New Stage at College Basketball
Jake was very happy to know that he had won this award, even though he didn't know much about the world's athletics awards it was obvious that this award was very important to long-distance athletes like him.
He had never won any awards in the years he played basketball, prizes like Mr. Basketball or was selected for McDonald's All-American Game, he never thought his first prize in the sport would be by Run in the authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
The only thing that consoled Jake was that not even Michael Jordan who was his idol had won prizes while playing at the High School, so Jake could console himself that he was following a different path from the others.
"Thank you very much for the prize, How do I receive?"
"We will have only one reception in a hotel in New York and you must go to receive, in fact, this award took longer than expected that year, the winner among women has already received the prize."
"Why did it happen?"
"Because we planned to give this award to someone else, after you won the gold medal at the Olympics we decided to wait to make another assessment, but soon after you won the Chicago marathon and broke the world record and so won the prize."
The person on the phone ended up summarizing the situation, but Jake understood that the situation had been much more complicated than this person was talking about, the important thing was that he had won in the end and would receive the prize.
So the following night Jake traveled after making the proofs for New York to receive the prize, he hoped that this reception at the hotel would be very lively and that many people would be present.
But it turned out that only the people of the AIMS were present at dinner, Jake received the prize and was applauded and then took some photos and talked to a staff of the association, as already Had come to New York Jake stayed for quite a while and chatted with several members of the association before leaving.
Still, he was very happy to have won the prize and even asked for some copies of the photos at the dinner in which he received the prize after all this was the first international prize he won since he started running.
Some members of the press were also present in this award and so this award would also be published in the newspapers, Jake also asked them to send some copies of the paper to him when they published.
Everyone liked to talk to Jake who had a very good personality and was humble when he talked to everyone, all the members of the press knew that Jake was now a college basketball star beside a great athlete.
Reporters asked some questions about the games and the team, as well as asking about the marathons that Jake had won, Jake was very polite and answered all the questions, even the most personal.
Sports reporters were happy to have come to this award because they had the opportunity to ask several questions that Jake had not responded to anywhere before, so Jake decided to stay in New York and go away just the other day.
The next day while Jake thought of a good time to leave he received another invitation, it seemed that the news that Jake was in New York had spread to the middle of sporting News.
"Hello, I'd like to talk to Jake Smith."
"It's me, who's talking?"
"I am Joe, a representative of Sports Illustrated, we have learned that Mr. Smith is here in New York and we would like to invite you to take some photos and do an interview for our magazine for the month of January."
This was not an invitation to receive a prize, but it was also a great honor for an athlete, even though it was not for the cover of the magazine it was still very cool to be in a great magazine like This, not to mention that it would be another great Advertising for their sponsors.
Jake did not know this because he was too busy with the Games, but his fame climbed on another level after this sequel of 5 victories on the Tar Heels team, now he was widely recognized for being talented and succeeding in two different sports.
Before when he was younger he gained some fame by participating in competitions in two different sports, but he was still at the high school and had won only one marathon.
Now things were different, he was participating in a high level of two different sports, he won several marathons and managed to break a world record in athletics, and in basketball was on a college team that had a history of several Tournament won.
So his feat was much better and difficult to repeat, so Jake was having more visibility than ever, if he could beat this NCAA Tournament would be even more surprising, so of course, the great magazines would want to interview him.
"I accept yes, you can send me the address I go there."
After a few hours, Jake had arrived where Joe gave the address, Jake had said on the phone that he had to travel to the university, so the magazine staff quickly organized the photo section and the interview that would just be written.
The photos were with Jake holding a basketball and a replica of the gold medal he won at the Olympic game, of course, the real medal was in Miami and Jake would not have time to catch.
Jake took just a few pictures as he wouldn't be on the cover of the magazine, but the photographer found Jake very photogenic and the photos were all great, so the photographer spent almost 1-hour taking several photos.
The photographer just stopped when the reporter who would do the interview said it was already good, the photographer was unhappy with it, he thought that if Jake were on the cover of the magazine with his appearance the women would be the most who would buy these magazines for their Husbands.
Shortly afterward was the interview, Jake received a list of the questions that would be asked to prepare him, the only question that Jake refused to answer was about his sponsorship, after all, he had overcome this matter with his teammates and was not good Touch the subject again.
"Today, we will have a special interview with Jake Smith, the basketball player of the UNC team Tar Heels who has been playing a very important role in this impressive sequel for as long as 5 consecutive victories."
"Smith is also a great athlete who has been dazzling the world of athletics this past year, began to race by winning the Chicago Marathon with only 16 years and has since won a total of 5 marathons in 6 disputed."
"Being one of those marathon-won marathons in this year's Atlanta Olympics with the Olympic record and another of these victories in their second time running in Chicago where he broke the world record."
"Thank you for accepting our invitation, Mr. Smith."
"I appreciate the invitation, you can call me Jake, I feel more comfortable like this."
"All right then, Jake, How did your interest in sports come about?"
"When I was 10 years old I always liked to run, I ran just for fun often, so I kept running whenever I could."
"But I was too small yet and there was no one my age who could run with me, so I started and play basketball alone too."
"I had never learned basketball before the age of 10 and knew that at high school they didn't teach basketball to anyone who didn't know, so I decided to train alone for a while."
