bhwS

by Cr0w0019

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

20. Chapter 20

Using a Coach as an Assistant

"And we came to the end of that game, a game that was supposed to be normal as it was just the third game of Regular Season, but it turned out that the Virginia Cavaliers team played surprisingly well today and the Tar Heels team played even better."

"With Jake performing flawlessly throughout the game and making a double-double with 38 points and 12 assists plus 8 rebounds, 6 steals and a few more incredible plays leading the Tar Heels team to an easy win in a tough game."

"That's right, we have to keep watching to see if freshman Jake keeps playing so well by becoming the team star instead of more experienced Carter and Jamison."

Tar Heels ended up winning 85 points against 71 Virginia Cavaliers points, Jake led the team in a good game and Carter and Jamison still played well, so the team was starting well with two wins in 3 games of the season.

Jake was also very happy and called his mother and talked to his friends after returning to university, after all, it was the second game that Jake knew the Tar Heels team should have missed and he managed to change the result with his ability.

So now Jake knew that he had the ability to change the bad results and keep the best results, it remained to know if it would continue like this all season and they could win the NCAA tournament.

Now he knew that he had complete confidence from Coach Smith, in the coming months the team would have more than 10 games in which Jake could earn even more coach confidence and so maybe he could get a release to run in marathons this year.

Even if he only got one day off he could make a sacrifice and strive to run this year's major marathons, so he knew he would get more statistics and could have more chances to win the next games.

The other day Jake continued his normal training routine, the things he had to do every day just increased now that classes had started again, Jake was still careful not to stand out too much in class and even getting good grades couldn't get attention.

Luckily he was in a good university now and many students besides him were able to get the best grades with a lot of studies, even Charlie from the basketball team got the best grades even playing basketball, Jake respected him a lot.

After all their circumstances were different, Jake got the best grades easily because you had a lot of skills and his system stats and had many more years to study in his past life and high school, but Charlie had none of that and could still stand out.

After more time passed even though Jake was getting closer to Carter and Jamison during training outside of him, it was with Charlie who he talked to most, Jake even talked about investing with Charlie and tried to give some tips.

But since Jake couldn't say he had already made a few million investing, he couldn't convince Charlie to invest while he had time, it was a pity, but he couldn't easily expose his secrets just to help his friends, in time Jake could help his friends in other ways.

During those days before the next game who spoke to him was Tiffany, she said she would talk to him in the coming weeks and Jake thought that was impossible because he had to go back to university, but it seemed like Tiffany had not forgotten what he said and decided to come to Jake's university to talk to him.

Tiffany said she would be coming to college after a few days, but Jake had no way of knowing exactly when that day would be and so far he could have a lot of games, so he ended up dropping the subject and refocused on his training.

In recent games Coach Smith found that the weakness of his team was that they had only attacks inside to focus on the current formation of the team, they could do a formation for much three-point play, but it would be with many more players weak individually.

In the lineup that Jake remembered in his past life, they would put Williams, Carter, and Okulaja to try for more three-point plays, so Coach Smith had to normally try in-field play which was the specialty of the team's strongest lineup.

But now Coach Smith had Jake on his team if he put Jake and Williams into the three-point play they would be as strong as the teams that usually did the most three-point play.

And since Jake the team could also stand out more in the indoor moves because the passing quality and the organization of plays were much better with Jake on the team, so Coach Smith decided he would no longer leave Jake out of the team.

Even more so after the last game, Coach Smith began talking to Coach Guthridge about their ability to play a strategy for the stronger teams like Wake Forest that required more attack and defensive versatility.

Coach Smith was thinking of a strategy where they could keep the fort in domestic and three-point attacks, of course, that would only be possible with Jake playing, but if it worked out the team's disadvantage would no longer exist.

So the days went by quickly and the Tar Heels team had more games at that time, they had a game against the NC State Wolfpack team that had an average team this year, Jake started playing for the first time since the last 3 games.

He was 16 minutes before being replaced in the first half, Jake managed to score 17 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds, and 3 steals in the first half and led the whole team to have a better game and to perform well.

