bhwS

by Cr0w0019

this is a fanfic of a bhwS book i read with a little bit of things edited to make it better

11. Chapter 11

Last National High School Championship

In the third period, the Elite team came back to dominate with good moves from Jake and the strong defense of the whole team, Coach Mike was pleased with what he saw and thought this was the best team to play this national championship.

If it wasn't for David and Harrison's high school senior year Coach Mike would have replaced them after all the two new players were playing much better, especially in defense and now they had achieved the perfect match with the rest of the authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Not to mention that Nathan and Lucas would surely be the leaders of the Elite team next year, putting them in important games to improve and gain experience was the best he could do.

By the end of the third period, the Elite team was winning by 18 points, and because the opposing team played well and demanded that everyone on the Elite team play as well as they could, Mark also excelled playing well in defense and making the attacks without failing when necessary.

Not to mention that he had 13 rebounds at the end of this third period being one of the most important players to secure this advantage in this tough game, Jake has scored 14 points over that period and has had 28 points throughout the game so far.

Unlike the other teams that played in this national championship before against the Elite team, in this third game, the opponents did not want to give up the game, so Jake and the other players did their best and guaranteed the victory of the Elite team.

So at the end of the fourth period, the Elite team won 30 points more than their opponents, Jake finished the game with 44 points, 17 assists and 7 steals, his best game in this national championship, after all, he managed to perform well against a most difficult opponent team.

After the game Jake chatted a little with his teammates and then left home, David was the only one who was not happy after this game because he would probably miss the chance to play in the starting team after this game.

But no one could comfort David because Nathan, who had got the job, was also friends and teammates, everyone knew that only the best could play in the starting lineup and all were teammates.

Overnight he talked to his mother after telling him that he had won the game, Eva was happy for her son and was no longer so nervous about games beyond the final game because she couldn't even imagine Jake talking about losing after so many years.

After all even though Jake had stopped playing for 2 years it was still amazing to think that it was 5 years since Jake had known what a defeat in basketball was, of course, Jake University games could experience more losses and in the NBA he would surely lose a lot of games.

But at high school at least he still didn't know what it was to lose a game, this might be Jake's most impressive record of making multiple doubles or scoring over 100 points in two games.

During the night after showering and getting ready for bed, Jake found himself thinking again about how things had worked out again in his life, so he wanted to see how he had improved after so long.

"Fate, I'd like to see my Basketball Stats window."

[Here it is]

[Name: Jake Smith]

[Age: 17 years]

[Job: Basketball Player]

[Title: College Player]

[Position: PG, SG]

[Height: 1.93 m]

[Weight: 95 Kg]

[Force 33]

[Agility 34]

[Resistance 37]

[Intelligence 59]

[Luck 99]

Basketball Skills

[Ball Handling B]

[Body Control B]

[Man to Man C]

[Dribble B]

[Layup B]

[Set Shot A]

[Block C]

[Pass A]

[Rebound B]

[2 Points S]

[3 Points S]

[Free Throw SS]

[Steal A]

[Dunk C]

Jake was surprised to learn that in the physical he had improved a lot unknowingly, he hoped that after 16 years he could not change much, but was surprised to see that he had grown to 1.93 m in a short time he increased 4 cm in height.

Of course Jake knew it was because of the system tuning, after all, he had grown so much taller than in his past life, now he didn't know if he could increase his height even more than now, after all, he couldn't control the system.

At least he knew that the system did only what was best for him, and Jake had realized that the muscles in his body had increased a lot and were stronger, so his weight had increased too, this should be done by the system, so people wouldn't suspect Jake's abnormal strength with a thin body.

After all, no matter how much he ate or exercised, his weight and body did not change at all, his statistics had also increased by one each, while his growth would stop, his statistics would not increase as easily.

Already his basketball skills had improved almost nothing after all this time, only the skills with the lowest rank had improved, and Jake was training every day in his imagination training space.

"Fate, could you explain to me what happened?"

[I will explain everything until I am 19 years old your body will still be growing, circumstances that not even I control well must be met for your body to change anyway in the following years.]

[But just as you said, no change should hurt you, the higher you should do better on some skills you have more difficulty now and also with your more muscular body reduces the risk of injury and does not hinder your agility.]

[Your stats have kept growing at this time if you keep exercising, lately, you have been putting it a little aside thinking that it doesn't help at all, but if you push yourself as before it might still work.]

[As for your skills not improving much, partly as I had warned you before, as the college level of basketball is very close to the pro it's much harder to raise ranks, but each improvement makes a lot of difference.]

[Also, since you had a psychological problem this obviously affected your skill development as well, so much of the time training you had had that problem was to no avail.]

"I'm healed now, aren't I?"

[Yes, you are healed, your problem was nothing serious, to begin with, but as you were under a lot of stress due to all the responsibilities you have taken longer to recover even with my help, thankfully it was right at the beginning of your vacation and didn't affect you that much.]

"You said my skills training had been impaired due to my psychological problem, but before you didn't say no injuries would disturb my imagination training space?"

[I said no physical injury could disrupt your training, but your problem was mental, so it affected it even more, and I didn't expect you to ignore me and have an injury in life, so it's your fault.]

Jake was embarrassed to hear this after all the system had always warned the moment before he was injured, but this time Jake ignored the system warning and went for the injury, Jake's mental problem was even rarer to happen and probably would not happen again.

So Jake took advantage of the fact that he was talking to the system now and decided to see how he had progressed in his other jobs as well, the second particular employer was what Jake least looked at as having no rank-enhancing or statistical skills that Jake found useful.

"Fate, show me the statistics window for my third job too."

[Here it is.]

[Name: Jake Smith]

[Age: 17 years]

[Job: Runner]

[Height: 1.93 m]

[Weight: 95 Kg]

[Force 33]

[Agility 34]

[Resistance 37]

[Intelligence 59]

[Luck 99]

Techniques

[Second Lung B]

[Iron Body B]

The physical statistics were the same as his first job, but both techniques were what Jake was most interested in, he was delighted to see that his Second Lung technique had improved further, after all not even 8 months from the last time he had seen an improvement.

If Jake had won a major marathon and received a reward he would not have been so surprised, but he won only the Olympic qualifiers and came second in New York last year, and his race time had not improved.

"Fate, because my Second Lung technique has improved in recent months."

[Improved because of the marathons you ran, of course, competing has always been the best way to improve and gain experience ever, and even though your skills haven't improved much because of your psychological problem, you still came second in a marathon major and won the Olympic classification marathon so you improved even without the rewards.]

Thinking about it was not so strange that he had improved after having great results in two marathons in which he competed with the best in the world, now Jake was even more certain that he could improve even better if he won the Olympics.

"Fate, show me my second job statistics window too."

[Here it is.]

[Name: Jake Smith]

[Age: 17 years]

[Job: Businessman]

[Intelligence 59]

[Luck 99]

[Charm 39]

[Leadership 28]

[Policy 16]

[Eloquence 39]

Active Techniques

[See Through]

[Business Vision]

Jake was not surprised by his statistics getting much better in his second job, after a long time he had not looked, and the system had said that other statistics also interfered with other jobs, so it was normal for Jake to improve.

Even more, than Jake had gotten great deals in recent years and could make billions of dollars in a few years and tens of billions in more than 20 years, it shows that Jake has been doing well and improving his negotiating skills as well as leveraging his knowledge of the future.

Jake was glad that his policy and leadership statistics increased, after all, he studied a lot about trade policy after receiving this statistic and many companies he worked for were important to the country's national policy.

His leadership stat must have increased after having several negotiations where he had to lead conversations and also what he went through on the basketball team and his challenge with the football team where he led a team to victory without knowing his Teammates completely.

His stats of eloquence and charm also increased well, these were the two statistics Jake found most important that he received in this second job, even though leadership was important was more for his other jobs.

Charm was very important to show confidence and the older Jake got his charm increased naturally, his commercials could be successful thanks to this statistic and even with relationships, Jake knew this statistic could be important.

Eloquence was the key to everything when it came to business, there was a phrase that Jake heard was that if anyone wanted to leave an unarmed businessman they had to stop him from authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

And that was the truth, an example of this was that Jake worked hard to find Jeff Bezos and be able to talk to him personally, even though Jake knew about the future and had the money to invest none of that mattered if he couldn't even talk to Jeff Bezos.

So did Matthew, if Jake couldn't win Matthew's trust and talked so well about the risk of bankruptcy Jake couldn't have helped anything even if he knew the future.

After seeing that he had improved a lot these last months Jake could sleep much more peacefully and happily, the other week Jake went back to training with full force, he participated in training with the football team, did the training of plays with the basketball team, ran the 55 km of marathon training and still did weightlifting and treadmill at home.

As the system itself said that Jake could improve his physical statistics over the next two years he had to try at least not to mention that Jake's body was already very different from other people if he rested for a day his body would completely recover from fatigue.

If there was one thing he noticed from his training was that his Resistance had improved again, he had a lot more energy even after running, so Jake realized that maybe it was after the last marathon that he gained a Resistance point and his technique improved.

After all, as the system even said that he didn't get any rewards this time, he would still improve his skills and statistics as normal people did.

So Jake decided to increase the running distance of his daily training again to 60 km so that he could work harder and improve his stamina as well, so with these improvements maybe he could improve his running time in the marathon.

But since his current race time already allowed Jake to win this year's Olympics, Jake decided not to risk it for now and just do the basic training, so he was considering only taking a chance after finding a coach and changing his training method.

So Jake could hear from a pro whether he could run faster, but he would ask Tiffany to look for someone again only after the Olympics were over.

In the training sessions with the basketball team, Jake was feeling much more comfortable making the moves after he had confirmation from the system that his psychological problem was healed.

Even though no one noticed this small change because the focus of the training was again the dispute for a position in the starting lineup, Harrison was trying very hard in training after losing the starting position.

But he himself saw that he might not have a chance because he saw that Lucas was improving even better than he was in training, and Harrison's problem with his defense techniques couldn't be solved by just training more.

It was a talent problem too, after all in the beginning as he was starting to play basketball Lucas was already playing as PF and only later decided to move to SF position, so Lucas had much more defensive skill than Harrison who lost many years of training playing only in the attack.

David was almost always a starter as he was a much better player than Harrison and was once a key player in the Elite team attack, especially when he developed his 3-point shooting skills much further.

But because he played badly in the last game and Nathan came in as well as a substitute and pleased the coach he was afraid of losing the starting position on the team, after all, he could see that Nathan was improving a lot in training.

In fact, Nathan was known for playing even better than Lucas at Middle School last year, so much so that he won the MVP award for the Middle School National Championship before.