"In my neighborhood, I didn't have many open basketball courts, and the courts they had were occupied by the older boys."
"What I liked most about coaching when I was alone were the mid-range shots and the three-point shots beyond the free throws, after many months of training alone with my mother's support that even rode a block in the basement for me I attended a tournament of Street basketball and ended up winning the competitions with young people up to 15 years. "
"So I thought I was ready to play basketball on the team at my school, and that's how it all started."
It seemed that the reporter did not expect Jake to tell the whole story of how he became a basketball player, but he still wrote every word and saw that it might be interesting to put that story in the interview.
Jake told the truth about how he was interested in sports, but he mixed up what happened in his past life and what happened in that second chance, in his past life he really enjoyed running and never found anyone to run with him.
Jake also didn't have the guts to try to run a marathon because he was very young, so he started practicing other sports besides running, but he never had much enthusiasm for any.
What he least liked to play was basketball because he was as bad as Center and PF that were the only two positions that let him play, what he liked most about playing was American football.
"So what made you like basketball was actually athletics, this is unexpected, I thought you liked basketball more, but it looks like you just started playing basketball because there was no one to run with you."
"It's basically this, but I've always loved basketball so even if I started competing running I'd probably still play basketball."
"If you had to choose between basketball and athletics which would you pick?"
"I can't answer that, I love them both and I'll try my best not to abandon any of the two sports."
These questions could seem complicated to answer, but before the interview Jake already knew what questions would be asked and so could think long before in what answers would like to give, not to mention that when he didn't want to talk about something the interviewer didn't press.
"What was the most special moment for you in sports?"
"This is also hard to answer, I was very happy the first time I won a trophy when I was still a child, I was also happy when I won my first national championship in both Middle School and High School."
"I was also happy when I won my first MVP award, I was very thrilled when I won my first marathon when I won the gold medal in the Olympics too, I was happy when I broke the world record, there were several moments."
"You can see that you've had a lot of exciting moments and so you can't decide."
"It's true, that's because every time I conquer something I feel that all the hard training I've had has been rewarded, so there's no way I'm not happy at all my achievements."
"This year you have entered your college life too, what you have found so far."
"I really liked the university, the classes are interesting and as everyone has to stay in the dorm I ended up managing to make new friends, the basketball team is also very good and all the other players and coaches are very kind to me."
Of course Jake did not talk about the uncomfortable situation that he stayed with the basketball team at the beginning of the season, he was determined not to talk about his sponsorship in this interview, he did not want to create an uncomfortable situation with his companions of Team.
"At the beginning of this interview we talked about your basketball team Tar Heels that has a sequence of 5 victories followed at this beginning of the season, you also had a lot of importance in this sequence of victories."
"You have 122 points in these first 6 games, with an average of over 20 points per match and still starting the first games as a reserve, how do you feel about it?"
"I'm finding everything amazing, I was lucky to be in good condition to be able to make so many points in these first games and my teammates also supported me, it is natural that as a freshman I start in the reserve in the first games."
"When I got the best results on the team the coach gave me the opportunity to start playing as a holder, I think our team is very strong that year and so we have this sequence of victories."
"Do you think this sequence of victories will continue?"
"I think so, this winning streak can be even greater and our team is struggling for that year to win the NCAA tournament."
After answering several questions The interview ended, the reporter was very happy because Jake was very open and answered all the questions he did even when he responded evasively on some question that could cause problems for him.
After doing the interview Jake returned to the hotel and soon went out to catch the plane back to the university, the next day he would have more evidence and could not waste time strolling, Moreover, he wanted to return to his normal training after resting for a few days.
Returning to university Jake told his friends that he had won a prize and would appear in a magazine, his friends were very happy for him and were impressed by Jake leaving so quietly at the university when the week of evidence was Happening.
After all, usually this is the tensest time for students, even for athletes who need to have good grades to keep playing, even the most confidence did not think to travel during the week of proofs as Jake did.
Jake also told his mother about the prize he won and that he would appear in the magazine, Eva was very happy to know it, also was proud to know that his son had been recognized for his achievements even internationally.
Eva was also very homesick for her son, it was the first time Jake spent so much time away from home, she wanted all of Jake's games to go on television and so could see the son even though not personally.
She naturally knew that Jake was busy at the university and so could not go home, he could not just leave the university for no reason saying that he missed his mother, Eva just hoped that Jake could have time at the beginning of the year and Spend your birthday at home.
In the coming days Jake returned with his normal training routine, he ran all the moves alone because Zack was still focused only on the week of evidence, and in the training of the basketball team, all appeared to train even with the week of evidence.
It was different from Zack's case because they had an appointment with the basketball team and Zack just did the training because he wanted to, and right after the week of evidence would have new games, so the Tar Heels team couldn't stop training.
Jake was now a holder and was respected by all his teammates, even by Shammond Williams and Ed Cota who lost the seat of headlines to Jake, so the environment was very good for the team to train.
On the basketball team Jake was still closer to Charlie Mcnairy and Vince Carter, besides Antawn Jamison who approached him more thanks to Carter's help, unfortunately, on team Charlie did not have many minutes of play.
So Jake, Carter, and Jamison often joined up to train together, a few moves and even tactics that they could work together, Carter and Jamison also trained like this before and so they had so much rapport in the games, but with only two of them Could not make many moves in the training.
