New Game Style
The opposing team soon made an attack to equalize the game with a mid-range shot of the SF, Jake received the ball and started another attack for the Elite team, after passing through the middle of the court he passed the ball to Nathan.
Nathan passed the ball to Lucas who had gained more confidence after the last play, Lucas pass by the opponent and went into the inner area and passed the ball to Mark, Mark received the ball and saw that the defense was already on him, so Mark passed the ball to Jake who was free and Jake made the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
The opposing team also went for another attack, the team PG ran up close to the three-point line and passed the ball to the SF of his team, Lucas was firm from the defense and so the SF of the opposing team had to return the ball for the PG.
So the PG of the opposing team passed the ball to the Center in the inner area, the Center that was well defended by Mark had to force the attack to make 2 more points to tie the game again.
Jake grabbed the ball and began to organize another attack, this time he came before the three-point line and passed the ball to Nathan, Nathan quickly passed the ball to Carter, Carter returned the ball to Jake and Jake made the pass to Lucas who had gotten free with the move and made the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
And so continued the game in the first period, the Elite team had a 6-point advantage, Jake had 6 points and also made 2 assists, which scored most was Lucas who made 6 points in the first period.
Nathan seemed to be more nervous in this debut game, but even so, he scored 4 points and made 2 assists, yet he could play better normally as the MVP team at Middle School.
Coach Mike was pleased with the performance of the team in the first period, even though they did not have any three-pointers they still managed a 6-point lead, which is why they did not miss an opportunity to attack.
The opposing team was also playing well this game, but they were having difficulties even when the defense of the Elite team was not too tight, so it was a good practice opportunity for the team.
When the second period began the opposing team changed to a zone defense, after all, they did not achieve anything with an individual defense in the first period, so Jake went for the first attack of that period.
He passed the ball to Lucas who had gotten rid of the defense to receive the pass, so Lucas passed the ball to Nathan who was free, this time Nathan did not hesitate and took advantage of the space to make the shot from outside to make 3 more points for the Elite team.
The opposing team started another attack and was passing the ball as well as the Elite team, but they did not seem to have much intermingling and ended up missing one of the passes and the ball came out.
So Jake received the ball in the return of the game, Jake advanced calmly and the opponent defense was very worried about Lucas and Nathan and left a space free for Jake that advanced without hesitate, thus Jake drive to the basket and finished the play with a dunk to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
The opposing team seemed to be lost in the game and did not have a player to calm their teammates and lead the team into a reaction, so the second period ended with the Elite team leading by 14 points.
Jake had 14 points and 5 assists in the game and managed 2 steals in that period, Nathan had 11 points in total and Lucas had 10 points in the game and so it was a great debut for them.
In the second part of the game in the third period, David and Harrison would return to play the rest of the match, it could have been they who started, but the trained Mike wanted to give more confidence to Nathan and Lucas.
Jake also had to admit that Nathan seemed to be on the same level as David and Lucas was already better than Harrison because he was good at defense too, so it looked like in another 1 year they would be the team's highlights after Jake and the others left.
It seemed that the Middle School team was also the favorite to win the national championship this year, so next year better players would join this team, these players came to the Elite team thanks to the former players who were twice champions of the national championship and the team of Jake and his teammates as well.
This inspired new players showing that the Elite school was a great strength of youth basketball, even if it was not now before it would be with new talented players entering it showed that the strategy of the current president of the school was right.
At the beginning of the third period, the opposing PG advanced to the court and passed the ball to the SF, but Harrison who wanted to show that he deserved the position was very strong in the defense and SF had to return the ball to the PG.
The PG then tried to pass Jake with a dribble, but Jake followed closely on the defense, so with the time of possession of the ball finishing the PG passed to the SG of his team that made a jump and mid-range shot quickly to do more 2 points for the opposing team.
Jake received the ball and passed it to David who advanced with the ball to the attacking block, David passed the ball to Mark who came to the back of the court, Mark passed to Jake who was in the line of three points, Jake passed the ball quickly for Harrison who was free open on the left, and Harrison made the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
With David and Harrison coming in for the team they got more involved and the moves were easier, Harrison did not want to lose his starting position in his last year for Lucas, he thought that with that style of play he did not have any problems. make stitches.
After all, Harrison's biggest problem, David and Carter were that with the strongest opponents they could not make the individual plays and score, but with that style of play they would have more freedom sometimes and they could make the points.
This was one of Mike's goals for these changes, he wanted to give more pressure to David and Harrison that they were no longer the absolute starters and would have to play better if they wanted the starting position in the team and if they played poorly the coach I would not hesitate to remove them from the team.
The opposing team began another play, the team PG passed the ball to the SF of the team that opened to receive, this SF pass by Harrison and found Carter on the cover, so SF had to turn the ball to the PG of his team.
But Jake was following the move and managed to intercept the pass and steal the ball, this time Jake did not need to wait and run alone for the attack, the opponent's defense could not chase and Jake went to do the layup and 2 more points for the Elite team.
The game continued like this and soon ended with the Elite team winning by 26 points of difference, the opponent was not so sad because they expected defeat, Jake managed to do 31 points and 12 assists, plus 10 steals and made another triple Double, but it would be difficult to do against stronger opponents.
This time Eric was no longer following the game because he had been sent to the NBA again, but he said he would follow some national championship games, Eric never doubted that Jake could win the national championship again.
So the bleachers were a lot emptier for this game, Jake was thinking of going back and telling his mother about the win, but he remembered that Eva was in the restaurant now, he could not go to the restaurant after the game.
So Mark who was the most sociable of the group suggested that all of them who played were going to a dinner to celebrate the victory and so they all accepted, it would be good to integrate Lucas and Nathan into the group now that they would all play together.
So they went to dinner and everyone sat there and told Lucas to make the orders, but it was not to intimidate the newbie since it would be Jake who would pay the bill as the only richest on the team.
As young people and athletes everyone ate very well, and as it would be Jake who would pay everyone asked for at least 3 burgers each and lots of fries with sodas for everyone, actually no one on the staff knew that Jake was rich now and so they thought he would be wasting much to pay for this meal.
Soon everyone started talking about various situations that happened in their lives and then talked about things that happened in basketball, which was the best game or when they scored the most points.
After a good time everyone was much closer Jake was the least of them, after a while they started talking about the future and universities.
"Has anyone ever decided which university to enter?"
"Not yet, we're all talking to the coaches, I want to be the Center headliner for my team after a few years."
"I do not mind playing in rotation, I know that my weak defense can end up disrupting the team."
"It's not always Harrison, it depends on the level of the university you're going to enter, if it's a weaker team, you're going to want it for sure."
"But I do not know if it's worth it to stand on the bench of a champion team or be a starter on a weak team."
Of all Carter and Harrison did not care to play as reserves and Mark and David wanted to be the owners of the team.
For Jake they did not even have to ask, it was obvious that he would fit into a strong team and would play as a starter in everyone's mind after they asked more sensitive questions as if someone would become a pro.
