New Challenges
Jake caught five rebounds and made 3 steals in this first period, even though it wasn't as good as in the last game everyone could see that Jake was trying hard to beat this record after a while the second period began.
Even though it was impossible to win the game, the opposing team still tried to take advantage of the Elite team's defenses of that game to score more points, which was what the Elite team wanted because Jake would have more opportunities to rebound and steal.
Jake in all attacks still made the move normally before receiving the ball again to make another shot from outside, the opposing PG knew that this was not an ordinary game and did not force much in defense and did not try to make fouls.
What many wondered was how Jake didn't get tired after making so many plays in this and the last game, even if he could finish a 32-minute game wasn't that impressive because the players weren't always trying hard.
In many plays the player just walked around the court until the team made the points, in more difficult games it was normal to see the players get tired and replaced, but Jake seemed never tired.
Some reporters just knew how Eric was because Jake could also run a marathon if a person can run a marathon, he can play to the fullest in a 32-minute basketball game.
So the game went on, by the end of the second period Jake had scored 94 points, he managed to score fewer points in the second period, but everyone was already impressed by that, almost 100 points in 16 minutes were impressive to anyone.
Jake was still in the mindset of just firing off that game, so even though he missed a few he was counting on Mark to rebound to try again, Jake tried 18 off shots during that time and hit 14 of them, and the other 2 points. were in a dunk after a steal.
He also got 9 rebounds and 7 steals in total, so the triple Double was on the way too, even though Mark had given up on the defensive rebounds so Jake had 7 rebounds in the game already, Eric and reporters were impressed with that.
Anyone can get a lot of shots out of a game, just the selfish player and not thinking about hitting any of them, proof of that is the 3 Point Shootout Contest that the NBA does every year on All-Star.
In just 1 minute they try 25 shots from outside and have hit more than 20 of them, it shows that it is possible, but no one tries because in a real game with a player in defense it is much harder.
But today Jake was trying to show what the possible odds limit was, Lola was also impressed by that, she honestly thought it was not possible, but after Jake scored almost 100 points in the middle of the game she no longer doubted and just cheered.
Of course, this was only possible because Jake had 32 strengths, much more than he had even in his past life, he could feel that it was much easier to try the shots off, and Jake didn't have so many muscles that hampered his movements even with more than 30 strength.
With the help of his luck and the distance to the three-point line being smaller than in the NBA, it helped a lot for Jake to achieve that, yet he was impressed to achieve that in one game.
In the third period, everyone was excited to see Jake break this record just to be disappointed, Jake scored 36 points only in that third period of the game, everyone thought it was because he was getting tired of the game.
But it was Jake who was holding on purpose, after all, if it went on like that he would stand out too much with this record, he still made 17 attempts at outside shots to hit 12 more of them, yet he deserved praise for it.
Even though he had 130 points at the end of the third period and had already broken his own record, now he had to make 6 more points in this last period to break that record, just by having 2 straight games with over 120 points he would already be in history forever.
Jake also had 14 rebounds and 12 steals in the game, even Mark already had 12 rebounds in this game, so Jake was happy for his teammates so everyone was excited for this last period of play.
When another 8 minutes were up many were cheering Jake on the court, he scored 42 points over that period and far beat the record for most points made in a game, 172 points should even if a historical record hard to break even if the ball is given for some to be trying for 32 minutes to make that much of points.
Jake tried 20 more shots from outside to hit 14 of them and score 42 points, plus Jake had 20 rebounds and 15 steals, a triple Double with a record again.
Jake made 74 off-shot attempts to hit 56 off, Mark got a Double-Double with 20 assists as well as 16 rebounds, even David had 17 assists in today's game, with the game past the average assist of his teammates were almost bigger than Jake's even.
Jake did some interviews with everyone including Eric who was not left out this time, after all this time everyone was sure the record had finally been broken so the story would be really interesting to them.
After thanking his teammates and opponents again for all playing a fair game Jake was preparing to leave, after all with his stamina he was tired after that game.
But on leaving the game site he saw that Lola was there alone, she wanted to congratulate Jake too, but he was surrounded by several people and reporters and she missed the chance, Jake felt a little guilty for forgetting her alone.
"Hi Lola, thanks for coming to see the game."
"Congratulations on winning and also on the record, when I heard from your mom that you were trying to score over 100 points in a game I didn't believe it, but I wanted to see it in person, and it turned out you scored over 170 points."
"I'm glad I got that, now I feel like I've done something important even in my high school days."
"Don't say that, if you win this national championship more would be your second time being the champion, if you win the MVP prize will be even better, I think winning is more important than just doing well once and getting nothing."
"I hope you're right, my mom didn't even tell me earlier that you were coming here, I was really surprised."
"I think she really wanted to surprise her because I asked her yesterday to come here."
"I'll take you to your house then, I came in my car."
"Thank you, then."
While Jake drove Lola to her house they both got to be talking in the car, then Jake drove her home and drove off, Lola was later upset that she didn't take the opportunity to talk more in the car, but was glad Jake was a gentleman. and take her home.
Jake went home after that and I call his mother saying that he had managed to break the record this time, so Eva was happy for him, she realized that this record was really important to Jake.
