Villanova and North Carolina played each other during the regular season this year, and it was Maddie who decided the game, and his outstanding play helped Villanova win the game, while Chang Wei made Smith's attack useless.

In addition, the two major stars of North Carolina are also playing abnormally. Carter, who plays at small forward, happened to face Battier, which reduced his scoring ability by at least 30%, and as for Jamison, he and Brand completed the exchange, and neither side could help the other, and there was no doubt that Maddie became the winner of the game in the end.

So this time Smith decided to take the initiative to change the lineup, Shamond still served as the team's starting point guard, Carter swung down to play point guard, directly opposite Maddy, Jamison also swung down to play small forward, with the height advantage to suppress Battier, and Okuraja also swayed to the No. 4 position. As for the center, Smith intends to put Brandon Haywood, the only big man on the team who is seven feet tall, and his and Okuraja's only task is to protect the rebounding ball and create offensive opportunities for others.

Chang Wei didn't look carefully at the list of players in North Carolina during the regular season, if he looked at it one name at a time, he would definitely notice Haywood, another big center who joined the NBA in 2001 as the No. 20 pick in the first round, averaging 6.8 points and 6 rebounds per game in his career, and was once Nowitzki's best interior partner.

Of course, Chang Wei remembers this guy not because of how good he is, but because he once signed a very strange contract. In 2010, the Mavericks signed Haywood to a five-year, $60 million contract, with a final year of $12 million, but only partially guaranteed. In 2012, the Mavericks pardoned Haywood, and the Bobcats won the bid for $6.15 million over three years, not including his final year of non-guaranteed contract. After the Cavaliers acquired Haywood in 2014, they couldn't trade him in 2014-15, and in 2015-16, Haywood's non-guaranteed contract will be a trade chip. In the 2015-16 season, Haywood's contract reached 12 million, but the actual guarantee portion was less than 2 million, which made his trade value even greater, and the Cavaliers could trade him to teams looking to clear salary space, as well as trade him with other players, such as the 2015 first-round pick, in exchange for a player with an annual salary of 10 million. The mystery of Haywood's contract is here, the Mavericks' five-year 60 million with Haywood is fully guaranteed for four years, and the final year of the contract is partially guaranteed. The amnesty only pardoned the first 4 years, and the last year of the contract is still valid!

Smith's change of formation is not very subtle, it is completely to let the players swing down and then use the advantage of height and weight to suppress the opponent, except for Carter vs. Maddy, Shamond vs. Brown, which does not have too obvious advantages in the pairing, the other positions can more or less crush the Villanova players.

The most energetic in the North Carolina team is undoubtedly Carter, although he did not play against Maddie in the last game, but the loss to Maddie made him feel gloomy. In addition, he was instructed by Smith to interfere with Maddie before the game, which made him feel a little more inexplicable in his grievances and resentment.

So this time he decided to beat Maddie from the front with dignity, just like he had done on the court before. Although he is very pleased with Maddie's progress, he is relieved that his 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 himself to Maddie and Villanova.

Naturally, Rappers didn't know that Smith was going to change the formation in advance, and he never thought about it. As an old powerhouse, North Carolina undoubtedly has their own pride, and changing the formation in advance means admitting it in advance, which is not the consistent style of North Carolina. But even if Rapus knew about it, he wouldn't care, the team had given him a lot of confidence to advance to the final four, and now he simply blindly believed in the strength of the team, and whoever stood in front of him would be completely crushed by them.

However, when he saw the starting lineup of North Carolina before the game, he was still slightly surprised. In fact, he was not alone, Chang Wei was not good when he saw Brandon Haywood's name, he didn't expect this guy to be a rookie, but his height and weight were enough to scare the opponent who rushed to the basket.

On the basketball court, the confrontation between height and speed is an eternal topic, and it is clear that now that Smith is pursuing height, Lappers 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 defeat speed, sometimes speed can beat height, the advantages and disadvantages of the two can be converted into each other, which is closely related to the players' own strength and team tactics.

Of course, the current team can't do the unity of height and speed, but Chang Wei knows that in the second decade of the 21st century, the NBA team will work towards this goal, when the league will be born a large number of all-round swing people, they swing up is to use speed against height, swing down is to use height to fight speed, just to see what kind of tactics the coach likes to use, and what flaws are in the opponent's player list.

Strictly speaking, only two of Villanova's team, Maddy and Battier, can be considered all-rounders, and they can swing up or down at any time. But the rest of Villanova's players couldn't do that, and they didn't have the right players to match them after they swayed, which meant they had to play with speed against height in this game.

Rappers certainly saw this, so he decided to continue with the small-ball tactics for this match. North Carolina's starting lineup does have a height advantage for most of the matchups, but it also means they won't be too fast, especially the two interior lineups Okuraja and Haywood, and I don't know what their expressions will be when they play against Battier and Brand.

Villanova's small-ball lineup also inadvertently ruined Carter's attempt to play directly with Maddy, as Maddy would swing to the third position to face Jamison, and his movement speed was completely unmatched by Jamison.

However, Lappers still plans to start the regular lineup first to see what level the big man lineup in North Carolina is at before deciding whether to use the small-ball strategy. After beating Arizona, almost all the main players felt that the two legs were not their own, and you can imagine how much pressure they were under, and the schedule of the semi-finals was very tight, and Lappers did not want to use small ball tactics unless it was necessary, so as not to take advantage of the opponent in the final.

Seeing Villanova's starting lineup, Smith smiled slightly, looking like he was holding the pearl of wisdom, and he thought he had won the game. Unfortunately, the March Madness game was so dense that he hadn't had time to watch the video of Villanova vs. Arizona in the Western Conference finals, otherwise he wouldn't have sworn in front of the camera that North Carolina would definitely win the game.