gamekeeping skills and bring the game back into the rhythm that the Spurs are most familiar with.

The Knicks didn't make any mistakes on their side, just sent out the most regular starting lineup.

In such a situation, from the moment the two teams meet each other, muscle collision is already the most common situation, and such a high-intensity game, which is the Spurs' decision, can also reflect the Knicks' desire for a championship.

After Mir returned to New York, he didn't make any extra game schedules, and after some news broke, the performance of some players was already the last observation that Mir decided something. (To be continued.) )