So the news that Jake had broken the record for the most points in a high school game was mostly known in Miami where Jake was already well known, after all, it was more than ten times that he appeared in the newspaper and on television.
After that happened Jake returned to the normal training routine, next week would be the state championship semifinal and in less than a month would be the marathon of
New York.
As for the state championship Jake was confident, but in the marathon, he did not know if he could lower the 4 seconds per km in a 50 km race, after all, he knew well that the marathon was much harder than in training.
After all Jake finished the marathon smoothly because he trained to always run 7km more in training and even decreased his time to ensure that would have no problems, but he could not guarantee that would not always be so, after all, it was not easy to win a major marathon.
Jake knew from John that thanks to Jake being representing the company sometimes with sponsorship mainly in the Chicago marathon they had a lot more sales in Chicago and Miami now, after all, everyone was curious about those companies that sponsored Jake who did so many amazing things.
Tiffany and Clara's companies had the best results in these places because they had been with Jake for a long time, so Jake was thinking of Tiffany who hadn't been talking to him since he was in Chicago.
Just as he was wondering if he would go there to find out what happened Tiffany called Jake saying she wanted to talk to him, but the place was in a hotel restaurant and not in the normal restaurants they met.
Jake accepted and relaxed thinking that nothing had happened and he was thinking too much, after all, Tiffany was busy and has his private life too, he should not have interfered that much.
So Jake thought she was calling to talk about her two games with over 120 points and her record was broken after all his acquaintances called to talk about it with him.
But arriving at the restaurant he saw that things were not that simple, Tiffany had a serious face that from what he knew of her seemed even that she was angry or angry about something.
Seeing this, Jake even cringed in fear that he had done something wrong, but he didn't remember doing anything wrong, so he took courage and walked slowly to Tiffany's table.
When she saw Jake her gaze shifted to worry and tiredness, so Jake knew it was nothing to him, but he was curious what could cause such a strong woman such emotions as Tiffany.
"Hi Tiffany, you made me worry about you coming out of Chicago all of a sudden, I know I shouldn't intrude on what happens in your life, but as we are friends I was worried about you."
Jake was a little apprehensive, he was always a person with few friends in his life, so he valued the few he had and tried everything he could for them, but Jake's relationship with Tiffany and Clara was not that simple.
Even though he always thought of them as a friend, he didn't know if they thought like that, because they were also his sponsors, and so Jake didn't know if they treated him well because he was a friend or an important business partner.
After all, Clara never talked to Jake about his personal problems and put a barrier between them, so much so that in recent months he had only talked to Tiffany most of the time.
Tiffany also, although talking a lot about Clara didn't say anything about her life people, Jake was different and told everything he felt for them.
"I'm sorry I left so suddenly, but there was a serious problem that I had to address urgently, but I'm glad to hear you were worried about me."
"I heard from your record in the last 172 points game, after a 123 points game, really I think no one else could do something like that, our companies will win a lot from that too, congratulations Jake you're amazing."
Jake wasn't happy with Tiffany's compliment because it was clear she was trying to change the subject, but Jake couldn't force Tiffany to talk about anything.
"Thanks, I was happy after this game, you called me here because you wanted something from me?"
"No, it was more to apologize about that day I left without saying anything and to congratulate you on your amazing game."
"Did something happen, Tiffany? I feel you have something that is bothering you so much, could that be the reason you left Chicago quickly? You know you can trust me so I can see if I can help anything."
After Jake said that Tiffany seemed to be in conflict whether to talk about it with Jake or not, Jake just waited for Tiffany to make up his mind.
"All right then, I'll tell you, Jake, it's not because I don't trust you that I didn't say anything about it, but since it's not about me I can't just talk about it like that, but as you're indirectly involved I I'm gonna tell you."
"It turns out that when I was in Chicago with you at the marathon a lot of things happened here in Miami."
"Robert's father, who was very ill, unfortunately, died after so many years, but without even waiting for his burial Robert filed for divorce."
"Because they married a total division of property no one has to share anything with divorce, and Robert now that he has inherited the family business is thinking of making several changes and investments in his business."
"So this madman said he had been talking to a major sporting goods company for months and that company has, we don't know how, bought 30 percent of the company from shareholders on the stock exchange and wants to buy Robert's 10 percent as well. "
"If they can buy 10 percent of Robert their company will have 40 percent of the company and Clara will only have 41 percent so Clara will not go without the only voice in the company anymore."
"Fortunately, although this company that wants to buy Clara's company is so big, they don't want to waste too much time on it and they want to buy Clara's company, me and her father besides Robert or the rest of the stock market."
"Fortunately Clara has acted fast and bought 5 percent more of the stock and has 46 percent again so with mine and her father's shares that we will never sell, this company also seems to have bought 4 percent more and has 34 percent."
"The other shares are with a bank that doesn't want to sell because it's making a profit, luckily Robert's father was smart and knew he had been unfair to Clara in this and before giving the shares to his son's name put a clause that Robert would have to offer Clara the shares before selling to another."
"Now we have 5 years to buy these shares before Robert can sell to this other company, the problem is that these shares are worth 28 million now and neither I nor Clara has that money."
