bhwS Chapter 16, a misc. books fanfic

The Beginning of the Season at College Basketball

"This may be the key to Jake's success in marathons, so others learned from him and decided to accompany him in that squad until the end of the marathon."

"Yes, but this is just one of the things that makes Jake the best marathoner today, few can keep up with him for more than 30 km, and if they try recklessly they may not even finish the marathon."

"That's true, the stamina and stamina he has also determine how he can win several marathons in a row."

Just as the commentators were saying the reason Jake didn't mind having several people running with him was that his running speed was too strong, keeping his pace steady was important to a marathoner.

But having his own running pace that matched his abilities was the most important thing, Jake didn't have to strain to run like this, but those who ran with him in the same platoon had to strain to keep up.

This group also did not disturb Jake in the support stations to get water and also took turns leading the group without Jake having to lead once, Jake just slowed the race in the most difficult parts, so everyone won with that.

After 15 km of the marathon as in Chicago, Jake's platoon was again leading the race, many rushed ahead of them for a few kilometers, but no one could stay in the lead for more than 15 km.

"This is really amazing, it looks like I'm seeing a repeat of the Chicago Marathon, after 15 kilometers Jake's platoon leads again, and everyone looks like they're in good shape and can continue."

"Their race time is almost the same as Chicago too, so Jake always runs at a high level, unlike last race also the runners who are with Jake are all elite and all finish at least thirtieth as the best time they have done, one of them even came in the eighth position in a marathon."

"True, it may then be that they can continue with Jake for more than 18 km like last time."

Just like in Chicago, this was the second time Jake had run in New York, even though he hadn't won this marathon last year, he still remembered the ride, so he did a marathon imagination training and knew the best places to run without getting tired so much.

Even if it didn't make much difference to Jake who had enough stamina to run 50 kilometers, it was the effort he could make to ensure the best race possible, who made the most of it were the other runners who were in the same platoon as Jake.

After passing the 22km more than half of the marathon had passed and only at that point did the Jake platoon decide to move away and run at a slower pace, which greatly benefited Jake who didn't have to race against the wind for more than half of the test.

Unfortunately, the weather and temperature were not ideal as it was in Chicago, yet Jake felt he could try to break his own world record in this race, he would not do it just because it was not smart to try so hard.

After all, he already had the marathon world record and it made no sense to break his own record, and after winning the New York marathon he would earn 2 more stats, 1 Resistance, and 1 agility.

That meant that next year Jake would be even better off running if he could win a few more major marathons he could break a world record much more easily, so he had no reason to risk injuring himself to win.

After going through the 30km race Jake wasn't feeling too tired yet, but still decided to slow down his race to make sure that this race was over, Jake was thinking of trying to run a little longer than in Chicago for this marathon.

"It's really amazing how much he can run at the same pace and speed for 30 km, there may never be a runner who has this kind of control over his pace, some may be faster than him, but this control is hard to break."

"That's true, and we can see that he doesn't even take a watch for the race, that is to say, he keeps that pace with intuition, now we see that he's slowing down his running pace."

"It's already become a habit of Jake in the marathons he runs, he keeps a pace well below the world record for much of the marathon and then slows in the final kilometers of the race."

"He was expected to do something like this, Jake doesn't seem to be trying to break the world record today either, it's normal because his body must not have fully recovered from the Chicago marathon."

"We hope he doesn't get any injuries like last year and can win this marathon."

"He's now called Captain America, a hero doesn't hurt running Hahaha."

"Hahaha it's true, I liked that nickname, if he wins here in New York this year he will also find that nickname suits him."

No marathon expert doubted Jake's ability to win a marathon anymore, commentators were only apprehensive because they were afraid Jake would be injured again.

There have been several big names in the sport of having a kind of curse to run in one place and not being able to win, some soccer players with the world cup, some baseball players with the world series, and some athletes with the Olympics.

Jake naturally didn't believe that and knew that the reason he lost in New York last year was his wrong preparation and his psychological problem, but today everything was perfect for him to win this time.

After just missing the 42km race Jake was near the end of the race and his condition was great, he was just a little tired but still thought he could run another 10 km quietly.

"And Jake is reaching the final stretch of this New York marathon, he's really winning again this year, this is the fourth marathon he wins in 1996 that will be a historic year for the world of athletics."

"It's really amazing, Jake is still young at 17 and doesn't have the problems that some older professional runners have, after a few weeks of breaking the world record in Chicago he's winning again here in New York."

"Now we can see that what happened last year here was just an accident and a piece of bad luck for Jake, yet he doesn't seem to mind it and is winning again."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"There you go, Captain America Jake crosses the finish line and wins the New York Marathon in 1996."

"And with very good time too, he ran this marathon in 2 hours, 6 minutes and 55 seconds, he broke the record of this marathon that belonged to Juma Ikangaa from Tanzania which was established in 1989 with the time of 2 hours, 8 minutes. and 1 second."

"This year was really special for Jake and for the whole American sport, he broke the records of all the marathons he has run this year, and it looks like he's still holding on, see how he doesn't even look tired after running today."

"He should just protect his body by doing that, that's right for someone his age, see Jake's fan posters again saying Captain America, it looks like that nickname really got it."

"It's great to see young people taking an interest in marathons, Jake can be important to that as he is young too."

Jake was very happy to win again, he wasn't really tired just as the commentator noticed, it had been several months since he needed to eat a stamina bar that he got from the system.

So he had a lot more than 100 saved again, he always did his 3-point shooter training and so several times got the reward of doing a thousand 3-point shoots, in basketball games he didn't need to either.

But he didn't know what it would be like after joining the NBA, he knew a basketball game could tire as much as a marathon, so if he had to play several times a week and still do daily training running 50 km he could need to eat a stamina bar.

The 14 other marathon runners who ran with Jake in a large part of the marathon were also in the top 50, it seems that in the upcoming marathons other runners would consider doing the same, in fact, some were among the first.

Jake waved to the fans shouting his name, he was happy to know that he already had fans after just 2 years running, he was happy to win this marathon because he lost last year, so it was like taking revenge on him.

Of course with last year's defeat he learned a lot of things he was doing wrong and so he could win every other marathon he ran, but he would rather not learn anything if he had to lose for it, Jake learned that he hated to lose.

After a few minutes, he went to the podium and received $ 125,000, $ 100 for winning and $ 25,000 for breaking the marathon record, $ 275,000 in less than a month running in two marathons, which was just under 1 month he received sponsorship.

After Jake went to talk to John who had been waiting for him all this time, John was smiling as usual and didn't seem to mind appearing in all of Jake's marathons, his company made a lot of money this year with Jake being his sponsored athlete.

Even if next year Jake wasn't going to have any marathon competitions to run, they would still win big just because he existed, Jake didn't even have to participate in any marathon next year.

And John still knew that the good part hadn't even started, when Jake started playing basketball at university games on the Tar Heels team that was the same team as the legendary Michael Jordan, that would be big publicity for them.

If Jake could win the NCAA Tournament and the ACC Tournament would be even better for them, winning it all John learned not to be so greedy and even sharing advertising exactly with the other sponsors.

So he inadvertently ended up earning a little more of Jake's goodwill who saw it after the marathon, Jake was most grateful to John who always organized Jake's marathon stakes and showed up in all competitions and didn't take all the credit for the race his company.

