A Marathon to Enter History
So the system was forced to change its prediction again before it was a year of normal training and with the help of the third job and the stamina bar Jake could win a marathon.
This went to in a year of extreme training as Jake was doing he could increase his stamina and with the help of the third job and without the stamina bar he could win with his own marathon effort.
But Jake did not seem to be satisfied with that and managed to lessen that estimate in 4 months, the reason for this beyond Jake's dedication every day in training was because Jake's pride to always be honest made his potential mature faster.
So his training was several times more effective and he managed to protect his pride, it was the same that happened when the Elite team was losing in the final minutes of the fourth period of the national championship final.
In that game, his team was playing very badly and Jake had to try to take the team to victory alone, in that game Jake exceeded his limit several times and managed to lead the team to victory, this time Jake again broke his limits and managed to improve.
After that Jake rested happily at home, even if Jake had a mentality of more than 40 years his body was still that of a teenager and Jake was always looking to do something new.
He had to take responsibility indicating to Matthew's company that they would go bankrupt if they did not switch to the digital camera, even though Jake knows the things of the future does not change the fact that trying to advise a company of more than 300 million to move to another product is difficult.
Jake has also never ceased struggling every day in training his basketball skills; in addition, he has always taken on the responsibility of being the captain and main player of the team.
Jake also had several sponsorship contracts that totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars all month, he had to play well and take care of his image so as not to harm these companies.
Jake also had hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment which was very stressful, even knowing that this business is sure to work.
Jake was now trying something much more difficult and important, which is to fulfill his dream of running in a competition, he had to train for months to get to that point.
And Jake still had an even bigger goal that was to win several gold medals in the Olympics, he wanted to represent his country and hear the national anthem playing from the top of the podium.
Jake was doing all of this at the age of 16 and would continue to try harder and more, just the goal of being the best basketball player in the NBA is already a goal that many have fought for a lifetime, and it is an honor for all life.
After a few days Emily finally showed up with the reports Jake had requested, he knew it was difficult to do without the help of a computer, but Jake had asked Emily months ago so he hoped she had more than enough time to organize everything.
As Jake looked at the reports that were more or less what he remembered the company's growth in the stock market, Jake was afraid he might have influenced a bit about it, but it seemed that not.
"It took me a while to get the reports because I've always been correcting the data with the stock market update."
It seems she had noticed that Jake was a little dissatisfied with the delay, but that was not why Jake was really busy over the last few weeks, he wanted to have those reports to have the confidence to increase his investment.
And in the stock market as soon as you made your investment more could give profits in a good phase as was the company Cisco in the stock market, Jake was very pleased also to see that he had the cash to receive dividends from the company stock.
So he would have to invest less money from outside and could use his own stock yield, Jake had invested $ 250,000 in 1992, now in 1995 that figure had multiplied by 5, but that could not leave Jake happier.
Because as he had no way to invest much in that time did not yield much profit, his actions which were money he did not move in 3 years was far less than he could win in a year of sponsorship.
But if someone like Matthew or Tiffany and Clara had invested a few million would already have made a few million profits, but now Jake was also thinking of investing too much every year to have more in a few years.
But Jake did not want to invest everything he had because he had other plans to make with the money, Jake had bought more than 6200 shares in 1992 with 250 thousand dollars, now he had 25 thousand shares I am worth a million and 250 thousand dollars.
In those 3 years, he got almost 100 thousand dollars with dividends received for his actions, so he wanted to buy another 910 thousand dollars in shares that give more than 18 thousand shares, so he would have more than 43 thousand shares.
Now he could use the dividend money to not have to spend all the money he had put together that year of sponsorship after buying the restaurant for Eva and also the car for him, now Jake still had close to $ 200,000 that would be used for other investment.
So Jake told Emily to invest the $ 910,000 in stock and after she'd do it that she'd report everything to him, so Jake would have something else he wanted Emily to do in the next few weeks.
Emily was very impressed with Jake because of these actions, after all, he was only thirteen when he made that first investment, even the great stock analysts thought that investing in tech companies was risky.
Emily knew that Jake was investing everything he had and that his family was not rich and could risk losing that money if she were not just Jake's assistant and lawyer in charge of making the investments she would have advised him to withdraw that amount investment while he had a profit.
But time showed that she was wrong and stock values kept rising, so when Jake told her that she wanted to see the investment report of the past few years she thought Jake would sell his shares and stay with the profit.
But Jake looked like he'd never thought of doing this and invested almost the value he'd invested before, a few weeks ago Emily had made a meeting with Oliver, Matthew, and his father and they talked about a lot of things.
But one of the subjects that were most talked about was Jake, the four people were one of the few who knew that Jake had made that investment, at that meeting when she said that the actions had valued in 5 times Matthew and Emily's father said they repented of not investing a few million.
After all, they would have a 5 times valuation in the stock, but this time Jake was investing again and Emily was sure that her father and Matthew still would not have the courage to invest in these actions, now she had to see if Jake would be right again.
After a few days if he spoke with Emily Jake passed in the restaurant to talk to his mother and Anna, the two congratulated Jake again for being in another regional championship final.
Since they were always very busy and could not talk to Jake for long, Jake had come a few times a week in the restaurant so as not to bother the two in the restaurant, the business was going well as always with the always crowded reservations.
So Jake talked to Lola for a while, but now it was dinner time, and everyone who had made reservations had already arrived so Lola as a receptionist was free for the time being.
After talking for a while Jake went home to rest, it would soon be the game of the regional championship final, even if it should not be a game harder than the game the semifinal that opponents were at the level of the national championship, would still be a game with more pressure for being the final.
The team was still training a lot to correct the mistakes in the style of game that happened in the last game, it was not much because the team managed to attack well in the game and did not waste many attacks which is important.
As the game started to slip away, Mark and Carter were using their skill at pressing to successfully stifle the game. Jake tried to focus their attacks down the middle. However, Jake did not manage to connect with it, as his teammates had hoped, and the ball went out.
So much so that when Nathan and Lucas entered the game Elite team defense had improved a lot and the opponents did not have much more space to attack, yet Coach Mike had more confidence in David and Harrison for important games like that.
