Guard With a Knife

Compared with the Duke's self-discipline that is almost masochistic, other Knicks players obviously did not train well to improve their self-awareness during the offseason.

When Eddie Curry walked into the locker room, the hollow floor shook. After a whole offseason of indulgence, he's over the 300 mark again and is on his way to 350.

Although he himself repeatedly emphasized that he was trying to control his weight, as he sat down, a folding chair that was already a little loose was instantly stepped on by him, and he fell to the ground with his buttocks, which caused wild laughter in the locker room.

"It seems that you have indeed strengthened your back-up training during the offseason. Your buttocks are becoming more and more destructive." Doug couldn't help teasing him.

This made Curry both embarrassed and embarrassed.

Zach Randolph on the side quickly learned his lesson. He didn't go to the folding chair and sat down safely.

However, judging from his fat face, which can even shake when he speaks, he is probably not far from 300 catties.

"You know, Snoopy, I've been through three crushing love breaks, and my spirit has been abused this summer. I can only relieve my mood by eating. Love makes me fat." Zach Lando "Those women are so cruel. They always push me down and get away from me quickly," the husband told Doug.

He looked sad.

But Duge is very helpless. It is less than three and a half months from June to now, and you actually broke up three times? And you still have a family, why should you be affectionate? And you can't play a romantic drama with this face.

"Is it because after they slept with you, they found that you can no longer meet their needs other than money, so they offered to break up?" Nate Robinson is a bully. Referring to Randolph's crotch, he raised a conjecture that made Randolph reach out his hands and try to strangle him.

But Nate Robinson quickly ran out of the locker room. Fat Randolph couldn't catch up, and just emphasized that I would definitely stuff the little potato into the trash.

Then Milicic and Jeffries walked in. Their body shape can be controlled, and they should do some muscle training in summer.

What's interesting is that Milicic walked in and bypassed Randolph directly, first high-fiving Doug, and then high-fiving Randolph. And Jeffries first high-fived Randolph and then high-fived Doug.

Although the club has been very careful to emphasize that the current Knicks are a dual-core team, in fact, it can be seen from some details that Doug has become a franchise leader. Although the makeup photos of the Knicks this season have not been taken yet,

But on the team's official website, Doug is already an absolute C position, and his portrait is 1.5 times larger than others, including Randolph, which is extremely prominent.

"Finally see you again, idol. I recently moved near your house."

Rookie James Johnson walked in, he greeted Dug directly, he hugged Dug strongly: "In the new season, I will do everything for you that you need me to do."

He was very excited and made a gesture of complete allegiance to Dug.

But this move made Zach Randolph frown. When James Johnson walked to the locker with his name on it, he hurriedly shouted: "Hey, rookie. Now go to the Franklin-St. Buy a cup of freshly ground artisanal coffee from Counter Culture at the export Gotan coffee shop, with half sugar. Then go to the Ground Support opposite Ladurée-Soho to buy a cheese dessert, no cheese.”

He was clearly making things difficult for James Johnson.

But this is the locker room culture of the NBA, where veteran players take pleasure in teasing rookies.

Although James Johnson has achieved some results in the UFC arena, he may even be the best player in the NBA. But... Facing the request of the old team in the locker room, he could only obey.

He turned around and was about to go out when Doug said something: "Buy some more coffee. But no dessert, Zach is kidding you. He has to start losing weight for the All-Star game recently."

Randolph glanced at Doug, he knew that it was Doug trying to save the poor rookie, but he couldn't say no, he could only yell at Johnson impatiently: "In thirty minutes I have to Saw your coffee."

Gotan is not far from here, thirty minutes is enough for a round trip. But GroundSuppor is a forty-minute drive away.

Donny Walsh, who was sitting in the corner of the locker room, had been watching the development of the situation calmly. From this little incident, he could clearly feel the emotional intelligence gap between Randolph and Snoopy. In this matter, Snoopy made a lot of effort, not only giving Randolph enough face, but also rescued James Johnson without showing any signs. I believe that after this incident, Johnson will be more "loyal" to him.

"Heh, playing locker room politics, ten Randolphs tied together are no match for Snoopy."

He sighed slowly, he finally understood why Isaiah Thomas and D'Antoni were completely cleared out of the locker room.

At 11:30 in the morning, all the Knicks arrived.