"We have made a lot of investments in our companies and we have a security contract in our companies that we cannot loan our company shares to get that money."
"Clara's father can't do anything about it either, and it's impossible for us to raise $ 28 million in 5 years without borrowing, not to mention that our company is always valuing and so that value can be higher in 5 years."
"If this other company can't buy our company they'll want to sell that 34 percent too, so we have to raise even more money for it."
This seemed to be a pretty complicated situation, they can't use any company money beyond dividends in those 5 years, this is impossible even if they add their salaries in the company.
"Can't you make a loan without pledging the company stock?"
"We can, but we can't do much with loans."
"You can try to raise as many funds as possible in a short time and I invest that money for you, so in 5 years you can raise that money to buy Robert's stock at least."
"I think Clara and her dad won't agree to bet the company on unsecured investments, Jake, I just wanted to tell you that, I don't expect you to get that money."
So Jake gave up trying to convince Tiffany, with 2 million invested now he guaranteed that he could raise that amount to at least 60 million, but it was like Tiffany said a venture investment, just not risky for Jake coming from the future, but no one knew about this.
Right now Jake couldn't really raise that money, in another year with Matthew's profits he could if he borrowed Matthew's stock as collateral, but that was impossible for Jake to do.
In 5 years Jake would have that money for sure, but he couldn't guarantee it for Tiffany and Clara, and even if they were very close friends he couldn't give it to them, and lending wasn't a good way either because he would have to wait. 8 years to receive at least.
So what he could do was buy these stocks, even if it was a bad investment Jake would do it for friendship, after all, they would have a lot of money in 5 years, he just felt bad for not being able to reassure Tiffany that she was sad.
After Jake came home he thought about it again, he could do nothing to help the company now, no one he knew would invest more than 123 million just to help Clara and Tiffany.
Even Matthew, who was also a friend of them and would make that money from selling the cameras, would do such a thing, after all, it was pointless to do so.
At least now Jake knew why Tiffany and Clara's companies did not exist in the future, they would certainly be less successful than now, so Robert tried to sell his shares and then got Clara and Tiffany discouraged and sold their shares and the company has been sold.
So Tiffany must have been discouraged and sold to her company, with Jake having changed things for the better. Clara had a way of reacting and still continuing with her company, and the other shareholders would not let Tiffany sell the company that is worth so much now.
Luckily he still had 5 years to think of something, in 6 years he was able to get what he has today out of nowhere, so Jake believed he could do something in 5 years, one good thing had come out of it all was that Clara was finally free from the unhappy marriage she was.
So Jake decided to forget about it for a while and continue his training routines, so he went to rest to continue training for the next game.
The other day Jake went to the restaurant and talked to Lola a little about some trivial matters and then went to meet his mother and Anna in the kitchen.
"Hi Jake, congratulations on winning yesterday and breaking the record you wanted so badly."
"I'm not sure what Jake looks like either, but it must be amazing to score over 100 points in a game."
"I was very happy too, you didn't tell me anything about Lola going to the game yesterday at breakfast are you, mom?"
"I didn't think I needed to tell you why you would see her the same way, besides, she just went to see the game."
After talking a little with his mother and Anna he went to school, everyone in his class was busy studying there, and Jake was the most relaxed in there, but he didn't bring any other books to study in the classroom.
Jake was very busy doing many things he didn't even have time to rest, and after learning the Japanese language he spoke 6 languages with English, and he would use those languages more in restaurants or on the rare trips he would make. , so Jake was no longer interested in new languages.
For a long time, he would no longer make his travels as he had no company, so the purpose of learning the languages that were travel was over Jake promised after having his second chance that he would not make travel alone anymore if it was something work he would do, but never to relax.
After all, he retraced all the trips he had made in his past life in this life with his mother because he always thought he had some things that he had missed enjoying being alone.
As for the economics and business books he had read them for over 10 years if he counted his two lives, there was not much else he could learn from the books.
After he did this by continuing with his perfect grades he finally got the recognition of all the teachers who considered him a student model for all classrooms, seeing that Jake regretted a little for being so adamant and insistent on taking the books to the classes in the past.
Even if he wasn't wrong, it wasn't right to want to complicate things with the teachers, at least he had learned everything he wanted before finishing school, even though those hours a day in the classroom might seem like a waste of time when he got around. It was as busy as Jake.
He knew well that after this time passed he would miss it all, another thing that also changed was that now many of Jake's classmates were asking him for advice about things they didn't understand in class.
Before, everyone was afraid to ask Jake that he had problems with the teachers and seemed not to study in class, but after they started asking they were surprised to find that Jake was a great teacher.
Even Joseph who thought Jake didn't study was sorry for not asking Jake for help before, so many of his classmates had their grades improved long after Jake's tips.
Even though it seemed like Jake didn't study now, it was because he had already studied hard in his past life, besides studying hard at school when he was this age he studied after the older ones over the internet, and the summarized teaching videos were much better than the lessons. normal to learn.
Those with the worst grades and wanting to go to a good university even asked Jake for help after school, but he had to deny it because he was so much busier out of school than at school.