Jake agreed in parts with this, they managed to win last year with much more difficulties than that year, while Mark and Carter are playing well in defense and David and Harrison play well in the attack the team can be a winner as always.
In addition, Nathan and Lucas were very skillful but they too were very young and so the coach was afraid that they could not withstand the pressure of playing in an important game, as reserves whenever the team needed they could play.
With just a few days left for the regional championship final, Matthew called Jake saying he was going to go to the company, Jake had already been warned by Oliver and so knew that it should be the new digital camera that was being produced.
So Jake was a bit nervous at the moment, after all, if the camera was bad the company would not be completely free of the risk of bankruptcy, Jake went to Matthew's company expecting the first digital camera to be a success.
Jake came into the company a little nervous still, but he calmed down when he saw that Matthew, Oliver, and the employee assigned to create the camera were quiet.
Jake thought they were in this camera business a lot longer than he knew about cameras after all Jake did not know much about it, after all, Jake's family never had much money in his past life.
When digital cameras were starting to become popular it was when Jake had suffered the accident and only Eva was the one who was working at the restaurant and bringing little money home.
When Jake started working again and they had more money the era of digital cameras had already passed and it was more common to buy a camera phone, so Jake had some cameras, but these had a much higher technology that was available in the year 1995 and even Jake did not know much about these cameras he had.
That was how Jake was giving his opinion to an airplane, the only thing he could say was that he had to fly, but how to make the plane fly he did not know, so he suggested that Matthew hire people who understand the technology or who were already working on similar technologies.
"Thank you for coming when I called Jake, the digital camera that will go to the stores in the next few weeks is ready, so I wanted you to see how it was and give your opinion."
"No problem, Matthew, as it was I myself who suggested this nothing more just than I take responsibility and help whenever I can about it."
After this Jake received the digital camera from the hand of the official who was responsible for creating this camera, Jake saw that this camera already had a small screen where it was possible to see the correct position that the photo would be taken.
Jake could also see that this camera had no zoom and the quality of the photos did not seem to be very good, besides, he did not know what kind of storage the camera was using, but it was not a memory card and could save a few photos.
Even so, Jake could not say for sure if this camera was good or not for the current technology, the storage system was a problem that all cameras faced before the arrival of the USB cable.
And even after that, the storage of a computer was not very good at that time, so it was a problem for the digital cameras, if they increase the quality of the resolution of the photos, even more, the number of photos that could be stored would decrease.
So Jake returned the camera to the clerk and asked to speak with Matthew and Oliver in private, he would not say he did not like the camera right in front of the employee who had the job of developing the camera.
Matthew seemed to have understood what Jake wanted and took him to his office in the company, the employee seemed to want to hear what Jake said and was disappointed not to hear Jake's opinions.
"Matthew as you may know I do not know much about digital cameras, but I think the quality of the pictures is very low, moreover, it has no zoom system for the camera, in addition to the quality of the pictures being too low cannot store many Photos."
"Where is the memory card system that I said I needed this camera is also very large, how much will this digital camera cost?"
"It will cost around a thousand dollars, let's see how it goes before improving technology, in addition, storage and with the floppy."
"One thousand dollars? That's too expensive Matthew, we have to improve this price, what quality of the photos and how many photos can save the camera?"
"It's 0.8 megapixels, we're looking at ways to improve that."
"That's too bad, Matthew, we've got a lot to improve on, so you're not going to get a place in the digital marketplace."
In fact, it was that Jake's knowledge about digital cameras came from the future that he was asking a lot of Matthew's company, after all the reason why many companies that made film cameras go bankrupt was not out of lack of will.
It is much more expensive to develop technology and create something new than just following behind big companies, Matthew himself had spent millions developing to be able to create this digital camera.
That's the biggest reason many companies went bankrupt, it was too expensive to get into that market and few expected the movie camera market to end up failing so they missed the opportunity, Matthew trusted Jake and his company had the capital to take the risk.
As Matthew further invested in the company he discovered that this was really the future and now could be his chance to take his company to the world stage together with the big companies of digital cameras.
In addition, Matthew saw that the most expensive is to create the basis in the digital market, then the values fall far more to develop these new technologies.
And the digital camera from Matthew's company could be considered good for the time, Matthew's camera has 0.8 megapixels of quality and the biggest companies have only 1.3 megapixels, in addition, color cameras with values of less than thousand dollars were starting and developing in the market.
And these leading companies in the market have invested hundreds of millions to create this camera, and Matthew has not even reached 10 million in investments, and much of that money has been selling some machines that would not be used to make digital cameras.
All this was because Jake had said that the way that Matthew's company had to follow, with a goal in front they did not waste time not knowing what to do so Matthew's company keep up with market-leading companies.
This first digital camera would be sold on the market just to spread the company name and remind the consumer of the company brand, not to mention that Matthew's company was one of the only ones on the market that was from the United States, so consumers would choose a domestic company than an outside company.
"Jake, this is the best our company can do today, that's because I do not have the money to invest in new technologies before selling this camera after I get the profits I can continue to invest."
What Matthew said was true, he put that price because it was the same thing the competing companies were doing, but to make those cameras cost only $ 600, so he could have almost $ 400 profit from every sale of that digital camera.
Of course, if Matthew put the value he invested in camera technology he could make a lot less profit, so he would have to wait for the profits to be able to invest more.
"The USB technology you're talking about is about to be finalized next year, and besides, I heard that it was only in 1998 that the first computers were fully adopting this technology, we have time to be one of the first to develop that."
"I'm already getting in touch with some companies that are developing the memory card, so our next camera may already have these two technologies, we'll also try to improve the quality of the photos and zoom in on the next camera."
That's right while pitching a product to Matthew's company already knew what to do for the next model of the digital camera, that way they saved time and money on it, so Matthew was thinking of giving a company share to Jake.
"So fine, I just want your business to succeed, Matthew, do not forget to try to develop the technology so you can put the camera lens on a mobile device and on the computer, so you can even take the initiative to ask for a contract with the big companies."