"Congratulations on beating Jake, another broken record this year, this year was amazing for you, should this be the last marathon you're going to run this year?"

"Yes, it's my last marathon this year, thanks for helping me out so much this year."

"It's just my job, I have to thank you for always winning marathons, as I was the one who came up with the idea of hiring you for our company to sponsor, I'm gaining a lot of recognition for that."

"I'm glad to hear that, I don't think we'll see each other again this year, have a happy holiday season and wait for some good news from me at basketball games."

"Thanks, I'll see you next year."

Living together can make a new friendship come to life, even though they never really liked John because their contract was just about business, after receiving his goodwill and help for so many months Jake began to want to be friends with John.

Maybe their relationship could never be as good as it was between Jake with Tiffany and Clara, but they could at least talk friendlier, not to mention that after a few years they might not even talk to each other anymore.

Jake had lost several friends in this time he lived after going back in time, even though he always appreciated friendships things just happened that way, everyone he studied with Jake had no more contact.

It had also been several months since he'd had any conversations with Eric who always sought to talk to him, maybe he could meet his school friends when the internet-connected more people and meet Eric when he joined the NBA.

After talking with John, Jake decided to go back to the hotel and get some rest before catching the plane at the end of the day for university again, the other day even if he didn't do his daily running training he would still have to train with the Basketball team.

After all, it was only a few weeks before the day of the first game, so, Jake, the team would have to be ready by that day, he didn't want to end up losing that game for lack of training, it would be an important game to decide Jake's future in the basketball team.

In New York Jake had no interest in doing an interview to talk about his marathon victory, he did the interview in Chicago because he knew Chloe and had free time this time, however, he knew no one and was in a hurry to return to the university.

Unfortunately, Jake's desire to just rest while waiting for his travel time didn't come true, after a few hours at the hotel when he had already changed and eaten and was preparing to rest the hotel said someone was waiting for authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Even though he knew it wasn't someone Jake knew it had to be someone with contacts to find out where he was when Jake came down he saw a man who looked to be thirty-four and wearing a black suit.

"Mr. Smith, thank you for coming down to talk to me if you didn't know me."

"No problem, I was just resting, who would you be?"

"My name is Martin Hans, I am a representative of the Nike company, I was sent to talk to you about the possibility of a sponsorship agreement of our company with you."

Jake was a little surprised that he wasn't expecting it at the moment, but after thinking a bit he realized that it was very normal for something like this to happen, Nike has always been known to compete with other shoe companies to sponsor the best athletes in the world from many different sports.

While currently, they do not have most of the basketball players, soccer and football, they've had many contracts with athletes, and in the future, Nike just grows and further dominates the footwear market.

Even though not all athletes were sponsored by them, Jake had already won several major marathons and the Olympic gold medal, as well as breaking the world record, thinking that it was normal for a company like Nike to look for him with a contract.

Currently Jake could not have any new sponsorship contracts because he was at university and had made a deal with them not to have any new contracts while playing on the basketball team.

But he could talk some details with Nike until after he left university, if the contract was good he could make a deal with them and when he entered the NBA he would sign this contract with Nike.

"You don't have to call me sir, you can be less informal and call me by my name."

"I'll do it so, you might be wondering why our company hasn't contacted you before, that's because you suddenly came across as an athlete and we didn't have time to prepare a contract proposal for you."

"When you won in Chicago last year and then came second in New York, the directors just got to know your name and so decided to wait and see."

"Unfortunately we ended up missing our opportunity to get a contract at that time, after all this year you qualified to race at the Olympics and eventually won, after which as you would go to university we thought we had missed the opportunity and would have to wait."

"But right now while you are at university you still have some sponsorship deals, so we realize we missed another chance."

"It's true, unfortunately right now that I have some sponsorship contracts I can't have a new contract in my university playing period."

"Yeah, we know that and so we decided to wait until you finish college to talk about a contract, but after you won in Chicago and New York this year we decided to talk to you at least."

The company's marketing people realized that they missed a lot of opportunities to make a contract with Jake this year, he's a brilliant young man who has accomplished a lot in athletics and may also have a chance to get into the NBA.

In fact, Nike knew they already had teams that wanted to talk to Jake right after he left high school, so it's almost certain he could join an NBA team, so a contract with him would just be more valuable.

Jake was also interested in that, if it was a good deal he would accept now, after all, it would only be for a few years, in 2003 he would want a much better contract for him, or he could just run out of any contract.

"What is your company's proposal?"

"We have a $ 5 million proposal for a 4-year contract. Every major marathon you win would get you another $ 50,000 and every world record you break would earn you another $ 50,000."

That had been a very thoughtful contract by the marketing team, and in a few more years when Jake left college they wouldn't know whether or not he would play in the NBA and if he would still have a high level of track and field performance, it was a risk to them, but for an athlete it was a very good contract, the best they could offer today.

It might seem like a great contract for an average athlete, but Jake thought this contract was very bad, had the least consideration for being one of the best for athletes they could offer, but Jake knew it was too little.

This contract was even smaller than Alan and John's companies paid, he sincerely expects a lot more from a company like Nike, maybe they would have thought of getting a great deal if Jake became a professional basketball player.

But Jake knew he would surely become an NBA player and with the help of the system he could even become a star as the best players in history, so this contract was a joke for Jake If he entered one more type of athletics as he thought this contract would no longer be worth it.

It was better than Jake just renewed the contract with the companies that were with him now, and Nike hadn't even offered a shoe line by his name which was the wish of every athlete in the world.

"I'm sorry Martin, but I will have to decline this proposal, it's far below what I sincerely expected."

"Could you say what made you dissatisfied with this contract?"

Martin sincerely thought it was a great contract for a marathon runner, and Nike was a big company that every athlete wanted to be associated with, so he didn't understand what made Jake dissatisfied.

"This is a great contract for a regular marathon runner, but you are forgetting that I am also a basketball player, this contract shows that you are not confident enough in my future as I am."

"You had to work out a contract thinking of me as a basketball player as well as a marathoner after all this contract is after I leave college, if you have a good view you can even profit from an early contract."

"We are considering that you can become an NBA player, so the value is higher than an average marathoner, but we can have no guarantee of that, so it's a risk and if you are a big player this contract is just for the first 4 years, then we can renew with a higher value."

"If you think it's a risk I'd rather wait until I leave university to talk about it again, I have confidence in myself, not to mention that I won't get the value now anyway."

"And for you to know how I think the value you offer is low even a sponsor of mine currently pays me more than this contract."

After saying that Jake went to his room and went to rest until he had to go to the airport at night, he was a little disappointed with what Nike offered, he would accept a minimum of $ 4 million a year to sign now."

Jake had always heard that the Nike company was smart and so they always made the best deals, but that didn't seem true to Jake, maybe if he was someone who needed the money and didn't have confidence he could sign the contract.

After a few hours he left the hotel and arrived at the university after a few hours, after winning again he was certain that Coach Smith would not be angry that he missed a day of training.

Now he needed to focus on basketball and forget about the marathons, in a few weeks it would be his first game at university and he was anxious.

When Jake arrived at the university everyone was asleep, he also went to sleep when he felt tired, when he woke up in the morning it was almost time to go to classes, Zack had left to run in the morning and William and Aaron praised Jake for winning more a marathon.

