The Knicks added defensive players during the offseason and spent training camp focusing on getting better defensively for the upcoming season. Through seven preseason games, the Knicks looked like a different team from last season as they held opponents to 95.9 points per game and only allowed teams to reach 100 points twice. 本季開始前尼克做了一些補強，看起是要加強防守。季前賽七場下來，平均讓對手得 95.9分，只有兩場破百，看似補強有成。 But for one reason or another, that defensive focus didn’t carry over into the regular season opener. The good news, however, is the 115-93 loss to the Heat on Wednesday was only one game in an 82-game season. And there is no reason for concern just yet as the Knicks enter their second game of the season Friday in Charlotte at 7 p.m. ET. 不過本季第一戰卻輸在防守上。下一場要對上山貓，尼克尋求本季第一勝。 “We had a breakdown defensively,” forward Al Harrington said. “We let our offense affect our defense. When we stopped making shots, we hung our heads and didn’t have the same energy defensively.” 小哈說大家上一場都耗在進攻，結果防守沒力去做。 Missing shots typically is not a reason for a lapse on the defensive end, but for the Knicks it was in their regular-season opener. Once they started missing from the field, they began forcing perimeter shots and the result in turn was easy points the other way for the Heat, who shot 57 percent from the field and held the Knicks to 37.9 percent shooting. 一般來說，投籃不進不至於影響防守表現，但昨晚的尼克卻發生了。當內線進攻不利時， 尼克被迫投中距離，然後命中率越來越低，每個被撿走的防守籃板馬上使對在另一端手換 得兩分。熱火昨天57%的命中率，比起尼克的37.9%，就是個明證。 “I think it affected us because we were allowing scoring and not scoring on the other end,” Harrington said. “I think we allowed that frustration to take over a little bit. We cannot allow that to happen. We have to do a great job of not allowing that to creep into our minds, so we have to look at it as one game and get better from it.” The Knicks went back and forth with the Heat through the first 21 minutes before the Heat closed out the second quarter on a 10-1 run to build a nine-point halftime lead. Danilo Gallinari, who shot 7-for-13 from long range and finished with 22 points, was the only player knocking down three’s consistently for New York, and even his attempts weren’t going in until the second half when the Knicks trailed by as many as 31. 上半場結束前尼克被打了一波10-1攻勢，自此陷於不復之地。Gallinari是唯一一名可以 提供尼克外線火力的球員，但他也是到下半場才開炮。 “When a team shoots almost 60 percent, I don’t care how well we shoot the ball, we are not going to win many games,” point guard Chris Duhon said. “ We let that run bother us. We put our heads down and felt sorry for ourselves. A number of people did not shoot the ball well.” The Knicks drafted a solid perimeter defender in Toney Douglas and traded for a shot-blocker in Darko Milicic during the offseason to improve their defense. Both players have made an impact since training camp opened earlier this month, and now will look to translate that Friday night vs. Tyson Chandler, Gerald Wallace and the Bobcats. 尼克寄望小米粒下一場對山貓時，可以有強悍的防守表現。 “We just have to get better as a group collectively,” Harrington said. “ And we’re going to do that. We’re going to have a good practice and come out in Charlotte ready to go.” --

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