Since the Villanova vs. North Carolina semifinals were one day earlier than Kentucky vs. Stanford, the Villanova players were blessed with two days off. In order to relax the players, Rappers is still focusing on recovery training, but this will give everyone more time to pay attention to outside information, such as media reports.

After Kentucky qualified, almost all major media in the United States booked Villanova for the title in advance, and the headlines on the front page were reviewing Villanova's outstanding performance, as if they had won the championship. Some media outlets also ran special editions of Villanova's players, with not only Maddy, Battier and Brand on the list, but also other players such as Brown, Allen and Selestend. Maybe they're just trying to get eyeballs, but it's clearly close to killing.

Naturally, Villanova's players saw the barrage of stories, and even if some people only cared about basketball and game consoles, their teammates would hand them the newspapers. For young people, being praised in this way by the authoritative media is undoubtedly enough to satisfy their vanity, and everyone even believes the predictions in the newspapers that they will easily win the championship.

Chang Wei saw all this in his eyes, and he was a little helpless in his heart. Young people are like this, they always show their joys, sorrows and sorrows on their faces, and they are easily influenced by the outside world. Even if cold water is poured on them now, it is estimated that it will be difficult for them to tense their nerves, and besides, this is the job of the head coach, and he does not want to overstep his responsibilities.

When Chang Wei worriedly went to Rappers's room to tell him about it, he was surprised to find Rappers holding a newspaper and smiling. Chang Wei could only shake his head and smile bitterly, he didn't need to read it to know what the newspaper was about, it was nothing more than blowing Villanova over and over again, it was really difficult for the head coach to be so excited.

In this way, it is not good for him to give Rappers a wake-up call, after all, people are feeling happy now, and if they go up, they will be hated no matter how they look at it. In fact, at this time, Chang Wei's Chinese thinking is reflected, and if he were a traditional American, he must have given advice to the head coach straightforwardly, and perhaps pointed out the head coach's problems in righteous words.

But Chang Wei didn't, and he felt that this might make his position in the team very embarrassing. Moreover, in his opinion, Kentucky is indeed inferior to Villanova, after all, their roster does not have the stars that Chang Wei remembers in his previous life, and Villanova has Maddy, Battier and Brand, and it seems that it is more than enough to defeat the opponent.

So when Rappers noticed him pushing the door in and asked him what was the matter, Chang Wei just said lightly: "I have nothing to do, Mr. Coach, I just want to borrow a book from you." ”

Chang Wei had borrowed books more than once before, so Rappers didn't suspect it, he took out the "specified" book from his suitcase, handed it to Chang Wei casually, and advised: "There are some notes I made in the book, you can refer to them, but I still hope that you can come up with something of your own, which may also promote my understanding of the book." ”

Chang Wei left Rappers' room with a book in his hand, and went directly to the restaurant to have an afternoon tea to soothe his mood. When he arrived at the hotel's restaurant, Maddie happened to be there, and she greeted him very warmly to sit with him. Chang Wei suddenly had an idea in his heart: Maybe it's okay to give Maddie a preventive shot in advance?

When he sat down across from Maddie with a cup of coffee and a cake, he found the guy giggling with his phone, the coffee in front of him was no longer hot, and it looked like it had been in this state for a long time.

Chang Wei asked curiously, "Tracy, what are you laughing at?" The coffee is cold! ”

Maddie raised her phone and said with a grin, "My mom just texted me, and she said she had watched ESPN's analysis of the NCAA championship finals and we had a good chance of winning the championship, so she came to congratulate me in advance." ”

Looking at Maddie's big white teeth, Chang Wei shook his head lightly and said, "Do you really think that what those experts say is the truth?" Or do you think we've already won this game? ”

Maddie still laughed and said, "Chang, why are you so serious?" Isn't it time to be happier? ”

But Chang Wei's expression did not change, he was silent for a while, and said slowly: "I believe that Kentucky does not have so much energy to manipulate public opinion, but now the media is obviously optimistic about us winning the championship. There is a saying that 'football is round', in fact, basketball is also round, if the outcome of the game can be determined by the strength of both sides alone, then the championship trophy will be awarded before the start of the season, and what national championship should we play? ”

After listening to Chang Wei's words, Maddie still didn't get nervous, he still lazily shrunk in his chair, and said with a smile: "You really think too much, Chang, our strength is not comparable to Kentucky." Actually, I'm already thinking about the draft now, and I don't know if this championship can bring my draft pick forward a little earlier......"

Seeing Maddie fall into his own fantasy again, Chang Wei was really speechless. He suddenly understood that although the hurricane set off by his butterfly had changed the trajectory of many people's lives, some things really could not be changed, such as Maddie's character. When he said the words "I'm already thinking about the draft now", Chang Wei suddenly remembered an incident in his previous life, that is, that incident made Maddie a laughing stock in the whole league.

In the first round of the 2003 Eastern Conference playoffs, after the Magic led the Pistons 3-1, Maddy, who is the Magic's number one star, famously said, "Hey man, I'm already thinking about the next round opponent." Then the Pistons won three games in a row and advanced to the second round with a score of 4-3, and Maddy's rhetoric became a joke.

Chang Wei smiled helplessly, it seems that Maddie is still exactly the same as in his previous life, isn't this a copy of the Magic that led 3-1 but was reversed? Although Villanova's strength should not be like the Magic was reversed by the Pistons in the previous life, there is only one game in the NCAA tournament, and no team, any head coach or player has a chance to regret it.

In other words, if Maddie is still so loose in the final, then she can't blame others for losing the game. Even if Villanova does have a good chance of beating Kentucky now, it can at least teach Maddie a profound lesson, right?