When they entered high school all they hoped was to play at university and stop playing after graduating, but after winning the national championship and being able to win for the second time some began to dream.
Harrison and Carter had already decided to stop after college but David was still in doubt, he knew he could play well, so maybe after another five years when the university finished he had a chance to enter the NBA.
Or he could even play professionally in other countries in Europe, the important thing was that he loved basketball and wanted to be professional, Mark always thought about stopping playing after finishing university.
Before, he never doubted he would stop playing, but now he was 1.92 in height and still growing, and last year he had made great games and received invitations to chat with college coaches who were considered strong in basketball.
So he began to think just like his friends that could become a pro, playing in the NBA did not seem difficult now, just like David he would leave to decide in a few more years, again no one even needed to hear from Jake to know that he could be a professional.
After that everyone left and Jake got up to pay the bill, Lucas had stayed behind because he wanted to talk to Jake privately, after Jake paid and left Lucas came over to talk to him.
"Hi, Lucas, what happened to you waiting for me here?"
"I was a little embarrassed to speak in front of others, but I want you to know that I started playing after seeing you playing in the national high school championship final in your last year that you won."
"Before I even played, but as I was very small I did not think I had a chance and I even thought about moving to another sport."
"But I saw you playing very well and even being one of the smallest of the team, so I thought I might as well now I ended up growing up and I was lucky to start before I could play now."
"Cool to know about this Lucas, I hope you keep playing well this way."
"I'm going, I want our team to continue winning even after you graduate, and Nathan is also very much your fan, but he's very shy and will not have the guts to say, I'm going to go bye."
After hearing this Jake was very happy, it is good to know that new players started playing inspired by him, even more, players like Lucas and Nathan who were so skillful.
The next day Jake asked Oliver to help him buy a new car and also get some cell phones for him, it was important to have this so he could talk to his mother even if the signal in town was not very good yet.
Jake was still waiting for Emily to organize the reports on how his investments were going these last few years, Jake wanted to invest again, after all, that was when he could make more money.
At that time the computers were still not much used, mainly because it was difficult to save and to show the recorded data, so Emily was still doing everything at hand in some reports.
Jake was still doing his training almost every day at the school's training grounds, as it was a little over a month before the Chicago marathon he would have to start preparing for the race.
After a few months running 50km almost every day his body was much more prepared and his stamina had increased a bit too, so it was time to increase the intensity of training.
First Jake started running 10km in 35 minutes, yet after the end of the training day he was not quite married even though he had run 50km in 175 minutes, so he went running 10km in 30 minutes which would be enough for him. he wins a race of less difficulty.
But when he was about 38 km Jake started to tire and saw that he could not so he ate a bar of stamina and regained his energy as much as he relaxed his muscles a little, so he can run the 50 km in 150 minutes.
With that time he could win the race and his muscles were not hurting after the race, Jake already hoped he could not run the 42.195 without eating the stamina bar, but he got quite close to it.
Another 6 months of training and he could get, the problem was that he would have to run below the 130 minutes to be sure to win, if he could run in 125 minutes he would be sure of the win.
Just as he would have to cheat this year and run eating the energy bar to win he could eat the stamina bar after the 35 km and in the last few km, he could increase the speed as he would be with the energy recovered.
Jake tried to do it the other day and saw that it was possible, but he had to see it on the day because running on the road was different from running on a race track, there could be some climbs that would affect his pace.
Even so now he was much more confident that he could do this, he felt he was much closer to his dream of getting a gold medal in the Olympics, after a few more months he could guarantee that his stamina and agility would increase further, which would make it easier to win than now.
During the week Jake went back to the restaurant near dinner time, his mother and Anna congratulated him on winning the first regional championship game, Eva was not so anxious about the game because she was busy at the restaurant.
In addition, this was already the fourth regional championship of Jake and he always won in the end, so until the national championship games Eva would be much quieter with the other games in the year, she did not know that Jake had already ordered a phone for him and for her so Eva could know the outcome of the games and other things.
After seeing that things were okay again he continued his double training the week, he was training for both basketball and marathon, and both pieces of training helped him get stronger in both sports.
In the training of the basketball team after that day everyone left together the whole group became much more united, yet three groups were naturally formed, Jake was more with Mark and Lucas and the three became much more friends.
David got on well with Jake as well, but he was more into Harrison because his team-place spots were at risk, and Carter was more with Nathan, only Jake and Mark were everyone's friends, the others had some disagreements between them at times.
Lucas always wanted to learn something from Jake and was very excited and honest that he was the kind of people Jake liked to make friends with, so Jake did not mind teaching Lucas what he knew he could only do so well after hundreds of games of experience in the space of imagination training.
Jake and Mark got much closer together after Jake started doing several training sessions with Mark, from training to play in the Center's position and Alley-oop between several plays they trained together.
A lot was said until Mark improved a lot last year by training longer than the others with Jake, Coach Mike was the one who was happier with all this, after all in this new style of game of the team they had to have enough entourage so that they did not have many turnovers in the plays.
So after a few more days finally came the day of the second game of the Elite team in the regional championship, Jake woke up early and went down to eat breakfast prepared by Eva.
After Jake left and went to the scene of the game, when he arrived there almost everyone had arrived as always, the coach was going through a few plays with Lucas and Nathan who would start playing today again.
Jake went to talk a few more things with Mark while he waited for the beginning of the game, the opponents in this second regional championship game were the Flagami team, the players featured in this team were PG Ezra and SF Colton.
Unlike the team in the first game, they did not seem to be willing to lose the game even against the Elite team, so after a few minutes the game began, Mark took possession of the ball to the Elite team.
Jake received the ball and advanced calmly to the attack, when the Elite team was all in the attacking block Jake passed the ball to Nathan who was more open by the right, Nathan advanced until the opposing SG appeared in the defense.
So Nathan passed the ball to Carter who went to the bottom of the court on the right of the attack to receive the ball, Carter received and already passed to Lucas who was in the Free Throw free area, so Lucas made the mid-range shot to make the 2 points for the Elite team.
Today was Nathan and Lucas's second game in high school and as they played in Middle School they were no longer nervous in today's game, Ezra got the ball to start the first attack of the Flagami team.
Ezra was keeping away from Jake who had an average of 10 steals per game and passed the ball to the SG of his team, the SG tried to pass through Nathan, but Nathan kept the distance and defended tight, so the SG passed to Colton who stayed free to receive the ball.
Before Lucas got to the defense Colton already made the mid-range shot to make 2 points for the Flagami team and tie the game.
Lucas was annoyed at being careless in defense which allowed the play of the opposing team, but Jake who received the ball said it was well and started another move for the Elite team.
Unlike the attack Ezra did not give space to Jake when he was in the defense, nevertheless, Jake that had a good dominion of the ball did not care and went to the attack while keeping a distance of Ezra, Jake passed the ball to Nathan before arriving in the line of three points.