After attending classes with William, Jake went to basketball training to do the training and warn Coach Smith that he had returned, the coach had to know that he could count on him for the rest of the pre-match training.

For Jake and the team, this marathon stop was great before the first game, Jake had received the same statistic reward he received the first time he won in Chicago, with 1 more Resistance point and 1 agility point better for the first game.

In addition, this would make Jake's 50 km high-speed running training much easier, and basketball training was not a problem for Jake at the moment, but it could be when the basketball team games started.

Jake also talked to his mother about the race victory and Tiffany who was very happy, after basketball training he can talk to Zack who also congratulated Jake on winning.

After that Jake focused only on his training with the basketball team, Coach Smith decided to leave Jake in reserve and play with Ed Cota as a starter, Shammond Williams would play part in the position of PG and part of the game in position of SG.

So Ed Cota and Vince Carter who would spend a few minutes taking turns, Jake would also play PG taking turns so Shammond William would probably play more in SG's position and Vince would have to stay a few minutes in reserve.

Makhtar N'Diaye would play in PF position and so with Antawn Jamison playing as SF the team was complete, Coach Smith also planned to let Jake play as SF and put Antawn Jamison as PF at some points in the game.

So Center Serge Zwikker would be the least likely to have to take their position in the game and could play longer on the court, Coach Smith had problems with how to scale players but was happy to have those skilled player problems left in the team.

This was the team decided for the first game, after forming this team Coach Smith organized more specific training to train players for the first game of the season.

Usually, the first games of a new season at university were more complicated, because sometimes some players were still out of shape and the team would have to get used to the new players.

After a few weeks, the day of the first game had arrived, on November 22, 1996, the first opponent was the Arizona Wildcats team, the Wildcats had won the NCAA National Tournament after eliminating the Tar Heels team that Jake was now.

So you could see how strong the opponents of the first game were, in this game in Jake's past life the Tar Heels team had lost that game, so this time probably the same would happen if Jake didn't play in the game.

Even though Jake wasn't worried about that, the opposing team was strong and if Jake couldn't play many minutes he knew it wouldn't make much difference in this game, the game would be at Springfield Civic Center in Springfield, MA.

The whole team was excited for this first game, even if the opponents had tradition no one was afraid because the Tar Heels team also had the tradition, of course, if they knew what Jake knew would probably be different.

Coach Dean Smith did a great job of motivating and encouraging the players, for the most talented players often working with the confidence of the players was more important than the tactics that had already been put into training.

College basketball rules were different from high school, the games had two 20-minute strokes each and a 15-minute break, so Jake's Resistance would make a lot more difference if he played a full game.

Everyone knew on the day of the game what position they would play in or if they would be in reserve, Jake naturally as he hoped would be in reserve, but he did not expect Ed Cota to stay in reserve either.

It would be Shammond Williams who would play in PG position and Ademola Okulaja would play as PF, Vince Carter would start in SG position and the others were the same as training when the game started Jake was very excited to finally be playing his first game in university.

Jake knew the skill of his teammates very well and so was paying more attention to the opposing team players in the first half of the game, Michael Bibby was the opposing team's PG and Jake knew him a little.

He played in the NBA for 14 years as a pro and then became a coach, never managed to win an NBA champion ring of the season, but took his team to some playoffs, earning some NBA All-Rookie honors in 1999.

He was not a player Jake considered very good, but had a stable performance usually averaging over 12 points per game and 5 assists plus a few rebounds, yet managed to play for 14 years in the NBA which was impressive.

Michael Dickerson was playing as SG and sometimes switching positions with Miles Simon and playing as SF, Michael did not play in the NBA long after leaving university because of an injury, he was a player who scored many points in the game.

Miles Simon started playing as the team's SF and made a great pair with Michael Bibby, Miles didn't play long in the NBA after college either, he was along with Michael the team's top scorer.

Bennett Davison was the team's PF and didn't play in the NBA either, he averaged less than 10 points per game and caught a lot of rebounds with A. J. Bramlett who was the Center who played the NBA for a short time.

Jason Terry was an SG and played as the team's sixth player entering important moments, Terry played many years in the NBA over 19 years, won the NBA championship with Dallas in 2011 and was a great sixth player and also very good at the shooting of 3 points.

The reason Jake chose this team besides being a fan of Michael Jordan was that it was a very strong team that didn't win titles, he could play with the legendary coach Dean Smith and several players he was a fan of.

The biggest weakness of this team oddly enough was that they didn't score much with 3-point shots, the players didn't risk much and missed a lot in important games, even though Ed Cota who debuted in the games was a big PG with In his assists he did not make many points.

So most points were scored by Vince Carter, Shammond Williams, and Antawn Jamison, and the three did not have many games with more than 20 points which made the situation of the team complicated.

Jake's strength was the 3-point shots and he made more than 30 points per game on average, so Jake thought he could be the player this team needed to be a champion, not to mention that he could make multiple assists and defend well too.

At the beginning of the first half, the two teams were very much alike in the game, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison were playing better and creating more moves besides making a few points, the commentators were also excited about an equal game like this.

"The game is very popular here at Springfield Civic Center, in those first 5 minutes of the game Vince Carter scored 4 points and Antawn Jamison scored 6 points, we received information that both are a classmate and so has a lot of rapport."

"Yes, even though Shammond Williams is not as talented as PG as he is in SG position he is making a great game too, yet the opponents are equally talented."

"The Wildcats team is playing a great game with Michael Dickerson performing well and freshman Mike Bibby doesn't seem to be debuting today and is playing very well."

"Speaking of freshmen, Jake is also a freshman who had a great time playing very well in high school being MVP for two straight years and also getting a sponsorship even though he was in college after winning several marathons and a gold medal in the Olympics."

"Yes, but we have never seen him play so we can't say he plays that well, and Coach Smith doesn't seem to trust the freshmen so much and has left everyone on the bench, even Ed Cota who also got the spotlight is on the bench."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"Especially with such a game, I don't think Coach Smith would risk a change that would break the balance of the game in favor of the opponent."

Just as they said Coach Smith did not think of putting anyone in early in the game, yet he had thought of a tactic and after a few minutes put Ed Cota in place of Ademola Okulaja and Vince Carter defended the opposing PF when Ed was on the court.

Shammond Williams played as SG when Vince moved in defense and Ed Cota was the team's PG, so Shammond Williams had more freedom to drive to the basket or shoot from outside.

"Both teams have different playing styles, while Wildcats try more from outside and mid-range shots, Tar Heels tries to score more in the opposing area, both tactics have their advantages, but if the Wildcats have a good aim they won this game."

In the first half of this game the two teams remained very much the same, only Ed Cota, who was in reserve, entered the game for a few minutes while coach Dean Smith rotated the players.

By the time the 20 minutes into the first half were over, both teams were tied for points, Ed Cota was making good plays and assisting as he entered the court, which pleased Coach Smith.

Jake didn't look like he'd have a chance in the first half, maybe it was a coach's punishment for missing training in marathon competitions, even if he had won and the university was happy with that, the coach wasn't happy to split his player with another sport.

Only Jake was more apprehensive because without him on the court the game ended the way he saw in his past life, if it went on they would lose.