In the second half he played for another 16 minutes and scored 16 points, 6 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals, so the game ended with the Tar Heels team winning by 74 points against 58 points from the NC State Wolfpack team.

This was a game that the Tar Heels team had also won for what Jake remembered in his past life, but it was a much more difficult and close game in which the Tar Heels team won by a few points lead.

This showed how they were playing much better with Jake playing as team PG, unfortunately in this situation, Ed Cota had an average of only 8 or 9 minutes per game, luckily everyone could see his skill within the few minutes he played.

Ed Cota's predicament in Jake's past life was also saddened by his skill, Ed Cota was someone who had everything to be one of the NBA big names playing as PG, but because of his height, he was eventually left out. from the NBA and never had a chance.

Even so, he had a successful career for a few years playing in European basketball, even though he was 1.83 m tall and was considered small by NBA standards even when playing PG.

Maybe that's why the system decided to raise Jake's height compared to what he had in his past life, with Jake's current height he would have no problem even if he wanted to play in positions other than Center.

With another double-double with 33 points and 11 assists Jake had another incredible performance and was once again the highlight in the team, as well as in the other games with his multiplayer passes also had an excellent performance.

Of course, everyone was overshadowed by Jake's performance in the game, if it was in high school Jake would fight for the team to score more points or he would score fewer points to give more opportunities to his teammates.

But in this situation, he would have to show the best performance he could to be sure to get an NBA seat when he left college, even though they were friends the team players were also competitors.

After the game Jake didn't forget to call his mom to celebrate and celebrate with his friends who had watched this game in person as it was a home game, the next game would also be at home.

Such a sequel could help players relax for a while without having to travel to play, the next day beyond their daily running training with Zack and training with basketball team Jake also went out with Zack to do some things of brotherhood.

Jake was interested in various philanthropic actions and the good of the community, usually the sport-related things to raise funds for some sympathetic action was the kind of activity that Jake and Charlie were almost always together.

Even in some cash donations, Jake always thought that after spending his time when he needed to invest a lot of money in investments that were until 2000 he would participate in many donation authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

But in his time at university and especially in the fraternity he learned that he did not need to donate tens of thousands of dollars to help in some solidary causes, he could help with small contributions and with thousands of people coming together for one cause it was possible to help many people.

Sometimes Jake also showed up at some university parties not to be too antisocial and even though it was fun, he always refused to drink any alcohol, he was not yet old enough to drink and never really liked drinks.

Jake still enjoyed some wine or beer on social occasions, but parties weren't the kind of place where Jake liked to drink, especially now that he wasn't old enough for that, he knew that as a basketball player he should be careful if his image social and try not to break any rules or laws.

Luckily with Charlie as a Senior, it was much more reassuring for Jake than anyone would care even if he didn't drink, yet there were few opportunities he had to go to these parties.

Now the team had a 12-win streak and only 2 losses in the season and in the regular season of the conference they had 3 wins and only one loss if things were as Jake remembered in his past life this would already be one of the best. team seasons in history.

But that was unimportant without a title at the end of the season to top off this performance, Jake wanted to win as much of a tournament as possible to get satisfied from his time at university.

After a few days Tiffany had not yet appeared at the university and Jake concentrated only on training, on the 18th the Tar Heels team soon had another home game, this was a game that inevitably the whole team was relaxed and even Coach Smith it was like this.

After a few hours, both teams were ready to start the game, Jake would be starting the game again and the opponent was the Georgia Tech Yellow team which this season was with an especially bad team.

They were having a rough season, and from what Jake remembered it would be a bad season for the team, another thing Jake paid attention to was that it could be his reality if he didn't decide to join the UNC that had the Tar Heels team.

This team had Matt Harpring who was an NBA player and a skilled SF, he is a good player and has had good seasons in the team, but the whole team is weak and his individual ability can't make much difference.

If Jake had gone to another university with a weaker team thinking of being the absolute leader of the team something like that could happen to him, so he chose a university with a stronger team even if he had to stay in reserve.