Nathan made the turn on his opponent and passed the ball to Carter who opened at the bottom of the court to receive the ball again, Carter passed the ball to Mark when the opposing PF came to defend, Mark who had more space in the inside area if pulled away from his defender and made a mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
Ezra started another attack for the Flagami team, Jake continued giving space for Ezra to advance, before reaching the three-point line Ezra passed the ball to Colton again, Lucas came to the defense but Colton passed the ball to the Flagami team PF.
The PF got the ball and turned on Carter, Carter pressed the marking and managed to disrupt the attack, so the mid-range shot of the PF did not enter and Mark went up to take the rebound, Mark passed the ball to Jake that calmed the Elite team and went to the attack.
Jake passed the ball to Lucas who with freedom advanced until after the line of three points, Colton came to the defense and Lucas passed the ball to Nathan who was free in the left corner of the court, Nathan tried the shot out at the bottom of the court and The ball did not come in this time either.
This time Jake went up to take the rebound and passed the ball to Carter who was free to do the layup and 2 more points for the Elite team, Jake realized that the two teams were at a very fast pace in the first period which caused more mistakes in the attack.
But now he could not control much of the pace of the game and so he just had to wait to see and do his best, coach Mike realized the same as Jake, but he could not change the style of play because of this, moreover, he trusted Jake and his players for victory.
On the other side was what the coach of the opposing team was wanting to see for that game, as the Elite team was much stronger the best he could do was wait for the opponents to err more so they could have a chance.
Ezra went for a new attack on the Flagami team, Jake was giving him space, but Ezra knew Jake was very good at defense and so he did not want to risk so he passed the ball to the SG of his team, freed from Nathan with a feint and made a mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Flagami team.
Jake started another attack for the Elite team, after passing through the middle of the court he passed the ball to Carter who was but behind in that move, Carter advanced with the ball and passed to Lucas who was on the left side of the court within the line of three points.
Lucas saw Colton coming to the defense and passed the ball to Jake, Jake passed the ball to Carter who was free after all that rotation and Carter made the mid-range shot to make the 2 points for the Elite team.
The game continued like this and the Elite team finished the first period winning by 2 points of difference, the two teams erred many attacks and made fewer points, but Jake and Carter disrupted the opposing players and so the Elite team got the advantage.
Jake had 6 points and 3 assists as well as 1 steal in that first period and was the best player in the Elite team, Nathan and Lucas were also well and confident, but missed some important attacks, the team had fewer mistakes with Jake in charge of all but it was only against weaker teams.
The second period began and Ezra started another attack, he advanced to the attack and passed the ball to the SG of his team, but Jake who was further away from Ezra leu comes to the play and intercepted the pass making a steal, so Jake did not run to the attacking block because they still had two Flagami team players on the way.
With calm Jake advanced and then passed the ball to Nathan, Nathan with freedom advanced until after the line of three points and passed to Mark, Mark passed the ball to Lucas who was open from the right and Lucas made the mid-range shot doing another 2 points for the Elite team.
Ezra advanced to the attack again, he passed the ball to Colton who opened wide to the left to escape Jake, so Lucas came behind and Colton pass by Lucas skillfully and made the shot out to make 3 more points for the Flagami team.
The Flagami team was excited to be having a fiercer game against the Elite team who always won the games easily, yet they did not dare to underestimate their opponents, especially Jake, Carter, and Mark.
Mark despite not appearing much in the game was totally nullifying the Center opponent in the defense and even made a block in that game, besides taking 4 rebounds in the first period of play.
Jake grabbed the ball and advanced calmly to the attack, Ezra was doing a close defense of Jake, even if it did not give many results still jumbled Jake to make the moves, Jake passed the ball to Mark that left the inside area to receive the ball.
Mark passed the ball to Nathan who was open from the right, Nathan tried to leave the opponent's defense PG, but the opponent continued on up, so Nathan passed the ball to Jake, Jake advanced to the place where Mark was within the three-point line, Mark set the screen and disrupted Ezra, so Jake can make the mid-range shot to make two more points for the Elite team.
This was one of the plays that Jake had trained a lot with Mark the pick-and-roll, it was difficult before because Mark was more in the internal area, but with this new style of play, it was a move that could happen more often.
The Elite team was still ahead at the end of the second period with 6 points, Jake had 12 points and 6 assists in the game so far and got 3 steals, midway through the game the trained Mike put David and Harrison in place of Nathan and Lucas.
Even though the two played less nervous today they still made a lot of mistakes in the attack but were very good in defense and so the Elite team had the advantage but coach Mike was happy to have this game as an example to teach some things for these new players.
The third period was calmer for the Elite team, with Harrison and David entering the team got better in the attacks, in the defense they still managed to hold well and Jake moved more in the defense to seek to intercept more passes and get steals.
Ezra who saw this did not like to be ignored and tried a shot from outside after getting the ball back from the SG of the team to make 3 points for the Flagami team, it was only the seventh point of Ezra who was always worried about Jake in defense , Jake also realized that the opponent was wanting to participate more in the game.
Jake picked up the ball and went to arrange another attack, he passed the ball before reaching the middle of the court for David, David advanced calmly and passed the ball to Carter who was more open at the bottom of the court on the left side this time, when the PF was coming to defense Carter passed to Jake.
Jake passed the line of three points and accelerated while Mark set the screen and Jake drive to the basket to make the dunk and 2 more points for the Elite team.
Ezra grabbed the ball and advanced to the attack, arriving before the three-point line he passed the ball to Colton, Colton had Harrison on defense and passed to the PF of the Flagami team, the PF passed back to Ezra who was free behind the line of three points.
Ezra tried the shot from outside and Jake appeared to try the block, Ezra saw Jake coming up together and changed the trajectory of the shot at the last moment to avoid the block, but Jake still touched the ball lightly and the ball did not enter who took the rebound was Carter and passed the ball to Jake.
Ezra was impressed by Jake's speed of reaction to this move, yet he still had to attack if not his team had no chance to win with the Elite team not missing another attack.
Jake advanced to the attack and passed the ball to David, David passed the ball to Harrison who took Colton from the play and went to the left side, Flagami team SG came to cover the move and Harrison returned the ball to Jake, Jake passed to David who was free at the bottom of the court on the right.
David took the shot from outside and made three more points for the Elite team, so the Elite team continued like this and won by 18 points in the end, Jake made 30 points at the end of the game and made 12 assists plus 11 steals and managed another Triple Double.
Jake would try to increase that record to the maximum he could, but with that style of play it would be harder with the stronger opponents, Jake felt that the teams this year were better, he did not know if it was only in the Miami area or the national championship It would be like this.
Even so, the Elite team was stronger this year and also had reservations in case someone played a game badly, so he was confident in his team.
After a week Elite team won the third game of the regional championship, they won by 24 points and it was an easier game than the second, Jake made another Triple Double and already had a record of 19 in a row.