But when he entered high school he started playing very shyly and gradually improved by playing worse than his teammate Lucas, but that had a reason no one on the team knew.

The reason was that despite playing as SG last year Nathan just stood out and played so well because he also played as team keeper and his playing style and place on the court were similar to Jake.

The other players and not even Lucas who played with him before realized this was what was happening, of course despite having the same style of play Jake played more than 10 times better than him, even Nathan thought so.

So when he entered high school he realized this problem and knew that he had to change his playing style to play better and have more room in the team, so he still played as well in defense as before but was having trouble showing his Attack skills.

If Nathan had talked about this with the team he could probably already be the basketball team starter by that time, after all, Coach Mike could help Nathan find another style of play that he could do better.

And Jake himself could play in many different ways on the court, as someone who had far more than 1000 experience games in every position in his imagination training space Jake was far more versatile than anyone thought.

It was also because of this that he could adapt so quickly to the team's changing playing style at the beginning of the year, Jake only always played in the current playing style because he thought he could help the team more like this.

But if he found out that Nathan could play like that too, Jake would be free to try several different styles that would surprise his opponents.

Even so, Nathan was now totally used to his new style of play after almost a year and could play his best again, so he thought the team would only have to win if he were the starter in those final games.

With all this squad in the team the week went by quickly and the day of the fourth game of the national championship arrived, the opponent seemed to be even stronger than in the last game, knowing that coach Mike did not hesitate and put Nathan in the starting position SG.

So the starting lineup for this game was Jake in PG position, Nathan in SG position, Lucas in SF position, Carter in PF position and Mark in Center position.

If this team showed the same match they had in the last match, coach Mike thought he would have no problem winning this game even with the opposing team being more difficult.

Before leaving home for the game, after eating breakfast Eva warned Jake that Lola would go to the game again, at which point Jake had realized that Lola felt something for him.

But Jake was determined not to have any kind of relationship until after college after he could sell the shares he needed to sell and join the NBA. Jake wouldn't have much trouble to solve and could think back to relationships.

After all in 2000 Jake would still be 21 and even Lola would be 22, so if she still liked him by then Jake would agree to date Lola, of course, that was because Jake didn't love Lola and didn't feel very strongly about her.

If he was in love with her, Jake wouldn't have to wait all these years to make up his mind, yet he liked having Lola as a friend and was happy to have her at his games.

So after the game started Jake was playing as well as ever and the moves with Nathan and Lucas were being done very well and they could find many loopholes from the opposing team.

At the end of the first half, the Elite team won by 6 points, after all, even if the Elite team was playing well, the opposing team was also able to take advantage of the attacks.

In that first period, Jake scored 8 points and played well as in the other games, but even though Jake had no problem scoring more points his teammates were also fine and he made more assists.

At the end of the second period, the Elite team was ahead by 14 points with Jake scoring 10 points to 18 in total, and by the end of the third period the Elite team was ahead by 18 points and Jake had 8 points to the top 26 in total.

In this game, the opponent was good in his attacks and could use well to make mid-range points and thus avoided the strongest defense of the players of the Elite team.

Carter was also playing as well as ever and managed to force the opposing PF to make more mistakes, with everyone on the team playing so well Carter was sometimes overlooked, but he also improved a lot in defense and can contribute much more in attack after the style Elite's gameplay changed earlier this year.

By the end of the fourth period, the Elite team had won the fourth game of the national championship with a 24 point lead and Jake had scored 36 points, 14 assists and 8 steals, this was the game where Jake came closest to making a triple-double. after the record he had was over.

The biggest reason for this was that this year's national championship games were hotly contested and Jake didn't want to be selfish and try to force a Triple Double.

Now only two games left for the Elite team to be the champions again, even though they were confident that their team was playing so well this year Jake still couldn't help worrying about how tough the semifinal opponent could be next week.

This week of training everyone had to work harder on play training, and whoever played had to play very well, after all, only two games were left for Jake's team to officially graduate from high school games.

Even though everyone was training even harder to be able to play even better in the final two games of the national championship it was obvious that everyone was very confident and many were right about the victory.

That was not strange after all the Elite team was almost the same as it was last year's champion, in another year it was normal for everyone to think they got better and now they still had two great new players on the team to further improve their chances to win.

Of course, the biggest confidence of them all was Jake who was a great player who had no one like him in today's high school even though he didn't break any records in every game like last year Jake was still doing a media 35 points per game in this national championship.

Not to mention that Jake was still the team's best player in defense and controlled the game with his assists, so Coach Mike expected Nathan and Lucas to play much better so they could replace Jake next year.

Coach Mike knew it was impossible to find another player of the same rank as Jake to replace him next year, so he hoped that Nathan and Lucas together could do that, even if the team's skill level dropped, they could still try win again the national championship next year.

Coach Mike had heard a report that this year's Middle School basketball team had two great players coming into high school next year, they were the Center and PF of the starting team when Lucas and Nathan were in Middle School and won last year.

It looked like they should win the Middle School national championship this year too, so even though next year it was difficult for the Elite team to be national champions again in two more years they could try another two-time championship.

But that had nothing to do with Jake leaving school after the end of this semester to go to university, this week he was doing his best in training if he put in hours his full training beyond his time in school would give 10 hours per training day.

More than 4 hours for 60km running training, close to 1 hour for football team physical training, close to 1 hour of individual physical training, more than 2 hours for team play training at school and 1 hour doing the 3-point shooting drills he did whenever he could.

Before his training was no more than 6 hours normally, and before starting marathon training he trained less than 4 hours a day, so the more time passed the heavier Jake's training had to be in order to earn statistics points.

If anyone saw his training routine he would not doubt that Jake could compete in both athletics and basketball, of course on days when he had a business to take care of his routine it would decrease by many hours and sometimes he would not do his longer running training.

So while Jake was still doing his training during the week Oliver said he had something to talk to him about, even though the two of them were friends Oliver rarely called Jake to his house when he didn't have an important subject to authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

So Jake usually got tense when he was called, after all the last thing Oliver had to talk about was the problem with his friend Joseph's dating, luckily Matthew seemed to have completely forgotten about that after the successful digital camera sales.

"Hi Oliver, what happened to you calling me here?"

"You're my friend Jake, I can't just call you to talk."

"Of course you can, I'd be happy if you always called me in to talk and had no problem."

"I called you here for two matters, the first is to say that your house is ready for you and your mother to move, even if the court and athletic field you asked for is not ready yet this place is too far from your home and shouldn't bother you if you want to move there."

Jake was glad to know that he could finally go to his own house, it was very uncomfortable to be at Matthew's house even though the house was great and Jake was a close friend of Matthew's, and Eva must be even happier about it than he was.

As for the court and his athletic field would be something Jake wouldn't have to worry about at the moment, after all, he didn't need a place of his own yet, after finishing the national championship Jake would take a break for the Olympics and then go to university.

That would be things Jake hardly even thought of using for now, what Jake cared about most was that his mother was comfortable in the new home and that her safety was assured, after all, Eva would be home alone when Jake was in college.

"The other subject I wanted to ask was which university are you going to after high school?"

"It will be the University of North Carolina."

"So it's a shame, but I don't think Joseph is going to study at the same university you're not?"

"I don't think so Oliver, actually I don't know if he was in the same university as his girlfriend, but I think you can rest easy now Oliver, Joseph is no longer that boy from a few years ago."

"He has changed a lot and is much more confident now, I'm sure he will have no trouble finding new friends at his new university."

"I believe that too, but I would feel much safer if Joseph was at the same university as you Jake, you always took such good care of him."

"I think it's going to be good for him to mature even more by this time, he's almost an adult now and he has to know how to take care of himself too, not to mention that even though we were going to do the same course at university he has to choose with the best teaching and mine will be the best basketball."

Jake also thought that studying at the largest universities in the world like Harvard or Princeton among others, but he knew very well that a university degree meant nothing to his future.

After all Jake wanted to be a professional basketball player and play in the NBA until he was 40 and still play other sports and win a lot of Olympic medals, even after that Jake spent a lot of time studying since he was 10 and also in his past life to learn about Business.

In fact, Jake didn't expect to learn anything new and just wanted to get his degree later, plus with Jake's investments now in the stock market he would have tens of billions after retiring from basketball and would not have to worry about working ever again if you didn't want to.

But Joseph still had a lot to learn at the university, and it would be best if he continued to study after that, after a few more years Matthew's company would be worth billions of dollars, and Joseph had to know how to handle it.

Fortunately, Matthew was still in good health and could run the company for at least another 10 years, which would give Joseph time to learn what he would need, and Oliver would always be by his side for advice whenever Joseph needed it.

"Not to mention that after Joseph University you probably think about getting married, maybe you'll soon be Grandpa Oliver."

"I don't think they will do it anytime soon, but we have to see if my dad will approve of this relationship, at the moment he may be busy and has forgotten about it, but I don't think it will always be that way."

"And you Jake, are you thinking of having a girlfriend?"

"Not now, maybe after college, after all, I'm very young yet, but you're the one who needs to meet someone in Oliver, you get older every day and it's best to find someone to stay with you now that Joseph has grown."

"I don't think about meeting anyone now, I don't like people I know my age very much and I don't think it's right to meet someone younger than me, so I'll have to wait and see if I can find anyone."

After talking for a while Jake returned home after calling the moving company he had already booked since he bought the house, the other day Jake would finally move to the new house, he had to wait another day to warn your mother that she would come home at night.

When Eve got home she was very happy to know that her new home was ready for them to move, she was also feeling uncomfortable living in a house that was not hers, but today would be the last day.

In fact, she was the one who had been saddened to have to move to a new home, after all, she had the most memories of the house where she lived before Jake was born, but for her and her son's safety, she agreed to move to a new home Larger house.

The other day Jake made all the move to the new house while his mother worked after he handed the key to Oliver because he thought it was safer than leaving in the concierge, so Jake now finally had a mansion as he had always dreamed of in his past life.

Several of his dreams had come true on his second chance, he was already very wealthy and had a mansion, the best cars, and a yacht could wait a few more years, his dream of entering a university to fulfill his mother's dream it was also close to fulfillment.

Jake had also been able to let his mother live happily, but that was something to do for a lifetime and was accomplished now, getting into the NBA and being champion would also take a few more years, the hardest thing was finding a woman he loved and having a family.

But Jake knew he still had many years to live to fulfill all those dreams, now he just had to think about the weekend game that would be the national championship semifinal game.

Nathan, who had started as a starter, played very well and received more praise than Lucas in the game, so now Carter was the player who contributed the least to the team in the games and yet he was still very good and could play on any team in high school.

