The Knicks' player appearance ceremony was changed to Yao Ming being the first to play this season and Zhang Yu to be the last, symbolizing the team's second boss, Gerrard. Wallace had to take a back seat to the top three.

Yao Ming, as the second leader of the team, is not unacceptable to himself and domestic fans. For most of the time he played for the Rockets, Yao Ming was the second leader during the Francis period, and Yao Ming was still the second leader during the Maddie period. Besides, Yao Ming is also old now, and his body has become the biggest problem that restricts him, and the most suitable position for him now is indeed the second master.

D'Antoni is prepared not to let Yao Ming play more than 30 minutes per game in the regular season, on the one hand, Yao Ming can only play this time since his body, and secondly, it is also for Qian Ning. Frye gets more playing time.

The Celtics have also been added to their roster this year. The addition of Wallace strengthens their interior bench; Signed Little Potato as Rondo's replacement at the No. 1 position; The No. 3 bench signed Daniels, who played well with the Pacers last season; On the bench they are arguably stronger than last season.

But the Big Three are another season old, which is the reason why the Celtics are the least favored by everyone, and the age of the Finals last season was the biggest reason for their loss to the Lakers.

Even if Garnett is not injured, the Wolf King will not have the dominance of the two seasons ago that he beat Gasol plus Lama. Whether Garnett can solve Gasol this season, many people now have doubts, after all, the wolf king will be 34 years old in a few months, but Gasol is only 29 years old.

Yao Ming will soon be 30 years old, but fortunately he has had enough rest this summer. The Asian Championships didn't contribute much at all, and he only played 20 minutes in each game in the preseason as a warm-up, and now he is in very good shape.

Madison Square Garden had a hot attendance today. A mere preseason game is hard to come by, and New York fans want to be there to see what the team will do this year, and what kind of performance will their rookies and big centers have?

ESPN broadcast the game live, and the three commentators were Van Gundy, Erwin. Johnson, Reggie. Miller.

Fan Bald felt that his disciple had made a smart choice this year, wanting to win the championship, and there was no hope in the Rockets, and seeking a trade was a wise choice for him. Even if the Rockets can rebuild in a few years. At that time, Yao Ming will no longer be competitive, and if he doesn't do well, he will be used as a bargaining chip. So now while you still have the ability, it is the best choice to go to a team that has the ability to win the championship. The Knicks are undoubtedly such a team.

Irwin. Johnson is very much in favor of this, and before Gasol came to the Lakers, the Magic was hoping to seduce the Little Giants and Kobe Bryant to form another OK combination. But then Gasol went to the Lakers, and last season they won the championship. Apparently their goal has been reached.

Celtics starters: point guard Rajan. Rondo, shooting guard Ray. Allen, small forward Paul. Pierce, power forward Kevin. Garnett, center Kendrick. Perkins.

Opening jump ball. Garnett defeated Yao Ming.

Rondo has been entrusted with a heavy task by Rivers this year, and Pierce's breakthrough threat has decreased, at this time Rivers chose to completely hand over the ball to the young and energetic Rondo, if he can become a real big four, then he can make up for the loss of the big three as they get older.

The Celtics point guard said there was a lot of pressure on one man to pick up the youth that three people had lost, unless he had three heads and six arms.

Rondo's first attack was covered by Perkins and he went inside to match Garnett. But the wolf king received the basketball and faced Yao Ming, who couldn't jump at all, and hit a piece of iron angrily!

Yao Ming is only responsible for defending in the penalty area on the defensive end. The outside is handled by three outside lines, and his task is not too heavy. This is because the Knicks' outside defense ability is the best in the league, and they rarely leak the enemy in, and the defensive pressure on interior players will be greatly reduced, at least much lighter than the Rockets.

Great. Lawson defends against Binet. Robinson is much better, and as long as he doesn't encounter violent point guards like Rose and Westbrook, he will basically not be forcibly eaten. Rondo doesn't have an absolute height advantage, and his projection ability is terrible. Lawson can defend well with his excellent physical qualities and will not be a weakness on the Knicks' defensive end.

Thibodeau has just begun to build the Knicks' defense, and instead of using a Celtics-like hybrid defense, he has instead played man-to-man based on the Knicks' staffing.

Yao Ming can dominate the restricted area with height, his height and experience can make the basket a real no-fly zone, and he will abide by his duties without being blown for three seconds; Not to mention Zhang Yu and Wallace, they can not only defend their opposing players, but also leave room to help make up for leaks; Kenyon. Martin's defensive intensity is strong enough to compete in a wrestling tournament, and James was knocked down numerous times by the veteran wrestling defense last season; Even Thai. Lawson also has an above-average individual defensive ability and will not be a shortcoming.

Knicks first offense, Tate. Lawson dribbled the basketball to the front court and handed it over to Zhang Yu to handle.

Zhang Yu received the basketball and moved to outside the three-point line on the wing, Yao Ming leaned on Perkins in the low post, and Zhang Yu immediately handed over the basketball.

The red rabbit knows that Yao Ming often has a super high shooting percentage in the first quarter, and the first ball is for the little giant to try his touch.

The Celtics didn't have a bag, not because they didn't want to, but they didn't dare.