Among them, the twelve players who have signed a formal contract and were selected for the team's roster are: Eddie Curry, Milicic, Zach Randolph, David Lee, Doug, Jeffries, James Johnson, Gallinari , Matthews, Nate Robinson, Kirk Hinrich, Stephon Marbury.

The book strength of this lineup is definitely not weak, and it did not make a big move to split the team that reached the finals last season, and even made some reinforcements to a certain extent.

However, in ESPN's new season team strength list, the Knicks rank 14th in the league and 6th in the Eastern Conference.

In the specific list, the Celtics, who introduced strong support Rasheed Wallace during the offseason, returned to the first place in the Eastern Conference, the second in the Eastern Conference was the Orlando Magic that introduced Vince Carter, the third in the Eastern Conference was the Cleveland Cavaliers, and the fourth in the Eastern Conference. It was the Atlanta Hawks who introduced Jamal Crawford, and the fifth place was the Miami Heat.

It's kind of dark humor, to be honest. You know... the No. 1 Celtics were swept out by the Knicks in the first round of the playoffs last season. The Orlando Magic, second in the East, were swept in the Eastern Conference Finals. Although the third-place Cavaliers did not face off in the playoffs, the Knicks won the Cavaliers at home in the regular season and blew the horn of the playoffs. The fourth-placed Atlanta Hawks were also eliminated by the Knicks. As for the Miami Heat, their grievances with the Knicks can write a book, and the Knicks' core Snoopy is still traded from them.

They are all enemies!

After taking the makeup photo and accepting the reporter's interview, Dug answered the ESPN combat power list positively.

"It doesn't bother the Knicks. The real concern is the teams ahead of us, even though they're saying that the most important thing this season is going to be New York. However, seeing this Aren't they worried about repeating the story of last season?" Doug smiled.

It's hard for you to see his angry expression on the camera, and it's hard to see him gnashing his teeth like Kevin Garnett.

"So, you mean that this year the Knicks will still represent the East into the Finals?" The reporter dug a hole.

This question is not easy to answer.

However, Duger evaded the important point and even made a joke by quoting a famous quote humorously: "I think all NBA players have a championship dream in their hearts, and my teammates and I are no exception. NBA players who don't want to lift the O'Brien Cup Not a good player."

This answer even made some New York reporters applaud, who applauded Snoopy's emotional intelligence.

Since the Knicks officials strictly controlled the number of reporters entering the venue, they emphasized that they could only ask questions related to basketball. So, Dug stood there and talked with the reporters for nearly half an hour.

They talked about how the team fits in, what to expect from new players, and...the responses to Kobe Bryant's sentiments and Lakers trade rumors.

"Kobe is my good friend. It can even be said that he is my best friend in the NBA except for the Knicks and former teammates. He helped me a lot technically, and he made me understand a lot of court philosophy."

"Regarding the trade rumors, my attitude is that as a player without the right to veto trades and as a business school student, I abide by all contracts and abide by the contractual spirit of the business community. This is my reply."

Doug replied calmly. For the Chinese, this kind of football-style speech skills can be easily grasped, which can be called the best in the world.

Subsequently, another reporter asked Doug about offensive technology.

Doug's answer is 'Go-and-see', just wait and see!

Compared with Doug's calmness and wisdom when facing reporters, the responses of other Knicks players seemed much simpler and rude.

For example, Zach Randolph, when he faced a question that was almost the same as Doug, the reporters who made troubles were very happy with the answers he gave: "The people who made this ranking are absolutely confused. Shame on the dignity of the Eastern Conference champions. We don't care who the team is ahead of us? Our goal is to surpass last season's results. Listen! I'm back from injury 100% and the Knicks will be unbeatable this year! !"

Zach Randolph is a typical black thinking. They don't know what restraint is and never thought about restraint.

And this really won the headlines of several major basketball media for the Knicks that day.

At the same time, he also won a series of labels for himself such as "no one in the eye", "arrogant" and "self-inflicted humiliation".

In this era when NBA stars are increasingly restraining their words and deeds, Zach Randolph's remarks undoubtedly gave the media a lot of excuses to make excuses.

However, Randolph did not take these seriously. Although he can only be regarded as a Mesozoic player in the league, in fact he is contaminated with the customs of many stars of the last century.

With some deliberately manufactured saliva, the preseason ensued.

While preseason for all teams is dominated by grinding the roster and finding the status for the main players coming out of a long offseason, the Knicks have received special attention because of Randolph's ambition.