With a lineup like the Nets, a bench All-Star with two outdated All-Stars and a bunch of rookies and base-salary players, can play to the Eastern Conference semifinals, and even complete the Black Eight, it is enough for everyone to admire it.

Even Barkley was once again convinced by Tang Tian's performance.

They've done well enough, good enough.

After this day's training session, Tang Tian said some words of encouragement to the players, and then let them go back to rest.

He went back to his office, flipped through the tactical manual, and put it down again.

The Nets did enough in the last game, and he really couldn't ask more of this group of young players.

If the Wizards continue to be in such good form, he will have to set his sights on the free agency market in the summer.

Speaking of which, the Suns' first-round pick in this year's draft has another cornerstone.

Coupled with the removal of Joe Johnson's contract, the team can get an All-Star caliber star on the free market, and the team will rebuild much faster than everyone imagined.

By the way, Yao Ming, he suddenly remembered that Yao Ming's contract seemed to have expired, and he didn't know if the latter would continue to play, and if he continued to play, he would combine MM in the group before retiring again, with a beginning and an end, which could be regarded as a fulfillment of his feelings in his previous life.

He was thinking about the free agent market for the summer when there was a knock on the door of his office.

"Who?"

"Coach, it's me."

Tang Tian didn't expect that it was Jokic who came in.

"You're not gone yet?" Tang Tian put down the information in his hand and looked at Jokic curiously.

Jokic closed the door, nodded and walked over to Tang Tian and sat down.

"Is there something wrong?"

"Coach, is there anything we need to improve?" Jokic asked.

Tang Tian glanced at Jokic with some confusion, and then couldn't help but smile, this young man is very interesting, he didn't go back to rest after training to come here to ask this kind of question.

"You've been improving, Nikolai, and the coaching staff has been helping you improve." Tang Tian said with a smile that any progress cannot be achieved overnight, and so far, Jokic's performance can be said to have far exceeded expectations.

'We need to do more, and if I can do more, we won't lose the second game, we won't lose the third.' Jokic unconsciously kept his waist all the time when he spoke, and it could be seen that he was very unconvinced by the two losses.

"Nikolai." Tang Tian also put away his smile, Jokic has this temperament of not admitting defeat that he likes very much, "You have done well enough, but everything will have a process, really, your performance has exceeded my expectations a lot." ”

"But we can win, we even won the No. 1 Hawks, there's no reason to lose to the Wizards, they're not much better than the Hawks." Jokic was genuinely unconvinced.

Tang Tian was stunned for a moment, he wanted to say that the game was not simply a comparison of strength on paper, and he wanted to say that the Wizards were stimulated by Pierce, but looking at Jokic's expression, he couldn't say anything.

"Bang!"

At this moment, there was a sudden noise at the door, but unlike before, it was not a knock, but an accidental bang.

"Who?"

The door was pushed open by the impact, and it turned out to be Bogdan Bogdanovic, Bojan Bogdanovic and Pralim standing scratching their heads in the doorway.

"You guys?" Tang Tian looked puzzled.

"We don't want to lose, coach." Jokic spoke at this point.

Tang Tian only realized at this time that Jokic had been using us when he spoke, and he was still a little strange, but he didn't expect it to be like this, there were still several standing outside.

It seems that they really want to win.

Tang Tian beckoned them in, thought about it, and then picked up the tactical board on the side.

The Nets didn't have much to do, at least on the offensive end, they did everything they could.

But he was moved by the spirit of this group of young players.

"We've done our best offensively and defensively can do better if we want to change."

Offense and defense are like spears and shields, they are always on opposite sides, Wall and Beal are in good shape, and there are reasons for this, but if the Nets can do a better job of defensive intensity in terms of switching defenses, assisting defenses, and even off-ball confrontations, it is not impossible to curb their state.

Tang Tian talked about the details one by one, and Jokic and the others listened carefully.

While these things can't really work as immediately as the system, a little better can make it more likely for the Nets to win the game.

By the time he finished speaking, more than an hour had passed before he knew it.

Jokic couldn't hide the excitement on their faces, and it was clear that they had gained a lot.

Looking at the energetic team members, Tang Tian suddenly felt full of confidence.

"You're right, we deserve to win this series, give it your all, and I'll grow up with you, no matter what the outcome is." Tang Tian finally looked at a few young people and said.

Jokic and the others all nodded vigorously.

The NBA is a commercial league, and after staying in the league for a long time, many people's choices will look at money, but basketball is also a bloody sport, and only these players who have just entered the league or have not played for a long time still have the greatest desire to win.

Growing together is not just empty talk.

This is also the first time he has cultivated young people seriously, and this feeling is also something he has never experienced.

Now he is also a little enthusiastic.

In the training session the next day, Tang Tian said some encouraging words before the start of the training, and when the training was over, he pulled the players to the conference room to analyze the game video and analyze several standard offensive rounds of the Wizards.

He analyzed it very carefully, even including the first and second choices after encountering the block, and the choices of who he encountered.

"Defense is what we're going to do next and it's key for us to win the game, guys, we should be the winners of this series." Tang Tian said a very calm but confident word to the team members at the end.

The content of this day gave the players a new hope of winning, and they also found what they could do.

Originally, they felt that it was enough to do this step as the outside world, but now, they are desperate for the upcoming game.

They're going to prove themselves again, they've only played three games in the series, and they're confident they're going to play seven!

Fans don't know about the Nets' changes, but they obviously don't feel like the Nets are out of the game like the media, and they're more enthusiastic than ever.

Game 4 of the series continues in Brooklyn with the excitement at the Barclays Center.

The fans in New York are known as one of the worst, but they are also among the most passionate.