With Jake training together with them it would be easier to do several pieces of training of different moves, even if these pieces of training do not bring immediate results still helped in the hardest games where sometimes a play can decide the result of the game.
Coach Smith was also very pleased to see the three coaching together, they were undoubtedly the most important players of the team and besides being friends also train more time together, it was good for the team as most of the plays pass by them.
Training with Carter and Jamison, Jake also discovered that his friends had a great physical preparation and so they could play for so long, so Jake found it a pity that Carter had injured himself in his past life playing in the NBA, it was a pity because he could play much better if you were never hurt.
After a few days had passed half the week of evidence, so Jake received a call from director Cameron Crowe, a few months ago that they did not speak, the director Crowe was very happy to have invited Jake to Participate in your film.
He thought Jake could do a little promotion for the film after participating in the Olympic Games, but in the film besides acting very well, Jake still won a gold medal in the Olympics and would do marathons after that and was playing very well in the Team Tar Heels in college basketball.
That's still because the director didn't even use Jake's name in the film's publicity and just said that Jake would make a cameo as well as many other famous players, yet Jake's popularity in the country was very high.
Basketball is one of the most beloved and followed sports nationwide, athletics in the Olympic competitions have also always been proud of the country and hope for medals, and Jake managed to participate in a high level of the two sports gaining the affection of a part of the American public.
He even got a nickname from Captain America that shows how he is representing the American people that year, not to mention that with Jake's appearance he can win the favor of the feminine audience much more easily.
So Jake's sponsors were all very happy and we're earning a lot and saving on advertisements, Tiffany and Clara mostly who did not pay a high sponsorship value to Jake and were taking advantage of the same as the big companies had to authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Their case could portray perfectly because companies sometimes gave a percentage of the company's stock as payment to have some sponsored players because sometimes a sponsored athlete is worth a lot more than several advertisements on television.
"How have you Been, Jake?"
"I have been very well, I can say that by taking some things that were the best year of my life, both professionally and personally."
Jake just couldn't say that this had been a perfect year because he was very sorry to have to get separated if his mother for several months, but he was happy to see that she was being independent as she liked and was happy working at the restaurant.
"Glad to hear it, I called to tell you that today will be the premiere of the film, soon I go to a premiere section, the premiere already happened, I did not invite you because I knew you were busy."
When director Crowe said this Jake finally remembered that the premiere of the film should even be at this time of the end of the year, this left Jake excited again, he had accomplished his dream of acting in a Hollywood movie and was still a great film.
Now he could finally see himself in a Hollywood movie, so Jake couldn't stop going to the movies and watch his movie personally and he would also invite his friends to watch the movie with him, and he would have to tell his mother that the film would be in the movies.
"Thanks for telling me director, I had forgotten to check it out and could end up losing my movie debut."
"Hahaha, of course, I would tell you, having you participating in my film helped a lot to attract the audience to watch the movie."
"I thank you, but as you're saying this means you let me appear at least for a few seconds after editing, don't you?"
"Hahaha this you will have to see personally, but surely you appear in the film, who knows we can work again together in the future."
"I would also love for this to happen, director, do not forget that you promised me that if the film succeeds you would make a great celebration party, then I will appear."
"Of course I haven't forgotten that, but for that to happen we will have to be a success in theaters all over the world, so it will take a few months for this party to happen if we make a great success."
"Then you can start preparing the party, I guarantee that we will have more than 150 million dollars in all of America and more than 250 million in total income worldwide, will be among the 10 movies with more box office this year."
"I really hope you're right, every director wants your film to be a success, then you can charge me for a big party."
After talking a little more with director Crowe he hung up the phone and then called his mother, she'd be mad at him if he lost that premiere.
"Hi Mom, I called to tell you some good news."
"Good news, great then, you can tell me what it is."
"I just talked to director Crowe who directed the film that I attended a few months ago, he called me to tell me that the film debuts today, so I called to tell you to go watch the movie with Anna."
"That's really great news, Jake, you can be sure that I'm going to go watch the movie with Anna and some more people from the restaurant, I'll even close earlier today, we don't have many reservations anyway."
"So tomorrow you tell me what everyone thought of the film and my performance."
After talking to Eva, Jake told the news to his friends who had just returned from the evidence and was preparing to rest, all, of course, they are happy for him and said they went with him to watch the movie.
"So you had made a movie and didn't even tell your friends."
"I wanted to surprise you, and I didn't know if the warden would cut my scenes in the movie, if that happened I'd be ashamed to tell you I made a movie."
"I'm not even surprised, I don't know anything you can't do, Jake."
"It's true, let a little space for normal people also have a chance, you're doing 3 things that everyone would dream of doing."
"Has anyone famous participating in this film?"
"There is yes, the main character is made by Tom Cruise that I met in the filming of the film, has also Cuba Gooding Jr and Renée Zellweger, plus several famous people.
When Jake told who was participating in this film, Jake's friends were finally shocked, they were impressed when they heard that Jake had made a film that would debut that day.
But they thought it was a common film or at least with unknown actors and so Jake had been called to participate in this film, but now they realized that this film was more incredible than they thought.