Jake remembered to hear since around 2000 the first camera phones were created, so Matthew was less than 5 years old to develop this technology, this was the future of digital cameras.
If Jake told this to SONY they would not only develop the technology and they might even be the ones developing the first camera phone before 2000, so Jake was giving Matthew a chance at life.
"Try also to make a bigger screen for the digital camera, it is better if it is a liquid crystal, this could increase the prominence of your company."
So having said all he needed, Jake left, he realized that Oliver was there just to keep Matthew from talking to Jake about Liza and Joseph, Jake did not want to get involved in it either, so he left quickly.
Jake was very curious to know how much Matthew's company could get out of money from the sales of this new digital camera, but since this was not his business, Jake decided not to get involved unless Matthew wanted his help.
After all, Jake had a lot of new ideas for investments, but he had to tell Emily everything before. After all, it would not do any good for him to have an assistant and not work with her when he needed something.
As a few more days went by and the day of the regional championship finale arrived, Jake woke up early in the morning and ate breakfast for his mother, Eva was happy to make breakfast for Jake on game days.
After all, living with Jake in the same house had seen him very little in the last few months, so she felt better doing her job as a mother doing at least Jake's breakfast on the day of the game.
After Jake packed his things and went to the scene, it was the first time Eva would not be in the stands in a final game, it made Jake a little sad even though Eva was very happy with the restaurant.
Eric also was not in the stands for this game, so Jake could not see anyone he knew, after all, Tiffany and Clara were busy with their companies and did not have to attend a regional championship final.
His other sponsors also did not send anyone to see the outcome of this game, even if Jake should be happy that these people trusted him, it was better than he had someone cheering for him.
Jake saw that everyone had already arrived and Coach Mike was passing some instructions to David and Harrison and even Nathan and Lucas were there to see if they could learn anything they could do if they entered the game.
One positive thing Jake had realized was that David and Harrison did not play any bad games again after the team had Nathan and Lucas in reserve, Jake did not know if it was because they had matured in the last year of high school or if it was by pressure from can be replaced at any time.
Even though Jake thought this was the best thing for the team, Carter and Mark seemed to be very quiet for this game, Jake thought it was too dangerous to relax before a final, even if the opponent could be weaker because that could lead to mistakes.
But if neither coach seemed to care much for that game Jake could not do anything, he was at least thinking of doing his best as ever, even if this new style of team play could lessen his control in the game, Jake could Use your skills to set the outcome of the game.
The opposing team of the final of this regional championship was the team Brickell, that team had three players that had a greater prominence, the PG of the adversary team that was called Ryan, was a player who liked to pass the ball very much and made individual plays.
Ryan was a player who did not stand out much in shots from outside and the team Brickell was known for miss many passes in the games, now Jake knew why his companions were more calm, that Ryan would be completely annulled by the defense of Jake.
Another highlight of the opposing team was the SF Jaxon, Jaxon was the most skillful player of the opposing team who was very skillful in individual plays, mid-range shots and shots from outside, as well as being good at defense.
But everyone on the Elite team was accustomed to the SF of the opposing team attacking quietly and making several points so it would not be such a big problem, Harrison was the one who was sadder by the bad luck.
The other highlight of the opposing team was PF Thomas, Thomas was good at defense and in the attack, but he was no big player and everyone hoped that Carter could defend well against him, so Jake saw that the Elite team had the advantage in that game.
Even though he would still try his best, even if he was not a tough opponent, Jake also wanted to try another triple-double that would be his 21st followed, this would be a near-impossible record to be broken in the future.
After a few minutes the game of the regional championship final finally began, Mark got the first possession of the ball for the Elite team, Jake received the ball and went to the attack.
Jake advanced for a time and passed the ball to David, David advanced more to the attack and passed the ball to Carter, Carter received the ball from the right and held it a little, Thomas already reached the defense and Carter passed the ball to Jake who was Welcome.
Jake received the ball before the line of three points and passed to David again that was open from the right, David made the mid-range shot and made the first 2 points for the Elite team.
Ryan received the ball and started the first attack for the Brickell team, Ryan passed the ball to the SG of his team, the SG advanced for a while and passed the ball to Jaxon, Jaxon quickly made a feint and easily passed through Harrison, then Jaxon made the mid-range shot to make 2 points for the Brickell team and tie the game.
Jake got the ball and started another attack for the Elite team, after advancing until the middle of the court Jake passed the ball to Harrison who was open from the left, Harrison advanced a little and Jaxon came to the defense, so Harrison passed the ball David was on the right.
David passed the ball to Mark who was more open in the inner area from the left, Mark received and using his body to protect the ball advanced to do a layup and 2 more points for the Elite team.
Mark was already one of the best in the attack along with Jake, only the rebounds he takes in the games already made him an indispensable player for coach Mike, with his good performances in matches he was already looked for by the best universities.
Jake also thought that Mark was a good player, could not be a professional player in the NBA, but if he could have opportunities to improve at university Jake was sure he could see Mark in the NBA in the future, Jake even wondered why he did not see Mark in the NBA in his past life.
Ryan started another attack for the Brickell team, this time he advanced until after the middle of the court and passed the ball to Jaxon, Jaxon advanced to the three-point line and Harrison reached the defense.
This time, Jaxon did not attempt a single play and passed the ball to Thomas, Thomas held the ball and Carter came to the defense, so Thomas who was receiving pressure from the Carter defense passed the ball to the SG of his team.
The SG was open from the left of the attack and made the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Brickell team, the opposing team as well as many teams knew what was the weakness of the Elite team defense and so could easily score points like this.
Jake received the ball and advanced to organize another attack for the Elite team, he passed the ball to Harrison who was open from the left, Harrison held the ball and passed to Carter who was open on the right of the court.
Carter passed the ball to Jake who was out of the three-point line, Jake who was still far from the three-point line fired outside, so the ball came in and made 3 more points for the Elite team.
The game continued so at the end of the first period the Elite team was winning with a 5 point lead, even if the defense did not do a good job Jake got a steal and made a few 3-point plays.
Jake had made 11 points and 3 assists, all realized that Jake was doing more in this game, but Coach Mike could not complain to Jake by making a good game, Jake had already compromised much of his offensive ability with this new style of play.