Mark was essential to the team's rebounds and Nathan and Lucas had to do well in both defense and attack, only Jake who had no pressure and had to play what he knew only.

The days went by and the day of the semifinal match was near, so Coach Mike decided to give the players a rest so that everyone was at their best on match day, of course, Jake didn't change anything and he would still do his thing intense training in the same way.

For Jake who had 37 Resistance points a common basketball game would not be enough to make him tired, maybe when he had a routine of several games in the week that lasted longer and were much harder as it would be in the NBA that he might need a rest before the game.

Jake was quieter at least to spend more time at home, he was totally quiet in his new home, even though in his past life he didn't live in a mansion and had several employees that wouldn't bother Jake.

But Eva still thought it was strange, she loved the new house with the new much bigger and comfortable furniture, especially the kitchen, it was big and seemed a bit in space of the restaurant, that was why Eva chose this house.

But she couldn't get used to seeing the housekeepers cleaning the house for her, it was a custom she had since childhood, and Eva didn't even like Jake cleaning the house sometimes.

Even so, she knew she couldn't clean a mansion this size alone so the maids she could even accept, the cook Jake had hired was another thing Eva didn't like, she preferred to cook the food herself.

Jake knew this well so the cook didn't live in the house and only worked when Eva wasn't home or when Eva needed her, so Eva couldn't complain and had to accept it too.

The hardest thing was getting used to a driver and another man who took her everywhere, Eva couldn't even go to a mall alone without the driver insisting on taking her, that's what Jake had demanded of course Eva had freedom to go where she wanted and the security guards would just follow her from afar.

After all, after what had happened Jake could not rest easy leaving his mother alone, he knew that after a few years Eva would get used to it after all the rich had security and used to live like this.

Jake had complete confidence in the people who worked with him and cared for his mother because he had used his second job skills with all of them, so he knew that everything they said was true and these people were reliable.

After a few months, Jake would always ask the same questions and use his ability to always ensure his mother's safety, in fact, Jake suggested that Oliver hire Joseph a security guard after what happened to him.

But Oliver said he didn't think it was necessary and Jake didn't want to talk about it anymore, Jake was so lucky he can't help worrying about it, he thought Oliver was being too careless, after all, Oliver didn't leave home very much and Matthew had the security guards near him.

So after Matthew's company was even more successful, Jake feared that his friend would also be targeted by bad guys.

Of course, even Jake knew this was something unusual to happen, and his house was targeted because he was in an unsafe neighborhood, so a person being kidnapped on the street was much harder to do.

But after what happened Jake realized that just because something is hard to happen doesn't mean it can't end up happening, and after a tragedy happens it's no use complaining and regretting it.

After a few more days the day of the fifth game of the national championship game, it was the semifinal in which despite being expected a difficult game everyone was confident with the authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Jake woke up very early and ate breakfast prepared by his mother and then left for the game site, when Jake arrived he saw that he was the last to arrive from his team and went to do the pre-game warm-up exercises.

After another week of training, the starting lineup would be Jake in PG position, Nathan in SG position, Lucas in SF position, Carter in PF position and Mark in Center position as always.

The opposing team was the Foxes team and had three players who were the team highlights, PG Sam, SG Joe, and Center Thiago, even though playing against the elite team that is the current champion the Foxes team players seemed confident in victory.

After a few more minutes the semifinal game began and Mark climbed higher and got the first possession for the Elite team, Jake received the ball and began to advance to organize the Elite team's first attack in the game.

After advancing a bit Jake passed the ball to Nathan which was open on the right, Nathan advanced until after the three-point line and passed to Carter on the right, Carter received the ball and got rid of the mark and made a mid-range shot to Make the first 2 points for the Elite team in the game.

Everyone besides Jake was very excited after the start of the game, even the quieter Carter was trying his best to score some points to help the Elite team win this game, after all for part of the team this would be the penultimate game if they won at high school.

Nathan and Lucas were still starting and had 3 more years to go, but they were also excited to play well and take the chance to beholders in the final game if they won that game.

Only Jake was calmer because there was still so much to play, but he didn't think it was a bad thing for the whole team to be more excited and make a better game today.

Sam picked up the ball and began to advance to the attack and organize his team's first attack in the game after passing through the middle of the court Sam passed the ball to his team's SF which was open on the right.

SF advanced ahead of the three-point line and passed the ball to Thiago ahead, Thiago managed to get away from Mark's defense and tried a mid-range shot to score 2 points and tie the game for the Foxes team.

Jake received the ball and went into the attack, before going through the middle of the court Jake passed the ball to Nathan who was open on the right, Nathan advanced until after the three-point line and held even after Joe arrived in defense.

Nathan passed the ball to Jake who was behind him, Jake received the ball and made a feint and could easily pass by Sam and drive to the basket to lay up and 2 points for the Elite team.

The game was very much the same between the teams and although the Elite team had more skill both teams were able to take advantage of their chances of attacking, so at the end of the first period, the Elite team was ahead by only 2 points.

Jake was playing well as usual and only scored 6 points because the moves were slower with the opposing defense being good, yet everyone was calm because this game was expected to be more difficult.

At the beginning of the second period, Jake was much more active in the game and made a more individual play to score more points and so the lead also increased Mark also seemed eager to participate more in the attack and always tried the moves to make the points above of Thiago's defense.

Jake advanced with the ball until after the middle of the court and passed the ball to Lucas on the left, Lucas held the ball a little and passed to Nathan who was open on the right, Nathan received the ball and quickly passed to Mark who was asking for the ball again.

Mark received the ball and after a spin made a dunk to make 2 more points for the Elite team in the game, the fans in the stands were enjoying this game played and the many plays of Mark in the game.

Sam received the ball and began to organize another attack for the Foxes team, he advanced and stopped before the three-point line and passed the ball to Joe on the left so as not to lose the ball in Jake's defense.

Joe got the ball and tried to make a shot on Nathan, but Nathan was firm in defense, so Joe passed the ball to Thiago again, Thiago used his strength and turned to make a dunk and 2 points for the Foxes team.

Mark was very excited about the attack and was always asking the ball to score points with some dunk too, but Thiago was trying too hard and the dispute between the two excited the crowd in the stands,

At the end of the second period, the Elite team was ahead by 8 points, this was thanks to Jake who was working harder on the attacks and scored 12 points in this second period, Mark had also done well in the second period and so the Elite team was more lively.

Only Jake could not cheer up even after playing the entire game to an advantage, the more the advanced game the greater Jake's feeling that something bad could happen, but he thought the Elite team was playing very well and had many chances to win.

No player was playing poorly in the game and he himself was playing normally without any performance problems, Jake was all the time between the second and third period trying to understand this feeling, but failed.

He also couldn't ask for the game to stop just because he was having a bad feeling and so the third period started, Jake was playing even more seriously and everyone got more serious seeing the captain acting like that.

Jake advanced with the ball and after passing the middle of the court he passed the ball to Lucas on the left, Lucas received the ball and advanced before the three-point line and passed to Carter, Carter held the ball and returned the ball to Jake soon after.

Jake received Carter's pass and feigned Sam, then Jake stepped back and attempted a shot from outside to score 3 points for the Elite team in the game.

After that, the game continued with both teams playing well and the Elite team increasing the lead with Jake and Mark's plays and the firm defense of the team that made the opponents make more mistakes.

After half of the third period having passed Jake received the ball again to organize another attack for his team, in this third period as he was concerned that something bad might happen Jake didn't pass the ball as much as before and scored the points in most plays.

Before reaching the three-point line Jake passed the ball to Lucas on the left, Lucas received the ball and after holding a little passed to Nathan who was on the right, Nathan saw Jake asking for the ball again behind.

But even though Jake could score the points if he got the ball he decided to pass to Mark who was also asking inside, Mark received the ball for the first time in the third period and made the turn after trying a dunk to make 2 more points for the Elite team.

But Thiago was close in defense trying to prevent Mark from making another move on him again, so after making the dunk, Mark ended up landing after making the jump over Thiago's feet.

Mark in addition to tall was also heavy, so he fell with his 115 kg and soon both fell to the ground, Thiago was just in pain because Mark had stepped on his feet, but Mark seemed to have suffered an injury from falling wrong on landing.

So the game stopped to serve both, after a time of service and tension Thiago raised apparently well-receiving applause from the crowd that was happy that he was fine, but Mark had to leave the court quickly to be served and the game continued.

Coach Mike was worried about Mark as well as all the players, but the game would restart and he could not leave the team with one less, yet he knew that the team's reserve center was much worse than Mark.

So Coach Mike decided to improvise Carter in the Center position for now and Lucas who had already played as PF went to play in Carter's place, Harrison was put in place of Mark who was being served in SF's position.

The game continued and the Foxes team took advantage that the Elite team had embezzlement and began to push trying to reduce the Elite team's advantage by 12 points at the time of the third period.

Jake realized this was what he was worried about and having a bad premonition, but there was no way he could do anything to prevent it and he kept playing the same way and working harder in defense to help his team after Mark left.

At the end of the third period, the Elite team had only a 4-point lead. In addition to the defense that showed several loopholes for the opponents, the attack was also worse than before, Nathan who felt guilty for Mark's injury ended up missing some attacks.

After all, if Nathan had passed the ball to Jake and not to Mark this play would not have happened and Mark would not be injured, in defense besides Carter who was playing improvised was holding tightly Thiago.

Lucas, who was always good at defense, played well in his original PF position, but Harrison could not stop the attacks of the opposing SF and Nathan was also playing poorly in defense giving more room for Joe to attack.

Jake had scored 12 points in this third period and had 30 points throughout the game now, just him scoring so many points and playing well in defense that the team continued to maintain the lead, the coach decided to take Nathan who was playing badly and put David

After all, even though David couldn't help much in defense he could help more in the offense, now the Elite team had to try to play well in the latter period and hope that luck helps them qualify for the finals.

The doctors attending this emergency semifinal match examined Mark and saw that he had a sprained foot during the fall after doing the dunk, it was no one's fault it was just a gambling accident.

Even if it wasn't a serious injury it would take Mark at least a few weeks to recover, so he was out of this game and the final if the Elite team qualified, Mark was taken to hospital for more thorough exams and Coach Mike decided not to talk about it until the game is over.

In the fourth period Jake again made even more individual moves and even attempted several 3-point shots to secure victory and the spot in the final, in defense David was doing better than Nathan at the end of the third period and Jake resumed playing as before and made some steals to prevent enemy attacks.