He hoped he could keep it that way in the state championship at least, Lucas and Nathan played better this game and were getting the hang of high school play, Jake was sure they would do well after Jake and the others formed.
The next day Jake went to the restaurant to tell Eva and Anna about the news, they were both very happy with it, only two games left for Jake to win the regional championship and go to the state championship.
The restaurant was making a lot of success in those last weeks too, many people who came to visit the city of Miami stayed in the nearby hotels to be able to eat in the restaurant as well.
Many returned to stay in the same hotels only to be able to in the restaurant again, the hotels that had the problem of customers not coming back again were the ones who were happier with it.
The restaurant was also working well with all reservations booked, so there was no longer any improvement, after all, Eva and Anna said they would not like to increase the value of the dishes, so it just kept working the same way.
Some gastronomic critics of the newspapers came to do a survey and ended up making compliments to the restaurant, after all, it was not a luxury restaurant so had only to have good food and good service to be commended.
Julius was highly praised by critics saying that he could even work in restaurants with Michelin stars, but Julius did not want that stress in his life anymore and was happy with the restaurant.
Jake asked Eva if she had an interest in creating branches for the restaurant in other cities or places and Eva said she was satisfied with only 1 restaurant but Anna said it was best to wait a few years before thinking about it.
After all only the restaurant food was well known and the restaurant brand not so opening branches would not work for the time being.
Jake agreed to this, he just suggested the branches because he had separated some places to buy when Emily did the research for him, but it looked like he would not have use for those places.
The next day Oliver called Jake to his house, it seems that the things Jake asked for had arrived so Jake went to Oliver's house, and the maid took Jake to the living room and not the office as usual.
"Hi Oliver, thank you for solving this for me, I got used to asking things for you because before I could not buy anything by myself."
"No problem, I have an office that can easily take care of these things for me, besides, it's nice to have a lawyer take care of when they sign contracts, the salesmen get more honest."
So Jake received three cell phones that were big and heavy as he remembered seeing in his past life, Jake had no cell phone of that type and only bought it when he had internet access on his cell phone.
Jake received the numbers and stored everything correctly, he would give one of the cell phones to Anna beside him his mother's, Jake saw that Oliver had taken advantage and bought some cell phones too, it was useful to be able to talk outside the home, especially for a lawyer like him.
So Oliver handed the car keys and documents to Jake and they went out to see the car, Jake was very pleased, after all, it was just a popular car to be able to ride in the city, Jake thought to keep this car until they get the money invested actions.
So he could buy a better car and even a new home for himself and his mother, after all, he would have to travel a lot in college and the NBA games and it would not even be worth having a home for him in those places.
"I liked the car thank you very much, Oliver."
"Stay here for a while, Jake, how's your mother's restaurant going?"
It seemed that Oliver wanted to talk even as he asked as he placed his hand on Jake's left shoulder and pushed it lightly as he walked into the garden where he had a table and chairs ready as well as some snacks.
Jake who realized this was in no hurry to leave and went with Oliver to the garden while he smiled.
"The restaurant is doing very well, better than I thought when I opened it if it was not a gift for my mother and investment I would certainly recover in a little more than a year, the restaurant already has the reserves full every day, I am happy for my mother."
"Sounds good indeed, I'm going back there for dinner another day, I loved the dessert and found it interesting that it had several different dishes there, so I can eat Italian and French food at the same dinner."
"I think things go well when they're done well and willingly, my mother did not even research anything and just made the menu the way she wanted it now people liked it."
"I know it was you who chose the place and reformed the restaurant, this was also very important in the success of the restaurant, if it were a bad place, none of that would be so successful."
"Thanks for the compliment, how's business going?"
"It's going well, my father is very excited about the new camera, next week I think he'll call you to see the finished product if nothing goes wrong next month goes to our stores."
"I'm happy to see that it's working out, it's now the company's continuing to develop new technologies and in PD and I'm sure everyone is successful."
"That and thanks to you too, Jake, my dad was disheartened by the company that had not been developing for years and was thinking of moving to Joseph to take advantage of retirement."
"But Joseph is still very immature for business, he has to study a few more years before he knows how to guide this company, so the company could end up even going bankrupt without creating the digital camera."
"Now my father is excited again with the company and so when Joseph takes over the company will be well again, and he will be prepared everything is working out."
"But you do not seem to be excited about it Oliver, I realized you called me to talk to forget the problems maybe? You can tell me then what's going on."
"You're very insightful for your age, you're right I'm in trouble right now, you should know how I told you that I never liked very troublesome things, so I did not work with my father in the company."
"I built my own law firm without much experience and I was lucky to succeed and hire qualified people, so I'm happy with my work."
"But even though it does not seem like I care a lot about my family, Joseph and my father, that's why I'm helping my father with the company now after you've said the company could go bankrupt."
"After all, even though I did not like the company very much, I did not want to see what my father built for so many years disappearing, now my father is implicating Joseph these last days, and I'm worried about that."
Jake thought it was nothing serious after all, he lunges with Joseph almost every day and his friend does not seem to be concerned about anything but studies now.
But Jake knew Oliver was not the type to worry about anything, so he got more curious about it.
"What's going on between Matthew and Joseph? I talk to Joseph every day and he does not seem to be worried about anything but studies."
"That's because I asked my father not to tell Joseph about this until he entered a university so as not to interfere with his studies, my father is implying a lot with Liza to Joseph's girlfriend."
So Jake was surprised again because Matthew cared for Liza since Liza was good at school and from a wealthy family, it was hard to imagine why.
"I can not understand this, I do not think I have any problems with Liza for without Joseph's girlfriend."
"I think so too, but my dad did not like her when he met her, he said that Liza's personality was bad and she was not a good girl and could bring a lot of trouble for Joseph if they got married when Joseph took over."
"So my father wanted Joseph to break up with Liza now, I tried to talk to him, but it looks like nothing can change his mind."
After hearing this, Jake could not say anything more, because he thought Matthew was right in everything he said, just that Jake did not think it should decide if they could marry or not, after all, Jake knew that Joseph liked Liza and Liza really loved Joseph.
Even if Liza could cause problems for Joseph in the future if she could not improve her personality as long as she loved and was good to Joseph, that was fine, but this was just Jake's point of view and he did not think Matthew was wrong.
So Jake could not give any useful counsel to Oliver that wanted the peace of the family, but Oliver did not seem to want to let Jake stay out of this situation.
"What do you think about that Jake?"
"I think if Joseph and Liza love each other they should get married if they wanted and be happy, but I do not think Matthew is wrong with what he said, only that our views are different."
"That's a shame, if you thought my father was wrong I'd ask you to talk to him to convince him, but I do not think we can do that, do you have any suggestions that might help with this?"
Now Oliver left Jake in an uncomfortable position, after all, Jake did not like Liza, if she did not marry his friend Jake would be happy if Joseph was not sad about it, but now Oliver asked him to help them get away, it was difficult for Jake.