Even though the opponent for this game was weaker Jake still didn't relax and was careless and focused on the game, so the team ended up getting a little more excited seeing Jake trying his best.

Jake can play for 17 minutes in this first half, he scored 24 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds, and 3 steals, with a good first half Jake can lead the team to an absolute lead on the scoreboard.

The team cheered on Jake's performance and even the players who started as a reserve played better, only Jamison was having a harder time with Harpring in defense on his side.

In the second half Jake continued playing in the game that could be his best offensive performance, Coach Smith approved the team playing as well and decided to just let the players play as they would like the team to authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

In the second half Jake played for another 17 minutes and can make 27 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, and 4 steals, thus leading the whole team in a good performance, Carter can also make 16 points, Jamison scored 13 points and Zwikker 9 points.

At the end of the game Jake ended up with a double-double of incredible 51 points with 11 assists, plus 8 rebounds and 7 steals, the Tar Heels team ended up winning the game by 112 points against just 42 points from the Georgia Tech Yellow team.

That was the second game in the year that the team scored the most, but the amazing thing was that it was almost 40 points more than this game had in Jake's past life, Jake can hit 9 three-point shots in just 12 attempts in the game.

Jake had always had a great hit rate this season so far, an average of more than 63 for sure on his three-point attempts, in 15 games of the season Jake had made 53 right-score plays making 124 points in less than one-third of the season.

When Coach Smith and the commentators thought of this hit rate they found it incredible, especially since Jake had an average of less than 6 three-point attempts per game, which showed what Jake said only trying when he was sure he could hit.

And it couldn't be said that Jake had such a high hit rate because he tried fewer shots because if he keeps that average he can even break the record for most points made with three-point shots this season.

After all Jake had a current average of a few minutes per game for spending the beginning of the season in reserve, so if he continues to play for 32 minutes every game he can make even more three-point plays.

Also, this was the game where Jake scored the most points this season, he took advantage of the team's good momentum and his opponent's weakness to have a game as he did in his high school days.

After a few days, Jake took advantage of the good phase of the team and in which he himself was facing another tough game against the Florida State Seminoles team, this was a game against the team that had beaten the Tar Heels team in Jake's past life.

The Florida State Seminoles team was having a good season and had a well-balanced team with two future NBA players, plus it was the university team where Jake was considering studying in his past life.

Of course, he didn't plan on playing basketball there and just went to study, so they weren't good memories of what happened, nor was it the only university he thought of studying in his past life as there were others in Florida, but it was most likely for him.

Jake knew that Coach Guthridge had confidence in him again for what happened in the last games and also that the team could have even lost all three games just as Jake had said, so he told the coach that he thought they had to be careful to Don't miss this game.

This time was different from the last time and Jake was already starting at the games, so Coach Guthridge understood that Jake was giving a warning to the coach to remind the team to be careful, after all, he was not the high school captain.

In the days before training Coach Smith said the Florida State Seminoles team was a dangerous opponent and it was better than the players were careful, so Jake knew that Coach Smith had been careful.

On game day the team was again focused and focused on the game, so in the first half even having a difficult game they managed to dominate the opponent, Jake played for 17 minutes and scored 16 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, and 5 steals.

The first half was not easy for the Tar Heels team and the Florida State Seminoles attack was very strong in this game, luckily the players were focused and Jake had a great defensive performance for the team to take the lead.

In the second half, the game remained difficult, but the Tar Heels team gradually gained control of the game with a good advantage which diminished the spirits of the Florida State Seminoles team, so they got the victory.

Team Tar Heels scored 89 points against 84 from Florida State Seminoles, Jake played for 16 minutes in the second half and made 14 points, 3 assists, 4 rebounds, and 6 steals, he focused more on defense and developing plays.

So much so that in 6 steals he made in the game in which he managed to keep possession he only scored points in one of those plays and assists in another two plays, 3 of the plays in which he caught the steal he did not participate directly in the play.

In this game, Jake also played an important role and was instrumental in winning even though not scoring as many points as in the last game, Jake showed all his versatility in these two games by scoring many points in one and being critical in defense in the other.