David and Harrison were playing well too, just like Lucas so the Elite team had many ways to attack besides Jake, so by the end of the fourth period they still managed to win with a 5-point lead at the end.

Jake had scored 45 points in the entire game and also had 11 assists plus 8 steals and 6 rebounds, in the end, he had to play with everything he had to ensure victory and qualifying for the team final.

But even with the victory nobody from the Elite team celebrated, Thiago came to apologize at the end of the game after learning that Mark had gone to the hospital, even though it wasn't his fault it was because of him that Mark was injured.

As Captain Jake soothed the team that was all worried, Jake was also smart and realized that Coach Mike should know something he didn't say to the other players, so Jake took everyone to talk to the coach.

"Coach, we want to know what happened to Mark."

"I don't know just like you guys, he was taken to the hospital for more tests before we can know anything else."

"Then we go to the hospital where Mark was taken, I take some in my car and whoever has a car also takes others who want to come, where he was taken, coach?"

After knowing the name of the hospital through coach Mike they went to the hospital to find out about their friend's situation, after all, they knew each other for 5 years and even Jake was worried about it.

Jake knew Coach Mike should know something, but it was true that without a full hospital checkup all the doctors could do at the scene was to speculate about what happened.

But Jake couldn't rest until he knew what happened to Mark, after all, he felt a little guilty because he knew something wrong could happen, but he can't stop his friend from getting hurt.

Arriving at the hospital Jake asked his teammates to wait at the hospital reception to not cause any turmoil after all almost 10 people came together and could not walk blindly in the group.

So Jake wouldn't be waiting at the front desk as he should and went into the hospital to find a doctor to ask, even though he knew he shouldn't, luckily after walking for a while in the hospital corridors Jake ended up meeting Mark's mother.

Jake had known her before once Mark introduced her to him in a state championship final game in the past, as he had a good memory it was impossible for him to forget his friend's mother and that was helpful today.

"Excuse me, would you be Mark's mother?"

"Who would you be?"

"And I'm a friend of his and captain of the school basketball team, Jake."

"So you're Jake, I've heard a lot about you from my son, he considers you very well and says you'll be a great NBA star."

"Exaggeration of him, I came here with my teammates as soon as the game ended as it is?"

"He's pretty fortunately, it was just a slight twist when he fell, but I don't think he can play in this national championship anymore."

Jake had expected this, but he felt very bad for Mark now, Jake had also realized that his friend's mother didn't seem to like him very much and didn't want Jake to stay long.

She even looked relieved now that she knew her son's injury was not serious and that Mark would no longer play basketball, even if she was quite discreet Jake realized that she didn't even introduce herself to him.

"So I'm going, for now, tell Mark that we won the game and that his teammates came here to wish him a good recovery."

"I tell him."

After that Jake told his teammates that Mark had sprained his foot and could not play with them anymore in this national championship, then decided to take everyone out, he and his teammates wanted to see Mark, but Jake knew that his mother just made excuses for not allowing and decided to just leave.

Jake was Mark's best friend on the basketball team, Mark said his mother didn't like him playing basketball and just wanted him to study after all his mother thought the chance to study at a private school was one of the best for him teaching, was Mark's chance.

Mark was very smart and with Jake's help he got good grades, he was able to keep playing high school basketball because he told his mother that the school required him to play to keep the scholarship and also that if he played well could get a scholarship to the university.

So Mark just wanted to play basketball until he went to college and then got a good job as his mom hoped and quit basketball as a hobby, but Jake eventually changed his fate and Mark began to improve his skills as a player.

So he got a college scholarship as promised to his mother and his mother chose him a university that was not so good at basketball but was good for his studies, Mark knew so maybe he couldn't keep playing after college and wanted to make the best of him in this national authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

But it looked like he had no luck and got injured in the semifinal, so now Jake wondered how Mark must be feeling bad about not being able to play in that national championship anymore.

Jake returned home after that and told his mother that his team had won and also that a friend had been injured and could no longer play with them in this national championship, Eva just as Jake could not be happy with his son's victory knowing that someone had been injured.

Jake also found this a pity, but he knew he had no chance of his friend recovering in the remaining two weeks before the game, even though it took Jake almost that time to recover from a much milder injury Mark had sustained.

That's because Jake's body was so much stronger and had the system's help to recover faster, and after recovering from the injury would still take time for Mark to recover his ideal form, it was very different from Jake's situation.

As Jake couldn't see Mark for a while until his friend went to school he had to think now what to do for the national championship final in two weeks, without Mark in the game he had to think of a solution not to lose the game.

After all, in Jake's view, the most important person on the team after himself was Mark, even if the whole team played badly if he could play the best and Mark also played well they might have a chance to win.

The reason for this was not so much Mark's talent as Center but his friend's ability to catch rebounds when the team missed the attacks and defensive rebounds, which was what guaranteed the team's victory.

So much so that at the end of the last game Jake missed some attacks trying to score more points and without Mark to catch the rebound the lead did not increase, and although Carter seemed to have played well improvised as Center the reason was that the opposing team had no time to prepare a strategy to capitalize on the weakness of the Elite team.

But there were still two weeks to the final game, it was obvious that the opponents would prepare for it, but Jake didn't want to think about it today and decided to sleep, but before he had a doubt to ask the system.

"Fate, what was that premonition I felt in the middle of the game before Mark got hurt?"

[So you felt a premonition that something bad could happen huh, this is unexpected.]

"What's unexpected, don't you even know what happened?"

[I didn't realize this happened in the middle of the game, but I think I know what happened, as you know even though I'm kind of a system to help you, I'm both a part of the fate of this world.]

[In addition, you came from the future, and even though only a part of me has gone back to helping you and also correcting the mistakes that were made, it still caused a small change in universe karma.]

[Of course, it's nothing serious and I was expecting this before I went back to the past with you, even though as I am a piece of fate I know what will happen in the near future thanks to this change in karma.]Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

[At the same time after going back to the past I merged with a part of your soul, so it seems that after so many variables in your life happened and I had to warn you so many times you could have taken a small part of my abilities.]

So Jake understood why the system could warn before he was injured and so could avoid before he thought the system only knew well about his body and so could warn before an injury.

But now he understood that it had to do with the system's ability to predict the future, at the same time many things went through Jake's mind after discovering it.

"So you mean you knew my house would be overrun by bad guys and my friend would get hurt and didn't warn me?"

[Yes, I did, but I can't warn you anything that doesn't pose any serious danger to you and your mother, as your friend Mark was just a normal gambling injury, I couldn't warn you of something ordinary like that.]

Even if he didn't agree with the system that it was better not to warn him about breaking into his house and his friend's injury, he understood that the system was already doing a lot for him, just that he was back in the past it is changing and much to the natural order of the world.

It was because Jake was so perhaps one of the reasons he was chosen to go back to the past, after all as the system itself said fate wanted to go back in time anyway to correct some mistakes Jake didn't know about.

Even so, Jake knew he was just lucky to be the one to go back to the system if there was any other reason why not even Jake knew for sure.

"So from now on, I'll also have some premonitions or visions of the future when something serious happens?"

[I really don't know about that, even if I was hoped that going back with you could cause some small change I didn't expect you to have premonitions about the future, I hope this "skill" of yours doesn't get any stronger, otherwise, it can end up driving you crazy.]

Jake shivered with fear when he heard the system say that, he himself knew it must be true, even though in many stories predicting the future was often shown to be a cool skill Jake didn't think so.

The human mind can't handle that much stress and even a premonition that something was wrong ended with his friend's injury already leaving Jake feeling guilty about it, what happened was not Jake's fault, but knowing it made him feel that way.

If he always had premonitions like that he would go crazy trying to take care of everyone not to feel guilty later and if something happened, he would feel guilty for not helping the person, Jake didn't want such a power.

At least he knew that if something serious could happen to him and his mother, the system hinted that it would warn Jake of it, just as it warns before the injuries, so Jake knew that he and his mother were protected if something could happen.

"Can't you stop me having these premonitions in the future?"

[No way, only the fate of this world could be powerful enough to do that, but I know that if I and the fate of this time get too close something even worse can happen, then nothing can be done.]

As nothing could be done Jake decided to rest, in the coming days Jake just focused on training, whenever he could he ran the 60 km and increased his confidence for the upcoming Olympics, so he would make sure he could run quietly 15 km less in the marathon.

In the training of the basketball team coach Mike told everyone the day after the game that Mark would be out of the national championship because of the injury, everyone felt bad about it and even those who didn't care about Mark were sad because it meant that Elite team could lose in the final.

Coach Mike could do nothing about it and began training more with the makeshift team that played in the last period of the semifinal game, Jake in PG position, Nathan in SG position, Harrison in SF position, Lucas in the position of PF and Carter in Center position.

Jake was concerned that if the team played like this they would lose in the final after all the team they would face in this year's final would surely be stronger than the Fox team they faced in the semifinal.

Jake knew that even if he played the game trying to do everything himself would not work out as before, after all, he could do it only if Mark was there to secure the rebounds, after all, Jake knew that rebounds were key to winning a game, more than make several points.

After coming home Jake kept thinking about it, he had to think something to change in his team, otherwise they could end up losing in that final, if he thought something would be great for his team, after all, he was sure the opponents would do strategies thinking of exploiting the failures of the Elite team without Mark in the team.

The defense was not that important in Mark's absence, after all, he and the other players could cover it, the problem was the rebounds, even though Carter could catch some offensive and defensive rebounds, it wasn't even close to what Mark did.

Only who could get more rebounds on the Elite team besides Mark was Jake, but Jake couldn't do that ... Or could he?

When that thought came to Jake's mind he couldn't stop thinking, he could actually play defense even better than Mark and catch rebounds better than Mark if he really struggled.

Not to mention that thanks to his imagination training space he has played hundreds of times as Center since he learned to play with Mark, so in training he had theoretically more experience than Mark, not to mention that he was the second tallest player in staff only a few inches less than Mark.

So Jake understood what he should do in the next game, he would play as PG in attack and defend as Center in defense, so he could cover the space left by Mark and catch the rebounds for the team, in attack he would also fight more for offensive rebounds.

So the substitute for the team would be David instead of Harrison, after all, David was much better at offense than Harrison, so David would defend against the opposing player who was worse at offense, so Jake thought about it and found a great idea to tell the coach the other day he would make the decision.

The other day Jake arrived earlier than his other teammates and called Coach Mike in for a private conversation, Coach Mike was curious about what was so important but even agreed to talk to Jake.

"What happened so important to you wanting to talk to me before Jake training?"

"Coach, I think I figured out a way for our team to play that would be better than what we are doing now and still catch our opponents in the surprise final as they must be preparing a strategy to take advantage of Mark's absence from the team."