Yet he could not deny Oliver's plea for help since Oliver had done so much for him over the years, so Jake tried to think sincerely about a way to help Liza get Matthew's approval.
In fact, Oliver asked Jake to help because he knew that if Jake told Matthew that Liza could be a good wife to Joseph, Matthew would take Jake's opinion seriously and might even change his mind.
But Jake could not do that because it would be a big lie that he would be telling, after all, he does not approve of Liza staying with his friend, he just does not intrude because he believes that when he has love, any relationship can work.
"I think I have an idea that could work, but I do not think either Joseph or Liza and her family will like this idea."
"You can talk, any attempt is welcome."
"I think Liza could commit to going to some etiquette and social behavior classes and doing a few sessions with a psychologist, that could help her better develop her character and personality while she's still young."
Oliver was shocked by this suggestion of Jake, so he had said that no one would like this suggestion, but this was really feasible, after all, it was for the sake of Liza and Joseph and certainly could help her a lot to have a better personality and prove that she loves Joseph.
Jake did not give this suggestion to offend Liza, he saw this once on television in an interview with a celebrity who was saying that she had a lousy personality when young not even the family could handle her but as the family was rich they tried this method and it worked out very well.
After all, there are many reasons for a person's personality to develop, but a person as a young person could change if they were properly led by professionals.
After that, Oliver said he would think about it, after all, he could not just say that to Liza, she would surely be offended by it, but if it was done Matthew would surely approve of their relationship and even improve his opinion for Liza if she accepts this.
Jake got his new car and went straight to school, he still had class and training today, after all soon the next Elite team game would happen, the pieces of training were going very well, with this new style of play they could have many more variations in the tactics and change several moves.
Coach Mike wanted to use this new style of play to catch the strongest surprise teams in the games, but he had to make a lot of adjustments and the players had to get experience with this new style of play in the games.
In addition, coach Mike had to put Lucas and Nathan to get experience in the games, he was counting on the two to lead the team from next year without Jake in the team the other players would have to play much better and not make mistakes to be the champions because there would be no more players to cover their mistakes.
In addition to this training Jake was still going to the training ground to run every day, he kept the same intensity in training every day just to improve the body's resistance, it ran 35 km to a 30 minutes average and every 10 km , then he ate a bar of stamina and increased the pace of running.
So Jake's stamina bars were decreasing in quantity almost every day, but he got one every 3 days of training, in those 5 years that he used very few he still had more than 400 bars of stamina saved, would give him training for a year quietly.
The other week Jake would have to talk to Oliver about the new digital camera as Oliver had said, and it was time for Emily to report on the investments he had made in recent years.
Jake could not wait for the internet and computers to be more like what he remembered so he could make his investments much more easily, yet it was good because he came from the future and knew what was going on in the economy.
Jake woke up in the morning and went down to eat his breakfast that had been prepared by Eva, Jake liked that she did it for him and Jake also thought that so Eva could rest more.
After all, she went out every day almost 5 in the morning and came back late at night, even though she did not seem tired because she was very happy and excited about the restaurant Eva would still have to be careful with her body.
"You said the other day that you have new players on your team, how are they?"
"Lucas is very cool and fun, besides, he said he was my fan and that's why I like him more, Nathan is quieter, but he seems very cool too."
"In addition, the two play very well and can lead the team to victory in the next few years, this year they only help the team as reserves."
"But did not you say they were starters in the first games of that regional championship?"
"That was because Coach Mike wanted to give them experience and also confidence coming into the team as headlines in the first year, but today that's the semifinal they started as reserves and just got in the middle of the game maybe."
Coach Mike certainly trusted David and Harrison a lot more than Lucas and Nathan for important games and with the change in team style David and Harrison will be much easier to score in the toughest games.
Even if they have difficulty in defense if the team does not lose attacks we can already guarantee the advantage and victory as it is done before, Jake saw that his teammates were training a lot in every week mid-range shots so as not to miss many attacks.
"I'll go then mother, good work for you later."
"Good luck in the game too, do not forget to call me to tell you about your win after the game, I have not even tried this phone yet, I want to hear good news from you."
"You can count on me, Mother."
After that Jake went to the scene of the game, getting there he was still one of the first because he had gone by car this time, everyone was coming and getting ready for the game.
Soon the coach announced that David and Harrison would start playing as Jake thought it would be, Lucas and Nathan were sad but understood well the coach's motives for it.
The opposing team for this fourth regional championship game would be the Allapattah team, they had three players who had a greater prominence, the SG of the team that was called Levi, was fast and gave many assists besides doing well mid-range shots.
The team's SF was another outstanding player, his name was Joshua and he was fast and good with passes as well as Levi, but Joshua likes more than making individual plays and finishing the plays with dunks or layups.
The third highlight was Center Aaron, Aaron was a player who despite his height was still a very fast player, so would be a good test for Mark's defense, Allapattah's PG was not very skillful and missed passes in All the games.
So Jake could do well in this game, but with Levi and Joshua the Allapattah team had a style of play similar to the current Elite team, moreover, journalists said it was a shame because the Allapattah team could do well this year in the championship state and until they reach the national championship if they were not in the same region of the Elite team that wins for 4 consecutive years.
After a while the game began, Mark went up to take possession of the ball to the Elite team, even if Aaron was fast to a Center he was still lower and lower in defensive techniques than Mark, so this would be an interesting dispute.
Jake grabbed the ball and walked calmly into the attack while his teammates positioned themselves in the attack, David unclasped and Jake passed the ball to him, so David made a feint and passed by Levi and passed the ball to Carter who had been more open in the bottom right corner of the court.
Carter saw that he had space and so did the mid-range shot to make the first two points of the Elite team, Carter was one of the most favored with this change of style of play, he trained quite a few mid-range shots and now could help the team in the attack.
The Allapattah team's PG received the ball and started the first attack for his team, he advanced and passed the ball to Levi before the middle of the court, Levi increased speed and quickly arrived before the line of three points, David approached in the defense keeping distance.
So Levi passed the ball to Joshua who was more open when Harrison arrived for the defense Joshua passed the ball to the Allapattah team's PG that was coming in the attack, Jake did not give space and approached to defend, so the PG passed the ball to Levi again.
Levi managed to dribble in David and made the mid-range shot to make 2 points for his team and tie the game, Jake got the ball and started another attack, this time Jake passed the ball to Harrison who was more open on the left, Harrison stayed with the ball for a while and then passed to Carter who came to the left corner.
The PF team Allapattah approached to defend and Carter passed the ball to Jake, Jake threw an aerial ball and Mark took the air to make the dunk and 2 more points to the Elite team, with that Alley-oop the fans started to cheer and morale Elite team increased.
Jake knew that Mark would have a difficult match against Aaron and with this move Jake hoped Mark would have the confidence to make a good game.
