。 The Warriors' attitude towards this game is clear, and that is - practice, which can be seen from their starting lineup: center Chamberlain, power forward Jamison, small forward George, playmaking guard Curry, and scoring guard Iverson. The Knicks were much more serious and fielded their strongest lineup: core Stoudemire, small forward Gallinari, power forward Wilson Chandler, and two guards Landry Fields and Raymond Felton.

The jump ball was carried out between Xiao Si and Chamberlain, the former had a constipated expression, and the Knicks had to ****** to carry the black pot for this team, this team did not have a pure center, so Xiao Si was stuffed into the position of center.

Xiao Si is the center, which is also the idea of his mentor D'Antony, and this summer's trade, the Knicks are waiting for Xiao Si as a center.

Truth be told, Smalls doesn't resist the center forward position, especially under mentor Mike D'Antoni. In the past in the Suns in the D'Antoni era, Xiao Si was also a center, especially in the 2005-06 season, Xiao Si did a very good job as a center, because his center is a running and jumping center, and he doesn't have to play a thankless positional battle at all, just follow Nash and then dunk.

As for defense? Fuck you, Xiao Si can still defend?

After a serious injury in the 2005-06 season, Xiao Si's technical style also changed significantly. In the past, there were not many "overlord hard bow" games, replaced by more mid-range shots and more strategies, but the diverse offensive methods derived from him and Nash after blocking and dismantling still maintained their inherent characteristics.

Last season, mid-range shooting accounted for 51 percent of all of Small's offenses, averaging seven per game. 2 points, which is also the highest score among various offensive means.

However, what is interesting is that compared with the interior offense, Xiao Si's mid-range shooting comes more from the space after the pass by his teammates, and the assist rate is as high as 61%, second only to the dunk.

In other words, after winning the ball inside, Xiao Si's individual singles are still quite efficient, and the reason why mid-range shooting has increasingly become his main offensive means is also related to the tactical running of Suns players and Nash's blocking and passing.

This time to the Knicks, Smalls will gain more autonomy on the inside than he did in the Phoenix Suns.

After two months of playing this season, at the request of D'Antoni, Xiao Si had to get closer to the basket, of course, this is also what Xiao Si is happy to, his physical condition is very good, and last season Oden carried him and did not contribute, so he regained the style of the "little bully" of the year.

D'Antoni is well aware of the changes in his technical and tactical style over the years, so he asked the Knicks players to run around the Suns and pull the players to the high post at the right time to make a jumper and cause problems for the defender.

So, from this point of view, Xiao Si feels that it doesn't matter whether he plays center or power forward.

Of course, he can't ask for too much, and it was certainly different in the Knicks and in the early days with the Suns, and Raymond Felton was actually a good name for him at the point guard position.

However, Felton is also a treasure in New York, and the Knicks poached him from the Bobcats in the offseason on a two-year, $15.8 million contract - maybe the word digging is not very accurate, because the Bobcats actually don't look down on him anymore, and the helper Jordan finally determined that his draft vision is really bad.

As a point guard on par with Paul and Delon in the draft, Felton has been a disappointing player in the past five years, with 14 points and six assists for five years.

Felton height 1. 85 meters, relatively strong physically, mediocre perimeter shooting ability, belongs to the breakthrough point guard, but his finishing ability under the basket is also mediocre, which also leads to Felton's offensive efficiency in the past 5 years is very average.

On the bright side, his table has barely fluctuated over the past five years, and last season's offensive efficiency hit a five-year high with reduced playing time, at least he was better than Chris Dujon last season.

Felton and Nash can't be compared, which is a certain and decisive point, and other positions, in fact, are not bad.

At the No. 2 position, the Knicks have former Warriors big man Coronna Azubuuk, who Chamberlain knows well, and is a driven player who scored 14 points and 4 points in 25 minutes last season. 5 rebounds and 54 shots. 5%, but he suffered a knee injury 10 months ago and only returned to the field in late December, and now he is not as good as before.

Playing for Azubuuk off the bench was Roger Mason, a mediocre bench who played a similar role to the Knicks to Blake's role in Los Angeles, dribbling past half court and then leaving him alone.

Of course, D'Antoni arranged a strange lineup today, and he used Gallinari as the starting number two.

In Azubuk's absence this season, Gallinari has played in the number two position on several occasions and his shooting skills have been very accurate.

On the wing, the Knicks have the most players in the stack, reaching seven, Azubuke and Gallinari can both play in the second and third positions, while Randolph is a two-way forward, in addition to Wilson Chandler, who played three positions in the last game, and Bill Walker also played well last season.

In addition to this, there are Andy Lautings, Landry Fields, Patrick Ewing II, and others......

On the inside, Randolph will be the first substitute for Xiaosi, but considering that both have a history of injuries, it cannot be ruled out that Chandler will be driven to the shelves in an emergency and put out the fire on the spot.

In addition to Randolph's role as a substitute for Smalls, he also had to be the number one substitute for starting center Ronnie Turiaf. Turyaf has never played more than 22 minutes in the past two seasons, and the Knicks didn't know what to think when they traded him, thinking that Turyaf had a good rest in the previous two seasons and should be able to return to full strength this season.