Jake was the name of the game not only for the points as well as the 30 points and 11 steals double-double, Jake knew that he had changed the outcome of the game he knew in his past life again, so he was very happy about it.

In the next few days the Tar Heels players would have a little more days between games and a little more rest, Tiffany seems to have figured that out and appeared the next day of the Tar Heels game against Florida State Seminoles.

Jake already knew the city better after spending a lot of time with Zack and can recommend some restaurants for them to eat, Jake knew naturally that Tiffany had not come to thank him for buying Robert's stock, but it should be something important for her to come from Miami

"Hi Tiffany, I didn't expect to see you anytime soon, and more here at the university."

"You talk like you don't want to see me."

"You know that's not it, so what's the reason you came here."

"Alright, you're right, but I also came to thank you for helping Clara buy those stocks, so you helped me too as my company can't grow in the last two years."

"I came here too because finally, I could find someone to be your coach after so long, I've been looking a lot these past few months, but you asked me several times to stop looking because you were busy and it took too long."

"That's right, actually right now I don't have time to commit to athletics training, on several days I can't even do my daily training for running marathons on game days."

"I understand you are saying that you don't have time to commit to training and coaches usually seek commitment and results from their athletes."

"That's right, so I guess now is not the best time for me."

"That's why I said it was good news, you asked for a coach who had experience in various modalities of athletics and only knew the specific training of each sport, and the coach would have to have a description to not tell his secrets right?"

"Yes, that's more or less what I asked for."

"The truth is that when you asked me to stop looking I had already found several candidates to be your coach after you won the Olympics and broke the world record, so I just decided to look further for a coach who could fit your tight schedule."

"Luckily I found a coach who has all the requirements you are looking for and you shouldn't mind much even if you delay your training or even do your training."

When Jake heard this he was surprised, being a champion he could have one of the best coaches if he wanted to, but he didn't demand it because he knew that without commitment to competitions and training no winning coach would want to coach him.

So he decided he just needed a coach who knew how to train an athlete and wasn't very famous, so the coach could accept that Jake trained for less time on days when he had to play basketball.

But he never thought he could find a coach who didn't even care if he trained or not or if he competed.

Listening to Tiffany talk about someone who didn't care about training his own athletes, the first thing Jake thought was that this coach had no integrity and could be a fake pretending to be.

"I know what you must be thinking, it's not a scam or someone with no integrity, the situation is that this coach has some people issues that make him really need a job."

"He is not a famous coach and tried to train some athletes who out of luck eventually failed and he needs a higher salary than a university or school can afford for him, so he must have been included in this list that I asked to do by mistake."

So Jake understood what Tiffany was thinking, a coach usually dedicated to coaching an athlete to win multiple competitions beyond a salary he can receive depending on whether a player is affiliated with a professional team or even the state.

Even if a coach ended up working at a very good university he would receive an average of $ 45,000 a year, it would be different if he coached an American football team or an NCAA team.

If he needs a bigger salary than that he would need a lot of luck and could probably make some exceptions even if he was a very good coaching person, Jake was one who could, of course, pay far more than a university paid.

"So you're saying if I pay him well may not care even if I don't do my training?"

"Yes, that's what I think, besides, you miss some training because your circumstances are unique and everyone knows that you are an elite athlete even doing it for years, so paying well I think this coach can accept training you even without the commitment of other athletes."

"It's great news really if I meet someone like that I won't have to worry about my training being ineffective, you can talk with that coach, Tiffany."

"So as soon as I get back to Miami I'll call him to come here to talk to you."

After that they talked a lot more and celebrated talking about how all things worked out at Clara's companies, Tiffany even said that she was quite happy to have someone like Jake partner with the company.

She also said how life was full of unexpected things, because of Matthew's recommendation that she herself had been against in the beginning she and Clara ended up meeting someone like Jake who had helped them so much.

After the conversation, Tiffany returned to Miami to settle the affairs of the company, just as she had said she had gone to college more to celebrate and talk to him because the subject she had could be said over the phone.