After classes Jake returned to his training with the basketball team, everyone was happy that Jake had a great achievement breaking this record, with these two games all relaxed a lot and forgot the concerns of the team.
But after all the excitement was over they remembered that they were in the state championship semifinal again and so the games would get harder and harder, even if they were the favorites to win the championship surprises could always happen as their opponent in the regional championship that was able to reach the national championship.
Who was not very happy with these two games in which Jake was trying to break the record were Nathan and Lucas, both were very happy for Jake as they were very cheering for him but knew they missed good opportunities to prove themselves to coach Mike.
After all, in these two games, neither the attack nor the defense mattered much, just everything was being done so that Jake could score over 100 points and break the record so Coach Mike didn't even bother putting Nathan and Lucas to play in those two games.
So they missed two opportunities to show that they could do more as a starter in the national championship, of course even David and Harrison didn't make much money from those two games either, but as they were already starting out they weren't losing much on that.
Although Jake didn't know that Nathan and Lucas were sad about it, he knew he had been selfish in these two games, so in training he did his best to help his teammates improve, always giving tips when he could.
Coach Mike thought it was very good because it served to relax some players who were very tense to compete for positions in the team and also to try the second national championship in a row.
The president was also insisting that the team had to work harder to win this national championship, Elite school was not a school known for being strong in sports, but with new investments, they won 2 national championships in a row from high school.
Many new talents went to school so after a year's break the team had been able to win another national championship and were heading to win one more, together with Jake's record this year they were to be placed as one of stronger schools in high school basketball.
Also, many talented players joined the Middle School team and they were fighting for the third national championship in less than 5 years, players like Nathan and Lucas were joining the team next year again.
In addition to basketball training, Jake was struggling with his home bodybuilding workouts, he had abandoned the treadmill after he started training to run the marathon, but he could feel that his strength was falling behind in his physical statistics.
Even though at the moment the agility and endurance statistics were more important to him in his two works, he could not give up on increasing his strength, because he could not forget that the system said that the strength statistic could increase his strength rate. mid-range shots and outside shots.
Jake had a dream of getting more than 60 percent hit on the outside shots at least if he got 80 percent was much better, but for that, he would have to have at least 60 points in strength statistics.
After all Jake learned that he enjoyed basketball in his past life in the wheelchair by shooting outside, in the NBA, too, he knew that in the beginning, he could no longer easily make his individual plays and layup and dunk in plays.
All of his opponents will be high-level players and will not allow it, so Jake would have to rely on outside shots and mid-range shooting early in his NBA career to make his points.
But just bodybuilding wasn't helping, he could now earn 1-2 statistics points a year, so it would take almost 15 years for him to have the statistics he wanted in strength, you couldn't count on it.
In his marathon running training, Jake was also dissatisfied with his improvement, he was able to run 46 km at a speed of 2 minutes and 56 seconds per km, but it had been two weeks with this training and so he could not run the 50 km at that time before the New York Marathon.
Jake knew how important it was to be confident for such a marathon, so he could run smoothly, any distraction could make Jake lose pace in the marathon and thus lose the race.
But that was his normal improvement with training, he was improving fast earlier because of his pride in winning a marathon without using the stamina bar Jake had awakened his potential and so was improving in training quickly.
After all Jake was already at the height of marathon competition after winning in Chicago, so he could earn system stats points as a reward, the system even acknowledged that it was difficult to improve with training and so gave reward points to motivate Jake to keep improving and break new records.
Of course, since the system was something that helped him push his limits, he could still improve by training normally, but Jake was only 16 now, even if he took 10 years of running under 2 hours a whole marathon would be awesome.
Jake was just being impatient now, he still had the statistics he could earn at major marathons, and when he got to the NBA with basketball, it wouldn't take him ten years to beat those records.
So Jake was thinking of doing what the system was against in the beginning, participating in various sports and having various jobs to improve his statistics faster, thankfully Jake was holding on for now.
The system wanted Jake to learn to be patient and to learn that the way to be the best in all sports was his skills and not his physical statistics were the same for jobs like Jake's Businessman.
If he increased his Charm, Leadership and Eloquence statistics to the maximum he could get any contract he wanted even if conditions were unfair to his business partner.
Jake could win over many women and make the biggest businessmen like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs accept working for him with these statistics, which is why the system gave no rewards for these missions.
If Jake alone could raise these statistics to the fullest it would be his merit, of course, Jake didn't know about it himself, so Jake always depended on his intelligence to do his business and his people who weren't even in the system.
After another week of training, the state championship semi-final game had arrived, but perhaps the opponents were startled by Jake's two consecutive 120-plus-point records and the Elite team easily won the game.
Jake had a good grip on this game and scored just 24 points, he also got 18 assists and 12 steals with one triple-double, so Jake had 25 games in a row doing triple-double, many couldn't even do that much in life as a player. basketball and that's why Jake thought it was a good record.
Nathan and Lucas entered this match in the third period, but as the opponents looked scared they could not be as prominent as the opponent nor attacked, so the Elite team also respected the opponent and won with an advantage of only 20 points.
But everyone knew that it was impossible for the final game to be that easy, as both teams could win the state championship and enter the national championship if they only won the game, and the Elite team had a history of players with poor performance in games. important, that was an added hope for the opposing team.