In fact, they guessed wrong, Turiaf played well in the first month of coming to New York, but since the beginning of December, he has been lying in a hospital bed, and it is for this reason that Xiao Si has to play center against the Warriors, playing the center he hates the most!

The Knicks also have 7-foot-tall Russian center Tim Mozagov, who is still very rough in his skills, and the Knicks expect to "go from a 5-minute player to a 15-minute player." As for Eddie Curry, fans can treat him as a Knicks supernumerary, and he is no longer connected with the Knicks.

After the opening, Chamberlain grabbed the ball in front of Xiao Si, West held the ball very calmly to preside over the team's situation, he had long been confident about this game, and gave the ball to Chamberlain at the beginning.

Chamberlain is the most energetic in playing two inside lines, one is Garnett, because he was ruthlessly cleaned up by Garnett when he was a rookie, and the other is Xiao Si, because the two fought too hard back then, so that Chamberlain has to ravage Xiao Si every time he sees him in order to prove that he is not the prince of mouth guns.

Smalls was defenseless, and Chamberlain got the ball inside and turned around quickly, then hooked up to score the team's first two points.

The Knicks attacked, and after Filton arrived in the frontcourt, he also handed the ball to Xiaosi, and the core comrades played the first ball.

Xiao Si is in the limelight now, because after he came to New York, he got a new life.

In the summer, when it was learned that Smalls had left Phoenix for a big contract, many people thought he was doomed - for the simple reason that Smalls was picked up by Steve Nash, and now that he was left to feed Nash, he was about to be revealed.

But that's not the case, let's put down Xiao Si first or not, regardless of whether Nash picked up a star, just after leaving Nash, do the Suns' players have to fall? Apparently not, Joe Johnson is the best example of this, away from the Suns, he's more efficient, he's more beautiful, and he's now the dominant power of the separatist side - of course, if you think he's a big brush, the fat guy will give you 108 likes.

But in fact, after flying solo this season, Xiao Sibiao Xiàn has become more violent, and in two months he has won 55. His 7 percent shooting percentage ranks seventh in the league and is second only to Carlos Boozer's 56 among power forwards. 2%, and if you count the true hit rate, Xiao Si is 61. A 5% finish tops the list, and that shooting percentage is combined with an average of 26 per game. 1 point 8. 9 rebounds 1. With a score of 0 blocks, Xiao Si is definitely a big killer in the fourth position.

Unlike when he was with the Suns, Xiao Si doesn't rely on passing the ball now, and 61% of his jump shots came from assists last season, and only 61% of his near-basket attacks came from assists.

For comparison, 49% of Tim Duncan's jump shots come from assists, and 61% of his near-basket attacks come from assists, so that compared to the inside-oriented power forward, Small's assist rate is actually not outstanding, of course, he can't compare with Chamberlain, Chamberlain's 25% assist rate is a miracle for the inside.

It was not Oxlade-Chamberlain who defended Chamberlain, but Ibaka, and Chamberlain's body had to stay on the offensive end.

Small's rookie always has a good way, he shook off Ibaka with delicate footwork, and then waved a mid-range shot.

The Warriors then fought back, and Chamberlain scored two points inside.

The Knicks also wanted to look for a chance to crack from Xiao Si's position, but how could it be so simple, Xiao Si finally shook off Ibaka and shot, and Chamberlain suddenly came out from behind, slapped the ball in the air, and flew the ball down.

West picked up the ball and started a fast counterattack, and then scored consecutive breakaways.

Oxlade-Chamberlain then began to guard Stoudemire with Ibaka, and now the little bully was pressing, and he only scored one goal in the first seven minutes of the game, which was the first goal of the opening game.

At the same time, there was a big problem with the Knicks' rebounding protection, Chamberlain grabbed the frontcourt rebounds and scored baskets in a row, and in the second half of the Warriors took advantage of the Knicks' interior weakness, they counterattacked quickly, and the outside could break through into the interior unscrupulously to score.

Iverson and Curry teamed up to create a 7-0 spurt that stretched the margin to double digits. The Knicks' call for a timeout didn't have much effect, and at the end of the first quarter, the Warriors ended with an 8-3 offensive run to take a big lead at 35-17.

The Knicks fans at the scene were so excited by the tragic situation in the first quarter that they were about to vomit blood, but this was to be expected, and the Knicks under D'Antoni were not strict on defense due to the increase in the number of rounds.

In fact, the need for rebounds may be more urgent than the requirements of defense, and the Knicks are only the third-lowest rebounding efficiency in the league in the first two months of the season, tied with the New Jersey Nets in the same city, which makes D'Antoni's team inefficient many times.

Last season, the Knicks still had a David Lee to use on the inside, and now there is only Xiao Si left, but Xiao Si is not good at grabbing rebounds.

The Knicks always like to have unrealistic fantasies about things now, such as switching to Turiaf, and the Knicks fantasize that Turiaf can stay healthy when he comes to the Knicks. On the issue of Xiao Si grabbing rebounds, they think that when Xiao Si was on the Suns, Xiao Si was surrounded by Oden and Robin Lopez, who had good rebounding efficiency, and he led the rebounding diversion, which made Xiao Si's rebounds not look good.

Now, two months into the regular season, Xiao Si has a lot of rebounds, close to eight, but he is far from the first-class inside, which is far from enough.