Coach Mike was excited to hear this, he was worried that this time his team could really miss this national championship final, and without Jake next year would be even harder.

But at that moment Jake came up saying that he had a solution to the team problem, Jake was certainly the player Coach Mike trusted the most, and Jake wasn't a joker either when he knew the problems the team faced.

So Mike knew that if Jake said he had a solution, it must be something Jake had thought about several times before talking to him.

"If you have a solution to this situation that can help the team you can tell me."

"I was thinking about the next game taking on Mark's role in defense, in the offense I would still play as usual, but in defense, I would play as Center and defend in addition to fighting for rebounds."

"Do you think you can do that, Jake?"

Even though Coach Mike was still surprised, he still knew Jake should have some confidence to say that, and Mike had seen Jake training with Mark several times, Jake was as tall and as good at defense as Mark.

For rebounds Coach Mike always knew that Jake was better than Mark in catching rebounds, even in the last game Jake caught several just in the second half of the game, so he just had to ask if Jake was confident of that.

"I have confidence coach, in fact, the most important will be the rebounds, even if the opposing Center scores several points will not interfere with the outcome of the game, but the rebounds have decided victory and defeat in a difficult game."

"That's true, so we'll have to think we can put David in the starting lineup and David will defend against who is worse off the other team's attack.

Coach Mike thought of the same thing as Jake, he was also more concerned about the rebound, it was impossible that all 5 of the opposing team would be good in attack, and even if any of them had to be the worst.

Also, even if Jake said it didn't matter if the opposing Center scored multiple points, Mike knew that Jake was even better than Mark in defense and something like that wouldn't happen.

When Coach Mike told the team how they would play the players were very surprised by this, even though they also trusted Jake who was the team captain they knew how different it was to play in PG position and Center position.

But no one said anything against it after a few practice drills everyone was calmer when they saw that Jake was doing the defensive part at least in training.

So everyone could relax more with that, Coach Mike was glad that next year a skilled Center would come from Middle School, otherwise, it would be hard to think about playing well with the reserves he had in the team now.

Now that he had decided to play Center in defense of his team in the final game in almost two weeks, Jake would now play Center position in all the training he had at that time in his imagination training space.

Usually Jake puts his opponents in the same skill rank as him to train better, since at the moment there was no one in high school who was of the same level as him in skill, so his current training could already be considered difficult as his opponents of the same Skills rank are at college level authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

But now he has increased the skills of the opposing team's Center one rank higher than his own and has also left opponents a few inches higher, so Jake was sure that his opponent in the imagination training space would be much harder than his real opponent in the final.

After a few more days Jake was called by Emily, so Jake had no choice but to shorten his training routine on the day to talk to Emily, after all, he had warned her to talk to him only when needed.

"What happened Emily?"

"The place where it will be the company office was ready, I wanted to let you know if you want to see it."

Jake had even forgotten about this office, he had Emily buy one of the places he had set aside for his mother's restaurant to be the company's new office, after all now JK Investing was working with hundreds of millions in investments.

So even to preserve the reputation of the people who invested in your business you had to have a new office before only Jake's money was invested so it wasn't necessary, but now they worked with other clients and had employees.

Even Emily who would always receive 1 percent of the company's profits would not accept that the company would only work with Jake's money, even if it was too much in the future.

So Jake was curious to know what the office Emily had decorated was like and went to see, the office was big as it should be after all was to be built a restaurant so there was no way to be small.

It was quite different from the office Jake had worked in much of his past life, it seemed to be more elegant, in place it had only three offices, one from Jake the largest, another from Emily and the third Jake didn't know who it was for.

Soon the other employees would also come to work here, they were all getting good salaries and were happy with the company, and Emily and of course a long time ago had received a raise, only Jake wasn't getting a salary yet despite being the owner.

Emily suggested that Jake receive a salary to encourage other employees, but Jake declined as he knew it could be considered fraud, especially now that the company has other people investing.

"Whose other office is Emily?"

"This is the company's accountant office."

"Did you hire an accountant? But we work with the accounting firm, don't we?"

"Yes, but I think as we are working with a lot of money it is better to have an accountant in the company before passing the data to the accounting firm, so we avoid the risk of being misled."

Jake then understood why she had hired an accountant for the company, Jake knew this was not necessary because he knew that the accounting firm was reliable using his second job skill, but he didn't want to upset Emily because it was he who had said that Emily would be responsible for everything in the company.

Besides, he could understand why she was worried about that, so many companies that worked with Jake's accounting firm also did something similar, so they had more confidence after the accounts were double-checked.

"I really enjoyed how you decorated the office, I leave it all in your hands now, any problems you can call me."

"Never mind, we're always watching the stock markets and I'll let you know if there's any change."

Jake trusted Emily a lot after working with her for a few years, and in the future, Jake would know that he would have a lot of money to take care of and might be a partner with several companies like him from Amazon.

So it was essential to have someone reliable and talented like Emily to take care of business for him, after all, Jake was above all a basketball player and an athlete, so he would not have time to take care of all the business he would have.

In several of these partnerships Jake might have to interfere if he saw that something could go wrong, he told Jeff Bezos that it would not interfere with the management of the company, this was because he knew how Amazon would develop in the future, but if he saw that the company If he was going astray he was sure to get involved and could even sell all the stock he had to avoid future losses.

He was thinking that he could find more talented people to work with him in the future, even if he knew he couldn't convince famous geniuses to work for him, it wouldn't be difficult with his charisma and financial capital to convince some talented people to work for him.

After saying goodbye to Emily, Jake had to go back to training, even if the Elite team was stronger this year, the opponents were tougher as well, with Mark out of the team in the final Jake was not so confident about winning.

Even so, Jake was someone who was challenged, even though the situation seemed much more difficult than in other years he would try his best to break his limits and bring the team victory in this final match and also in this year's national championship.

On one day he had to run out of body rest training after several days of total training, Jake went to his mother's restaurant after lunchtime, as he was busy and his mother was coming home every day more early Jake wasn't going to the restaurant lately.

So he decided to go on a day off to talk to Anna and Lola at the restaurant too after he was thinking of stopping by Mark's house to see how he was after leaving the hospital, Jake knew that Mark must be bad for not being able to more play with your teammates and help the team win the national championship this year.

Jake arrived at the restaurant shortly after lunch just as employees took time to rest before dinner after all the restaurant didn't serve breakfast either, so they had time to rest after lunch and before dinner Lola was the first one who met Jake and went to talk to him happily.

"Hi Jake, how are you?"

"I'm fine Lola, how about you?"

"I'm fine too, I didn't think you'd come to the restaurant right now when you're so busy thinking about the final game."

"I decided to take a day off, overtraining can end up causing me an injury, I don't want to hurt myself before the final game."

"I hope you can win this final and be champion again, I'm trying to ask for a break to go to the final game, but your mom has decided to watch this game so I don't know if I can make it."

"I hope to see you there too Lola, but if you can't go, just knowing that you're rooting for me makes me happy."

Lola was embarrassed to hear what Jake said, over time she was liking Jake more and more and with Eva and Anna's support she was gaining the courage to approach him even if she worked for Jake's mother.

After hearing Jake and Lola talking Eva and Anna came out of the kitchen to call Jake to talk, they found it odd that Jake was calm while Lola looked embarrassed, but they knew Lola liked Jake and just called Jake not to embarrass Lola anymore.

"Son, you didn't tell me yesterday that you would come here today."

"I decided today to get some rest from training today and I came to see Anna and everyone at the restaurant."

"Glad you learned how to rest, I remember a few years ago when I found that you, besides training so much at school, still wore those weight machines at home, I got so pissed."

"If I found out that you hurt yourself from training so much I would forbid you to do that again, but it looks like you have a strong body and luckily it never hurt."

Hearing this Jake sweated cold with fear, he knew it was a good idea to hide from his mother who had been injured after the marathon, luckily she had not seen on television, otherwise Jake would have problems.

Jake remembered how mad Eva got when she found out he was doing bodybuilding even though he was so young, but he managed to convince her that it wasn't dangerous for him, Jake thought it over and knew that he relied heavily on the system risking getting hurt when it was new doing this.

Fortunately now he realized that it was good to give his body a rest, but he did not regret having trained so much when younger, only because of that he saved many years and now could be stronger than others his age.

"So you're really going to watch the final game, aren't you, Mom."

"Of course I will, I promised I would, after all, I will also take Lola with me, after all, she supported you in several games this year, it's only fair that she can see the final too."

"I agree with that, she's been working very well lately, besides, Julius sees working a lot in the last few months at the restaurant and can almost never take time off, he would be happy if his daughter could at least come out in his place."

"In the next menus we have to get some dinner prescriptions that depend on Julius, so he will be able to rest more, Jake, enjoy that you came here today to the restaurant and try some of our new dishes."

"I came here for that mom."

"I'm sorry I can't go to your game this time too Jake, I have to work here and it's better if your mom goes, instead of me we can't close the restaurant."

"I know Anna, thanks for everything you've been doing for my mom in the restaurant if it worked out it was mostly because of you."

"No need to say that Jake, I really enjoy working here too and I'm very happy to go back to a kitchen again in a restaurant after so many years, and as you said when you invited me to work here, I consider you and Eva part of my family."

After that, Jake ate several dishes from the new menu and gave his professional opinion and as a customer, Anna knew that Jake knew a lot about cooking too and accepted Jake's advice to change some details on the menu.

After all, even though Anna was an experienced professional and had experience running a restaurant by herself for many years, the restaurant she ran had a very different menu from Eva's current restaurant menu that had dishes from various countries, yet she wasn't completely confident in making a perfect menu.

After spending time at the restaurant Jake went to Mark's house, Mark lived in a simple Miami home because he was actually from another city in another state and came here only to enter Elite school because of his sports bag that He managed to play basketball.

This house wasn't even theirs at first, it was a rented house that was bought just a few years ago by Mark's family when Mark's father got a job in Miami, Mark was an only child and his father didn't hesitate to sell the house in the other city and the whole family moving to Miami for the sake of Mark's future.

That's why Mark's mother didn't like basketball, she thought it wasted her son's time she could enjoy studying for a better future, Mark's father didn't think so and he knew basketball was what gave him the chance Mark a scholarship at a good school and now a scholarship at a good university.

Luckily when Jake came to visit Mark, Mark's mother had left, after all even though Jake knew she had reason to dislike basketball didn't mean he accepted being despised because of it.

"Hi Jake, thanks for coming to see me at home today, I know you must be very busy training for the final."