The game was tied and in the 15 minutes of the break the coaches just encouraged the players more, it was just the first game of the players of the season and the game was tied so there was no reason for the coaches to complain.

If there was any difference between the teams it was that Michael Bibby who was a freshman was getting more confidence from the coach and was excelling more in the game, Ed Cota just helped with assists and had little defensive presence.

When the second half started again Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison excelled in attacks, Shammond Williams was not having a good game and missed a lot of shots from outside, so in the first minutes of the second half, he could not do much.

After 10 minutes had passed in the second half the game was already different, Mike Bibby started to play much better in the second half and neither Ed Cota nor Shammond Williams was able to score it because they did not expect him to play so well.

Michael Dickerson was also playing very well in the second half and soon they opened a lead of 5 points on the scoreboard, and you could see that the Wildcats team was better prepared for this game.

Coach Smith naturally realized this and decided to give Jake a chance to play a few minutes in this game when he was called in by coach Jake was very happy and took off his jacket getting ready to play.

"The Wildcats team is dominating in the first 10 minutes of the second half, as the two teams are very much equal in the game a 5-point lead when only 10 minutes left can decide the outcome of the game."

"Really, Dickerson is playing especially well in the game and has already scored 3 three-point shots in 4 attempts, it seems that after seeing that he is fine he is gaining confidence for this endgame."

"Both teams are among the favorites to win the NCAA Tournament this year, I know it may be too early to speak, but as a freshman like Mark Bibby and a player like Dickerson they can be champions this year."

"It seems that Tar Heels coach Dean Smith has decided to make a change to try to regain the game's balance, he's putting on this year's freshman sensation Jake Smith, he's an Olympic medalist only in another sport."

"Hahaha, all the scouts gave Jake's top rating, he averages over 30 points per game and over 9 assists plus 6 steals, if he can do half of that at university we'll see a new genius."

Even though Jake always had good professional ratings many were skeptical about his basketball skills, Jake seemed to everyone to be devoting most of his time in marathons, so he has won almost everything and broken several records.

The experts were just reporting what they saw, Jake managed to lead an average team to two national championships in a row, proof of this was that he could be twice followed MVP championship.

Jake ended up replacing Ed Cota, Shammond Williams was having a bad game and was left in reserve, so the team was Jake as PG, Vince Carter in SG position, Antawn Jamison in SF position, Ademola Okulaja in PF position and Serge Zwikker in the position of Center.

Jake was defending against Mark Bibby who had already scored 16 points in the game and wanted more, Dickerson had scored 19 points and had hit 4 shots out of 5 attempts, so the end of the game would be much harder for Jake's team.

When Jake entered the opposing team was having another attack on Bibby with the ball, so Jake soon prepared to defend against Bibby, in the whole game Bibby was having more freedom to play and did not expect to face the pressure of Jake's defense.

Still, he didn't worry because, with 30 seconds of possession, Wildcats liked to circle the ball until someone had a chance to try the Field goal from any position.

Bibby passed the ball to Dickerson open from the left, so Dickerson protected the ball and dribbled into the three-point line and passed it to Simon who also played very well and was only overshadowed by the performances of Bibby and Dickerson.

Simon tried to force his way through Jamison's shot, but Jamison was defending well against Simon in that game so Simon passed the ball to Dickerson who was open from the left, Vince Carter was away from Dickerson and couldn't make it in time to block the attempted shot from outside Dickerson who was full of confidence.

Luckily this time Dickerson missed the shot and Jake went up to get the rebound, Jake protected the ball and then passed Carter on the right, Carter advanced to the attack line as Wildcats retreated to defense.

Carter advanced and passed the ball to Jake on his left side, Jake received the ball and accelerated while Bibby was fumbling for Carter, Jake quickly passed Bibby and when Simon tried to stop his advance Jake passed Jamison who was unmarked.

Jamison did not miss the opportunity and advanced to layup and 2 points more for the Tar Heels team, so with a rebound and assistance from Jake they reduced the advantage to 6 points, the advantage was 8 points before Jake came in when Dickerson hit Another shot from authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Coach Smith applauded Jake's ability in the play, even though he was an amateur he showed personality and led the play, it seems that it had been the right decision to bring Jake into this game, he wasn't sure of Jake's abilities as he had not personally seen in-game.

Coach Guthridge who brought Jake from high school was delighted to see Jake playing so easily at an important moment in the game, he went against the idea of Coach Smith putting Ed Cota instead on him, both were freshmen and Jake was clearly superior even in training.

After this play the opponents became more cautious with Jake in the game, they knew Bibby was a freshman and could play so well so they had no intention of underestimating Jake's skills.

After a few moves Dickerson had hit another three-point shot and now had 7 attempts and 5 hits, so the lead increased to 9 points and was now the attack of the Tar Heels team.

Jake broke off with the ball dominated and soon passed to Carter on the right, he and Vince Carter were closer in training and so made several plays together in training, Carter soon passed the ball to Jamison forward with who also had a lot of rapport.

Jamison set off for individual play on Simon, after a feint he managed to get past Simon and tried to move inside, Dickerson had returned to assist in the defense with the intention of making Jamison back off, Bibby was defending against Carter who was more important.

So Jamison did not hesitate to pass the ball to Jake who was behind free, Jake received the ball off the three-point line and did not hesitate and tried a shot from outside and the ball went in to increase the score by 3 for Tar Heels and return the difference in the scoreboard to 6 points.

Soon after the Wildcats team made a quick and organized move through several players and stopping at Dickerson's hands again who tried another shot from outside to make three more points and increase the lead to 9 points again.

"This season-opening game for these two teams is very exciting, one attack after another and the Wildcats team retain the 9-point lead, Dickerson has been making a historic game and has 6 hits out of 8 3-point shooting attempts."

"Indeed, after Jake joined the Tar Heels team, he has found the right way to react, but Dickerson is taking all chances of the Tar Heels team reacting."

"Jake really got on very well, he made an assist and 3 points with a shot from outside, plus a rebound in just 3 minutes of play, Bibby couldn't make any points after Jake came in."

"It's really a shame for Tar Heels fans that Jake didn't get into this game before, another result could be showing right now."

"We couldn't predict either Coach, Dean Smith, that even though Carter was so good at the attack so far his defense left a lot to be allowed allowing Dickerson the freedom to hit so many 3-point shots."

"See what an engaging play from team Tar Heels now, after the ball goes through many players Jake got an excellent pass for Carter to make 2 more points with a dunk and thus narrow that gap to 7 points again."

"With less than 7 minutes to go, we'll see if we have a reaction from the Tar Heels team at the end of the game."

After Jake made the pass for Carter to make 2 more points he returned to defense, Wildcats seemed to be in no hurry to attack, they had to spend 30 seconds of possession to find an opportunity and increase the lead again.

After a few exchanges, the ball went back to Mark Bibby who was full of confidence after having a great debut as a freshman, unfortunately, in that debut, he also made a lot of mistakes and had a lot of turnovers.

Bibby tried to pass the ball quickly at the end of possession, and Jake intercepted the pass that would go to Simon, Bibby could not imagine that Jake was leaving a purposeful opening so he could intercept the pass.

So Jake was in no hurry and returned the ball with Jamison who was behind him, Jamison advanced with the ball and passed to Carter when he reached the court, Carter advanced and passed to Jake again.