Jake realized that coach Mike was again using that game to train the team more with the new style of play, but even if he did not talk to the coach he thought it was wrong to use a championship final for that, so he was just doing his part for the team to win.
At the beginning of the second period Ryan went to another attack for the Brickell team, he passed the ball to Jaxon who was more open from the right, Jaxon easily passed pass by Harrison and passed the ball to Thomas.
Thomas managed to get away from Carter and made the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Brickell team, as everyone on the Brickell team was already hoping that Ryan would be overruled by Jake in the attack, they decided it would be Jaxon who would take on that role as the point guard. team.
After all, Harrison could not stop him from playing, Mark was making a good game also canceling the center of the opposing team, and Jake was having a hard time finding his teammates without leaving Ryan defenseless to score.
Jake advanced to the attack to make another move, before the middle of the court he passed the ball to David who was ahead in the attack, David advanced a little and passed the ball to Carter who was open on the right, Carter saw that Thomas was far away and made the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
Ryan picked up the ball to organize another attack for the Brickell team, after advancing until after the middle of the court he passed the ball to the SG of his team, the SG advanced a little more and passed the ball to the Center of his team before from David to the defense.
The center took the ball a little and passed to Jaxon, Jaxon made a feint and pass by Harrison easily left, Jake appeared well after Jaxon was adjusting to make the shot and steal the ball.
The moment was perfect and Jaxon did not even notice when Jake had left Ryan unprotected to steal, so Jake rushed forward to the attack, team SG Brickell and Ryan were racing along with Jake to try to defend.
Jake swiftly left the opponent's SG behind and reached the three-point line on the attack, Ryan tried for Jake with a foul, so Jake quickly crossover and passed Ryan and resisted the pull and continued advancing into the inside area to make the dunk and 2 more points for the Elite team.
The crowd started to cheer up with this Jake play. Ryan was even impressed that Jake stayed on the same pitch even though he tried to foul, but that was normal because Jake was much stronger than all high school players and he did not want it to be difficult to make a simple foul.
The game continued like this and the Brickell team was paying more attention to Jake and making the moves more calmly, the attack of the Elite team also did not miss almost any move and so the two teams continued like this until the end of the second period.
At the end of the second period, the Elite team won by 12 points and everyone was satisfied, Jake made 4 steals in the game and was dissatisfied with Harrison's defense, Jake had 23 points and 7 assists so far.
In this third period coach Mike decided to put Nathan and Lucas into the game, this game was easier than the last game and even David and Harrison did not care much about leaving this game.
With Lucas and Nathan entering, the defense of the team would be better and Jake was calmer with it, Lucas could mostly stop or at least disrupt Jaxon who had already done 14 points so far .
This was because Jake managed to get in the way of Jaxon and his opponent was also 5 assists, but Ryan, who should have been ruled out by Jake, had made 8 points because of that .
Even so, Jake thought that was not enough of that and he was thinking of a way to further improve the defense to further increase the advantage against the Brickell team, so he called Mark to talk for a bit .
"What was Jake?"
"Look at Mark, our team on the defense is me and you and Carter, but Carter has to worry about Thomas from the opposing defense, I'm trying to help my team-mates and so Ryan can also score more points . "
"Now that Lucas and Nathan have entered the defense of our team will improve, but I need your help in something, I want you and me to help Lucas in the defense and so we can stop Jaxon from the opposing team . "
"As a key player in defense, you need to learn from this game to defend against another player while defending against another understood?"
"I get it, you can count on me, I'll do my best to stop the opponent in defense . "
"Very good, I count on you if I go out to defend you do not need if I do not leave stay with you . "
After Jake talked to Mark they rested again to be rested for the rest of the game .
At the beginning of the third period Jake went with the ball to the attacking block and passed the ball to Nathan, Nathan received the ball and went towards the three-point line, so Nathan passed the ball to Carter who was open on the right .
Carter got the ball and held it a little, so Carter passed the ball to Lucas who had gotten rid of Jaxon and was free on the left, Lucas received the ball and quickly tried the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Elite team .
Ryan received the ball and started another attack for the Brickell team, Ryan advanced until the middle of the court and passed the ball to his SG team, SG received the ball and soon received pressure from Nathan's defense and had to pass the ball for Jaxon .
Jaxon hit the right and quickly advanced into the three-point line, but this time Lucas was the one who was defending him and Lucas did not allow Jaxon to open space for the shot, so Jaxon had to pass the ball to Thomas .
Thomas made the turn on Carter and advanced to the inside area, so Thomas did the layup to make 2 more points for the Brickell team, Carter could not for the opponent's attack in every move, but it was clear that with the entry of Nathan and Lucas the Brickell team was having a hard time attacking .
Jake grabbed the ball and began to organize another attack for the Elite team, after passing through the middle Jake passed the ball to Lucas who was open from the left, Lucas passed the ball to Carter who was coming and ran into the internal area .
Carter understood Lucas's intention and passed the ball back to him, Lucas received the defensive ball in the inside area of the attack and had only to advance to layup and 2 more points for the Elite team .
Ryan started another attack for the Brickell team, he advanced for a while and passed the ball to the SG of his team, the SG advanced to the attack and before reaching the three-point line passed the ball to Thomas .
Thomas tried another attack, but Carter reacted quickly and accompanied Thomas with a good defense, so Thomas was forced to pass the ball to Jaxon, Jaxon tried the feint and got a space and passed by Lucas .
As soon as Jaxon was thinking of doing mid-range Mark's shot, Jaxon was not expecting Mark to come and only paid attention to Jake, but he thought quickly and passed the ball to the center of his team that was free now .
But Jake covered Mark and intercepted the ball and made another steal in the game as Mark appeared in the defense Jaxon forgot to watch Jake that left the defense of Ryan and was waiting for that pass .
So Jake did not rush for the attack to just calmly advanced as he watched the opposing team, before reaching the middle of the court Jake passed the ball to Lucas who was on the left .