"You're my friend, of course, I would come, the most important thing now is for you to improve so you can play at university after a few months."

"I feel bad for hurting myself in the middle of a big game, if you lost, I'd feel guilty forever."

"Don't say that it wasn't your fault getting injured in the game, something that happens even to the pros, we wouldn't blame you if we ended up losing the game."

"Even if you say that I know it was my fault, I was very excited about the game and in every move I just thought of doing dunks or other risky moves, so I got hurt by trying a lot of reckless moves, I thought you guys they were mad at me and so they didn't come to visit me after I got hurt. "

"We went to the hospital as soon as the game was over, but as we didn't want to bother you I just told your mom we sent you some improvements and we left."

Jake realized that it had been all Mark's mother's frame, she didn't say that Jake and the others on the team came to visit because she should want Mark to give up basketball, but even knowing that he didn't get angry and just calmly explained what happened.

Of course, Mark was not naive and realized what Jake was implying and realized that his mother had lied to him, after all, he knew his own mother well and knew she would be able to do that.

Normally he would have suspected she was lying when he said no one had come to visit him, but after getting hurt he was weak and was also feeling guilty about the team, so he eventually believed in his mother.

Jake and the others didn't come to visit Mark again because they knew the injury was not serious and that if Mark wanted he could just go to school and talk to them, Jake decided to come thinking that maybe something serious had happened, luckily he came without Mark's mother was at home, so the misunderstanding was dispelled.

So Jake decided that he would talk to Mark for a while and then leave before Mark's mother arrived to avoid an unpleasant situation, the two decided to avoid talking about the misunderstanding and continued talking.

"How is the team doing without me? Do you think we can win in the final?"

"Without you, on the team, we have no confidence to win, it will be a tough game and we will have to try different things to try to surprise the opponent and try to capitalize on the team's strengths in the final game."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Mark did not feel good to know that without him the team was bad, he would rather just be a reserve and win than the main star in an injured situation, luckily Jake was still on the team, Mark was the one who trusted Jake the most and I knew that after entering high school Jake never played as much as he could.

"How is it going to be? Will Carter play in my makeshift position in the final?"

"No, we have decided to surprise our opponents in this game and we will have no one in Center's position in the attack, and David will take his place in the final."

Mark was surprised by that, Coach Mike was really bold deciding to play without someone in Center's position in the final, of course, Mark knew the team well and knew that Coach Mike had no one to play for Center in that game, not even Carter could do well and would only play worse in that position.

"But how are you going to do in defense? Without a Center on our team to defend the opposing Center will play quietly, I don't think David can help that much, everyone in the final is great players."

"I will play in Center's position in defense, David will defend against the worst opponent if we play well the opponent could have to make changes to not lose the game."

Mark was very surprised to learn that Jake would play in his defensive position, but after some thought he saw that it was really the best, Mark knew that what the Elite team thought was important was not necessary to defend against the opposing Center but to catch the rebounds.

Mark knew better than anyone that Jake was much better than him in catching rebounds, he was now eager to watch this game of the final to know what kind of game Jake would do, something would tell him that this game would be so amazing that he He would be lucky to get hurt so he could see that.

Thinking back he could never guess that one day Jake could end up playing even in his position even if it was just the defense, Mark remembered that Jake asked to learn how to play in Center position, after some time Mark realized that Jake could be better than him in that position and stopped teaching Jake.

Mark was impressed with Jake's prediction, had it not been for him to learn how to play Center at that time this final game could have been much less likely to be won, of course, Mark couldn't imagine that Jake had learned everything from him and played hundreds of times in this position in your imagination training space.

After talking to Mark a little more, Jake left before Mark's mother came home, so he was glad he had avoided an unpleasant situation, it was funny that Mark's mother who was his best friend on the basketball team was the only one who didn't like Jake.

All the other moms and dads of his teammates liked Jake a lot and admired him a lot, especially after Jake taught his kids a lot at school and raised everyone on the team.

After a day of rest Jake returned to full strength training, the days went by and everyone on the team was much more confident of the possibility of victory with Jake playing better and better in training in the Center position.

Nathan clearly had completely recovered and was even better than before the last game, he was young but always had a stronger mindset than another of the same age is natural that he did not feel guilty for an accident that no one expected.

In addition, he wanted to pay off the confidence that Coach Mike and his teammates put in himself by having played badly in the latter part of the last game, he would show that he was trustworthy and would help the team win at this difficult time with injured Mark.

Lucas and David were also training full force for the final game, David wanted to do his best in his last high school game and be champion once again, and Lucas wanted to experience the feeling of being a national champion for the first time in high school He knew it would be much harder next year without Jake on the team.

Carter seemed the least affected by all this, he didn't have much hope of continuing to play at university with his limited talent, so he would try his best as he always did in the final game.

Harrison was also training hard hoping to have a chance to play in the last game of the national championship, he knew this was no time to play position after what happened to Mark, but he thought he had more chance to play in the final instead of playing David or Lucas.

Tiffany and Clara said they would go to Jake's high school final game, Alan and John would also go, Matthew, Oliver, and Joseph would also go to the game, Eric also wanted to see Jake's last high school game.

Mark would see if his team would be champions again, after all, he would also win a medal if that happened and Eva and Lola would go too, everyone Jake knew would go to this game if they were available.

So a few more days passed and it was already the night before the game, Jake had dinner with his mother and now was lying thinking a little before bed, even he was anxious before such an important game.

Jake found himself thinking about everything that happened in his school time that was ending now, he went back to the past at the age of 10 so it's been almost 7 years since he came back.

Many would think it would be better to go back in time at an older age and not have to go through childhood again, but Jake didn't think so, after all, he did so many things this year that could only be resolved with a long time.

If he had gone back to the past he would have missed the opportunity to have friends and help Matthew's company and more importantly he would have let his mother suffer working at that restaurant longer, now she had a restaurant of her own and was much happier.

Not to mention that Jake would have lost his precious training time to play better basketball and even have a chance to excel in other sports, and he would have missed out on a lot of money-makings and getting rich in the authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Thinking about it all Jake was just grateful to the system for giving him a great chance to improve his life all this time, in those early years he was putting his life on the right track and preparing for the future, now he could really start living fully.

Jake also thought about the time he spent devoting himself to basketball and how he changed the way he saw the sport several times over the years, at first he thought he didn't need a team to get good at basketball and go to the NBA that was always his own Goal and dream.

Then he joined a weak basketball team just to train some system skills that needed him to play with other people, then he realized that his ability alone could not lead to the team victory and decided to join a better team.

So he learned the joy of winning and struggling with his teammates, then he learned the importance of tactics and teamwork in basketball to win, for a while he stayed out of basketball because the coach didn't like him.

Now he was trying the second trophy of the national championship after returning to the team, he could not help thinking that he was very excited for a life of only 7 years, for all that he went through he had to give the best in the next game and win.

After thinking and reinforcing the determination to win Jake was finally getting tired and close to falling asleep when the system decided to talk to him at that time.

[Jake, I have a council to give you at tomorrow's game.]

"Advice? Which is?"

[I don't know if just talking like that will help you understand what I'm trying to say, but tomorrow I feel that if you don't play the best you have you can lose, and this defeat could become a regret in your future as a player.]

Jake didn't know what kind of advice the system had for him, but he knew well that the system could predict the future related to him, just as if the system said that if Jake didn't change the team would surely lose.

[You are certainly able to play in the same position as Mark in this game, and I have to say that you can be even better than your teammate, the system you have makes everything you think possible come true with much effort.]

[And yourself with your talent and having the system trained harder and harder than anyone in those years, so it's impossible that you're not as good as you are now in every position.]

[What's happening is that you're holding on so much these past few years, you never play your best so as not to outshine your teammates, even when you scored over 100 points you haven't tried your best.]

[But in tomorrow's game you have to give it your all, don't care about anyone and just play your best, your team is not complete and they will feel insecure without Mark on the team, so you have to play well enough for your teammates are up to you.]

[The opponents of tomorrow's game are strong if you don't do what I'm telling you you will lose, just do your best and try everything you can to score and defend successfully, don't forget that you is able to beat opponents better than you in the space of imagination training.]

Jake understood everything the system said, but since the system had said not even he knew what the problem was, it was the same when he had the psychological problem, he understood that he had set a limit on himself, but didn't know how to get that limit.

But he would really try everything tomorrow if he couldn't, he wouldn't regret it at least after that Jake ended up sleeping after relaxing.

So the day of the final game of the national championship had finally arrived, it had been a long and stressful week for all Elite players, even if they trusted Jake they could not help worrying about the next game.

Especially the younger ones who had never personally seen Jake playing at their best, they didn't know that if Jake struggled he could lead the team to victory in almost every situation, for them it was a difficult situation.

The opposing team was just the opposite, they were more confident than ever that they could win this game, even before they were not afraid of the Elite team, now they spent the whole week thinking of moves to win more easily.

The difference between the moods of the two teams was completely opposite, coach Mike was concerned that with low morale they would lose this game of the final which would be terrible for him.

Jake woke up very early and went down to eat breakfast that was prepared by his mother, as it was a late Eva had done a basketball and she and Jake ate a lot and have not even finished a portion of the prepared food.

"I think you made a mistake, Mom, we're home and not in the restaurant for you to make breakfast so much Hahaha."

"You always say I prepare a lot more after the game you end up eating everything, we'll eat later, don't worry."

"Not really this time around, I don't think if I call the whole basketball team here they can eat it all today."

"That's a good idea when you win the game you can come here and eat it all to celebrate another title."

"We'll have to win first to think about coming here to celebrate."

"Aren't you confident, son?"

"Until yesterday I was, but my friend of mine said I had a bad premonition about this game, so I was worried."

"These premonition things don't exist, trust yourself that you'll win."

Jake just smiled and said nothing about it, if it wasn't for the system who had said it he wouldn't have believed it either, but after this amazing thing happened to him and back in the past Jake didn't doubt anything else existed.

So Jake packed things up and then went to the game site with Eva, he was much more confident of winning with his mom watching the game again, plus he knew there would be several people in the stands who came to cheer for him.

This time Jake arrived early and was one of the first to arrive, he did the warm-up exercises and watched his teammates and the opponents that would play in this game, it was the first time he saw a situation where his team was the discouraged and opponents who were confident of victory.

Mark who was in the stands also saw this and was very worried about it, only Jake seemed calmer, but Mark who knew him well realized that Jake was much more serious than usual and seemed nervous too if even Jake who was always confident I was nervous the game would be really hard.

After all Elite team players arrived and warmed up Jake decided to act as captain and talk to his teammates before the game.