Jake again used his agility to slip past Bibby easily into the inner area, the defense tightened and Jake passed the ball in style to Center Zwikker.

Zwikker was free and did not miss the opportunity and made the layup to make 2 more points for Tar Heels and reduce the lead to 5 points.

It seemed like a reaction was going on, just Jake wasn't that quiet, he could have changed a few things coming into the game but he couldn't stop Dickerson from making his points.

While defending against Mark Bibby was already tiring and difficult for Jake, he again understood that university games were different from high school, only by using his agility that had greatly improved since high school that Jake could have some advantage in that game.

So Jake couldn't help anyone in defense while scoring Bibby, as Bibby was the PG of the team he was the one who set up the moves, yet Jake defending against him couldn't help much in the game.

In another Wildcats attack with an engaging play again Dickerson was left free and tried another 3-point shot to miss this time, Jake again was alert and managed to catch another rebound.

Jake passed the ball to Carter who advanced while Jake went to position himself in the attack after Carter advanced without the opposing defense disturbing he passed to Jake the ball again, Jake pretended to make a pass for Jamison and Bibby was tricked.

So Jake seized and stepped back and tried another shot from outside to make Tar Heels 3 points further and reduce the lead to just 2 points, all quickly rearranging themselves in defense and Wildcats was no longer calm and advanced to the attack.

"What an amazing game my friends, from a lead that reached 9 points dropped to just 2 points, only one attack can bring the upset to the Tar Heels team."

"It looks like the Wildcats team is relying a lot on freshman Mark Bibby and Michael Dickerson, they are having a great match, but everyone can go wrong and in two mistakes the Tar Heels team made the difference."

"We have to give a lot of merit to Jake who got into this game very well, he was directly responsible for this turnaround and in these two errors of the opposing team Jake got a steal and a rebound in addition to an assist and 3 points made."

"It's really amazing what he did with just 6 minutes on the court, now the game is over, let's keep watching to see if a historic turnaround can happen."

In the next attack by Wildcats, Jamison made a mistake in the defense and left Simon with a chance to score, Jake had to abandon Bibby's defense to prevent Simon from making the move freely.

So Simon saw that Bibby got free and passed the ball quickly behind when Jake was getting in the cover, so Bibby was free to try an outside shot and make 3 more points and return the lead to 5 authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Tar Heels struck again shortly after, this time Jake only touched the ball twice and it was Jamison who eventually made the pass for Carter who made a feint and drive to the basket to make a layup to make 2 more points and decrease the difference to 3 points.

In the other play, Simon could advance again on Jamison's defense and made 2 more points bringing the difference back to 5 points, the game was coming in the final minutes and the advantage was not diminishing.

As the players from Tar Heels became impatient and Jake received the ball less, Jamison passed the ball to Zwikker who was heavily marked, so Zwikker turned the ball over to Carter who was off the three-point line and attempted the shot.

Unfortunately, as he was not well-positioned, he missed, so Jake was far behind and could not fight for the rebound with Bennett Davison, so they missed the chance to lower the score again.

With less than 2 minutes left, Jake's teammates became even more impatient and attempted a foul on Bibby to stop the clock, soon after another foul was committed by Carter on Simon.

That was the seventh collective foul, Simon easily converted the free throw and the lead increased to 6 points, coach Smith shouted at the edge of the court to stop the fouls, this would not help anything the advantage had in the game.

Jake took the ball and moved forward to arrange another move for the Tar Heels team, After advancing he passed the ball to Carter who was on the right, Carter advanced and passed the ball to Jamison who was on the left.

Jamison tried a feint in Simon who was in defense but Simon was alert and steadfast in defense so Simon passed the ball to Okulaja who was in front, Okulaja couldn't make the move and turned the ball back to Jake.

Jake used his agility and with a crossover and was able to pass by Bibby easily and went inside, Simon tried to stop Jake on the move and Jake managed to pass by Simon as well and drive to the basket and ended the move with a dunk to score 2 more points to Tar Heels and decrease the lead to 4 points.

In the next play the Wildcats attacked and after the ball went through several players ended up again in the hands of Dickerson who tried again the tenth outside shot to make 3 points for the Wildcats team.

Then in the last seconds of the game, Vince Carter still managed to score 2 more points, but the Wildcats team still came out with victory just as Jake remembered in his past life, he can prevent Mark Bibby from making some points, but can't change the end result of the game.

Arizona Wildcats won 75-70 against UNC team Tar Heels, the score was different from what Jake remembered in his past life and Jake felt his team only lost because he can only play for 10 minutes and Michael Dickerson from the opposing team made a great game.

Jake didn't like to lose any games, but he couldn't do anything about it and just consoled himself into thinking that the outcome of the game could be different if he played longer.

"This was a really great game, a season-opening game being so good is a sign showing that the season for college basketball this year is very good."

"It is true, even though the difference in the final score was only 5 points the game was not so disputed, in the first half the two teams were very balanced and even ended the first part of the game tied."

"But the Wildcats were rewarded for their coach betting on freshman Mark Bibby who may be one of the top names for this team next year."

"On the other hand, Tar Heels lost this game as a result of Coach Dean Smith's indecision to trust younger players."

"Only Ed Cota had more playing time than Jake and clearly Jake could make the outcome of this game completely different."

"In the few minutes he was on the court he could give Tar Heels a real chance to lead the scoring, with more time on the court he could definitely do that."

After the game was over the commentators criticized coach Dean Smith for having no confidence and putting Jake in the game, the reason being that a freshman like Mark Bibby was a major contributor to the Wildcats' victory.

Even though Coach Dean Smith didn't think he was wrong and didn't bother with the criticism he received, he thought it might be lucky that Jake had played so well in this game, one of the reasons the team lost was that Shammond Williams was the holder in PG position had a poor performance in this game.

So in the early games at least he intended to keep Jake still in reserve but would give him more minutes of play, after all, if he had a player who could do so well in a few minutes it would help a lot in the team games.

Everyone came back upset that they lost the game even though they played so well, but they didn't bother much because they knew it was normal to lose a few games this season and the Wildcats team played very well in that game.

As soon as they arrived at university everyone returned to their dormitories and Jake talked to his friends about the outcome of the game, everyone felt bad for Jake who had lost the game but understood that this was normal in a basketball season.

Jake also called her mom to tell her about the game, Eva was surprised and sad that Jake had lost the game, even though it was normal for others it was not normal for Jake, for over 5 years Eva had not remembered hearing that Jake lost some game.

"I think your coach is wrong Jake, how can anyone who plays as well as you miss out on a game like this."

"I didn't stay out, Mom, I played for 10 minutes."

"Still, doesn't this coach know how many universities wanted you to go to play as the team star? Now that he has you on the team not letting you play at least 30 minutes is a waste."

"That's normal, mom, he still doesn't know how I can play at university, games are much harder than at high school, if I played for 10 minutes in a high school game I could easily score 16 points and still make 5 assists."

Jake was honest in what he was saying, in a high school game in 10 minutes he could do what he said, but in that game, he only scored 8 points and got only 3 assists, which served to show how much more difficult it is.

That's because Jake has been able to greatly increase all of his physical stats and abilities in recent months, otherwise he could achieve even worse performance in this game, Jake could feel that perhaps in the next few years of college he could not reach a level of skill that made it superior to all other players.