If Jake were invited to make a movie like this now they wouldn't be too surprised because he's very well-known all over the world after doing so many things, but from what Jake told this film was recorded several months ago even before the Olympics, so it's difficult not to be surprised how Jake managed to participate in a film like that.
Jake did not know that his friends were impressed with him and went out to invite Charlie, Vince, and Antawn to go with them to watch the film, those were Jake's best friends on the basketball authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
They were also surprised that Jake had acted in a Hollywood film and yet another film with many stars, so they accepted the invitation to watch the film and after the 7 went to the movies together.
Jake confirmed with director Crowe and asked for 14 debut tickets for him, it wasn't because he was greedy and couldn't pay for the tickets, but because he thought it was possible that he and his friends couldn't find available tickets.
Director Crowe was very efficient and organized the 14 tickets to be withdrawn at any cinema in the country in the name of Jake or Eva, so he could watch with his friends and his mother could watch in Miami, he hoped that she would not go with more than 6 people to watch the movie.
After a few hours, all came out of the movies satisfied and went back to the university, Jake had appeared in 2 different scenes, he stayed more than 1 minute on the scene and was very pleased with it.
Just as he hoped to have watched the film before he appeared at the beginning of the film and after Tom Cruise's character had been fired and talked to his clients on the phone, Jake had to confess that it was much cooler to watch the scenes he had Feit In the movies.
Mostly in the scene where he talks to Tom Cruise's character on the phone, when he recorded the two if he spoke in person and so he didn't know how the scene would look after Tom Cruise recorded his part of the scene and got pretty cool after that Tom Cruise off IGA The phone he keeps whining about losing Jake as a client.
And even the sporting agent who fired him gets annoyed when he calls Jake and he doesn't answer the call and he realizes that he lost a client, it was a lot of fun watching it in the movies, Jake knew he didn't have much talent to act and so just characters that n They demanded much work for him.
So maybe a movie like this might be the most he can do in the movies, even more with great actors as he worked this time, only if he could get it with help from director Crowe or Tom Cruise getting other films to participate.
His friends also liked the film and found that Jake's participation in the film had been up long, after all, he was only making a cameo and was not really an actor.
After arriving at the university with his friends Jake did not forget to call his mother to know what she had found of the film, Eva naturally liked the film and especially the participation of Jake in the film, even Anna said she liked it.
So Jake was very happy to know that, he liked to act and liked, even more, to see himself on a movie screen and know that millions of people would also look, it was a pity that for many years he might not have the opportunity to act anymore.
After all, in his first year at the university he almost had not even time to go home to visit his mother, he made some trips, but just because the situation demanded urgency and he can stay only a few days in other cities.
Maybe he could make a quick visit to Miami if he wanted to see his mother, but he knew well that Eva was busy with the restaurant and so could not just make her close the restaurant to spend a day or two with him.
In the coming years either at university or in the NBA, if he gets a team to play, he sure would have less time, maybe when he's out of season it would be time for him to do his thing.
But he has to schedule himself to spend time with his mother and his family in the future, besides, Jake is organizing several trades, he is involved with four companies directly, not to mention his investments in stocks.
Jake is in a situation where a year is a very little time for him, so it would be very difficult for him to find time to find a good film to act, even more so that the filming team would have to organize an agenda just so that it would be more comfortable for Jake Act.
So after a few more days the week it was to be a lot of rest ended up being very agitated for Jake, yet he was very happy and satisfied with everything that happened that week and was prepared to return to play.
It was a pity that Jake could not visit his mother, but shortly after a few more games they would have a break for a few more weeks and Jake wanted to spend all this time at home, now it was time to concentrate on the games again.
The team now came from an incredible sequence of 5 consecutive victories and after returning from this one-week stop had to continue with this pack of victories, coach Smith was not so confident and was concerned that team players would end up Underestimating opponents because of the current sequence of victories.
In fact this 5-track sequence was unreliable in the vision of Coach Smith, in those 6 games they faced two teams just that he considered strong and lost in the debut game for one of these teams, so much so that the NCAA also considers the level of opponents to send invitations to teams to play the national championship.
Jake did not bother with the thoughts of the coach, these first 6 games were great for him, even though in the first game he could not play enough he can analyze as well as played the team that was the champion of this year's season in his past life.
And in the other games, he managed to have a stable performance by what he could play and with that, he got a vacancy from the starter on that team what he knew was hard to get as a freshman playing on a team of coach Smith.
So came the day of the seventh team game in the season, they were in a sequence of Vitorias, but we're also in a long sequence of games as a visitor, so it was even harder to continue winning.
The team also looked tired even after a week without playing, this was because several players did not dedicate time to study in the first months of the semester and took advantage of this week of proof to see if they could study and go well in the exams.
The smartest people who ever studied how Jake and Charlie were quieter, even though coach Smith would put the same full-time team together and that the weariness that the players were feeling could serve as a lesson so they wouldn't let Further studies aside.
After a few hours, the two teams were ready for the game, Jake was the most tranquil among the starters as he did not need to spend much time studying in these last days, so he would have to take responsibility in the game.
The opposing team had some good players but had some problems adjusting on the court and so they lost most of the games this season, on the contrary, the team Tar Heels was much more intertwined and Jake, Carter, and Jamison were even more Comfortable in making moves together.