Lucas received the ball and advanced shortly before passing to Nathan who was open on the right side, Nathan received the ball and held it a little while advancing to the three-point line, Nathan passed the ball to Mark who was in the inner area and Mark turned on top of the opponent center to do the dunk and 2 more points for the Elite team .
At the end of the third period, the Elite team won by 21 points difference and had virtually guaranteed victory, Jake had 8 steals, 12 assists, and 31 points so far in the game, he was close to making another Triple Double .
Mark was doing well what they combined and was trying to mess up as much as possible Jaxon, Lucas was also very good in defense and did not give Jaxon many chances, so other Brickell players had to try the plays .
So Jake who was always watching closely the moves was managing to make more steals in the game, in the attack all were attacking even taking Jake who made the points whenever he saw the opportunity .
The team Brickell had not given up on the game yet because it was the final, but deep down they knew that there was no chance of winning this game, Ryan was mostly the most discouraged with the game, he was being canceled by Jake and could not do anything in the defense .
This was normal since Jake already had a skill level of a university player, only the best in defense of the high school could bother him, even though it was difficult to find someone who could even stop him .
Ryan went to organize the first attack of the Brickell team in the fourth period of the regional championship final, after passing from the middle of the court he passed the ball to the SG of his team, the SG advanced a little more and passed to Thomas before the could arrive .
Thomas made a feint and moved away from Carter to make a mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Brickell team, Thomas was the only one who could do anything in that last period of the game .
Jake picked up the ball and advanced to the attack, after passing from the middle of the court he passed the ball to Nathan who was on the right, Nathan continued advancing and passed the ball to Carter who was open on the right .
Carter got rid of Thomas and went to the bottom of the court, Carter tried the mid-range shot and the ball did not enter, Mark managed to take the rebound and passed the ball to Jake who was out of the three-point line .
Jake threatened the shot and passed the ball to Nathan who was free on the right, Nathan who received the pass made a step back and tried a shot from outside to make 3 more points for the Elite team .
Nathan and Lucas were improving so quickly since they got into high school, if it had not been for David and Harrison's last year, Jake was sure that Coach Mike would make those two headlines in the national championship by then they should have improved a lot by then .
The talent was a really unfair thing in the sports world, it was like Jake's system that people had to be lucky to be born with him, after all, players like Michael Jordan who only trained a little more than the others maybe and had so much difference in the result .
Ryan got the ball to try another attack for the Brickell team, then before passing the middle of the court he passed the ball to the SG of his team that was open on the left, the SG advanced a little and passed the ball to Thomas by left .
Thomas tried another shot, but Carter was doing a lot of pressure on the defense and Thomas returned the ball to Ryan who was behind, Ryan tried a feint over Jake, but Jake was firm in the defense, so Ryan passed the ball to Jaxon on right .
Jaxon receives the ball and had to try a move before the time of possession of ball ended in these last two periods he was very tired, Jaxon had to go through the good defense of Lucas which was already very difficult .
Then he still had to pay attention to Jake and Mark's position before making any move, and sometimes even paying attention Jake still managed to steal the ball .
This time he managed to pass by Lucas on the right and saw that neither Jake nor Mark were coming to disrupt, so he advanced a bit more and was ready to try the mid-range shot .
But when Jaxon was paying attention to Jake and Mark, Lucas recovered and followed up and got the steal to retrieve the ball, so Lucas passed the ball to Jake .
Jake advanced calmly and passed the ball to Nathan after passing through the middle of the court, Nathan advanced to the three-point line and passed to Carter who was open from the right, Carter held the ball a little and passed back to Jake .
Jake got the ball before the three-point line, Jake made a feint and passed by Ryan quickly and drive to the basket, Thomas tried to block Jake in the inside area and Jake made an unstoppable Spin Move and finished the play with a slam dunk to make 2 more points for the Elite team .
The crowd cheered again at the end of the game and the morale of the Brickell team fell further .
Thus the game ended with the Elite team winning the regional championship with 30 points of advantage, Jake made another triple Double and finished the game with more than 40 points, Elite players greeted the Brickell team players for the good game.
Then everyone joined and celebrated this victory, even if they won a lot it was always good to win a regional championship trophy, even more, this year they had some more difficult games, it was more exciting.
Jake was also celebrating with his teammates, he was very happy for the win, but it was very strange that this year he did not have his mother to celebrate the victory with him after that final.
He knew that Eva could not be in all the championship finals of his life and certainly would not be in university time, but he hoped to see his mother in the stands to celebrate together.
After all, in this life, Jake was much closer to his mother and got used to being almost always with her, but this time he had to be content to celebrate with his teammates.
After a while, the Elite team was finally called in to receive the first place medals and then Jake raised another trophy for his team and for his school, after celebrating quite a bit Jake was called to receive the regional championship MVP award.
Jake was happy with that, too, and he'd put that trophy back on his prize stand, then everyone celebrated a little more and Jake left home, coming home he did not forget to call his mother.
"Hi Mom, I won the final game, our team won the regional championship."
"Congratulations, my son, I'm sorry I could not be there with you in this game, but I always had confidence that you could win as always, come here today for dinner, Anna also wants to congratulate you."
"Alright Mom, I'll go there later."
So after resting for a while and taking a shower, Jake went to the restaurant, Jake took home on purpose because he knew what time the restaurant was less busy, so Eva, Anna, and even Lola came to find Jake, Eva came first and gave Jake a hug.
"Congratulations again for beating my son, I was distracted all day in the restaurant until you call me, even if I knew you were going to win it's hard to stay calm without being able to watch the game."
"It's true Jake, she was anxious all day today, congratulations on winning the game, I wanted to be there too."
"Thank you mother, for caring about me, thank you too, Anna, for the congratulations."
"I also wanted to say congratulations, Jake, very cool you have won the regional championship in high school, I hope you can win the state championship as well."
"Thank you, Lola, I also hope I keep winning."
Lola really thought it was cool that Jake's team had won the regional championship, after all in the neighborhood she used to live before, there were a lot of young people of Jake's age who played basketball, many of them did not go to school, but those who went there said how difficult it was to win the championship regional, and even more difficult the state championship and later the national championship.