After the game, the Elite team had to retrain for the final and Jake was also close to the marathon, so it would be a lively week for everyone.
After Jake returned home he called his mother to tell him about the victory, then Jake went to rest to be ready for a busy week.
Jake was very happy and in great shape in both basketball and athletics, even though he was finding his progress in slowing his time to the next marathon very slow, he was sure he could still win.
So before the end of the year, he wanted to win this state championship and also the New York marathon and close very well this year which was great for him.
Emily had hired a few people to help monitor Jake's and the company's investments as well, and since she had done it a few times for Jake, Emily had more easily bought the stock with the money she received from investors.
Just as Jake had thought aside from slightly increasing the stock value that 30 million had not changed much for Cisco, it wasn't even 0.1 percent of the company, but that was exactly what Jake wanted.
Although he was from the future and knew exactly how to buy and sell the company's stock, Jake didn't know much about how it worked or what kind of products the company made to make it is stock so valuable, so he just wanted to be an investor.
But Emily had not yet found Jeff Bezos, even though the store had not yet been opened on the internet and so it was harder to find him in Seattle until the end of the year Jake could still wait until Emily found him.
Matthew had also improved production at his factory and got new distributors to sell his digital cameras all over the country and in Europe, with a few days of sales in new places he had sold another 10,000 cameras.
So he was convinced that he had made the right decision believing Jake's vision, that way they could even sell more than 1 million cameras, could end up being more than that.
After a few days of training Jake had received an important visit; he had chosen one of the universities to study and play basketball in the coming years was the University of North Carolina.
It was one of the top universities in the United States and not far from Miami, and it had a great basketball team that couldn't beat NCAA in the years Jake could have been in college in his past life, but they were always among the best.
They had a strong basketball team, and even good players where Jake played, but he was confident he could get a place in the starting lineup in the coming years, at least next year he wants to play more than 20 minutes per game at the end of the match. championship.
All the universities had made early-year proposals for a sports scholarship without even needing an interview, with Jake getting the best grades in school he could easily get that scholarship.
Especially after he made two games with more than 120 points and still had a record of 25 triple Double in a row in games, it showed that he was really capable of playing in the NBA and those two games with over 120 points weren't just luck.
The president of the Elite school was really trying for a long time to make friends with the University of North Carolina, after all, they had one of the best college basketball teams in the United States and could be great school partners.
But this university was not interested in Mark and the rest of the basketball team, they were interested in Jake just like all the other universities, but the president could not interfere with Jake's choice.
So he was glad Jake had made this choice that would also help the school, the president was convinced that bringing Jake to his school had been one of the best things he had ever done in his career.
Who had come to visit was the University of North Carolina coach Bill Guthridge, he had come to meet Jake who would play for his team in the coming years, Bill Guthridge was delighted to see that Jake had chosen his university.
The coach was confident that with Jake on his team in the coming years he could have his team being NCAA champion, the team he was assembling now was very strong, but he needed a spectacular player like Jake to lead the team.
Of course, the coach did not expect Jake to be able to do this in his first year, but in the coming years he would count on him, courtesy Bill first went to meet the coach of the Elite team who was Coach Mike to know some things about Jake.
Coach Mike had a lot of respect for the big universities that had strong basketball teams, so he had respect for Bill who had the ability to coach such a team, Coach Mike just spoke well of Jake and said that since Middle School Jake was A great player and team captain.
So during the training of the basketball team on the day Coach Bill just watched Jake, he also looked at other players in the team, but only Nathan and Lucas got more attention from him if they grew older could play on their team in the future.
Bill thought Mark was very good too, but it was not enough to stand out on a university team, he thought Mark could be a good reserve for a weaker team if he got better he could perform well last year. college, but Coach Bill didn't want to bet on that.
Jake as always was very discreet in training, after all, it was just to train the team tactics and improve the rapport, yet Coach Bill really liked Jake's ball control as well as his defense performance, was also pleased to see that Jake I really didn't miss a pass in training.
At least he showed the basics for a college basketball PG, of course, Coach Bill knew Jake was so much better than that, he had seen some recordings of some Jake games and was what he expected from a star. to your team.
Even though in some games Jake showed a common performance, it also showed that he knew how to play well and as PG could bring out the best in performance from his entire team.
After the end of the training, all the players left and only Jake stayed behind to talk to Coach Bill, all the players were curious to know who this person was watching and who Coach Mike was so respectful, they thought that they had seen him somewhere, but they could not remember where.
Jake was also very curious who he wanted to talk to, he also felt that he knew Coach Bill, but didn't know exactly where.
"Hi Jake, it's nice to meet you, I'm Coach Bill Guthridge, I coach the University of North Carolina team you decided to join next year."
So Jake knew where he knew Coach Bill from, even though he didn't watch many college games he knew some important people from the big college teams, Jake was also surprised that Coach just came to talk to him in person.
"Hi Coach Bill, I'm very happy to meet you too, I've heard a lot about you."
In fact Coach, Bill was still the assistant to the head coach of the University of North Carolina, but Jake knew that in 1997 he would take over the team, so Jake treated him even better to please Coach Bill to have a place in the team in the future.