Allapattah's PG got the ball and started another attack for his team, he advanced with the ball and then passed the ball to Joshua, Jake still did not know if the PG of that team was really bad or if it was an opponent's trick then at the beginning of the game he would continue to observe.
Joshua followed with the ball and soon passed to the PF of his team, the PF received and Carter already approached to defend, so the PF did not delay with the ball and passed to Aaron, Aaron received the ball with back to Mark and made a finely before turning, Mark fell on the feint and so had to just watch Aaron doing the dunk and 2 more points for the Allapattah team.
Just as Jake thought Aaron would be a difficult opponent for Mark to defend because of the difference in style of the game between them, so Jake got the ball and advanced to the attack, after advancing for a while he passed the ball to Harrison who had come back to receive the ball.
Harrison made a feint and got rid of Joshua and went into the inside area, Harrison saw that he could not move further and passed the ball to David who was behind, so Harrison and Carter opened to receive the ball, David passed the ball in place where Harrison and Carter had left and Jake was there to receive the ball.
Jake who was free advanced and made a slam dunk to make 2 more points for the Elite team and for the joy of the fans, this was one of the moves that the Elite team started working after they changed the style of play.
As Jake was no longer trapped having to arm the moves he could move more and get balls so free to make the points more easily, even though Jake could easily make the individual moves was good when he could get a ball when he was free to score.
The PG received the ball and started another move for the Allapattah team, this time in the same way as in the other moves he passed the ball to Levi and was not until the attack quickly, Levi passed the ball to Aaron who quickly passed the ball to Joshua who was free behind the three-point line on the left side of their attack.
So Joshua did not miss the opportunity and tried a shot from outside before Harrison arrived for the defense, so he made 3 more points for the Allapattah team, cheering the game up again.
At the end of the first period, the Elite team was winning by 3 points difference because Jake got a steal and a shot out at the end of the first period, Jake had made 9 points and 3 assists and was again the team name in the first period.
The problem in this Elite team game was not in the attack because they lost only two attacks and one of them was a 3-point shot from Jake that missed and Mark cannot take the rebound.
The problem was that the Allapattah team's attack was very good and the Elite team's defense was failing to stop them, Mark was doing well in defense and Aaron had only 4 points but Levi and Joshua had 12 points in the first period, so it was difficult for David and Harrison to defend against them.
At the beginning of the second period the Allapattah team's PG started another attack, he passed the ball to Levi who advanced calmly in the attack, reaching the three-point line he passed the ball to Joshua.
Joshua easily removed Harrison from the play and passed the ball to his team PF, the PF passed the ball quickly to the PG again, the PG passed to Aaron who turned quickly to layup, Mark tried the block and ended up making a foul in Aaron.
Aaron hit both Free Throw attempts and scored 2 more points for the Allapattah team, but Mark was not dismayed by the foul because he thought he might end up stopping Aaron.
Jake received the ball and started another play for the Elite team, he advanced to the attacking block and passed to David who was close, David advanced with the ball and passed to Carter who had opened the right to receive.
Carter got rid of PF's opponent and went to the inside area, advancing he saw that he could not continue and passed the ball to Harrison who was more open, Harrison made the mid-range shot and made 2 more points for the Elite team.
David and Harrison were anxious to do well the attack moves as they knew they were not able to stop the opponents in the defense.
The Allapattah team's PG advanced with the ball to start another attack, he passed the ball to Levi who advanced for a while and passed the ball to his team's PF, the PF passed to Joshua who was more open.
Joshua received the ball and made a step back to make the shot outside and make 3 more points for the Allapattah team, even if Joshua liked to make individual plays he did not risk doing much because of Jake.
At this point in the game Jake must have realized that the PG of the Allapattah team was not really a good player and so did not have the ball for a long time, so Jake must be waiting for a chance to steal the ball, so the players took more care in their moves.
Jake grabbed the ball and started another attack on the Elite team, he advanced until after the middle of the court and passed the ball to Harrison who was more open on the left, Harrison passed the ball to Mark who had left the inside area.
Mark passed the ball to David who was more open from the right and David passed the ball back to Jake who was behind the three-point line, Levi and Joshua who were making the move moved to try to steal the ball from Jake.
Jake who saw this easily passed with a crossover by Levi and Mark set the screen for Jake to pass easily, Levi who was left behind and Joshua who was fumbled by Mark tried to recover in the move, but Jake passed to David who was in the bottom of the block right behind the three-point line.
David shot the ball out and scored 3 points for the Elite team, David made far fewer attempts at shots from outside with this new style change, but he still took advantage of the opportunities he had to score.
The Allapattah team's PG picked up the ball and calmly started another attack, he advanced until after the middle of the court and passed the ball to Levi who was advancing to the attack, Levi passed the ball to Joshua, Harrison appeared to disrupt the attack and Joshua returned the ball to Levi.
Levi made the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Allapattah team, it was a point-to-point game that the Elite team was not accustomed to doing in regional league games, opponents were really good and could be in the national championship on another occasion.
Jake got the ball and started another attack, he advanced to the court and passed the ball to Carter, Carter who was making a good game passed the ball to David who was on the right, David passed to Mark in the inner area.
Mark tried to turn, but Aaron was quick and followed all of Mark's moves in the attack, so Mark returned the ball to Jake who was out of the three-point line, Jake took the shot from outside to make 3 more points for the Elite team.
What was supposed to be an exciting contest between the Center's two teams ended with the two erased in the game, Mark could not get the attack because Aaron could follow all his moves, and Aaron could not attack because Mark had taken the right time on defense.
Of course, this was because they had more attack options and did not have to force the moves otherwise it would be a much more exciting match.
The Allapattah team's PG advanced to another attack, he passed the ball to Levi before the middle of the court and Levi advanced to the right in the attacking court, Levi passed the ball to the PF of his team, the PF who could not Carter got the ball to Joshua.
Joshua passed back to Allapattah's PG, PG attempted to pass the ball to the PF again, but Jake anticipated the play and intercepted the pass making a steal, so Jake rushed forward to the attacking court.
No one from the defense of the Allapattah team was able to keep up with Jake's speed, so Jake went alone and only stopped after a dunk and 2 more points for the Elite team.
At the end of the second period, the Elite team won by 9 points of advantage, even the Elite team did not miss many attacks and Jake got 3 more steals the Allapattah team managed to make some 3-point plays with Levi and Joshua shooting from outside to make the points.
Jake already had 23 points in the game and 7 assists, plus 4 steals in the game, even though he was the only one had a highlight in the game, Mark and Carter managed to disrupt more of his opponents, even so, they did not have much advantage in a difficult game these.
Nathan and Lucas were very excited to enter the third period and play the second half of the game, they were good at defense and could get in the way of the opposing team if Levi and Joshua scoreless, the game would be easier for the Elite team.
David and Harrison knew they had a good game, but they had many defensive faults and so they could not help the team anymore in a game like this, even if they did not want to leave they knew that it would be best for the team of several ways.