Lola knew that these young men were arrogant and liked to boast a lot, so for these people to say that a championship was difficult, it was because it was really difficult.
Then everyone talked for a while as they sat down at a table and ate, actually everyone just listened as Jake told how the game was after he went to say that he also made another Triple Double and won the MVP award for the championship.
Eva and Anna were already expecting something like that after winning for the fourth time, but Lola was really impressed and began to think that Jake played better than she imagined, Jake was very happy when he saw Lola's reaction, even if he did not like it to show off was good when people recognized how difficult it was to do that.
After that Jake said goodbye to everyone and returned home to rest after all the restaurant would still be open for a few more hours and Jake did not want to disturb anyone.
Anna said that Jake needed to rest well for the next two weeks before the state championship began. Jake did not tell people that next week would be the Chicago marathon run, so he would not have time to rest.
After resting well the other day Jake resumed his normal training, except that he did not train with the school basketball team and only trained basketball in his training space of imagination.
The physical training he was doing was just for the marathon, Jake would have this training for another 5 days and rest one before race day, so Jake would be fully rested on the day of the marathon.
Jake's biggest goal for this marathon was to win without using the bar of stamina, he was already able to win if he used the bar of stamina, with the system Jake learned that it was much more difficult to increase the energy of your body than increase the overall resistance of the muscles in your body.
After all, after more than 6 months of training, he had already strengthened his body muscles to keep running 60 km at a normal speed and 50 km at a speed of competition.
Of course Jake did not know that this had only happened because he tried hard and broke his limits and improved more than normal for this marathon, Jake had to win this and the next marathon so he can enter the Olympics without anyone thinking which was a fraud.
If he entered the Olympics for the first time people might suspect that it was something forged so that a young man could represent his country in the Olympics, after all the Olympics are the maximum event of athletics sports.
But if he could win or be among the first in some internationally recognized marathons people would just think he was a genius, plus there was something else Jake needed to do that would require him to win a marathon.
After a few more days training Jake could see that the system was right on a subject he was ignoring, Jake always did his training after taking classes all day and still doing the training with the basketball team.
As he had become accustomed to this routine and knew that his body was not equal to ordinary people because of the system he thought it did not matter much, but these days even having to attend classes he was not going to training and so he can easily do the 50 km run in 150 minutes.
It had been months since he was chasing this time, now just by not doing the training with the basketball team he can complete the training, this gave much more confidence for Jake to win this marathon.
Two days into the marathon Jake was going on his last day of training, so the other day he would be resting for the marathon at his best, but Tiffany said he would need to talk to him.
So Jake who was confident in winning decided to take more today to rest and so be better for the marathon.
This time they met at another restaurant that was not Eva's restaurant, because as her mother could not watch the marathon, Jake decided not to tell her until he won the race.
So Eva knew only that Jake was marathoning soon, but she could not even imagine it was an international marathon and that Jake planned to win this marathon.
"Hi Jake, sorry for calling you missing a few days for the marathon, you should be concentrating or resting, right?"
"Actually I was training until today, but as you called me I decided to take that day to rest too."
"What? Were you training a few days away for a major competition like that? You have to take at least a week to rest your body to be able to run that great distance, I hope you have the stamina to run that whole marathon."
Jake knew nothing about how the other athletes were preparing for a marathon like this, but his body was different from ordinary people, so he did not have to worry about what others did.
In fact now Jake had the contacts and the money to hire a professional trainer to prepare with the other runners for the day of the competition but he did not do it because he knew that his style of training would be different from the others using the system to improve.
In addition, the coach probably could suspect his improvement that was several times faster than the athletes, in fact, Jake was doing his best to avoid going through national competitions and major training centers for a reason.
He did not want to do a thorough examination so the doctors would not find out that his body was several times stronger than the other athletes and players, let alone that they could record their very fast improvements because that would cause suspicion at all.
As for his strength, his muscles were not very developed, but his strength was very great, this could be explained if Jake said that his physical limits were smaller than in reality.
"Well, if you think you will not have problems, I will not go any further with this subject, after all, who knows your body better is yourself."
"I called you here to give you your uniform for the race, who was to deliver this was Clara, but as I was the one who organized this from the beginning she asked me to bring in, besides, I already prepared some employees to stay at the registered posts from the marathon and give you water all right?"
"I believe you, on test day I'll meet you before the marathon begins."
"Okay then, rest well and do not train as usual."
After that Jake went home to rest well after all the day was coming for a marathon that will go down in history.
After another day of rest Jake told his mother that he was going to take a quick trip and took a plane to Chicago, Tiffany had arranged the plane tickets back and forth for Jake and even booked the hotel for him.
Tiffany would go on another flight to Chicago, they were the employees of some of her stores in town that would help Jake with whatever he needed for the race, Jake was not affected by the trip that lasted just over 3 hours.
Jake went directly to the hotel and did not even think about touring the city after all this was the first time he had participated in a marathon, and it was not just to have fun but to win, so Jake was focused.
Jake was ready by 6 am he had arrived, it was very cold, but Jake did not even feel uncomfortable with that temperature, he took his kit and registration number and was ready to run.
Even though the shirt he got with the registration number took away a bit of the view of the brands of the companies that sponsored Jake, they had already thought about it and also had in the running shorts.
Even though Jake was very tall, on his face everyone could clearly see that he was a young man and he saw many looks that seemed to be scorning him, but Jake did not care about these people, besides, if it was not for the system he would probably have who only fight to complete the marathon.
While still missing a time to start the marathon Jake managed to find Tiffany who was the only person who came to accompany him in this race, John did not care about Jake giving preferential treatment to Tiffany who was the longest with him, but he would not come to Chicago just to give support in this marathon.
In fact, Tiffany also did not need to come, but after she had a good conversation with Jake she began to think of a corner of her mind that for the more than 4 years she's known him since Jake was a child, that Jake could really win this marathon
She herself thought this was crazy and even Clara who knows him and talked to Jake the longest with him thought so, but she really believed he could achieve this miracle.
After all, she thought that Jake would not ask if she wanted to make a uniform for her sponsors if he just tried to finish the race, but even if Jake did not win, she would not find it a waste to watch that race.