"I know you are all nervous about this national championship final game, especially since our colleague Mark won't be playing with us today, I have to confess myself that I'm nervous today."

"For some of you this is the last game in high school and the chance to win the second national championship, and for others, it's just the beginning and the first chance to win the national championship."

"We have to do our best in today's game, Mark himself still hurt came to see us win this game for him, and he will also receive this medal after we win you don't want your friend to feel guilty for getting hurt because we lose today isn't it? "

"I am going to play in a different position today, you all just have to do what you always did in previous games, but try your best today so there will be no regret later."

"I am the captain of this team and I ask you all to calm down and play as best you can because even in a different position I will take responsibility and lead the team for this victory, trust me in this game and we will win. "

Jake made no very exciting speech and just was sincere and said what he wanted from everyone, it was true that he would be doing the hardest in today's game so no one had any excuse to play badly.

Everyone felt calmer after hearing Jake's confidence and seriousness and also the pressure of responsibility, they just had to do the best they could do, Jake would do the hardest.

The Elite team for this game today was Jake in PG position, David in SG position, Nathan in SG position, Lucas in SF position and Carter in PF position in a false position David would play as Team Center but he would really play as SG as he always did.

In defense, Jake would be what he would play as Center and he would take care along with Carter to catch the rebounds in attack and defense, Coach Mike gave an order that no one should fire many shots outside Jake who was free to try as much as he wanted had a high percentage of hits.

Everyone gets ready for the start of the game and Jake was feeling even more pressure when he remembered what the system said the day before, Jake could play even better than he usually did and guarantee the team victory, he just had to find out how to do this.

The opposing team in this game of the national championship final was the Dogs team, just as the system warned the day before that this year's players were the strongest and most talented of the Dogs team in decades, even though they have won the national championship a few times in that year time.

There were no major players in the team, but that was because they were all very high level and could not stand out from their teammates, the weaker player in the attack was the opposing PG, but in compensation this PG was what always organized the team's moves with quality and was the best team in defense.

Thus the Dogs team relied on the team's PG to stop Jake's attack in the game, as this PG was the weakest in the attack would be he who David would score when the Elite team was in defense.

The opposing team's coach was trying to guess how the Elite team would play in this game in order to give their players more instructions, but from what he could see it was Carter even playing as an improvised Center, he didn't even think the Elite team would play without any Center and Jake who would make that position in defense.

The Dogs' PG was named Juan and was weak on offense but more in defense and organization of play, the team's SG was Ivan and he was good at three-point shots.

The Dogs' SF was named Ashton and he was good at defending and also trying to play in the attacking area and drive to the basket, the opposing team's PF was also medium in attack and a little better than Juan.

The Dogs team center was called Rowan and he was the best player in the defense team and was also good at offense, much of the Dogs team's attacking moves were concentrated on Rowan, Rowan was also good at rebounds not at Mark level, but it also helped the Dogs team a lot.

After a few more minutes the game of the national championship final finally began, the high ball this time was played by Carter and Rowan of the Dogs team got the first possession of his team.

Rowan passed the ball for Juan to start organizing the Dogs team's first attack in the game, Juan advanced slowly for the attack while the Elite team positioned themselves in defense, after a few seconds everyone realized that Jake was inside the defense against rowan.

This positioning of Jake took everyone by surprise, only Mark who was in the stands knew it would be so in the game, Juan was also surprised by this and realized that it was David who was defending against authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Juan didn't think that was an offense and understood very well that as he didn't score many points it was normal that he was not well marked in defense, he also dared not underestimate Jake who was defending against Rowan, after all, Jake was the MVP last year and everyone, They knew he was excellent at defending and brilliant at attack.

Before reaching the three-point line Juan passed the ball to SF Ashton on the right, Ashton received the ball and held while Lucas appeared to defend, so after attempting a feint Ashton passed the ball to his team's PF on the left.

The Dogs team PF did not hold the ball and went to Ivan behind, Ivan took the ball and took advantage of having more space and tried a mid-range shot to make the first 2 points for the Dogs team.

From this play Jake can see that the Dogs team was really strong and well organized, it seems that the Elite team defense will make little difference in this game, after all, they worked the ball well before trying to score, so without many individual plays, Elite team defense could not do much.

Jake received the ball and slowly advanced to organize the Elite team's first attack in the game, so everyone realized that Jake would still play as PG in the attack as usual, so everyone could see how the Elite team positioned themselves in the attack.

Nathan was wide open on the right and Carter was also more open on the right near the bottom of the court, David was open on the left and Lucas was also on the left closer to the bottom of the block.

Elite team players formed a square with attack position, Jake was the only one who would move as he wanted without the ball and when players received the ball the team positioning varied with the player's decision to attack with the ball.

The Dogs team's PF and Rowan were excellent in defense, but they were more prominent in defending the internal area, so the Elite team's attack formation without any Center would make these two defenders uncomfortable while defending.

After going through the middle of the court Jake passed the ball to David on the left, David was excited to have the opportunity to start as a starter in the final game, yet he knew he needed to stay calm to do his best and help the team.

David advanced and before the three-point line passed Lucas the ball to the left, Lucas received the ball and held for a while and when Ashton reached the defense Lucas passed the ball to Jake behind.

Jake received the ball off the three-point line and attempted a shot from outside to make the first 3 points for the Elite team, even if Mark was not on the team to catch the rebounds Jake would not hesitate to attempt three-point attacks to ensure the victory.

Juan took the ball and advanced, after passing the middle of the court he passed the ball to Ivan on the left, Ivan advanced and Nathan came to the defense before Ivan crossed the three-point line.

Ivan was known for good three-point play, so Coach Mike arranged for Nathan to always press on the defense before Ivan even entered the three-point line, especially today that Mark was not in defense to catch the rebounds.

Seeing that Ivan passed the ball to his team's forward PF, Carter came to the defense by pressing and the PF returned the ball to Juan again, Juan was freer to work the ball with only David on defense after hold on a little he passed it to Rowan inside.

Rowan received the ball and was alert with the balls in his hands worried about Jake in defense, Rowan tried to use force with his heavier body to push Jake before trying the play, but Jake was much stronger than Rowan expected and was Rowan that was pushed out.

So Rowan, who saw he was running out of possession, used the ability to spin and attempted a mid-range shot to score 2 more points for the Dogs team.

Jake received the ball again and advanced to the attack slowly, after passing through the middle of the court Jake passed the ball to Nathan on the right, Nathan advanced to before the three-point line and passed the ball to Carter ahead.

Carter managed to fake a shot and fooled his opponent and tried a mid-range shot to get 2 more points for the Elite team, the Dogs team manager did not like what he was seeing, the Elite team seemed to play as usual without Mark on the team.

Worse, Rowan was now almost useless in defense, he had only Lucas to defend against, but Lucas after entering high school also changed his style of play and now only tried mid-range shots.

So no one else on the Elite team thought of trying to play inside, so the Dogs team was having trouble defending.

After a few more moves the game seemed to be very much the same between the two teams, it seemed that the Dogs team had more skilled players, but their defense was becoming useless in this game.

On the other side without Mark playing the Elite team was with less skilled players, but Jake compensated for the team's skill level, even though he was able to put more pressure than the opponent Dogs

Jake was analyzing the game the same way everyone in the first half of the first period, everyone thought that Jake could do nothing in defense in this game, but Jake was actually analyzing in every move the Dogs team's playing style.

He had to understand how he could help more in defense playing as Center, in PG position he knew the right times to get out of position and intercept passes and steel balls, but in Center position, he knew that if he missed the time to leave would leave Rowan alone to make the points.

The others were doing a great job, with this constant pressure on defense the opposing attackers will feel the pressure over the course of the game and ended up losing some attacks.

Juan advanced with the ball again until after the middle of the court and passed the ball to Ivan, Nathan in defense was Ivan who had more difficulties in the first period, he had no room to try the three-point shots.

Ivan advanced from the left and passed the ball to Ashton which was open on the right, Ashton held the ball for a while and passed to Rowan inside, as the game passed Rowan learned that playing against Jake he could only use his skills and not strength or speed.

So he was able to spin again and tried the mid-range shot to score 2 more points for the Dogs team, which Rowan didn't know was that he was doing exactly what Jake wanted and Jake was taking advantage of this time to fully analyze the style Rowan's game.

Jake received the ball and began to organize another attack for the Elite team, after passing through the middle of the court he passed the ball to Nathan on the right, Nathan received the ball and advanced until after the three-point line and passed the ball to David farther back on the left.

David received the ball and held for a while until Ashton reached the defense, David tried a feint and then failed to pass the ball to Nathan on the right, Nathan had space and tried the mid-range shot to make 2 more points for the team.

Juan received the ball and advanced again to attack, before reaching the three-point line. Juan passed the ball to Ivan, Ivan used his speed and advanced to the back of the court on the left.

Ivan tried to pass the ball to his team's PF, but Jake stepped forward and made the steal, all of the Dogs team were impressed with it, even Ivan who tried the pass was impressed.

That's because before he made the pass he saw that Jake was close to Rowan in defense, a moment later Jake advanced a few meters to intercept his fast pass, everyone knew that Jake was skilled at steals, but his speed of reaction surprised everyone.

After a few more plays the first period of the game came to an end, the Dogs team were ahead by 4 points, Jake was doing well and had scored 9 points in a tough game like this, plus Jake had 4 assists and 2 steals in the game, plus 3 rebounds that he got in both offense and defense.

Even though the Elite team played well in the attack they still missed a few mid-range attempts and even though Jake rebounded the attack missed more, yet they were losing just because the Dogs team got lucky and missed less.

At the beginning of the second period, Jake had the ball advanced until after mid-court and passed the ball to David on the left, David advanced and passed the ball to Lucas on the left front.

Lucas was out of space and tried a mid-range shot to get 2 more points for the Elite team, even though Lucas, Nathan, and David wanted to show off their skills they still followed the team's style of play and passed the ball until someone was free to try the mid-range shot.

Juan advanced with the ball to the offense, after passing through the middle of the court Juan gave Ashton the right pass, Ashton advanced to before the three-point line and passed the ball to his team's PF.

The PF held the ball for a while and when Carter began to press in the defense he passed the ball to Ivan who was behind, Ivan was on the three-point line and with space and so tried an outside shot to get 3 more points to the Dogs team.

Both teams were still very evenly matched at the beginning of the second period, but as in all games after studying the Dogs' first-half moves now the Elite team would increase the defensive pressure against the opposing team to try to force the opponent to mistake or steal the ball.