Jake who saw this can not help but smile, it seemed that he was the only one who understood the thoughts of coach Mike, in a difficult game like these coach Mike would not risk changing two players of the team who were having a good game by two that came from the Middle School.
Exactly as Jake thought coach Mike only spent a few plays with David and Harrison and neither thought to put Lucas and Nathan in the game, with all players besides Jake did not understand why.
Coach Mike was worried that the team would become unstable with two players with less experience in a difficult game like this, even though Lucas and Nathan are even better at defense, their attacks may end up failing because of nervousness.
If the Elite team was losing the coach could have to make the change to improve the defense of the team to try to win the game, but with the team winning was more difficult, after all the advantage was only increasing with the passing of the game.
With that David and Harrison played more excited with the confidence of the coach and Lucas and Nathan had to understand that this was the coach's decision and they were still new players who were already lucky to have the opportunity to play.
At the beginning of the third period Allapattah Team PG started another attack for his team, he was the one with the most pressure on the team because besides not having the confidence of his teammates was still being defended by Jake who could steal the ball with any carelessness of it.
The PG passed the ball to Joshua who was on the team's attacking block, Joshua advanced and felt that Harrison was better in defense for that period, so he passed the ball to his team's PF.
The PF kept the ball while keeping the distance from Carter, so the PF passed the ball to Levi who was more open to the right, Levi passed the ball quickly before the defense came to Aaron.
Aaron made a feint and moved away from Mark's tight defense to make a mid-range shot and make 2 more points for the Allapattah team.
Jake got the ball and started another attack for the Elite team, he advanced to the attacking field and passed the ball to Carter who was more open to the right, Carter made the feint and pass by the PF of the opposing team finished the move with a layup to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
Carter was much more confident in his attacks after the team changed the style of play, many plays like this where the inside area is almost empty are perfect for Carter and Jake to try the individual play.
The opposing team's PG started another attack and after advancing for a while passed the ball to Levi, Levi advanced calmly and passed the ball to Joshua again, Joshua tried to get rid of Harrison.
But Harrison was well on defense and Joshua tried to pass to his team's PF instead of passing to his team's PG who had lost the confidence of his teammates, but Jake hoped for it and intercepted the pass by making another steal in the game.
Jake did not rush into the attack and passed the ball to David as he went into the attacking court, David passed the ball to Jake again and went to the right side of the court, so Jake passed the ball to Harrison who was free on the left.
Harrison thought about trying the mid-range shot but did not try because he saw that Joshua was waiting for that, so Harrison passed the ball to Mark in the inside area, Mark who was well defended by Aaron passed the ball back to Jake.
Jake passed the ball quickly to David who was free after Carter set the screen, David received the ball and made the step back to try the shot from outside and make 3 more points for the Elite team.
By the end of the third period, the Elite team was winning by 15 points difference and had virtually guaranteed victory, Jake had 29 points and 12 assists throughout the game, during that time he passed the ball over to David and Harrison who were morally higher and so did not score so many points.
Jake also had 8 steals now and was close to another Triple Double, he had been the main responsible for the team to increase the advantage by disrupting the opponent's attack, so the Elite team had a bigger advantage.
For the fourth period coach Mike placed Lucas and Nathan since the game was practically won for the Elite team, David and Harrison came out satisfied knowing they did their best in the game.
For Nathan and Lucas who were coming in now would try their best to have coach Mike observe their skills and could trust them to enter a game like that in the future, Jake thought that was the right mindset if they wanted to join the team.
Jake received the ball and started the attack in the fourth period, he advanced and passed the ball to Nathan before the middle of the court, Nathan who was in the mood to play well if they controlled and advanced calmly to the attack.
Nathan passed the ball to Carter who was again open on the right to receive the ball, Carter passed the ball to Lucas who was on the left, Lucas pass by Joshua and advanced to the inside area and did a layup to make 2 more points for the team Elite.
The Allapattah team's PG advanced into the attack, he passed the ball to Levi who just as his teammates had not yet given up on the game, Levi advanced and soon felt that Nathan's defense that had entered now was much better than David.
So Levi passed the ball to the PF his team, the PF who also had difficulty the whole game with Carter in the defense passed the ball to the PG of his team, the PG quickly passed the ball to Joshua.
Joshua felt a huge pressure coming from Lucas in the defense and felt that he could not pass for him, but the time of possession of the ball was ending so he tried a shot of mid-range with Lucas pressing.
As Joshua was already tired in the fourth period of play and with pressure from Lucas defense he ended up missing the mid-range shot, Jake went up to get the rebound as Mark and Aaron were getting in the way.
So Jake advanced calmly to arrange another attack for the Elite team, he advanced until after the middle of the court and passed the ball to Lucas who was more open on the left, Lucas held the ball for a while and passed to Carter who was on the right.
Carter grabbed the ball a little and passed Jake who was off the three-point line, Jake quickly passed the ball to Nathan who was free in the corner on the right side, Nathan received the ball and made a mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
Jake was working more on the plays with Lucas and Nathan to give more confidence to them in an important game like this and the two were not disappointing him, Jake could feel that Nathan was improving a lot with each game and getting used to the rhythm of the basketball in the high school.
Jake could already see why he was the MVP of the Middle School National Championship last year, the opposing PG started another attack on the Allapattah team, he advanced for a while and passed the ball to Joshua on the right.
Joshua held onto the ball for a while and tried to make a feint to fool Lucas who stood firm in defense, so Joshua passed the ball to the PF of his team, the PF kept the ball for a time and passed to Levi, Levi who did not managed to get rid of Nathan's defense passed the ball to Aaron who turned well and did the layup using his body to protect the ball and got 2 more points for the Allapattah team.
Nathan and Lucas were very good at defense, Nathan could be at Mark's level if he did not consider the position in the team, as MVP of the national championship was normal that he knew how to defend well.
But Lucas was even better than Nathan in the defense, Lucas was at a level that surpassed Carter when Carter was in his first year after all Lucas could also play as PF because of that.
Seeing that the Allapattah team was struggling to attack using Levi and Joshua, so they had to bet on Aaron who was being better defended by Mark, but Aaron was getting more advantage in the game.
Mark realized this and did not like it because he thought he was being underestimated, Jake got the ball and advanced for another attack, he reached the attack and passed the ball to Nathan who was more open on the right.
Nathan passed the ball to Carter who was on the right too, Carter held the ball a little and then returned to Jake who was out of the line of three points, Jake received the ball and made a shot from outside with a set shot to make 3 more points for the Elite team.
The PG of the opposing team began to organize another attack for the team Allapattah, after passing in the middle of the court he passed the ball to the PF of his team, PF held the ball a little and had to pass to Joshua on the right because Carter was arriving to defend.
Joshua tried to make a pass to Lucas, but Lucas was firm in defense, so Joshua passed the ball back to Levi, Levi quickly passed the ball to Aaron in the inside area.