Zhang Yu was just outside the three-point line. Lawson hit more than 40% of his three-point shots in the summer league and preseason, one of them was at the 45-degree three-point line, the other was at the top of the arc, and Yao Ming formed a triangle, the Celtics did not have the conditions to wrap the clip, the only one who could go to the bag was Garnett, but he was also afraid of Kenyon. Martin inserts into the basket and receives a basketball dunk.

Yao Ming leaned back twice, turned around and hooked his hand at the big fat who was a head shorter, and used his height advantage to easily hit the board.

The New York fans immediately cheered the little giants with a cheer that they didn't have such an inside line last season, and it felt like going back to the Ewing era in the '90s.

Zhang Yu saw that Yao Ming felt good on the first ball, and then he didn't play any blocking, and continued to feed Yao Ming on the outside to let him single Perkins in the low post until the Celtics were trapped.

Master Reasonable burst into tears in the CCTV live broadcast hall at the moment, and shouted in his heart: "Finally, someone has continuously fed Yao Ming the ball, long live Zhang Yu!" Long live Yao Ming! ”

Yao Ming hit three in a row in the two low posts, the pledge is not a bag, he is very easy to deal with Perkins, in terms of strength, he can squeeze into the right area of the low post to find a good time to shoot the basketball, such a shooting rhythm is very good, it feels better!

Rivers called a timeout two minutes later, and Yao Ming opened the game with four consecutive attacks, scoring seven points on 3-of-4 shooting, and just played a two-plus-one.

The score was 7:2, and the Celtics only scored 2 points through Guò Pierce's back-to-back single.

Rivers can't think of a way now, so he can only let the players wrap Yao Ming, but the side effects caused by the trap Yao Ming, he has nothing to do now, so he can only look and see.

Even if the Yao Mai combination brought a group of CBA teammates, it could still stabilize the top four in the west. Last season, Maddie was not good, and with Artest, he was still in the top four in the West, which shows that the power of this combination of inside and outside is really difficult to deal with. Consider last season's Finals opponents, the Lakers, who were also inside and outside. Further back, the OK combination of the Megatron League won three consecutive championships, which is why so many teams are like a similar combination.

Madison Square Garden echoed with the excited cheers of the New York fans, and even after the timeout, they were still loud, and they saw the strength of the Chinese national team's inside and outside combination in just two minutes, and the Celtics now look helpless against their big man, is this still the Celtics who abused them on the inside last season?

Reggie. Miller saw that in the replay, Yao Ming beat Perkins under the basket, turned around and directly squeezed Perkins aside, and sighed: "Look, what a position Yao Ming occupies!" ”

Irwin. Johnson observed a moment of silence for Perkins, saying, "The biggest guy in the league, he combines a flexible shot with a strong lower body. He can create a zào position because he is physically strong and can use his physique to shoot flexibly. ”

Van Gundy laughed: "Yao Ming may reach the peak of his career this season, maybe his number may not be higher than the previous two seasons, but his threat will be the biggest season of his career." ”

After the timeout, both teams returned to the field.

Not only did the Celtics now find a way to defend the end, but they couldn't find a good way to do it offensively, but Garnett made a 16-foot shot against Kenyon. Martin's defensive hits.

Yao Ming received the basketball again on the offensive end, and this time Garnett came up to wrap it.

Kenyon. Martin received Yao Ming's ball in the penalty area, Pierce rushed over to help defend, Wallace leaked out on the outside, and the Knicks hit a mid-range corner from the bottom corner.

In the first quarter, the Celtics deduced to everyone what it means to take care of one thing and lose the other, and if you can take care of Yao Ming, you can't take care of other Knicks players, and in the first quarter, the Knicks used Yao Ming as the arrow, and Zhang Yu didn't make the Celtics have the power to fight without strength.

With a score of 28:22, the Celtics did not find a way to deal with the Knicks on both offensive and defensive ends, and only relied on the individual ability of the Big Four to score points, and it was difficult for such an offense to get high points on the Knicks.

Yao Ming had 11 points and 2 rebounds in the first quarter, shooting 4-of-6 from the field and 3-of-3 from the free throw line.

Zhang Yu only took 2 shots in the first quarter, hit a three-pointer, and scored 5 points on two free throws, but had 2 rebounds and 2 assists.

Wallace scored six points, Kenyon Brown. Martin 4 points, Thai. Lawson 2 points.

For the Celtics, Garnett had 8 points and 3 rebounds, Pierce 7 points, Rondo 4 points, and Rashid. Wallace 3 points.

Thunder. Allen played eight minutes in the first quarter, and was blocked by Zhang Yu to be difficult to connect the ball. Aaron was the first to realize this. And this guy heard that his weight has increased by 5 pounds, which is not much, but the dead rabbit actually used his body to actively seek confrontation with himself several times, do you really think that 5 pounds can make him a muscular man?

Zhang Yu's body shape has not changed much now, the lines are slightly more obvious than last season, and he still belongs to the slim category of players, but at least when defending Ray Allen, Zhang Yu feels that he has become more comfortable, who said that 5 pounds of meat is ineffective? (To be continued......)