In addition, the team Tar Heels was strongest in terms of the individual skill of the players, with this the favorite team was obvious, coach Smith was concerned for nothing because the players of the team Tar Heels did not underestimate the opponents and prepared To play seriously.
In the first time the game Jake can play for 16 minutes, the team was in good shape and Jake was playing as always, so he did 18 points, 4 assists, 4 rebounds, and 2 steals, after him Jamison made 12 points in that first time playing a little longer than Jake.
In this first game time the team Tar Heels had already made 58 points and opened a big advantage in the scoreboard against the opponent, yet the team did not relax and just felt less pressure by the result.
In the second game time Jake played for 16 minutes and had a great performance too, he did 15 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, and 1 steal so the team Tar Heels can easily win by making 114 points against only 63 points of Team VMI Keydets.
With this performance Jake stood as the main player and star of the team, this because the role of Jake was to arm the plays and he did it very well also, usually 16 points of the team at least come out of assists Jake, so he usually directly participates in half of the team's points.
After this game, coach Smith went on to trust Jake even more and was more confident in leaving Jake as a Tar Heels team starter, after all, he needed talent players to lead the team not only to make good games but also to win titles.
And often teams with 3 talented players can lead the team to victory, coach Smith believed he had this with Carter, Jamison, and Williams, but Shammond Williams, despite being good at scoring many points, was not such a good point guard these days.
Just a player like Jake or Ed Cota who had the skills needed to make players like Carter and Jamison could play their best, between the two Jake was infinitely better and a complete player who though not Is great at all could do a lot of things.
Proof of this was that Vince Carter was not the player who made the most points on average of the team, he was only third among the best punctuators, this was because he did not have enough support from the team's PG.
Now Carter was the second-best in scoring on the team almost tied with Jamison, but even if it looks the same as before the difference was that his average points per game increased, which showed that the team with Jake was attacking better.
Not to mention that Jake also added a lot of defense to the team, with his defensive majority rebounds and his steals he helped the team stop many attacks from opposing teams and could still gain more attacks for the Tar Heels team.
After three days the team was playing again as a visitor, would be the fourth game followed as a visitor which made the games more difficult and wore even more players, only Jake did not feel the fatigue of the game authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Still, with a cheering sequence of 6 victories the Tar Heels team was on very high morale, the opposing team of this eighth game of the season was the LSU Fighting Tigers team, the LSU Fighting Tigers team was another opponent who had a weak team for this season.
That was what worried coach Smith, the team was in a great sequence of victories, but they were gaining only against weaker teams which were essential for the Tar Heels team to win these games to be able to think of winning the NCAA tournament.
In this first game time Jake played very well as always, he played for 15 minutes and managed to make 13 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds, and 3 steals, the rest of the team, on the contrary, was not doing their best performance.
Many attacks were lost and so even with Jake making more assists his companions could not make so many points, the team would happily rival also was not having such a good game so, then the team Tar Heels was still with the advantage.
In the second game time, Jake can play for another 14 minutes and made 12 more points, 2 assists, 2 rebounds, 2 steals, and 1 block, with the whole team making mistakes and not playing as well even Jake ended up having a performance below normal.
Another reason that Jake failed to play as well as it normally was that even though he was the best player in the team during the game, coach Smith decided to let Jake play for less time in the second half of play, maybe even coach Smith wouldn't mind that the Team was playing poorly.
Even so with the good performance of Jake the team ended up winning with a score of 81 points against only 44 points of the team Lsu Fighting Tigers, was a game in which the opposing team was playing very good and the result could be much better if the team was playing normally.
After the game, everyone was happy for this seventh victory followed, but soon the animation cooled when Coach Smith gave a scolded in the whole team, he used this game to show that players could not relax and had to take every opponent seriously and play as best they could.
No one knew how to explain why the team was playing poorly in this game, fortunately, with the good performance of Jake the team can also play a little better in part of the game and they ended up doing many points in the final score of the game.
So Jake understood much less why coach Smith decided to let him play almost 3 minutes less than in the last game, as he was improving the overall performance of the team he should be able to play more time as he had physical conditions for it.
Even though not understanding Jake did not complain and just accepted that this game had been different from the others, and playing 29 minutes was much better than in the time he was in the team reserve, Jake's goal was for the team to win the games and the tournament that would come to.
After the game ended and they went back to university Jake called his mother after talking to his friends about the win, Eva was very happy that Jake would continue winning, but she had gotten used to Jake playing for several games without losing, his friends, on the contrary, they were very excited about it.
As basketball fans, they naturally understood that a college basketball team have a sequel of 7 consecutive victories was an amazing thing to achieve, so they were very happy for Jake and hoped that the Sequence of victories continued.
Even basketball critics were praising the Tar Heels team campaign, they naturally understood that the team was facing many opponents who could be considered weak and who had more chance of winning, yet have more Advantages and winning the games were different things.
This sequence of games was not so tiring so for the team because the classes had finished and were only 4 games before another two-week break for the players, Jake just felt a lot that could not do his pieces of training normally with so many games like this.
Before he did his daily training run 50 km every day at a speed of 29 minutes for every 10 km, he still continued with his training whenever he could, but on days of games, he did not do his racing training to save energy for the game.
So he ended up losing a day of training every two days with this sequence of games, fortunately, thanks to the system he did not even need to train if he did not want to maintain the physical condition for the marathons.