Aaron made a turn and tried to dunk, but Mark who was paying attention in the move jumped in time to make the block and reject the attack of Aaron, this time he managed without a foul.
Jake got the ball and saw that this was Mark's way of telling Aaron and the Allapattah team that they would not let them do whatever they wanted with him on defense.
Jake grabbed the ball and waited for everyone to calm down after Mark's block, so Jake went to the attack and passed the ball to Nathan, Nathan was quietly advancing until before the three-point line.
Nathan made a pass to Lucas who was on the left, Lucas held the ball for a while and passed to Carter who was open on the right side of the attack, Carter weighed if he should make a single move but decided to pass the ball back to Jake.
Jake got the ball and read well the move making a pass over, Mark took the ball in the air and made the dunk to make 2 more points for the Elite team, the cheer was lively with more this Alley-oop and well after Mark has made a block on the defense.
With that move, the team morale Allapattah fell lower because they were even further behind on the scoreboard, so they lost the will to win as they knew it was no longer possible.
After that, the game became much easier for the Elite team, so after a while, the game ended with the Elite team winning by 25 points, this was for sure the most difficult game they had.
Perhaps neither the regional championship final that would be in the next game nor some state championship games were so difficult than this game, so Jake agreed that it was a shame that the Allapattah team was in the Miami area if they were in another state could even be in the national championship.
Jake made 37 points in the game and had 16 assists, plus 11 steals, these numbers show how Jake struggled and played well in that game so Elite team could end up winning, he got another Triple Double to raise the record.
After the end of the game, they greeted their opponents who made a great game and everyone began to pack their things to leave.
Coach Mike was certainly the happiest after this game, this was a very difficult game that was not much pressure to have happened just in the regional championship semifinal, so the team had to see how effective this new style of play was.
In addition, he can see the flaws that players had in this style against more difficult opponents as in this game, these flaws could now be corrected in the pieces of training between the games.
Another good thing was that Coach Mike saw how good it is to have two reserves the time to come in and improve the team somehow and they had different characteristics from David and Harrison, so Coach Mike was very happy.
Jake got ready to leave and did not forget to call his mother to tell him that he had won this game, Eva liked to use the phone and saw that it was much more practical after Jake got into his car and went home to rest.
Over the next few days the Elite team was doing a lot of training to improve their flaws in the game, Jake was together as the captain because there was no mistake from him in the coach's report, this was normal after all Jake played hundreds of times with this and other styles of playing in your imagination training space.
Even though he listened carefully to all the tips and visions of the coach how to improve on those mistakes that the players made after the team made several training to correct these errors.
Jake was still training after that on the athletic field, after just over a week of the regional championship final Jake would run in the Chicago marathon, so Jake asked Tiffany to notify the other sponsors about this event.
Alan, who was the representative of the shaving company, said his company had never been interested in events like the marathon, but since Jake would run, and Jake is a company-sponsored athlete they asked for his brand to be put on the shirt Jake would run on the day of the marathon.
While John, who was the representative of the energy drinks company, was very interested in this marathon, his company wanted to follow other brands in the tendency to sponsor various extreme sports and recognized sports like athletics and basketball among others.
But even though the company is much bigger than the company of Tiffany and Clara they were still studying what would be the results of sponsoring Jake to see if it was worth investing in more sports.
But since Jake was offering to do more of a sport for their company, he did not have John to deny, John actually even offered that his company would also put up marathon booths to give Jake water, so their brand might appear more.
But as it was Tiffany's company that it was more than fair that her company had exclusivity at least in this marathon, Jake also wanted that in consideration of Tiffany who was his friend.
After all Jake was running this marathon to win, so Tiffany's company could have been much more prominent if only they were supporting Jake in this race, Clara's company would also have stood out because they were giving the clothes beyond the sneakers for the race.
Jake went again with his 50km run, this time he would try again without using the stamina bar, so Jake ran at a speed of 30 minutes for every 10km, so he would have to finish in 150 minutes.
With the canvas at the far right of Jake's vision it was much easier for him to maintain a perfect running pace and not force his muscles, he easily passed the 35 km, but this time he did not eat any bar of stamina and kept running.
Jake also passed the 38 km this time non-stop, so he continued and went through the 44 km before he could not take it anymore and fall from tired, but Jake was very happy about it because he finished the distance of a marathon and so he managed without the bar of stamina.
[Congratulations Jake, I confess that I am very impressed with your willpower and effort to have managed to do this, even if you have the system, few could do what you do with so much will even having achieved so many things at such a young age.]
"Thank you Fate, but I still have not got the 50 km, I know I'll get it someday, and next year I have the confidence to finish the 50 km in 150 minutes without the help of the stamina bar."
[I'm sure you can achieve this, but I think you're forgetting something very important Jake, even though you've had that goal for you, you've actually forgotten the main purpose of it all.]
"Main goal? Was it not to finish the 50 km without the stamina bar to strengthen my body and gain resistance to be sure to win the marathon?"
[Yes, but that was the goal for the Olympics marathon that will be almost a year from now, your goal now should be to finish the Chicago, New York, and Boston marathon, but that goal was what you just got.]
"What do you mean, Fate?"
[You managed to run more than 44 km today in about 132 minutes, which means you made that time in about 2 hours and 12 minutes, but the marathon is only a little over 42 km.]
[This means that you did more than the marathon in a time of 2 hours and 8 minutes without using the stamina bar, so you sure could get very close to winning the marathon with the best times and energy to spend yet.]
[In addition, we can not forget that you still had a tiring class and did training of more than 2 hours with the basketball team, which means that when you started to run you were not even close in your best physical condition.]
[So with you totally rested and more than two weeks of training I'm sure you can get used to doing this every day until marathon, missing 400 meters to the end of the race you will know by the system screen that marks the distance If you are still after someone in the race, you can even accelerate your speed for a while because you have the energy to run another 3 km.]
Hearing what the system said Jake saw that it was true and that he would not have to cheat to win this Chicago marathon in just over two weeks, so he was very happy, it hurt his pride to know that he needed to steal to win the marathon.
Jake always loved to run forever, so cheating to win was against everything Jake believed in his character, but Jake only wanted to do it this year because with much effort he was sure he could improve even more next year.
Then Jake went home very happy with it, so he came home to rest, in fact, the system was the one who was most surprised by all this, the system was part of the destiny of the world, so all his predictions were almost perfect.
But the only person who could go against the predictions of the system was Jake, the system predicted that Jake could get that time only next year if he trained with a lot of effort, at first the system had even been disappointed with Jake.
Because Jake had suggested that he would use the stamina bar to win the marathon, so the system thought Jake would choose his third job and benefit from it and after a year of training in basketball himself Jake could win the marathon with the stamina bar.
But over time the system realized that it was wrong and that Jake was just trying to save time using the stamina bar to win, in fact Jake trained a lot to be able to run a marathon without using the bar of stamina, but even so how depended on the resistance Jake's raise and his own body was not an easy thing to do.