Ninety percent is done, and the remaining ten percent is critical.

Tang Tian was not in a hurry, let Swift do it step by step, and just wait for the album to come out naturally.

After dealing with the record company, he flew back to Houston.

The Rockets will face the Mavericks in a day's time, and he has to say something about the proposal that was delayed because of TNT.

It's a regular meeting of the coaching staff for the day, and the topic of discussion is, naturally, how to deal with the Mavericks.

Although it has been a season since the last playoff meeting between the two teams, there will be no shortage of grievances between the two teams in Texas.

"The Mavericks have been very balanced offensively and defensively this season, Nowitzki is also in hot form, and most importantly, they have found a way to win, like us, it is a five-game winning streak, and this game is very difficult to play, do you have any advice? Tom, you speak first. Van Gundy spoke.

It's an all-hands meeting of the coaching staff, Dawson isn't there, and Van Gundy is the most vocal.

"The key to defending the Mavericks is how to limit Nowitzki, and his basket, his back, his shooting, are all headaches for us." Thibodeau was named and spoke.

The other assistant coaches all nodded their heads after listening, and the last time he lost the playoffs, Nowitzki was an unsolvable problem.

"Any suggestions from anyone else?" Van Gundy then asked.

"How's the bag?"

"Nowitzki's shot was also timely, and that outside point of the Mavericks, Terry, Josh Howard, Tankhouse, they could kill the game as well."

"What then? One-on-one, no one can restrain him. ”

The other teaching assistants discussed for a while, but there was still nothing too good to do.

Van Gundy finally looked at Tang Tian, the key to playing the Mavericks is how to defend Nowitzki, mainly on the defensive end, he doesn't really want to ask Tang Tian, but Tang Tian is the first assistant coach after all.

"Don, what do you think?"

"While we were thinking about how to defend Nowitzki, the Mavericks were also thinking about how to limit Yao and T-mac." Tang Tian opened his mouth and said.

This sentence did not answer Van Gundy directly, but everyone else, including Thibodeau, nodded thoughtfully.

Nowitzki is strong, but Yao Ming and Maddy are not weak either, especially after using a new offensive system this season.

"So I think the main problem against the Mavericks is not defense, it's not offense, it's our rotation." Tang Tian threw out the question he wanted to say before.

"Rotation?" Everyone else looked puzzled, and so did Van Gundy, who originally thought that Tang Tian would take advantage of the situation and say that offense was the key.

"Yes, our defensive system is relatively mature and our offensive system is getting better and better, but our current rotation is hard to compete with the Mavericks' bench, Tankhouse, Devin George, they can blow us up between the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter."

"This is indeed a problem, after these games, once Yao is off the court, our offensive efficiency is very low, and we always feel that our current rotation is missing something." Thibodeau said approvingly.

"Lack of experience and energy." Tang Tian took the conversation.

"There are two key points on the bench, impact and stability, when we are behind, we need to come off the bench to impact, to steal points, when we are ahead, we need to come off to control the situation and stabilize the point difference, we are not only limited in impact, but also very bad in stability."

After listening to Tang Tian's words, the other teaching assistants also nodded in understanding.

Now the main rotation, Mutombo, Hyde, Wells, Millsap, although Mutombo is old and strong, but it is obviously unrealistic to ask him to have impact, Hyde and Millsap are very immature and have little experience, as for Wells, who has great expectations, the state is the same as last year in the Kings.

Tang Tian's words were indeed to the point.

Van Gundy frowned, this Tang Tian and Thibodeau sang and harmonized, he had a feeling of being set aside.

"Do you have any suggestions?" Van Gundy said with a calm face.

Tang Tian knew that Van Gundy would definitely be unhappy when he made this suggestion, but he had some luck winning against the Heat before, and if he wanted the Rockets to continue to win, he had to mention it.

"Putting Paul (Millsap) to the starting lineup and letting Juwan (Howard) come off the bench not only increases the vitality and defensive intensity of the starting lineup, but also increases the experience of the bench lineup, and in a shorter period of time, Juwan can also play more efficiently."

"Kick Bunch [Wells] out of the rotation and give his time to Steve [Novak] or Vasrith [Spanoolis], Steve's threes and Vasrith's playmaking can help the team, but their defense is a problem and they need to control their playing time.

"Against a fast opponent like the Mavericks or the Warriors, Chuck (Hayes) can replace Deacon Bay (Mutombo) in the rotation."

Tang Tian said the proposal he had thought of before in one breath.

Every tweak makes sense, and the new rotation is both impactful and consistent.

"I think Don's proposal can be tried." After listening to this, Thibodeau opened his mouth and said, after playing the summer league with Tang Tian, and witnessing Tang Tian's genius in the last game, his thoughts were also changing little by little.

The other teaching assistants also nodded.

Van Gundy's eyes, however, widened.

Not only is it a big change to the rotation, but in his opinion, it's pretty bad.

Millsap is a rookie, how can he be a good starter? As for Novak and Spanovis, two players who can't defend at all, he will never put them in the rotation, and Hayes, unless Yao Ming is injured and needs someone to replace him, he still believes in Mutombo, who has better defensive ability and experience.

"No, this kind of adjustment will hurt the team's defense too much." Van Gundy said directly.

Tang Tian was stunned for a moment, this was already the most favorable adjustment he had made based on the existing lineup, but he didn't expect Van Gundy to have this attitude.

It seems that this assistant coach is not going well, and he is still comfortable when he was the head coach in the summer league.