After talking to Eva, Jake was much more comfortable even after losing a game after so long, which comforted him was that with more playing time he could do more and change the results of the games he remembered in his past life.

Not to mention that since this was an ordinary game it didn't matter whether it was lost or not if it was an ACC Tournament or NCAA Tournament game he might not accept defeat so easily, so what Jake could do was play the best he could something like that wouldn't happen again.

In the next few days, Jake returned to training routine normally, in the morning he had daily running training with Zack and later he did training with the basketball team.

After two days he knew he would not be starting again the next day's game, he was a little disappointed by that, but he understood that this was Coach Smith's decision, Coach Guthridge tried very hard to convince Coach Smith to allow Jake played and failed.

Jake wanted to secure a place in the team using his own skills and he was sure that in a short time he could end up convincing Coach Smith if he went to another university that the team was not so strong Jake would never have this problem, but he wanted just one university with a strong team to win many Tournament.

The other day Jake didn't do his daily training running as usual and just woke up at the normal time to attend classes because he had to be rested to play the game in a few hours.

Jake spent time with his friends after school and then had to go to the Dean Smith Center to prepare for the game, after some time the whole team had done the warm-up exercises and was ready for the game.

After the last game, Jake was much more in tune with the whole team, Vince Carter mostly helped Jake get a lot closer to his other teammates, especially Antawn Jamison who was a close friend of Carter got closer to Jake.

This made Jake very happy even with the defeat and still remaining in reserve, Coach Smith and Coach Guthridge passed some tactics and positioning to the players before the game.

Before the last game as the team, in debut was Coach Smith only worked on the confidence of the players, but after the defeat Coach Smith passed on in detail what mistakes they made in the last game so they could learn and not make the same mistakes in Upcoming games.

After a few minutes, the opposing team arrived and they began to prepare to start the game, the opposing team in this game would be Richmond Spiders, they had a weaker team this year and so it would not be a big challenge for the Tar Heels team.

But as they had missed the debut game this eventually put pressure on the players, Coach Smith did not want to calm the players down and put more pressure on them to win the game.

Jake was pretty calm about it all, Coach Smith had praised his performance in his debut game while criticizing all the other players, and as he would start in reserve Jake didn't feel the same pressure from the other players.

Especially when he remembered that the Tar Heels team had won this game in his past life if he could play longer and the team won as he remembered it would be the best result for Jake.

After a few minutes, the game started in the early minutes of the game the Tar Heels team that had much more skilled players began to dominate the game when the team led by 4 points for a few minutes everyone started to calm down and played even better.

Everyone was fine in this game and just 6 minutes into the first half that Coach Smith decided to put Jake into the game, Jake replaced Shammond Williams who was playing well in that game.

In 3 minutes playing in the first half, Jake managed to make 5 points, 2 assists, and 1 rebound and was soon replaced by Ed Cota, it seemed that Coach Smith wanted to put several players to play a few minutes and gain experience with a weaker opponent as was the Richmond Spiders team.

At the beginning of the second half, Okulaja eventually started on the bench and Shammond Williams was more advanced in his position, Ed Cota continued playing for another 2 minutes and Jake joined the game again.

This time Jake played 11 more minutes and made 8 points, 4 assists 3 rebounds and 2 steals, he managed to make fewer points but helped the overall team more, Shammond Williams came in his place and played the last 7 minutes of the second half.

Team Tar Heels dominated the entire game and won with a score of 90 points against 71 of team Richmond Spiders, Vince Carter was the best in the game and scored 25 points and got 6 rebounds, after the game everyone returned to their dorms and Jake counted To your friends the good news.

His friends were very happy for him after Jake called his mother who was very happy to know that Jake's team had won, but was angry again to know that Jake played a few minutes in the game, Jake thought differently.

He knew that in his past life Coach Smith and even Coach Guthridge had a difficult time casting the team with Ed Cota playing so well, so Shammond Williams had to play a few minutes in Vince Carter's position and a few minutes in Ed Cota's position.

And Shammond Williams has always been a big player in Jake's memories, so this time the coaches still had more Jake to make that decision even harder to make in a short time.

Even so, Jake could play longer in this game and played even better, while Ed Cota played a lot less time than Jake and less than in the last game, which showed that Coach Smith was deciding to use Jake as the team's sixth player.

Jake felt bad for Ed Cota, but he wanted this place in the starting lineup to help his future as a basketball player, if he ended up in reserve and didn't have much time to play, he would have to try to transfer to another university with a more weak team to have more playing authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

In the following days, Jake continued his training routine until the day of the third game of the season arrived, the game would be again at the Dean Smith Center, playing at home was always better for the Tar Heels team.

Jake felt the difference from high school having to play several days a week, he could see that those who played the longest or had the worst fitness were a little tired before the third game.

Before that, Jake found it strange how the most skilled players who made a big difference in the outcome of a game like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James were replaced in games several times.

For him, a 48-minute game with a break of several minutes was not so tiring for several of these players sometimes having to rest for 13 minutes, but going through it personally he understood why this was happening.

In addition to playing the 48 minutes with a lot of pressure for the result of a high-intensity game with peers, players often had to play several times a week and sometimes had to travel long distances between these games.

It was even worse when some games came in at halftime, so even the best-fit players would have to rest at least 7 minutes to avoid the risk of muscle strain injuries.

Good thing the university game season was only for 6 months, otherwise many players could end up hurting themselves with so many games, players like Vince Carter who played for over 20 years at both the university and the NBA were even more amazing.

The day before, Jake knew he would not play as a starting man, so when he heard that he was a little disappointed, but he still understood Coach Smith's position, he remembered that even playing so well Ed Cota often started reserve games in his first year even though it played almost 30 minutes every game.

After a few hours, both teams were ready for the game to begin, this third game was with the Pitt Panthers team, the Pitt Panthers team was not a particularly strong team this season either.

They got a better campaign by trusting Vonteego Cummings and Mark Blount who played in the NBA and were very good players, Jake also remembered that the Tar Heels team easily won in their past life.

Again Jake started the game on the bench, Shammond Williams started as a starter and could feel the pressure of competition with Ed Cota and Jake for his position, if he could not play as SG he would have less and fewer minutes to play.

In the first 7 minutes he played well and scored 6 points but was still replaced by Ed Cota, Ed Cota different from Shammond Williams thought more about the collective game and made only 2 points and made 3 assists in the 5 minutes he played.

Jake took the place of Ed Cota and was playing for 8 minutes until the end of the first half, Shammond Williams still played another 5 minutes in place of Vince Carter in that first half, Jake had a great performance.

Jake made 7 points, 3 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals, he played thinking of the team and also made his points, could you say he had the best of his competitors for PG's position in the team.

Ed Cota started the second half and played for 3 minutes before being replaced, Shammond Williams played for 8 minutes before being replaced and Jake can play for another 9 minutes in that second half.

Jake had 12 points, 3 assists, 3 rebounds and 2 steals playing in those 9 minutes in the second half of the game, this time Antawn Jamison was the best player in the team scoring 26 points and getting 5 rebounds.

But everyone could say that actually the best player on the team was Jake who played just over half the time Jamison played and did a lot more for the team in general after that game everyone had accepted Jake on the team and knew he was really talented as they.