So Tiffany quickly told Jake at what stations her staff would be preparing water, then she said she wanted luck and waited for him at the end of the marathon.
After that Jake concentrated to try to stay in the best possible shape, he went to find a place in the starting line, Jake would not be in the front because he had to control his pace, when it passed from 7 and 20 in the morning everyone started to prepare for the start of the marathon.
The only person Jake knew best about the starting line of the race was what would originally be the champion of this event, Jake only became interested in the champions when he sought information about the marathon in his past life.
As in his past life, this man would be the winner in Jake's view he was his only competitor for this win, he was named Eamonn Martin and finished that marathon in just under 2 hours and 11 minutes.
So Jake had confidence in winning this event after a few more minutes finally began the 1995 Chicago marathon.
In the beginning, many started running quickly and took the lead in the race, the start of the race is a moment where you can see who had experience in marathons and who was new.
After all, it was not smart for anyone who wanted to finish this race in a good time to increase the pace early on after all these people would have cramps and would have difficulty finishing the race in a few kilometers.
And even those who were more experienced ended up having their race rhythm affected by these people and in the beginning, they increased slightly the race rhythm.
The main enemies of the marathon runners were the wrong pace, temperature, and unexpected muscle problems, after all the people who trained to win a marathon were confident to finish the marathon in just over 2 hours.
But these factors were some that could get an experienced marathoner out of the race, Jake did not feel in his body the temperature changes, he had also trained a lot using all the system's resources to accustom his body and his muscles to run that distance in those last months.
As for the pace being hampered by others, Jake was always observing the transparent screen that was in the upper right corner of his field of vision, in that transparent screen he could see that he was running at a rate of 1 km every 3 minutes.
So he could finish that race in just over 2 hours and 6 minutes with that speed, of course, Jake would make adjustments in the last few km of the race if other competitors were in front of him.
After the first 5 km keeping the same pace, Jake felt that he had passed by many people who accelerated at the beginning of the marathon, only the strongest still had to be exceeded.
Even after that distance he was not yet tired and his breathing was steady, Jake could see that many of them would accelerate and pass through him and sometimes Jake would pass by these people.
These should be people who had some training and experience and we're trying to maintain a steady pace for the race.
After 10 km of racing the first 30 minutes had passed and Jake did not know if there was still someone ahead of him at the time of the race, but Jake knew that even the best could be seen in the last few kilometers of the race.
After 15 km of marathon Jake still felt great with his running pace, he was only paying attention to the transparent screen in the upper right corner and did not care much about other runners who were around him.
Jake started to feel tired and Jake doubted he had more than 30 people in front of him at this point in the race, but Jake tried not to think much of anything and just to continue concentrating on his racing pace.
Whoever was finding this all very strange were the people who were called by Tiffany to stay at the stations and deliver water and sponges to Jake, after all, they had information that Jake did not go through any of these stations to get water.
After the first 15 km, these people even thought that Jake had given up the marathon, but some of the staff saw Jake driving through 25 km and 30 km, so he was still in the marathon, but he had not hydrated once in the whole marathon.
Actually, when Jake ran every day in his training, of course, he had no one to deliver water to him during the race, so Jake, who had a much stronger body than the others, could run an entire marathon without moisturizing himself.
After the 35 km race Jake already felt that the end of the race was near, he had already run for 105 minutes and began to feel his legs getting heavier and his breathing was irregular.
At this point in the race, Jake was only thinking about winning this marathon, as he could not see anyone in front of him Jake thought everyone had been after him for a long time.
If Jake could run at his pace and some would still win being too far ahead of him for the last few km and Jake could not even see these people he had to admit that he did not deserve to win this marathon and he would not even be sad about it.
The Chicago marathon was a televised event, so while Jake was thinking absurd things the people of the United States were the ones who were much more shocked, after all, it was clear to everyone that Jake was very young.
At the time of the race, he was the first in the race even though he himself was not sure of that, in the last few km it is normal for marathoners to increase their pace to get a better time at the end of each marathon.
That meant that these people were at least a few hundred feet from where Jake was, and Jake, like everyone else, could also increase his pace in the last hundred meters.
And everyone could see that only Jake was struggling to run he had no problem running through the end of this marathon, through his registration number the commentators could know some data from Jake.
They knew that Jake was only 16 years old and was in his senior year of high school, could also know that this was Jake's first marathon in life, a young man of 16 years to be leading a marathon for a few km already, even if he did not win would be a great story.
Another interesting fact that the commentators realized that Jake had not hydrated once in this marathon, this was certainly one of the determining factors for Jake to always keep his race pace.
What these commentators were most excited about was that Jake was a young American by birth, it was almost 13 years since the last American won a marathon in Chicago and even if they could not confirm they could be sure that Jake should be the youngest to win a marathon in history.
At least since the marathon became more competitive, after all, a few dozen years ago there could be a young man who won by running in less than 2 hours and 40 minutes, so everyone was happy with this pleasant surprise.
Even more so because it was the year before the Olympics in Atlanta that would be in the United States, so it was great to know that they could win another medal.
It was a shame that since Jake had never taken part in any marathon, no one had any more information about him beforehand, yet everyone thought it was incredible that a young man could win.
By the time Jake passed the 40 km and everyone could see that he had over energy it was almost certain that he would be the winner in the end, even though the runner up was over 4 minutes behind him.
Jake, who had always kept the same pace from 1 km in 3 minutes decided to slow down to 1 km in 4 minutes at the end of the race, after all, Jake didn't mind breaking records in his first marathon.
He just wanted to win in the end, otherwise, he could eat a stamina bar and run under 2 hours and beat the considered limit for the marathon runners, so he did differently from the other marathon runners who increased the pace at the end of the marathon.
Whoever was watching didn't realize that Jake could control his running pace and thought he was getting tired at the end, so all the spectators who were present at the marathon site in the last kilometers of the race began to applaud Jake to encourage him to finish the race first.
Jake was very excited about it and was thrilled too, he finally realized that he was close to winning an international major marathon, a dream come true for many marathoners worldwide.
