Rappers is a good-tempered coach, but it's the most important game of the season, and no matter how good his temper is, he can't help but get angry. After giving the players a baptism with a spittle, he set his sights on Maddie, who didn't work hard. In fact, Maddie still has a role to play on the court, and he can at least help his teammates with defense.

But now, whether it's Battier, Brand, Brown, Allen, everyone is gradually coming out of the previous slump, and Maddie looks like a soy sauce player in comparison. A manager like Popovich could have been replaced a few minutes after the game began, and Rappers certainly didn't have the guts, but now that it's more than five minutes into the game and the team's performance is slowly starting to improve, it seems like a good idea to let Maddie go off the court and reflect on it, and the team can withstand the pressure of his absence from the court.

After much deliberation, Rappers decisively replaced Maddie with Celestead. Maddie came off the pitch with a complete look of confusion, and since joining Villanova, he has never been substituted at this point in time, which is clearly not in line with his positioning as the core of the team. But he is really going to be pressed to the bench by the head coach now, and he doesn't know when he will be able to re-appear, is it because his previous performance was not very good?

Lappers is not going to explain why, and although Villanova has started to recover, he is still behind on the scoreline and he has to focus on the game. As for Maddie, let him sit on the bench for a while, and he will probably figure it out for himself, if he can't figure it out...... Then continue to sit on the ground!

Maddie is actually a very smart player, and of course he knows why the manager replaced him early, but he just can't figure it out. Obviously, I am not the only one who is playing abnormally, and I can also help my teammates attract defense on the field, why am I the first to be replaced now?

Seeing Maddie sitting in a daze, Chang Wei was a little unbearable, he quietly moved behind Maddie, patted him on the shoulder, and whispered: "Tracy, don't take this matter to heart, the team is indispensable for your performance." ”

Maddie pointed to the scoreboard and said wistfully: "But now the difference has become 5 points, I feel that the team has no me and I am the same, and maybe I can play better without me." ”

Chang Wei couldn't laugh or cry, this guy seemed to have begun to doubt himself. However, Maddie is far from having a mature mind, and it is inevitable that she will have such thoughts. He pondered for a moment and said slowly: "There is something wrong with your thoughts, in my opinion, your talent is undoubtedly historic, does just one game make you doubt yourself?" What about the game? Didn't you lead the team as the tactical core? ”

"In the history of the NCAA, only three teams have won all five times in a single season, and we are the fourth, and that has a lot to do with your joining. I know it's good to play as a playmaker with Elton as the core, but the ceiling is definitely not as high as it is now. So you're the most important person on the team, you know? ”

Listening to Chang Wei's words, Maddie muttered to herself, "Then why are you letting me go now?" ”

"It's not punishment for the manager to get you off, he's just angry that you didn't step up in time to lead the team against Kentucky. I know you've been influenced by the media before the game starts, but now you have to show the attitude you had against North Carolina against Kentucky, otherwise the next time the head coach replaces you, I don't know if you're going to play in this game. ”

Maddie thought for a while, nodded quite approvingly, and said very sincerely: "Thank you, Chang, I will sit here and watch the game, and when I play again later, I will definitely not disappoint you." ”

By the time the two spoke, Villanova had already completed the comeback, but Kentucky clearly didn't intend to give up. The score at the beginning of the game gave them a lot of confidence, and every Kentucky player believed that they had a chance to win the championship by a weak outcome. The media reports are a killer for Villanova, but a stimulant for them, and no one doesn't want to prove themselves, especially these young people with strong blood, so Villanova can't pull the score away.

Now it's not Sherpard who is the scoring arrow in Kentucky, but their power forward Scott Padget. Although Chang Wei has no impression of him, Padgett was also an NBA-level player in his previous life, he was drafted by the Jazz with the 28th pick in the first round in 1999, and has played for the Jazz, Rockets, Nets and Grizzlies in his career, averaging 4.2 points and 2.7 rebounds per game, and was also a witness to Maddy's miracle of 35.13 seconds at that time.

It was he who kept carrying Brand to the basket to score layups, and Kentucky bit Villanova to the ground and didn't let the margin widen. Of course, Padgett was not an unknown little man before this, but it was this game that brought him into the mainstream media's field of vision, which led to his entry into the NBA with a higher pick in next year's draft than in his previous life, which is a later story.

But Rappers is still sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai and has no intention of putting Maddie back on the field. Although he saw Chang Wei whispering to Maddie just now, he still hoped that Maddie could calm down off the court for a while, and being hot-headed is a terrible state for any player, especially the core of the team like Maddie.

And now the team is not falling behind on the field, which fully shows that Villanova's overall strength is above Kentucky. Even if the team doesn't have a big advantage now, it's not bad to keep Kentucky behind the butt and eat dust, and there is no need to put Maddie on the court in advance at this time, and the team is about 20 points behind.

Until the end of the first half, Rappers did not let Maddy play, and the latter's first-half stats were fixed on 4 points, 1 rebound and 3 assists, which was very incommensurate with his performance of scoring double-doubles in the half. There was also a lot of talk from the media on the sidelines, who didn't think any manager would do anything to hide his key players in the final, but Rappers did just that, and it didn't look like the team was affected.

Could it be that Villanova has become so powerful? Or is Maddie not as important to this team as he thought? Everyone who was watching the game was puzzled. But at least one thing is certain, and that is that Villanova is on their way to their second NCAA title in franchise history.