Jake advanced until after the middle of the court and passed the ball to Nathan on the right, Nathan advanced until after the three-point line and passed the ball to Carter ahead, Carter made the feint and as the opponent was still firm in defense passed the ball to Jake further back.

Jake made a feint and then a crossover and took Juan out of play and then attempted a mid-range shot to score 2 more points for the Elite team, Jake also thought of becoming more active in this second period.

Jake was playing well but couldn't figure out why the system gave him that warning, after all, he wasn't doing his best in attack yet and the Elite team was just behind the scorecards.

Juan advanced for the attack and after passing through the middle of the court passed the ball to Ivan who was on the left, Ivan advanced until before the three-point line and when Nathan reached the defense he passed the ball to Ashton on the authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Ashton received the ball and felt the pressure of Lucas's defense increased a lot in this second period, so Ashton passed the ball to the Dogs team PF, the PF turned away from Carter and tried the mid-range shot and missed, Jake went up to catch the rebound in defense.

At the end of the second period the Dogs team still led the scoreline with 1 point in front, the Elite team tightened the pressure on the defense and forced the Dogs team to make some mistakes.

But the Elite team also missed the attack a couple of times and failed to pass the lead, Jake was trying more and more play, but he was holding on to the three-point shots because he had no one to catch the rebound.

Jake scored 11 points in this second period and now had 20 points throughout the game, he also had 6 rebounds, 8 assists, and 5 steals, you could tell that the Elite team was still in the game just because Jake was playing very well.

In the third period, Jake finally understood what the system meant they would lose if Jake didn't excel and try his best in the game, the Dogs team's true risky strategy began to be shown in the third period.

In fact, not even the opposing team's coach expected their team to be in front of the scorecards when they started, but that was even better for their team.

The strategy they had for this game was simple, taking advantage of the Elite team lacking a quality center and betting more on indoor play, in the first two periods I could see that Jake had a hard time stopping Rowan's attacks It was the player who had scored the most points for the Dogs team in the game after Ivan with the three-point play.

It was actually that Jake was analyzing Rowan's style of play and would begin to defend correctly from now on and thus nullify part of the opponent's attack, but he did not expect the whole team to underestimate him.

Jake knew he would have to do his best to keep his team from losing the game at the beginning of the third period almost every time the Dogs team decided to attack from the inside area.

So the opposing coach was sure that his strategy was right for this game and his team had the possibility of being champion, on the side of the Elite team coach Mike did not expect this concentrated domestic game and could not blame Jake, maybe neither Mark could do something.

Juan advanced to organize another attack, after passing the middle of the court Juan passed the ball to Ashton on the right, Ashton was skilled and after making a feint and a dribble managed to pass by Lucas and invaded the inside area to layup while disregarded Jake.

The Elite defense began to fail after seeing their opponents skill and the gap in score increased, they knew that without Mark this game would be difficult and now the team's morale was low, fortunately, they could still play correctly in attack and The advantage on the scoreboard was just 4 points.

Jake advanced to attack with the ball, before the middle of the court he passed the ball to Nathan on the right, Nathan advanced and before reaching the three-point line passed the ball to Lucas, Lucas tried the shot on Ashton, but failed.

So Lucas passed the ball back to Jake, Jake received the ball and attempted a shot from outside to make 3 points for the Elite team, yet it didn't make the Elite team players more excited.

Jake didn't know what to do, but he knew he had to try something that would motivate his teammates because alone he couldn't win the game, even though he didn't know how to unleash his potential as the system said.

So Jake remembered the system talking about how he played against opponents in the space of imagination training, the opponents were there at the college level and yet Jake could win.

After playing basketball for many years at High School Jake came to understand that the players in his imagination training space even with better statistics played worse than the real players.

The reason for that was simple, it was because the players in the imagination training space just having too many plays were all programmed like a computer, which meant they didn't have the ability to improvise as humans did.

So Jake thought that the high school students on the strongest teams played better than the players in his imagination, even if those players had college skill ranks.

But since the system that knew everything had suggested it Jake decided to play as he practiced in his imagination training space, after all, he had few choices in a game like this, even if he hits all attacks and scores several points if opponents do The same is no good.

Juan received the ball and began to arrange another play, after passing through the middle of the court he passed the ball to Ivan who was on the left, Ivan advanced before the three-point line and passed the ball to his team PF.

The PF held the ball a little and passed it to Rowan who was inside, Rowan was no longer afraid of Jake's defense, even though knowing the opposing PG was excellent in defense Center's position was not easy for anyone to play.

Rowan spun again using his ability and tried to finish the play with a layup, this time Jake stood still and with his incredible speed of reaction climbed along with Rowan to make the block and end the play of the opposing team.

Rowan was shocked that Jake got a block on him, because Rowan was six inches taller than Jake, even if he was unaware it wouldn't be that easy for Jake to do that.

The crowd applauded this move and cheered for the Elite team again, this was a much more boring game than usual for the fans, they expected to see a show from both teams, but there were not many dunks or beautiful moves being made.

All of Jake's friends who came to watch this game were excited too, and they waited again for Jake's victory in the game, Tiffany and Clara as Eva and Lola were the tensest about this game.

After all, they were the ones who most understood how important this game was to Jake and also understood basketball enough to realize that even Jake playing this game very well was hard for the Jake team to authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Eva was mostly being the most emotional in the crowd, she could still remember how Jake told her that he thought this game would be too hard to win, Eva wanted to see her son happy and came to see the game for Jake to win again.

Mark was another cheerleader who was deeply emotionally involved in this game, he was just like the players almost giving up waiting for an Elite team win in a game played like this if the third period ended with more than 6 points lead for the team From Dogs the game would be over.

Even though it was not his fault that he was injured, Mark suffered when he saw that the strategy that was killing his team was to attack in the area he was usually responsible for defending.

Eric was also apprehensive, even though as a journalist he should remain neutral in a game like this and not cheer for anyone, Eric has been following Jake for many years now and they are friends.

So it was impossible for him to remain without bothering to see his friend's team losing, but unlike the others in the crowd, he hoped Jake could do something amazing and change the outcome of the game, and it looked like it could start happening now.

After Jake's block, the Elite team again felt like winning the game, realizing that the Dogs team decided to strike the same way again to show that what Jake did was a lucky move.

So after Juan commanded another attack the ball passed Ashton until it reached Rowan's hands again, in a similar move Rowan tried to layup again, but this time he was alert to Jake's attempt to intercept the move.

Jake again reacted quickly and climbed along, Jake was playing just as he did in his system space drills and as a move, he made hundreds of times he was quick and decisive in moving his hands and making the block again.

When Rowan can react Jake had already taken the ball if his hands with a touch, so the same block play was repeated again for the cheer of the fans and to raise the cheer of the players of the Elite team.

At the end of the third period, the Dogs team was ahead by just 1 point again, it was amazing to think that the difference in the scoreboard reached 8 points in this game period, Jake made all the difference by making 15 points.

In addition, Jake made 4 blocks in this period of play, so in total Jake had 35 points, 13 assists, 10 rebounds, 9 steals, and 4 blocks, he already had a triple-double and was going to further improve his statistics in the game.

The Dogs team coach could not believe what was happening, a game that was practically won changed completely because of only one player, even worse was that Jake was a PG and was playing better than his team's Center in position from Center.

In the fourth period the Elite team returned to play well and missed much less in the attack, it seemed that they had confidence in Jake who was the captain and could play with less pressure and miss fewer attacks.

The Dogs team was in a dilemma, with Jake's incredible plays in defense. The defense of the entire Elite team improved a lot, so they were even less likely to attack with mid-range shots and outside shots.

Even though knowing that Jake would get several blocks the Dogs team had no choice but to attack inside, of course, it was impossible for Jake to block every move, if he tried always would end up making many fouls and being sent off.

After a fourth period played again the Elite team finally managed to win the game by 4 points, with a minute left before the end of the game. Jake made a steal and got a three-point shot, so the Elite team eventually won.

First, they complimented the opponents for playing very well, if it wasn't for Jake on the Elite team the outcome of the game would be another for sure, then they finally celebrated, Jake and Carter went to the stands and brought Mark to celebrate the title too and catch the medal.

Jake went to the stands again and gave his mother a hug near Lola, then Jake stayed close to Eva until they called him to the court again, Lola got a little jealous of Eva and also wanted a hug, but Jake just He smiled at her before returning to the court.

After all Jake already knew that Lola liked him and did not want to act with her doing things that could generate misunderstandings and give false hopes to Lola, even though after a few years Jake intended to date her if Lola still wanted nothing was definitive.

Jake returned to the court and celebrated with his teammates again, as the awards went on, some players like Mark, Harrison and David were crying to hear it was their last game together.

Carter didn't cry and Jake just smiled, he had been through a lot to cry for something like that, he understood the emotion well, but everyone would still play at university so it wasn't like they were saying goodbye to basketball.

And they could meet again in the future, with the emerging internet Jake knew well that people just wouldn't talk if they didn't want the distance would no longer be a problem, Jake received the national champion trophy again and celebrated again with his colleague's Team.

After Jake received the MVP prize of this year's national championship too, in this final game he made 51 points, 16 assists, 15 rebounds, 12 steals, and 11 blocks, it was a quintuple Double that just for that Jake deserved the prize.

After the awards, everyone from the stands left and Jake didn't have time to say goodbye to his friends who came to watch the game, not even Eric had stayed after the game, after all, Eric was no longer responsible for interviewing high school players nor College players.

Jake made a brief interview with the reporters nearby, again for the photos he tried to show his various sponsors along with the school uniform, after this game Jake would go back in history as one of the only players to score a double quintuple.

Jake invited all his teammates to his house, eat his mom's breakfast feast, Eva just laughed when she saw Jake invite his friends, after all, she was just kidding earlier when she told him to do it.

All were less Mark was injured and had promised his mother to come home soon after the game, everyone was impressed with Jake's new home, they still didn't know that Jake was rich now as at the beginning at school he was a scholar and middle class like all of them.

Luckily everyone was smart and no one talked about it, otherwise Jake wouldn't know how to explain how he had so much money, after all, Jake now made money in many ways, only the marathon he won this year could pay his employees' salary for a few months.

Not to mention the 10 million that Jake still had in the bank, after everyone had eaten there was still food left, seeing that Eva had to assume she had actually overreacted for breakfast after everyone left Jake can finally rest.

This game ended happily with the Elite team's victory, and also marked Jake's farewell to high school basketball, even though he lost 2 years in which he could have played it was a good experience those 4 years at Elite school.

Maybe after a few years, Elite school becomes famous like many others for being where it studied one of the NBA basketball stars, but that is still just a possibility in Jake's life as an athlete.