Even though he was very talented he knew it would be very difficult to be in the starting lineup next year, but he could play as the sixth man until Coach Bill became the head coach.
Coach Bill was very pleased with this treatment, even though he was not the head coach, he was on the University of North Carolina training team for 30 years and so enjoyed being respected for it.
"I came here just to meet you and watch a game of yours, we can talk about more things when you officially join university, so we won't have any complaints from the other team coaches about it."
"But another issue we will have to talk about after the final game so you don't get distracted from the game, this is more important so be prepared."
"All in coach, I'm going now then."
In fact, Jake already got what Coach Bill had to say important to him, but Jake already had a solution to this problem, he would not only harm himself to please the university.
So the week went by and Jake continued his training routines, even though he knew that Coach Bill was watching he was still training the same way he had before, that was very pleasing to the coach as well, but his teammates who had found out who was the coach Bill worked even harder for training.
Even though it wouldn't change things much they had to try their best not to regret it later, it actually helped Nathan and Lucas who were being watched by the coach as well.
Jake was still training after the team's training on the school's athletic fields, he was still trying to run the 50 km in 2 minutes 56 seconds to get a better time and still have the assurance that he had the energy to finish the marathon at that time.
But that was not easy for him, Jake even had to stop running several times during training because the system warned him that he could be injured, it showed that Jake was always trying to push his limits in training every day.
Still, luck didn't seem to be on Jake's side this week, with a few days left to the state championship final and just a few weeks into the marathon, Jake was getting away from home every day in his training sessions.
His mother was also very busy these last few weeks, Eva always left around 5 am and came back only around 23 hours, so almost always no one was home during the week, so Jake who was at school got the news that shook him a lot.
Jake found shockingly that his house had been robbed, reports from neighbors in the police investigation said that armed bandits broke into the house after arriving by car, after a few minutes these bandits left without carrying anything.
After what happened Jake asked for a license from classes and training to go to his mother's restaurant, he was sure Eva was much more shaken than he was when he arrived at the restaurant the police investigator was talking to Anna while Eva was still I was crying scared.
As soon as she saw Jake safe she had a feeling of relief and almost fainted, Jake caught her scared and took her mother to her office, Anna and the investigator still talking, not seeing that Eve passed out.
He himself was very shocked by what happened, but it wasn't about to pass out in shock over it, so Jake didn't understand why his mother was like this, so he warned the investigator that he would take his mother home and then pass the police station.
Anna said she would take care of the restaurant, for Jake with everything that happened today he would close the restaurant, but as Anna could still take good care of things she told Jake that it was important to keep the restaurant open to meet customer reservations and keep the credibility of the restaurant.
So Jake agreed with Anna and just took her mother home after Eve slept Jake also went to his room to think a little about what happened, he never thought he would be really robbed, even in his past life that bad luck happened something like this happened.
It showed what he was doing could change the future he knew, and besides, Jake thought that with his luck at Maximo something like this couldn't happen.
As he was worried about his mother and in shock, Jake unthinkingly brought them to his house that had been robbed recently, but he thought everything should be fine because the police would be watching his house for a few months and the bad guys weren't. would have the courage to return.
"Fate, how could something like that happen, I thought I would be protected with my luck at Maximo in this life, did you even say something would never happen?"
[You really will always be protected with your luck at Maximo, but sometimes the people closest to you could end up with some bad luck or even hurt themselves.]
[Of course, it will probably never be very serious, but something like this can happen, what happened to you today was actually very lucky, because as you thought some bad guys have somehow discovered that you and your mom are rich and live in a house that is in an unsecured neighborhood.]
[The cops must know that too, but the bad guys came armed and took nothing because they were actually trying to kidnap you and not steal the house, just like you two were out, nothing like that happened.]
When Jake heard this he was shocked, now he understood why his mother was so nervous and lonely and soothed when he showed up, he had really thought something like this could happen but never imagined it would actually happen, especially with his luck.
But what happened this time Jake was already thinking of buying a house as soon as possible, while his mother slept Jake went to the police station to give the statement and heard from the policeman the same as the system said.
Jake didn't really care whether or not the police would catch the bad guys, he would move house and make sure that none of this would happen again, after thinking about it he returned home to rest and stay with his mother after she woke up.
Jake told all his friends what had happened to him, everyone was worried about what might have happened and they were happy that nothing worse happened, Jake asked Oliver to look for a house for him to buy with enhanced security and Oliver said he would take care of it of this.
Since Jake couldn't stay with his mother at their house so that something like that wouldn't happen again while they waited for Oliver to find another house, Matthew offered one of his houses for Jake and Eva to stay while waiting to buy their new home.
Although Oliver stayed in one of Matthew's smaller houses, it was still almost a security-enhanced mansion in it, Jake had never paid attention to any of this before his house had been broken into.
Jake was fine a few days after what happened and Eva started to recover, she was just afraid something might happen to her son and not her home having been broken into, so after a few days, she wanted to go back to the restaurant to help. Anna who was taking all responsibility on her own.
"Are you sure it's okay with you now mom?"