It was really good news she gave Jake, after all, he was starting to give up his idea of having a coach, after all, he knew well that his future days would be increasingly complicated and only for a few months in the year could he have more freedom.

So Jake thought it would be hard to find a qualified coach who would agree to work with him just because of a better salary, of course, he would still have to know that coach to know if he was really qualified.

Of course, he trusted the information that Tiffany was right, so he just had to wait for this coach to come to know what he really was like, so Jake decided to forget about it for now and focus on his training.

The Tar Heels team had 16 games this season in which they won 14 and lost only 2 games, at the ACC conference they lost only one and had 5 wins and came from a 5 win streak.

In this good season, the Tar Heels team was very strong and already considered one of the favorites to win the ACC tournament, after all, there were still a few months left to think about the NCAA tournament.

After a few more days they get ready for the next game, after a day more rest and having a home game the team Tar Heels was in high spirits for that game, after a few hours both teams were ready for the game.

The opponent of this game was the team Clemson Tigers that had been having a good season this year and had a strong team, they had a strategy of attack in the internal area as the team Tar Heels.

Even though they had good players there was no player who could unbalance in this game, so the Tar Heels team was confident in stopping the attack of the opposing team, Jake also preferred to score players who attacked inside than players who made three-point plays.

That's because it was easier for him to be able to defend and even get a steal against a player who made three-point plays, it was much easier to end up foul while in defense.

Just as Jake thought the Clemson Tigers team attacked more with in-house plays and thus made it easier for Tar Heels to make the save, in attack they had the advantage in individual confrontations and had Jake to make the three-point plays.

Jake can play for 16 minutes in this first half of the game, he had no qualified player to defend against him and it was harder to get an attack on the inside so he scored 19 points, 4 assists, 4 rebounds, and 2 steals.

So Tar Heels had the lead and in the second half continued the same way, Jake could play for 16 minutes and made 18 points, 4 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals, performing well in a simple game.

Team Tar Heels can easily win by 84 points against just 50 points from the opponent, it was again a much bigger score than Jake remembered that team Tar Heels won last year.

Jake had a great offensive performance in this game and hit 7 three-point shots from 9 attempts in this game, it was a high hit rate in a game where the opposing team did not have a player who could score Jake properly.

This was the sixth straight win of the Tar Heels team that came strong this season, it was still more than half of the season and so many did not know if the Tar Heels team would continue to win the games.

After this victory everyone was even more excited for the next game in a few days, they were in a 6-win streak and would play against a great rival for team Tar Heels and team Duke Blue Devils.

It was a historic rivalry between the two universities in all sports, and this time the Duke Blue Devils team came from a defeat against the strong Maryland Terrapins team, so even if they were playing as a visitor they were confident of victory.

For this game everyone was very confident of victory, even knowing that the team Tar Heels had lost in their past life from the results in the last games Jake was confident of victory just like all his teammates.

Even the coach was excited for the victory of the team Tar Heels, so after a few days of training, the team went to the next game, even playing as a visitor they were not intimidated by the pressure of the opposing crowd and just thought of winning.

Just as Team Tar Heels was confident of victory, Duke Blue Devils players were being cautious and worried about the next game, so everyone could see that Team Tar Heels had a stronger team and Jake as a star.

After a few hours, both teams were ready to start this game, Jake was starting again playing as in the last games and they had the same initial formation of the last games.

The Duke Blue Devils team came with Steve Wojciechowski playing as PG, Trajan Langdon playing as SG, Roshown McLeod playing as SF, Ricky Price playing as PF and Greg Newton playing as Center.

This year's Duke Blue Devils teams were having a great season, they were one of the strongest teams at the conference, but they didn't have a strong individual team, no player was so prominent, and even though some of them played in the NBA after a few years they still haven't very successful.

This team used a lot of strategy and a lot of game reserves, they tried a few three-point moves, but they also attacked more than mid-range in 2-point moves, this was a team that relied on coaches to coach a competitive team.

After a short while the game began, Jake was playing as usual in the first few plays and realized that his teammates were feeling the pressure of Duke Blue Devils defender, they were not so easy to pass and missed a few attacks.

