Of course, this is just a game, and Maddie is only meeting the requirements for the first time. Originally, Rappers intended to directly announce Maddie as the team's playmaker, but Chang Wei stopped him, and for a very good reason: "If you can't be sure that Tracy can do it every time, it doesn't make sense to do it in advance." ”

Rappers really wanted to open this guy's head to see what was inside, and begged him to give him three days of special training, and now let him not identify Maddie as the core of the organization in advance, are you here to cheat your father? But after calming down, Rappers felt that what Chang Wei said seemed to make sense, what if this confrontation Maddie suddenly broke out in the small universe? Expect him to explode into a small universe every game?

But soon Rappers was reassured, and in the next three intra-team matches, Maddie met that so-called perverted standard. Especially in the final game, after Rappers released the starting lineup for the new season, Maddie helped his side score 104 points in 40 minutes, and he also scored 32 points and 17 assists himself, which was simply over the task. In the relatively slow pace of the NCAA, more than 80 points in a single game is already considered a high score, let alone 104 points.

Rappers finally made up his mind, and after the final match, he announced that the team will focus on playmaking tactics for the new season, in other words, Maddie will be the team's playmaking core. No one disputes this, and Maddie has conquered all of his teammates in four matches, including Brand, who is competing with him.

Originally, Brand was still a little unhappy, although he had a good personality, but it was also a very depressing thing to pass by the treatment of the core of the organization. However, Chang Wei found him privately and said bitterly: "Elton, choosing Tracy doesn't mean that you are not good enough, it's just that the team needs a more active person to organize the attack." Besides, playing as a playmaker doesn't mean you can't play as a playmaker at the same time, and if Maddie is seen dead by the opponent, your role will be reflected. ”

Under Chang Wei's persuasion, Brand finally accepted this fact. He did find his shortcomings, he is a traditional inside, he prefers to play with his back to the ball in the frame, so there are very few passing routes to choose from, you can't always take the ball at the top of the arc, find that there is no chance, and move to the basket to single, right? This will undoubtedly slow down the team's attacking tempo a lot.

As for teaming up with Maddie, Brand has already tasted the sweetness, and on more than one occasion he has received passes from Maddie after the defender has drawn the latter, and then it was an easy jumper. Just because he's just average-minded with the ball doesn't mean he doesn't have a lot of shooting range, in fact, he's in the scoring area all the way to the free throw line, and his mid-range shot is simply stress-free.

After nearly a month of training, the Villanova University Wildcats have initially completed the run-in, and the rest is to continue to develop a tacit understanding during the game. Interestingly, in the first game, Villanova's opponent was the old enemy of last season's national championship, the University of North Carolina, and it was precisely because of the loss to Villanova that several of North Carolina's main players basically chose to stay, especially the twin stars of Jamison and Carter, who vowed to be ashamed in the new season.

This opening match was regarded as a strong dialogue by insiders. The core combination of North Carolina is experienced, and Villanova has recruited three high school stars, which can be said to be a clash of two strong teams, one old and one new. Coupled with the fact that Villanova eliminated North Carolina in the national championship last season, the two sides have formed a feud, which adds to the excitement of this game.

For Maddie, the bout was even more meaningful because it was the first time he had actually faced his cousin Carter in a match, something he had been looking forward to a long time ago. If he had had some problems before, he was already a little impatient for this game after becoming the heart of the team.

Lappers also needed a high-intensity game to check on the team's offseason training, and North Carolina is undoubtedly a good whetstone. Yes, in Lappers's eyes, North Carolina is just a whetstone.

In fact, what Lappers didn't know, and Chang Wei didn't know much, was that in his previous life, Brand and Battier were both members of Duke's Golden Generation, and the two of them plus Williams Avery, Chris Burgers and Margety, with the efforts of the five of them, Duke was extremely close to the national championship, only to lose to Connecticut in the final.

Although they couldn't help Duke win the championship, the strength of Brand and Battier is undoubted, at least in training, Rappers has seen their strength, plus a Maddie who seems to have opened up the second line of Rendu, Rappers is full of confidence in beating North Carolina, he doesn't believe that this win will be as difficult as last season.

When everyone is working hard, Chang Wei seems very relaxed, he just needs to ensure that the team does not have injuries. No one but him knows how terrifying the combination of Maddy, Battier and Brand is, let alone North Carolina, he is 99.99% confident that the team will win the championship this season, and the remaining 0.01% can't talk too much, right?

Lappers only saw how they performed in training and intra-team matches, but not as intuitively as Chang Wei, who could see the stats of all the players in the team from the system. After the offseason special training, Maddie, Battier and Brand have overall ability values of more than 80, but Maddie is stronger in attack than in defense, Battier is stronger in defense than in offense, and Brand is the most balanced of the three, which is also in line with Chang Wei's impression of him in his previous life.

In addition to the three of them in the starting lineup, Brown and Allen also have more than 70 ability values, the former 74, the latter 71, which is also the result of Chang Wei's special training. You must know that Chang Wei also deliberately looked at their ability value when the team gathered, Brown is not bad, he also played a lot of games as Erwin's substitute last season, and his ability value is 69, Allen is miserable, as a rookie who has joined the team, even if he is a sophomore, his ability value is just over 60, and he can't see the strength of the starter at all.

But after Chang Wei's training, both guys have improved tremendously, and a stat value of over 70 means that they are enough to get a starting position. Chang Wei never expected the team's starting five to have an ability value of more than 80, and 70+ is already at the level of NCAA giant role players, which undoubtedly greatly improves the overall strength of the team.

North Carolina? Can they come up with such a starting lineup? Chang Wei said with great skepticism.