"I'm sure Jake, something like this can't bring me down for long, I just worried about you, but now I realized that everything was fine."
"Alright then mom, stay with Anna and always drive back and be careful of your safety."
"I'll be fine Jake, something like that doesn't happen often to one person, and you, my son, is everything okay?"
"I'm fine too, mom, I just had to miss some training for the upcoming state championship final and marathon game, but I can still play quietly."
"It's true, you still have a game in two more days, with everything that's going on I had even forgotten about it, are you sure it's okay for this game, son?"
"I'm sure mom, you can go easy."
Jake really felt that everything was fine with him, he was just a little shaken by what happened and also knowing that something worse could have happened to him and his mother, Jake realized that could end up changing the future in a way that would not be. good for him and his family.
He was just a little upset that he couldn't talk to Coach Bill at the university anymore, but he wasn't so worried about it because he already had a scholarship and knew he could do well in games.
He spoke with coach Mike about the game because he was on leave from school for what happened, coach Mike confirmed that Jake's place in the final was guaranteed if Jake thought he was okay to play.
In fact Coach Mike has been worried these past few days about Jake's situation, Jake is the team captain and also the best player of the team, with Jake they have never lost a game in several years and so the other players felt safe to play the best.
But if Jake couldn't play this state championship final which although not their toughest game of the year would have a lot of pressure to be a final, the whole team could play badly because of it.
Luckily nothing had happened to Jake and he seemed to be fine for the next game when the coach told Jake's teammates that they were all reassured after hearing that Jake would play.
Only Coach Bill wasn't very optimistic that Jake could play so well in the next game, but it still gave him insight into how important Jake was to the Elite team, so he further showed Jake's value as an MVP for a team that was several national champions.
So Eva seemed to be back to normal after a few days of rest and they were temporarily living in one of Matthew's houses until Oliver found a good home for them.
Thus came the day of the state championship final, Jake as always woke up early and ate breakfast prepared by his mother, Eva seemed to have forgotten what happened after those days and was fine again.
She wasn't worried about Jake either, because she was confident that her son was so much more mature than she would be, and she wouldn't be too shaken by what had happened.
"Are you alright for today's game my son?"
"I'm fine, Mom, even though I've been without training these past few days it won't be a problem to play normally."
"I believe you, Jake, Lola said you were going to watch this game too, you were upset that I didn't tell you last time."
After that Jake went to the game site with his things calmly, he arrived early and many had not prepared yet, Jake saw Lola in the stands as his mother had said and was happy for the support.
Eric had not come to this game either, nor anyone else known, other than Coach Bill who was in a special place as an Elite school guest, the opponent was Callahan's team.
They were scared of Jake's performance in some games, but could not just give up after reaching the final and with chances of playing the national championship if they won.
The Callahan team had three most prominent players, PG Adam SG Evan and SF Jose, Callahan PG was very much according to several reporters, but his state championship performance was greatly overshadowed by Jake who was much better. and played in the same position.
Even though Adam was not very jealous of Jake and admired the opponent who would probably be a great NBA star in the future, yet Adam still thought of playing his best in this game and at least not letting Jake do another triple Double in that game.
None of the reporters knew that Jake's house had been broken into this week, and neither of their opponents could imagine that, so they couldn't think this could be an advantage for their team if they attacked more from the side Jake was defending.
After a few minutes the match began, Mark went up well and took the first possession for the Elite team, Mark passed the ball to Jake who advanced into the attack and passed the ball to Harrison on the left, Harrison passed the ball to Mark who was inside.
Mark turned and left the opposing Center's defense, so he ended the move with a layup to make the first two points for the Elite team in that final.
The game continued as usual with the Elite team dominating, Jake was just watching the opposing team more and was not trying to make many moves, yet the Callahan team had their players avoiding him in the attacks.
After all only the average of almost 12 steals per game can make opposing players avoid Jake when attacking, after all, Jake was almost always considered to be the best attacking and defensive player in the championships he played.
The Elite team beat the opposing team by 6 points and Jake had only 4 points in the first period, he also made 4 assists and no steal.
At the beginning of the second period, it was Adam who had the ball, the Callahan team knew they could not avoid Jake and the Elite team in this game and still hope to win, so from the second period they decided to risk and attack more.
As Adam advanced for another Callahan attack, before the middle of the court he passed the ball to Evan who was open from the left, Evan passed David and made the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for Callahan.
Jake caught the ball and went to arrange another attack for the Elite team, before the middle of the court he passed the ball to Harrison on the left, Harrison advanced for a while and passed the ball to Carter who was further on the right.
Carter held the ball and passed it to David who was behind him, David attempted the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the Elite team.
Adam took the ball and began another attack for his team, he advanced and passed the ball to Jose after passing the middle of the court, Jose advanced and passed the ball to the forward Callahan PF.
The PF held the ball and passed it to Adam who was behind him again, Adam saw that Jake was far away and made the outside shot to score 3 points for the Callahan team.
So Jake received the ball and began another attack for the Elite team, he passed the ball to David more open on the right, David advanced to the three-point line and passed the ball to Mark ahead.