But without training he also could not improve his statistics in that last year he had before his accelerated development ended, he would soon be 18 years old and with 19 years the system had said that he could not improve more as quickly as now.
This sequence of various games also helps Jake much more than training in general, even his basketball skills improve slowly in every game he makes, but what he even needs is more intensive training to improve his endurance and Your strength.
Especially his strength that was now Jake's lowest physical statistic, and that would only get worse after winning a few more major marathons and getting the rewards, so he has to seize this time to improve his strength as much as he could.
While preparing for the next game Jake received a call from Charlie in Palo Alto, California, a few months ago since Jake passed his idea to Charlie and his Ph.D. Friends at Stanford.
"How is the development of the technology and the product that I asked for you, Charlie?"
"I would say that you are doing very well, with the resources you gave us and with our contacts here at Stanford to get the components of the products in which we are testing, we are optimistic about getting a prototype of the product in just over 1 year."
It was a much bigger time than Jake had previously talked to Charlie, but Jake knew that this time was still not what it would really take, he was prepared for it to bring 2 years more, even so, he wanted to negotiate a lower deadline to press the 3 to work harder.
After all, even though Jake had talked all about the technology and what he hoped to see happen, he was talking about a technology that was actually much later than he described.
So Charlie's team would have to practically create a whole new technology from older technology and would still have to optimize it to fit only on a small screen.
It was not for nothing that all of the technological worlds were impressed with the first iPhone, after all, it was a technology that no one thought to use with such efficiency and that greatly facilitated the life of consumers and established the Empire of Apple.
"And what are you working on now?"
"We are still working on the development and study of the touchscreen, we have to develop a little more before we advance to the multi-Touch, then we will have to develop even more the multi-Touch."
Jake understood that the most important part was to develop the touchscreen technology because it was the basis of the entire product and what would ensure its patent, and how he thought the work was almost at the beginning and so it would take even more almost 2 years to get ready.
But the important thing was that Charlie's team could do a great job in this product and technology development, so he could in the future maybe start a smartphone company, the next step would be the development of the Android system.
But that would only be possible if Charlie's team could quickly finish this product, fortunately, Charlie and his friends signed a contract that protected Jake from the possibility of Charlie and his friends developing technology with other companies.
"Very well, work well in this part and do not fail backward, the touchscreen will be the basis for our product, try to work as much as possible to put this on a small screen and that is very efficient using almost all the screen space as a touchscreen."
Charlie liked to talk about it with Jake because it looked like Jake talked about the product as if he had used it before, so it would be easier for him to continue the product development, and as Jake had said the part of the technology development and the product was much more important.
Even if they took the longest time it was better not to have many flaws in the product, otherwise, it would be much harder to fix the flaws after the product almost ready, Charlie was happy to work with Jake who understood that they had to take to do a good job.
"Keep Me informed of the progress of your work."
Jake had had some ideas in these months about several ways he could use touchscreen technology before even trying to make money with the patent if Apple still decides to make the same product.
Jake was planning to invest a lot in this project and wanted to have some returns of this, after all after he had the patent in hand he could create the product he wanted without having to worry about his product being copied without him receiving any money that.
After all, from the beginning he thought of making money with the patent of this and not with the product itself, he could end up earning a lot of money with the sales of products with the Multi-touch, but he would not bother to gain anything from it.
It's been a while since Jake talked to Emily too, he had let her take care of all his investments and projects and asked not to be disturbed unless something very important had happened until he returned to Miami.
Because if he didn't do that, Emily would almost always disturb him by talking about the profits he had made with his investments, he already knew very well how much he could win and when the time was right to sell the shares for example.
So, he didn't need Emily to always talk to him about how the stocks surrendered in just a few months, he understood how incredible all this could be in her vision, but for him, it was something natural.
When he returned to Miami to be with his mother in a few days he was sure that Emily would go there to talk to him, Jake also had to talk to Matthew, he was curious to know how the company would come out with this year's profits, it was expected to be more than last year.
The other day the Tar Heels team had their ninth game, they would be playing as a visitor again and that would be the penultimate game before the end of the year parade, the Tar Heels team was now running a 7-player sequel and wanted to further improve that sequel to today's game.
The opposing team was the UMarse Minutemen team, they had an average team that year and were well compared to some previous opponents of the Tar Heels team, they came from a defeat in the previous game and so far, didn't have a good season.
Taking all this into account in this game the team Tar Heels was with an advantage in both player skills and morale for the results this season, coach Smith was still uncomfortable with this excitement of the team, but believed that after the sermon he had given to the players after the last game they would not underestimate the opponent.
In the first game time, the entire team played well and although they did not show an incredible performance was very good for the coach, Jake can play for 16 minutes in that first time and did 19 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals, was a great performance that led the team.
In the second time, they still led with ease the score and Jake can play for 16 minutes achieving 18 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, and 2 steals, was one of Jake's best performances this season and the game he made more points.
Thus, the team Tar Heels won the game for 91 points against 66 of the team UMarse Minutemen, this was the eighth win followed by the team and coach Smith was also beginning to be satisfied with this result.
Even Jake who already knew it would be so was getting excited about this sequence of victories, when he was at the high school it was easy to maintain a much larger sequence of victories than this and still be the national champion.