With Jake playing basketball so well and still winning several marathons and breaking records, no one else on the team could say he was jealous of him being the only sponsored player on the team.

Clearly Jake was a better athlete than them, some might still think they were better at basketball, but Jake did a lot more than all of them overall, Jake still had great grades in school and everyone knew he was smart.

So it could be said that Jake was greatly easing the situation for the university and the basketball organization that allowed Jake to be an exception and receive sponsorship, he did everything so well that if used as a reference no one else could get sponsorship.

In this third game, Team Tar Heels won even more easily by 91 points against just 58 points from Team Pitt Panthers, Jake could play longer and knew that at least he had secured the spot as a sixth player and could play longer in the next games.

Jake went back to the dorm and told his friends about the win, then called his mother to tell him about the win, Jake was someone more modest, and although he always told his win friends he didn't talk about how many points he made at the games.

So for a while, his friends thought that maybe Jake wasn't even playing games and so didn't count what his performance was like, but after the third game, they found that even though Jake wasn't a starter he still played many minutes and scored several points.

Just as they were their friends, they decided to watch Jake games that were played at the Dean Smith Center, so many already watched those games so they thought they had to do it for Jake at least.

Jake didn't know that and really missed seeing someone he knew in the stands, fortunately in those early games he was so focused on trying to play well and doing his best in the minutes he couldn't remember staring into the stands.

The days passed and Jake continued his training routine, he had only 2 days to train while his teammates rested because he had a game every 3 days.

The fourth game was against the Bethune-Cookman team at the Dean Smith Center, again Jake would start in reserve and enter the game when Coach Smith thought the time was right, Coach Guthridge always tried to convince Coach Smith to put Jake in the starting lineup, but could not.

The Bethune-Cookman team was also considered weak for this season, they had no players to stand out either, so the Tar Heels team that was coming from a 2-win sequence was very confident in this game.

Jake wasn't blindly confident like the others and just remembered that in his past life the Tar Heels team easily won this game by a large number of points, in fact, he thought these victories could be more dangerous for the blind team confident even winning against weaker teams.

In this game Jake played 22 minutes, he scored 22 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals, this was one of his best games at the university and the team won the game by 112 points against 60 points from the Bethune-Cookman team.

In this game, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison scored 25 points each and were the best of the team in the game, but again Jake was the most efficient in enjoying the time he had in the game, after this game he would have scored 62 points, 22 assists, 17 rebounds, and 10 steals in 63 minutes played in 4 games.

He was already the third player to score the most and was the most assisted and steals player in the team even playing on average half the time of his teammates, this is the report that Coach Guthridge made to convince Coach Smith letting Jake play as a starter.

This report was different from seeing a player play in person, it showed accurate performance data, so comparing Jake with his teammates it was impossible for Coach Smith to keep leaving Jake in reserve.

He didn't mind the criticism of others as he decided what was best for the team, but if he didn't put Jake in the starting lineup he could now be called blind and be doing something that would hurt the authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

So unbeknownst to Jake he had been placed as a starter for the next game, Shammond Williams would have to play sometime in the positions of Jake, Vince Carter and Ademola Okulaja, so he could play a few more minutes and help the team.

Unfortunately, Ed Cota had lost this match and would have to stay most of the games in reserve, coach Smith put Ed Cota to play because he was confident he could play very well and do great things for the team.

But with someone like Jake on the team, Coach Smith could not place someone as a starter who played less than Jake himself, now he had to wait for Jake to respond positively to his expectations.

Jake realizes during this game by chance that his roommates came to watch his game, it made Jake very happy, his roommates were also very surprised to see how well Jake played in this game.

They thought Jake played better than the team stars this year that was Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison, after all even though they were better at some things, Jake was someone who played for the team and with quality.

Jake called his mother again to tell him that he had won, Eva was very happy for him and thought that this winning streak was normal for Jake as a player, of course, it didn't depend on Jake and it was the team's ability.

But the media did not think so and had already made Jake one of the best newcomers of the year, Jake was not the best at the moment because he had no opportunity to play as a starter in the team as other newbies already did in other teams.

For the next few days Jake kept training hard without knowing he would be a starter, so the day before the game it was Coach Guthridge who personally called Jake to talk, as this had not happened many times before Jake was curious why he had been called.

"Jake, I have good news for you, Coach Smith has decided to put you in for the next game."

"Thank you so much, coach."

Jake was delighted to know that he could play as a starter in the next game, he knew that did not mean that he could always play as a starter nor that he could play a whole game, but he would try his best to take advantage of this opportunity.

"It's good that you're happy with that, but know that these upcoming games will also be a test for you."

"What do you mean, coach?"

Jake naturally knew that his starting games would be a test, if he didn't play well in some games he could end up going back to the team reserve and getting back into the starting lineup after losing coach confidence would be much harder.

But Jake felt that Coach Guthridge was mentioning something else when he said that Jake would have a test, it was not about the games themselves, but something else that Jake didn't know what it was.

"This is a time of great pressure for the players, classes are over and the team will have two games in two straight days with no rest days, and after these two games with the tired players you will have the tests in school to worry."

Now Jake understood what Coach Guthridge meant by hard testing, really for other players this would be the worst time to come in as a starting lineup, after all for players like them who always have to play and train and travel often don't have time to study.

And the grades are also important for the player to stay in the team, not to mention that many players were tired after this game and will have to play for two games in a row, it could be said that this was the worst time to play as a starter.

"Thanks so much for the advice, Coach Guthridge."

But it wasn't like that for Jake, so far as he was playing only half the game he had no problem with his stamina and could still play a lot more games, and classes weren't a problem for Jake who had learned almost everything.

So what would be a fire test for other players would be just a normal game for Jake, if he could perform well even with the coach thinking it was a tough test for Jake, it would be even better to ensure the coach's confidence.

Jake was also very grateful to the coach Guthridge who had given these councils to him, after all, many players would not think about these things too much and would just be happy to have the opportunity to play as a starter.

So the Tar Heels team with a 3 straight winning streak came full of confidence for this game, everyone knew this was an easier game and the next one that would be more complicated because of tiredness.

On the day of the game, everyone knew that Jake would be the first starter in the team and he received the sincere congratulations from the whole team, everyone who saw Jake's last games knew he was very talented and at some point would get the place as a starter.

After a few hours, both teams were ready for the game, the team's opponent Tar Heels for today's game was USC Trojans, this was a team that had a good team for this year's season, it wasn't a favorite team to win But it was a good staff.

In the first half Jake played for 14 minutes and was replaced by Ed Cota, in that first half Jake scored 18 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, and 2 steals and helped the team a lot in the defensive part.

In the second half, Jake played for another 15 minutes and scored 13 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals and even helped the team in defense too, in this game Jake was deservedly the best player of the game and made a double-double in his game debut which is amazing.

Team Tar Heels won the game with 110 points against 75 points from the USC Trojans team, all celebrated this fourth straight victory a lot and served to take some of the stress out of some players who were stressed out for the week if evidence was coming.

Jake was highly praised by everyone and even Coach Smith who didn't think Jake could play that well, scoring more than 20 points was normal in college basketball, but scoring over 30 points and still getting a double-double was harder to achieve, and Jake had played less than 30 minutes.