Mark held for a while and passed the ball back to Jake, Jake saw that Adam was coming and tried to pass the ball to Carter, but eventually missed the pass and the ball came out, Jake apologized to his teammates and the game continued.
Adam was happy for this mistake by the Elite team and saw that if they tried they could have a chance to win this game, so he advanced to pass the ball to Evan after passing through the middle of the court.
Evan advanced a little more and then held the ball for a while before moving to his team's Center, and the Center managed to spin on Mark's defense and lay up to score 2 points for Callahan.
Jake advanced for another attacking move and passed the ball to Harrison before the middle of the court, Harrison advanced a little and passed the ball to David, David held and when Evan reached the defense Evan passed to Jake who was free behind.
Jake tried the shot from outside and missed Mark so he did not expect so did not catch the rebound and the Callahan team got another attack.
At the end of the second period of the game, Callahan was the one who beat Elite by 2 points, Jake scored 4 points and 4 assists without getting any steal, so Jake was close to a Double-Double, but it was difficult for him to get a triple-double in this game.
Coach Mike had to put Nathan and Lucas to improve the defense of the Elite team and try to reverse the game again in favor of the Elite team.
But Jake and some more basketball savvy like Coach Bill realized that it was Jake who was doing badly in this game, but since Jake was usually so good, even playing badly he was one of the best on the team.
Jake was missing a lot more mid-range passes and shots from outside the box, not to mention that in defense he could not keep up with the moves to know when to make a steal and even Adam had passed him a few times.
Jake was the same physically as usual and Jake couldn't figure out what was wrong with him, yet Jake knew he wasn't playing as usual but was still playing well so he could just pass the ball more and more carefully and not try so many times the mid-range shot and the outside shot.
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Nathan and Lucas were also able to defend much better than David and Harrison and thus annulled the opposing attack a bit, so the elite team ended the third period winning by 2 points again.
In this third period Jake scored 6 more points and 3 assists, he got a double-double and had already given up trying the triple-double because he had not got any steal in the game.
Still, Jake missed far fewer passes during that time and also missed fewer mid-range shots, so people who thought Jake was playing badly thought they were wrong after this performance.
But Coach Bill knew that Jake was still having a bad game, it looked like Jake had realized that and so was trying to hold on and play more safely, Coach Bill found Jake even more impressive after learning that.
After all, if a 16-year-old player was having a bad game and with a scout-like him in the stands, the player would be even more nervous and play even worse until replaced.
In addition, Coach Bill knew that Jake should be playing badly because he suffered a shock during the week of his home being broken into, yet Jake was trying his best to be a state champion.
In the fourth period of the game Jake still had a regular performance and made 4 points and 4 assists, as in this game, he did not get a triple Double his record was ended with 25 straight games making triple Double.
Most likely this record would never be broken again in high school basketball, just like the 172 points he scored in that state championship.
The Elite team won 6 points more than the Callahan team, only after the game is over that Coach Mike can breathe a sigh of relief.
Coach Bill had to go back to college and found it a pity that Jake had been affected so he couldn't see Jake playing his best in the final game, but what he saw was that Jake knew how to adapt to his situation let him even more excited about Jake's future.
Coach Bill was sure that Jake would soon be back to normal and so the Elite team would win the national championship early next year.
Even if Coach Bill had to talk about some important things with Jake, he would have to wait a few weeks before he could return to Miami and Jake was fine again.
Everyone greeted the Callahan team who had a good game and lost only 6 points from the Elite team that was the national championship champion last year.
Everyone celebrated this state championship a lot more, only Jake couldn't be too happy about this game, something had never happened to him, Jake was worried about not knowing why and would happen again in a more difficult game.
But he couldn't think about that now because his teammates were so happy about this victory and this state champion trophy.
Then everyone was called on to get Jake to lift the state champion trophy, just so Jake can relax a little and everyone celebrated Jake also got that state championship MVP award and was happy.
After that Jake went back to the stands to take Lola away, Lola was very happy with Jake's invitation and accepted, but even though Lola wanted to talk to Jake this time as they drove to her house, she realized that even having beaten Jake was not in a good mood.
So she missed another chance to talk, when they got to Lola's house, Jake got out of the car to take her to the door, so at least Lola took the courage to say a few words.
"Congratulations on winning the state championship and MVP Jake award."
"Thanks, I was glad you came today too."
"I was worried that you couldn't play normally because of what happened this week, I was shocked and worried about what happened to you and your mother Jake."
"Thanks for worrying about me and my mom, I'm glad nothing worse has happened this time either."
"I hope nothing like this happens again, but I was happy to see that what happened didn't affect you in today's game and you could still win as usual."
After that Jake went home and called Eva and told her about the victory, Eva was worried that Jake wouldn't win this time but was relieved to hear that Jake had won.
With that Eva can relax that everything had returned to normal, soon they would have a new home and so everything would be even better and something like that would never happen again.
Jake was no longer happy even after winning today's game, he knew he had played bad today and couldn't understand what was wrong, he felt that it was normal and even the statistics window said he was normal.
Even if they still won today's game and Jake managed to hold back and miss less, Jake knew that this was because his team had played today's game so well, if it was up to him the team would have lost that game.
But against a tougher opponent, the same could not happen again.