But he knew that the games at the university would be more difficult and even with his skills he could not make so much difference in the toughest games, fortunately, he had now a team that could be champion even without him on the team, so Jake was confident of winning the NCAA tournament this year.
The other day Jake was resting after his daily racing training, he had much more ease in making the 50 km even running faster after winning the 2 points of reward statistics by winning the New York Marathon.
Of course, it was far from enough that he could get enough physical preparation to further increase his running speed, but after gaining a few more points of statistics he could try again.
If Jake could increase his running speed and lower his current time by km in 3 seconds he might be able to break the 2-hour barrier at the final time of the marathon, with a time like this he would be the fastest runner in history by dozens of Years old.
Of course, with his current stats if he ate a stamina bar in the middle of the race he could easily break this barrier from 2 hours and get even 2 minutes below that time, but he couldn't bear the shame of using it to break the record.
Not to mention that he had all the time in the world, usually elite runners who win marathons can run up to 40 years old and Jake was still 17 at that time, who knows until then he could earn another 30 or 40 points of statistics and become a superhuman for sports.
Zack was also running every day, he now trained more times in the week than Jake who could not train on game days, all his roommates decided not to come home and would be at the university until Jake went to Miami.
Jake was very happy with the consideration that his friends had with him, yet he recommended several times that they would go home to spend more time with their families and not just stay for him.
Unfortunately, even if some of them had a good relationship with their families, they didn't want to stay longer with their families and preferred to travel or stay with their friends, none of them had the same close relationship that Jake had with Eva.
Even so Jake couldn't say anything to them as counsel, because if he hadn't seen his mother die in his past life after she suffered so much to take care of him, he might as well be the same as his friends.
As his friend Zack was running every day, Jake saw that his physical form was getting much better after a few months of training, after all, Zack also did a training routine at the academy last night by Jake.
So, Jake decided to increase the intensity of Zack's training at the Academy daily so that he would improve even faster and reach the pinnacle of his physical form, as for the 6 km per day race training was enough for Zack today.
Zack wanted to just do training to run a marathon, but Jake was trying to create an elite athlete and improve the health and physical quality of his friend, even Zack could do his daily training in much less time than when he started authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
In his training with the basketball team, he still did more training of plays with Carter and Jamison, Jake could learn several things while playing with both, after all, Carter and Jamison were excellent players in their positions as SG and SF.
As they played in the NBA for many years although, in the present, they did not have the same skills and experience they will have in the coming years, they still had enough skill to show several useful moves for Jake to learn.
Jake also watched Serge Zwikker and Ademola Okulaja, they were excellent players in their positions, Zwikker knew to use his height and strength very well to fight for many rebounds in the games, Okulaja was also good at the rebounds.
In fact, after Jake joined the team, they hardly lost a defensive rebound, the offensive rebounds were also often achieved by Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison, coach Smith was also clever and always took some players out of court at different times.
So Shammond Williams who was also very talented could play more time in various positions, the same happened with Ed Cota, so the team was certainly stronger and more efficient that way.
Jake had learned a lot from his teammates at the high school and with all his experience in the imagination training space, but the level of the players at the university was something that Jake could not compare in other positions.
Just in the position of PG and SG that Jake always put more effort to improve that he could even be better than his teammates, he could also play as well as SF, but had no way to compare to Antawn Jamison of his team.
After a while finally came the final game of that year, then the players could rest for two weeks before the next game, Jake was also eager for it, he liked to play basketball and his friends at the university, but he missed of your mother after so many months.
In that last game, the coach Smith was very worried and anxious to know if the team could win, the opponent of this game was the team Princeton Tigers who despite not having a very strong team in the individual skill of the players was very strong as a team.
This was one of the best seasons for the Princeton Tigers team, and the team's defense was very strong even if their attack was not too strong, so they kept a low average of points in their games and could win the victory several times.
The Tar Heels team arrived early at Princeton to compete in the game, so Jake decided to take a walk around the university and see if he was seeing Joseph who was studying at Princeton, but soon he knew that his friend had left shortly after the end of the holiday classes.
Jake so deduced that Joseph had gone out to visit Liza who was his girlfriend and had not gone home to see Oliver and Matthew, he got a little upset in not being able to see his friend after so long, but he had not arranged anything with Joseph and if it had been he would have gone on vacation to go home too.
So he went back to where the team were to prepare for the game in a few hours, Jake was not so worried about the next game because he knew in his past life the Tar Heels team had won this game, but the opponent was very difficult and the result of the game was very close at the end of the game.
Even the team players not having many points individually the school is known to adopt the offensive strategy called 'Princeton offense', this is a strategy where players do not have positions predetermined in the attack.
So even the opposing teams studying this game strategy was very hard to beat them using strategies, the best way to win this team was to rely on a better offensive, and that was exactly what the Tar Heels team did, with an offensive Strong using Jake, Vince Carter, and Antawn Jamison they were always trying to make more points than the opponent.
Even if it seemed simple needed talented players and if any of the three had a bad performance in the game the points that the team did also diminished, this was something that did not greatly affect the Princeton team that did rotations in the whole game.
The luck of the Tar Heels team was that the opposing coach was new and was under pressure to replace one of the biggest names in the university, so the team was undergoing minor changes at the beginning of the season.