So with this performance, Jake confirmed that he deserved a place as a team starter, yet Coach Smith's test was not over yet, the next game would be the next day, and the team would play even more tired than today.

After the game, that day he celebrated with his teammates on the phone and then did not forget to call his mother to tell about the victory as always did Anna also I was glad Jake was winning.

The next day the team had another game if it were in another situation the coach Smith could even think of putting only a reserve team to play and save the holders, but as the team afterward would have a rest of a week until the next game he decided to Play with the team normally.

Even so, he would have to do more rotation among the players in today's game, for coach Smith This would be the hardest game they had since the debut game, the opposing team was South Carolina that this year had a very good team.

The next day the players were already ready for the beginning of the game, Jake would again be on the initial team as the holder and he was determined to do his best in today's game, different from the worries of coach Guthridge he remembered that the team Tar Heels would win again today's game.

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In the first game Jake can play for 16 minutes before being replaced, he did 15 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals, Jake again led the team score in the first part of the game and always had more than 60% hit in the Field goals.

In the second part of the game, many players were tired so Jake can play for another 16 minutes in the game, in that second time Jake made 14 points, 4 assists, 4 rebounds, and 3 steals, after playing again so well he won the confidence of the coach.

The Tar Heels team won for 94 points against 73 points of the South Carolina Team, it was an easy win considering the situation in which the team was Antawn Jamison again made a great game and Vince Carter too.

It seemed that with Jake playing as PG the whole team was playing much better, with Jake the moves were more easily worked on the attack court and also the defense was stronger, so far all the PG of the opposing teams were annulled by Jake.

Jake also made more three-point shots which helped the team to do more points in fewer plays, in addition to making several passes, catching the rebounds and making several steals preventing many opponent's attacks.

All the team's productivity went up with Jake's entry into the team, with Ed Cota playing less time in the game the team would theoretically have fewer assists, but Jake also did what Ed Cota and Shammond Williams did.

So it was difficult for coach Smith to try to keep Jake in the reserve team, he had the best qualities of the two players and still had qualities that the two had not, now that Jake was on the team and doing well the coach was Satisfied.

Coach Guthridge was also very pleased with it because he was the one who brought Jake to the team, he failed to see Jake playing the best he could at the high school, but still trusted Jake.

After the game ended Jake celebrated with his friends, was the fifth win followed in 6 games and Jake had already become the team's holder what was the reason to celebrate, Jake also did not forget to call his mother to say that he had won the game.

In the next few days was rest for the players and Jake was no different, he was mentally tired by this sequence of games, of course, he could keep playing because he had no problems with his stamina, the game routine was Harder than he expected.

Jake wanted to take this one-week break to go home, but it wasn't possible because he still had to do the tests this week even if he had no trouble taking the best grades.

This week also all his roommates were concentrated in the studies, Zack would also stop running for a week to have more time studying, in the early days Jake also decided to rest his body and would not do any kind of training.

So while resting in the dorm Jake stopped to think about the last few months, after winning the gold medal in the Olympics he stayed home a little while and then had to go to college.

He still ran into two marathons that can win and break the world record in Chicago and finally win in New York, at that time also Jake had to spend a lot of time in his training both to run marathons as to play on the basketball team.

Fortunately, he had several friends in his dorm in this first semester of university and even Zack still ran with him, his training in the basketball team also gave results, he felt he improved a lot in skill and got a vacancy as the Tar Heels team holder.

So time passed quickly and it was more than 4 months since he was at the university, even though he thought he could go home more often this semester he couldn't go home once.

Even always talking to her mother on the phone and knowing that she was happy working at the restaurant and with several friends like Anna taking care of her, Jake still couldn't let her miss her mother.

He was seriously thinking of going home when the College Games had a stop in January, he wanted to spend his birthday at home, as he will not take classes in that time he will be free to go to Miami.

While I was thinking about life Jake decided to take a look at his stats that he hadn't seen since a few months ago, he knew he had improved because he can see the results in training and on the court.

"Fate, show me my first job stats."

[Here it is.]

[Name: Jake Smith]

[Age: 17 years]

[Job: Basketball Player]

[Title: College Player]

[Position: PG, SG]

[Height: 1.96 m]

[Weight: 99 Kg]

[Force 35]

[Agility 37]

[Resistance 40]

[Intelligence 60]

[Luck 99]

Basketball Skills

[Ball Handling A]

[Body Control B]

[Man to Man B]

[Dribble B]

[Layup A]

[Set Shot S]

[Block B]

[Pass A]

[Rebound B]

[2 Points SS]

[3 Points SS]

[Free Throw SS]

[Steal A]

[Dunk B]

Jake was surprised to see how his skills improved since the last time he had seen him, he thought he was better than when he left high school had improved a lot but didn't think the ranks of his skills would improve either.

Now all his skills were at least in rank B, even the defensive skills and the ones he wore less in the games improved, his shooting skills that were always easier to increase reached as much as possible at the College level.

For Jake it seemed that all his skills that were without much improvement for nearly a year at the high school suddenly improved when he joined the Tar Heels team, now he knew he had no way of improving his skills so much in the coming years in the College.

"Fate, what happened that my abilities have improved so much in these months?"

[That was what I had already explained to you a few years ago, your skills greatly improve with training and especially with real games, you have done all the training possible by training almost twice a day in the space of imagination training.]

[The other way to improve your skills in both rank and the overall level was naturally with your advancing age, so you managed to get to College level even while you were at high school and trained a lot at that time.]

[So when in addition to the training you also had the correct age and still disputed games your skill naturally improved, I thought you would have already noticed this when your skill level was similar to your teammates who will be stars in the NBA.]

When Jake stopped to think about it he found that the system was right, he was very focused on the information that the system had given that many players didn't even reach the top of the skill rank at the college level before graduating or going to a league of Professional basketball.

So he didn't think he could get to the top of his skills so early, but he was just thinking of the normal college-level players, the high-level teams like the Tar Heels where he was currently playing naturally would have players with level Higher skills.

So if he could play with players of the same level as his team he should also have high-level skills, Jake was more excited because that meant he had skill to play in the NBA even though at a basic level.

[I wanted to remind you that it will not be so easy to increase your other skills to the highest rank of the college, mainly because you are a complete player who seeks to improve all your skills.]

[These players usually strive more to improve on a defined game style and so they can improve faster, so even if you take more time to get to the same level, it will be even better for you.]

Jake naturally did not expect that he could overcome all players quickly, he was accustomed to improving his skills quickly, but now that he was approaching the professional level would be increasingly difficult, so he was surprised to improve his skills quickly this time.

After talking to the Jake system decided to rest, he wanted to relax well this week before the game sequence began again, but that Jake's desire could not be satisfied so easily.

The next day Jake who had no morning training woke up later and just made his proofs of the day, it was easy as expected for him, Jake still tried to teach his friends in a few hours, but it was impossible for everyone to learn the matter so easily.

After the evidence he received an unexpected call, only a few people had his current phone number, so he answered quickly.

"Hello, I'd like to talk to Jake Smith."

"It's me, who's talking?"

"I am from the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS), I would like to inform you that you have won this year's prize."

"What prize?"

"It is the AIMS World Athlete of the Year award, this award is given to the best athletes of long-distance competitions, with their various victories in many marathons and in the Olympics and Your world record we decided to give you the prize that year, congratulations."