Jake was still playing well but did not get the ball so much because of the opposing defense's position, yet they still had a slight lead on the scoreboard, yet Jake felt this was a strangely comfortable game for the opposing team and problematic for them, but thought it must be because they are playing at home.

"In those first few minutes of the game, the Tar Heels team has had a small advantage in the game, but it's a harder game than expected."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"It is natural that it is a difficult game after all the two teams have a strong rivalry between them, so we cannot expect a normal game, moreover, even if the team has the advantage in the ability of the players they are playing as a visitor."

"Even though Jake is playing well it seems that he is having difficulty making moves or even receiving passes with Duke Blue Devils' play strategy, Steve Wojciechowski, though small, has a good defensive ability."

After a few more plays the first half ended with Tar Heels ahead but it was still a game played between the teams, Jake played for 16 minutes and scored 14 points, 3 assists, 4 rebounds, 1 steal, and 1 block.

He made a first-half very well considering other games but felt that it was not good enough, his whole team also scored fewer points than normally, in the second half he would have to see if he could do differently.

Early in the second half the game continued the same way and Jake started playing again, he tried more plays but his teammates were being hampered by the opponents and only Jake had more freedom to attack even being separated from his teammates.

Meanwhile, the Duke Blue Devils team also had a normal game attacking efficiently and trying not to be far behind on the scoreboard.

In the second half while finding the game strange the team Tar Heels was always ahead in the scoring, the advantage was always only 2 or 4 points and never passed that, yet the team Tar Heels was confident that could win the victory.

After halfway through the second half Team Tar Heels still won and the two teams looked like they didn't care if the score went on, Team Tar Heels just wanted to know about the win and Team Duke Blue Devils seemed to have accepted defeat and not I wanted to lose so badly.

"It's not really the game I expected to see considering the rivalry of the teams, I expected a tougher and tougher game, but it looks like Duke Blue Devils have given up on the win completely since the start of the second half."

"The two teams don't have such a different season, team Tar Heels has 15 wins and only 2 losses and team Duke Blue Devils have 15 wins and 5 losses, they lost more because they played more games."

"We can understand that the Tar Heels team is stronger considering the player's ability, Jake seems to be being forgotten by the opponents and is not getting many passes."

"It seems like a Duke Blue Devils team strategy where they are isolating Jake from the rest of the team, they let him do more points, but they can keep him from doing what he normally does as PG is to arm the moves well."

"It could be a good strategy, but the Tar Heels team is winning this game."

The game continued like this until 16 minutes into the second half when Jake came out of the game, the Duke Blue Devils team who seemed to have given up the game started to react and the Tar Heels mood had cooled.

Without Jake on the court, Duke Blue Devils team played with a strategy in which they focused fully on the defense inside and placed two players when Jamison or Carter caught the ball.

After another two minutes they had turned the score around as when Jake left they were just 2 points behind on the scoreboard, so with only 2 minutes left the Tar Heels team was losing 2 points.

Jake thought Coach Smith would put him on the court again and soon got ready, but contrary to what he expected Coach Smith didn't do that, he saw that Ed Cota was better helping the team than Jake.

So Jake just had to watch and hope his teammates did something for them to win, so in the next minute, each team made a move and scored 2 points each, so the last-minute difference was still only 2 minutes.

In another play, Ed Cota was with the ball and even with Wojciechowski firm in defense he tried to advance and went to Okulaja which was open on the right, Okulaja tried the individual play and could not move and can only pass to Jamison.

Jamison made a feint and went to the back of the court with the ball in his hands, yet a two-point move would not change anything, so he saw Carter free across the block, Carter thought the same as Jamison and stepped back and tried the three-point shot.

Unfortunately, Carter's shot went wrong and Duke Blue Devils got the ball missing 42 seconds and with 2 points in front of the score, yet being anxious about the result Tar Heels returned to defend.

The Duke Blue Devils team was smart and held the ball as long as they could, they had 30 seconds to spend and end the game, after 26 seconds Langdon went to make the mid-range shot and Carter missed it.

