The second half of the season is a relatively easy time for teams at the top or bottom of the rankings, and teams that have stabilized the playoffs or even the top half of the league have begun to rotate appropriately, while teams that have already been determined to be bad have even begun to look at hot rookies in addition to training rookies.

But for the Nets, a team on the fringes of the playoffs, this is where their challenge really begins.

After determining the playoff lineup, the Nets ushered in their honeymoon, they successively knocked out the Pacers, Jazz, Magic and Suns, ushered in a wave of four consecutive wins, and once surpassed the Celtics and Bucks to the sixth place in the East.

But immediately after, their opponents began to study Jokic, pestering him with opponents of similar size and speed in the game, preventing him from easily hitting the ball, and even noticing his bad hand in the game, and directly hanging him out of the three-point line.

Without a shooting and passing threat, Jokic's performance also looked struggling.

He was 5-of-10 from the field, with 12 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists and 4 turnovers.

1-of-7 shooting, 3-pointers, 11 rebounds and 1 assist.

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Jokic hit his rookie wall.

As the core of the tactics, he played this kind of performance, and the Nets' record was also more defeated and less victorious, and they once fell out of the playoff team.

Fortunately, Tang Tian was there, and he induced Jokic step by step and helped him get out of the rookie wall little by little.

In the face of close defense, look for teammates to help transition the ball; The hand is not good, and he looks for singles opportunities in the low position; The inside line was caught in the bag and the ball was played early.

For a rookie, getting out of this wall is not something that happens overnight, he needs a process, but fortunately, Jokic has high talent and no obvious technical shortcomings, and after the help of his teammates and his own efforts, he slowly came out.

And through this period of training, his three-point shooting and low-post back play skills have become more and more sophisticated.

Good things come in pairs.

The Nets are gradually returning to normal, and after Maddie returned to Tang Tian's command, his back injury gradually recovered, and his competitive state was also improving a little bit, although he did not meet the requirements for playing in the game, but it should not take too long.

Tang Tian also used this last time to start enriching the team's tactical system.

Team basketball and star singles are the Nets' tactics on the offensive end, while wireless defense switching is a tactic on the defensive end.

Tang Tian also began to try to use a big four, small and small lineup in certain periods, so that Yi Jianlian swayed to the No. 5 position, and let Joe Johnson appear more in the No. 4 position.

Joe Johnson's speed is getting slower and slower, and his weight is getting bigger, and he can't keep up with his opponent in the No. 2 position, but he is in the No. 4 position, and he has an advantage in speed against him who is not weak in tonnage.

Yi Jianlian Not to mention, after he returned to Tang Tian's side, the ability of the system to improve was restored, coupled with the growth of the past few years, he has become a real weakened version of Garnett, with fast movement speed, not afraid of confrontation, stable projection, and perfect fit for the upcoming small-ball era.

Time is ticking, the stability of the Nets' play is gradually improving, and in the last few games of the regular season, Tang Tian also let Maddie go to the court to find a feeling.

Although the performance is very average, it can be seen that he is getting back to the game little by little.

When the time came to the end of April unconsciously, the 2014~2015 regular season came to an end.

The Warriors in the West are in a league best with a 67-15 record, and the "Splash Brothers" shocked the league.

While the media marveled at the Warriors' performance, they also began to compare Kerr to Tang Tian.

The Warriors are followed by the Thunder, who have a 60-22 record.

The Thunder team has suffered a very serious internal turmoil this season, and Stevens can't control the four less in the team, but they are talented, and they still have 60 wins with their strength, and maybe winning a championship can solve all the problems.

The Clippers are third with a 56-26 record, and this is the first full season for the Big Three, and they have done a good job, but they will need to play better in the playoffs if they want to break out of the gap between the Warriors and the Thunder.

The Trail Blazers and Grizzlies are ranked fourth and fifth, respectively, and the Youth Army and the Black and White Bears are still far from winning the championship, but their strength should not be underestimated.

The Spurs lost to the Pelicans in the last game, only 1 win less than the Clippers, and fell to sixth in the West, although the defending champions are in the lower half of the region, but the lineup has basically not changed much, they are still strong, and they even have the opportunity to replicate the magical title defense journey of the Rockets in the 94~95 season.

The Lakers and Mavericks are in seventh or eighth place, and they both have a 50-win record.

It is worth mentioning that the Suns' main guard Brandon Knight played more than a dozen games and then suffered an injury season reimbursement, and their strength was greatly damaged, and they finally won 45 wins, ranking tenth in the West after the Rockets, and failed to hit the playoffs.

The Timberwolves once broke into the top eight in the West under the leadership of Butler, but after the All-Star break, Butler was injured and missed more than a month, and the Timberwolves had no hope of hitting the playoffs and began to mess up, and they ended up in 11th place in the West.

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In the East, the Hawks are on top, with a 60-22 record that is equal to the Thunder, and Budenholzer has taken team basketball to the extreme.

After a season of running-in, the Cavaliers finished with a 58-24 record and the fourth record in the league, and they are set to make a big difference in the playoffs.

The Pacers have a 53-29 record, Paul George hasn't suffered as serious injuries as he did in his previous life, and the Pacers are a big challenge for the Cavaliers in the East.

The Raptors finished up with 50 wins under Kessie, two more than last season, and the win improvement is not much, but their defensive system is fearful, and Torontons are expecting them to go further than last season's playoffs.

The Wizards, Bulls, and Bucks are ranked 5~7.

The Nets finished with a 41-41 record, which is just right at 50% and eighth in the East.

Although the final record was a little different from what Tang Tian expected, Kidd's early performance was too poor, and with Joe Johnson's slump and Jokic's encounter with the rookie wall and a series of changes, it was already a success to finally advance to the playoffs.

The Celtics finished 38-44 and finished ninth in the East, losing the playoffs.

The Heat have the same record as the Celtics, with injuries to Wade and Bosh putting them in 10th place in the East.

It is worth mentioning that the Knicks, who are in the same city as the Nets, have a final record of 17 wins and 65 losses, ranking first in the league.

In terms of being worse than bad, they are better than the Nets.

As the regular season record is finalized, so will the playoff matchups and game times.

The Nets will travel to Atlanta on April 20 as the eighth place in the East, where they will challenge the Hawks, who are first in the East.