God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 78 Altitude Velocity
During the regular season this year, Villanova and North Carolina had played against each other. At that time, it was McGrady who decided the game. His outstanding performance helped Villanova win the game, while Chang Wei made Smith's heart attack Return in vain.

In addition, the abnormal performance of the two North Carolina stars is also a very important reason.Carter, who was playing the small forward position, happened to meet Battier, which reduced his scoring ability by at least 30%. As for Jamison, he and Brand completed the swap. Neither side can do anything about the other, no doubt In the end, McGrady became the winner of the game.

So this time Smith decided to take the initiative to change the lineup. Salmond is still the team's starting point guard. Carter swings down to play shooting guard and directly matches McGrady. Jamison also swings down to play small forward. Thiel and Okuraja also swung to the fourth position.As for the center, Smith intends to put the team's only [-]-foot big man Brandon Heywood, and Okuraja's only task is to protect the rebound and create opportunities for others to attack.

During the regular season, Chang Wei didn't look carefully at North Carolina's player roster. If he looked at each name one by one, he would definitely notice Heywood. He joined the NBA's big center as a showman and averaged 2001 points and 20 rebounds per game in his career. He was once Nowitzki's best inside partner.

Of course, Chang Wei remembers this guy not because of how good he is, but because he once signed a very weird contract. In 2010, the Mavericks renewed their contract with Haywood. The contract was 5 million for 6000 years, and the contract in the last year reached 1200 million but only partially guaranteed. In 2012, the Mavericks pardoned Heywood, and the Bobcats won with a bid of 3 million for three years, which did not include his non-guaranteed contract in the last year. After the Cavaliers acquired Haywood in 615, he cannot be traded in the 2014-2014 season, and in the 15-2015 season, Haywood's non-guaranteed contract will become a bargaining chip. In the 16-2015 season, Heywood's apparent contract reached 16 million, but the actual guaranteed part was less than 1200 million, which made his transaction value even greater. The team can also use him to trade with other players, such as the first round pick in 200, in exchange for a player with an annual salary of tens of millions.The mystery of Haywood's contract is here. The 2015-year 5 million between the Mavericks and Haywood is partially guaranteed in the last year of the contract for 6000 years.The amnesty only pardoned the first 4 years, and the last year's contract is still valid!

Smith's change of formation is not very subtle. It is completely to let the players swing down and use the advantages of height and weight to suppress the opponent. Except for the matchups of Carter VS McGrady and Shamond VS Brown, there is no obvious advantage. Several positions can more or less crush Villanova players.

Carter is undoubtedly the one with the highest fighting spirit in the North Carolina team. Although he didn't match up with McGrady in the last game, the loss to McGrady made him feel ashamed.In addition, before the game, he was instructed by Smith to interfere with McGrady, which made him feel a little more inexplicable in the midst of aggrieved and resentful.

So this time he decided to beat McGrady head-on, just like he did on the court before.Although he is very pleased with McGrady's progress, he is relieved to be relieved. Cousin's authority still needs to be established, and this game is a very good opportunity.And Carter has decided to participate in the draft this year anyway, in other words, this is his last chance to prove his strength to McGrady and Villanova.

Rappers naturally didn't know that Smith was going to change in advance, and he never thought about it.As an old strong team, North Carolina undoubtedly has their own pride. Changing in advance means admitting in advance, which is not the usual style of North Carolina.But even if Rappers knew it, he wouldn't care. The team's progress all the way to the final four gave him a lot of confidence. Now he simply believes in the team's strength blindly. No matter who stands in front, they will be completely defeated by them. crushed.

But when he saw North Carolina's starting lineup before the game, he was a little taken aback.In fact, he was not the only one who was surprised. When Chang Wei saw Brandon Heywood's name, he felt bad. He didn't expect this guy to be a freshman, but his height and weight were enough. Scared the opponent who rushed to the basket.

On the basketball court, the confrontation between height and speed is an eternal topic. Obviously, what Smith is pursuing now is height, so Rappers can only use speed to deal with it, such as playing small ball tactics like against Arizona.In fact, there is no absolute restraint relationship between height and speed. Sometimes height can beat speed, and sometimes speed can beat height. The advantages and disadvantages of the two can be transformed into each other, which is closely related to the players' own strength and team tactics.

Of course, the current team cannot achieve the unity of height and speed, but Chang Wei knows that NBA teams will work hard towards this goal in the second decade of the 21st century. At that time, a large number of all-around swing players will be born in the league. , They swing up to use speed against height, and swing down to use height to fight speed. It just depends on what tactics the coach likes to use and what flaws there are in the opponent's roster.

Strictly speaking, only McGrady and Battier in Villanova's team can be regarded as all-around players, and they can swing up or down at any time.But Villanova's other players couldn't do it, and there were no suitable players to match them after they swayed, which meant that they had to implement the purpose of speed against height in this game.

Of course Rappers also saw this, so he decided to continue using small ball tactics in this game.The starting lineup put out by North Carolina does have a height advantage in most of the matchups, but it also means that their speed will not be too fast, especially the two insiders Okuraja and Heywood. What will be the look when facing Battier and Brand.

Villanova's small-ball lineup also inadvertently ruined Carter's attempts to match McGrady directly, as McGrady would swing to the [-] to match Jamison, whose movement speed was beyond Jamison's ability. on a par.

However, Rappers still intends to let the regular lineup start first, to see what level North Carolina's big lineup is, and then decide whether to use small ball tactics.After defeating Arizona, almost all the main players felt that their legs were not their own. You can imagine how much pressure they were under, and the schedule of the semi-finals was very tight. Ball tactics, so as not to take advantage of the opponent in the final.

Seeing Villanova's starting lineup, Smith smiled slightly, with a look of wisdom in his hands. He thought he would win the game.It's a pity that the games in March Madness were too dense, and he hadn't had time to watch the video of Villanova VS Arizona in the Western Conference Finals, otherwise he wouldn't have vowed in front of the camera that North Carolina would definitely win the game.

(End of this chapter)