In this game coach Smith emphasized much that they had to be careful with players entering the inner area in the plays, he also said that it was for players to use all their individual skills in the attack and not be annulled by the defense of the opposing team.
Coach Smith had easily analyzed the important points of the opposing team, this was really a season in which the Princeton Tigers team would have a great series of games losing few and would still have many players in the best defense of the season.
Fortunately, the Tar Heels team had the right players to make these kinds of plays, Jake, Carter, and Jamison, the three had the individual capacity to score points even in a tight defense and had the rapport to cross the defense of the Princeton Tigers team with Jake's assistance.
At the beginning of the game was a tied game as coach Smith said it would be, in the few opportunities that the Tar Heels team had to make the shots they were fumbled by opponents, and the Princeton Tigers team was also erring quite the plays.
In a play, Jake received the ball back near the three-point line and with game vision managed to make a pass that crossed the defense of the team Princeton Tigers and Jamison received the pass to make the layup and make two more points for the team Tar Heels.
In another move for the first time, the Princeton Tigers team was rapidly passing the ball as it circulated in the attack waiting for an opportunity to cross the team's defense Tar Heels and make the points.
After more than 4 minutes of game Jake had already analyzed part of the play style of the Princeton Tigers team, so when Brian Earl found that he found an opportunity he passed to Steve Goodrich who was entering the internal area of the defense of the Tar Heels team after getting rid of the mark of Serge Zwikker and was ready to receive the Earl pass and make the layup.
But Jake had also noticed this move and intercepted Earl's pass to Goodrich, Jake used his superior agility and soon accelerated to counterattack, when the Princeton Tigers team players tried to get back to mark Jake found that they couldn't keep up with Jake's speed.
So Jake ran up close in the painted area and made the dunk to cheer up his teammates, all were accustomed to Jake's speed in training, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison currently had skill levels similar to Jake, Anyway because of Jake's speed he always gained the advantage in the plays.
In another move, Jake made one feint in Mitch Henderson and seized an opening in the opposing defense and drive to the basket, but Goodrich tried to stop Jake who was faster and made a sudden stop and passed the ball to Vince Carter who was entering the painted area behind Goodrich.
Vince Carter received the pass and did not squander the chance by making a dunk to make 2 more points for the Tar Heels team, so at the end of the first time, Jake played for 16 minutes and made 12 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, and 4 steals.
This was the hardest game for Jake so far playing on the Tar Heels team, so he failed to make many points as in other games, but his quick and precise passes could cross the hard defense of the Princeton Tigers team.
In the second time the game remained the same, even Carter and Jamison had difficulty attacking efficiently playing against the defense of the Princeton Tar Heels team, it was incredible that a high-level team that did not offer sports scholarship could play equally To the same with the Tar Heels team.
Fortunately, Jake was doing an excellent defensive game and the opposing team was also having difficulty attacking, yet with Jake making full use of his agility to make precise attacks the team Tar Heels still led quietly the game score.
The two teams were having difficulty finding good opportunities to make three-point shots, even Jake did not risk any shooting from outside in this game, as it was a risky move, he preferred to make individual moves to get the points for the authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
In the second game time Jake continued making precise passes for Carter and Jamison who could make the points with great difficulty, Jake also made precise attacks and took advantage of the steals he did to arm counterattacks and use his speed to make more points.
So, Jake played for another 15 minutes in the second game time and made 16 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds, and 4 steals, was a great performance in other statistics that were not the points that in this game was below average.
The result of the game was a comfortable win of the Tar Heels team thanks to Jake's performance, but it was not an easy victory for opposing defense performance, the Tar Heels team made 78 points against 56 of the Princeton Tigers team.
With this difficult victory of this game the team came to an incredible sequence of 9 victories followed this season against only one defeat in a total of 10 games, after winning a strong and difficult team to face as the team Princeton Tigers coach Smith was satisfied and more confident in the performance of the team this season.
Mainly Jake who had been a talent discovered by coach Guthridge was the most important player for the team now for coach Smith, he did not know how Jake had not been awarded several times in his time at the same high School Playing it that well.
Usually, the coaches of the university teams relied greatly on the judging of the experts who gave the prizes and always sought to recruit these players, Vince Carter was a great example of this.
But Jake was one of the best but the best freshman in all of this year's college basketball season and not even received any nomination for the high School players' prizes.
This was a mystery that coach Smith would never know about the answer, Jake didn't know either, but he thought it might be because he didn't play the first two years or as a reserve for his basketball team.
Or the fact that his team has fewer games than other teams in other states during the season, maybe it could be by slander from coach Philips when he was the coach of the Elite school at the time that Jake was off the team.
Jake had naturally been upset about it, but he cared only for the most important NBA prizes that were what could give more glory to him in his professional career in the future.
Coach Smith did not mind losing some games as well since they ended up being champions at the end of the season, after all, he knew that his whole team had to lose in some time and had no way to maintain a sequence of such great victories in the season.
But what he did not want to see was that by the inattention of his players or by underestimating the opponents they ended up losing the games, but he would have to wait for the players to return from the holidays to work in their mentality for the upcoming games.
After returning to the university Jake celebrated with his friends for victory and soon started packing to travel home, he did not want to waste time and wanted to stay at least a week at home.