He who had started running just because he liked it very early and did it for two lives, Jake only stopped running in his past life because he lost his leg movements because otherwise, he would have run until he was very old.
Also, in his past life, Jake had always dreamed of completing a marathon but had no chance, so in that final km of the marathon, he remembered that.
Even so Jake kept up the pace that would give him the win, so to those who were cheering it looked like he was looking forward to finishing the race to win, little did they know that if Jake wasn't conservative he could run like this up to 50km in total.
Jake kept running and in the last km people were cheering even more excitedly, second place could almost see Jake in the end, but he knew it was impossible for Jake to lose in the end and just wanted to slow his own time.
While Jake was closing the marathon one of the commentators got some information from him, was this commentator surprised, did a young man of 16 who was running his first marathon have any information to be discovered?
But as soon as he saw the information he was impressed, Jake was from the city of Miami and must have come to Chicago just to participate in the marathon, he had also made a television commercial.
Also, Jake was the last MVP of the national high school championship, what did that mean? That Jake was a basketball player and a very talented at that, maybe a future NBA player.
In the information it said that Jake was in his senior year now, that means he won the national championship and became the MVP in his third year, so he could win again this year.
In addition, Jake had a record of doing 16 triple Double in a row (the commentator was unaware of the 5 regional championship games that Jake raised his record to 21) this was something that not even the best players in the current NBA can achieve.
This meant that Jake reached the top of the marathon and won a major marathon while he was 16 while focusing more on basketball, so it became much bigger news for everyone.
Jake didn't know that everything about him had been investigated by commentators and was in the last km, for Jake this was the longest 4 minutes of his life, it was a different thrill to win a marathon where many of the best in the world participated.
Jake had to say that it felt better than winning the national championship with his basketball team, maybe it's the difference of winning a championship with one team and winning a race alone or because the race had the best and basketball was just the best. High school players.
So Jake kept running and the closer he got to victory the better he felt, when he finally passed the track first he finally relaxed, he looked at the time on the transparent screen and said 2 hours and 9 minutes.
Jake slowed down and finished the race three minutes later than he could before, but if he really worked hard, Jake thought he could run in less than 2 hours and 4 minutes, after all, it was exciting to beat a record at one time or another.
Jake was very happy to have won and very proud to have done it without the help of the stamina bar, he was happy to hear the cheering of the fans in this race.
As soon as he calmed down Jake felt his legs were sore and he was very tired, Jake could see the doctors around, but he wasn't that bad, Jake ate a stamina bar and took a bottle of water from Tiffany's hands that had come to greet him.
So he felt his energy recover and the muscles in his leg relaxed a lot from relieving the pressure, so Jake felt he could run another 20 km if his legs could hold on so Jake walked normally to a designated place for him.
The doctors saw that Jake was fine and began to prepare to receive the other athletes who would come later, who was most surprised by this was Tiffany who saw how tired Jake was before and after taking the water and eating something seemed rested again.
Tiffany thought Jake was more mysterious the more she knew him, how could someone so young do so many different things so well, she couldn't even think it was back in the past because that was only part of the reason, the other was the system.
She was very happy that Jake had won this marathon and that his prediction turned out to be correct, but she was more shocked than happy, after all even she who knew Jake was thinking it was amazing just as the commentator reacted.
She wanted to talk to him for a while, but Jake was dragged into an anti-doping test as soon as the race was over, it seemed the event organizers feared that Jake would run away with how fast they brought him to take the exam.
After all, he was consuming performance-enhancing substances was the only thing the organization could think of for Jake to have won this marathon since it was the first time he had run.
Jake was the only one who was cool about it, he knew he ran as fair as he could, but it proved that Jake was right to run a major marathon before joining the Olympics.
Because if even a national competition like this already thought Jake was stealing the Olympics would be much more complicated, then he would try the New York marathon and after those two marathons, no one could suspect that he was just running.
After taking the exam Jake went near Tiffany, the corridors were still coming so the organization would be slow to set the stage for the awards, so Jake had time to over and didn't want to communicate with the people in the organization who thought he was stealing in the marathon.
Tiffany was calm too, she knew Jake wasn't stupid about using substances for such a marathon when he still had basketball and several things that could be affected by it.
"Congratulations Jake, I thought you really could win this marathon, but honestly I was very surprised by that result."
"I told you that I would try to race to win, but this is just the beginning, I want to run and New York marathon and then the Olympics, but I have to worry about the state championship soon too."
"I believe you can do that, I'll say Matthew did an incredible favor for Clara and me, if he hadn't introduced you to us it would be a pity, and to think that at first Clara thought he was doing Matthew a favor, she now knows it's the opposite."
They talked for a while and then the organization came to call Jake for the awards, the people of the organization were a little embarrassed after all they were so suspicious that Jake was using illicit substances that almost dragged him to take the exam.
When they saw that Jake was clean everyone was very embarrassed, yet they sent the samples to the labs for a closer look, but seeing how calm Jake looked they were wrong, so Jake was washed to the place of the awards with the others. that was in the first place.
Jake saw Eamonn Martin who had been the winner in his past life and now was second, Jake felt a little uncomfortable for a moment and then recovered, he already knew that to be the best he would have to change many things and leave many. winners in a story that only he knew.
Even though Jake greeted Eamonn Martin before climbing to the first place podium, it was all very exciting for him to hear the national anthem and pick up the $ 100,000 prize.
This money was important to the plans Jake was having in a short period of time, now he had 300,000 to make an investment if he could after that Jake said goodbye to Tiffany and returned to the hotel to rest, but before they agreed to have dinner together to celebrate this victory.
Tiffany was very happy about all this because Jake had tried his best to show off his uniform with the sponsors and Tiffany's company ended up being the highlight for being in the supporting marathon, and Clara's company also for giving Jake the clothes and sneakers. was using.
It really was another totally free advertisement for everyone who saw Jake who had won this marathon, Tiffany was thinking that John who had accepted well that Tiffany was the one to stay in the marathon was happy and very sorry at the same time now.
Glad that Jake made an unexpected advertisement for his company and sad that he didn't insist on being present at this marathon with Tiffany anymore.