It seemed that this was planned because Trajan Langdon was the one who had the best average free throws hit, in the first attempt Trajan Langdon made the shot calmly and made another point increasing the lead to three points.

On the second attempt he calmed down and then fired again, but this time the ball didn't come in and Zwikker was quick to catch the rebound, so Coach Smith soon called for time, even though Trajan Langdon didn't seem to believe he missed the second attempt.

Asking for time for the Tar Heels team to begin the midfield attack, the referees reviewed the video and saw that the game was stopped with 14 seconds left to the end of the game, so the Tar Heels team had plenty of time to make the move.

Jake was prepared to come in and didn't know why Coach Smith hadn't put him up so far, after all, he could have made two three-point plays in those last minutes and secured the advantage.

But this time it was obvious that he should join the team after all the best players on the three-point line was him for sure and he showed that the coach could trust him for those important moments.

"What a thrilling game this one is at Cameron Indoor Stadium, a whole game that was very warm and seemed won for the Tar Heels team, but in the end, we had a turnaround and Duke Blue Devils almost won that game."

"Now we only have a few seconds left and Duke Blue Devils is 3 points ahead, we can still see Duke Blue Devils win this game or Tar Heels can try the three-point play and take the game for the extension."

"Whatever the outcome, the Duke Blue Devils team made an unexpected and decisive endgame that took them to their advantage in the game today."

"It may have been a strategy of the Duke Blue Devils team from the beginning of the game to win this game where the Tar Heels team had the advantage from the start."

"After Jake left the second half that Duke Blue Devils team started pushing harder and took Tar Heels by surprise and turned the game around in just two minutes."

"I realized that too, I don't think it's a coincidence and was surprised that Coach Smith didn't put Jake back in the game at that difficult time."

"I also find it strange, it seems Coach Smith doesn't trust Jake, yet Jake today has scored 28 points so far so of course, he's doing great even though he's not as good as his last games."

"True, and even though he is isolated by Duke Blue Devils team tactics he still made 6 assists, of course, Jake is one of the best college players in the world today."

"Now is definitely the right time to put Jake in the game, just one move and he's best suited to hit this three-point move with this late-game pressure."

Even though everyone said that Coach Smith put Shammond Williams in place of Vince Carter, but didn't put Jake in the game even with time that he asked for almost over, so Coach Guthridge called him and said something to him.

Clearly everyone was expecting Jake on this last move and it was not logical for him to miss out on such an important three-point move, at the last minute Coach Smith put Jake in place of Ed Cota after saying something to Williams and Jamison.

Early in the possession of the ball no one was inside Duke Blue Devils and had two taller players defending where Jake was, there was one more player over Williams and one player over Okulaja.

Clearly no one expected this final three-point ball to be attempted by Jamison or Zwikker, the last player of the Duke Blue Devils team was trying to hinder Jamison from making the initial pass.

Antawn Jamison moved to Zwikker and soon everyone moved closer to the three-point line, no player entered the Duke Blue Devils internal area if anyone wanted to make a 2-point play could make and lose the game.

Time passed quickly and Jake kept moving to get rid of the two players defending against him, he tried to use speed but he had little room to move and still get the pass and try the three-point shot.

With only three seconds left Jake was not yet cleared and expected to receive the ball the same way and try the three-point shot, but to everyone's surprise, Zwikker made a screen, blocking the defender of Shammond Williams who received the ball.

No one expected this and Williams was free to make the three-point shot and hit to tie the game with only half a second to finish, so the game was almost over and overtime.

"What a move from Team Tar Heels, nobody expected Williams to attempt this three-point shot in this final play, everyone paid special attention to Jake and so with Zwikker's screen Williams was free to score all three."

"A really good and ambitious move, everyone hoped that Jake who had an average hit of over 70% would try this final move, even the Duke Blue Devils defense put two players in to score him."

"Shammond Williams is also a great player who has a lot of skill in the three-point play, so he seems to have the confidence of coach Smith and we will see this game go into overtime."

While the players waited for the game to start Jake wondered what happened, he admitted that it might be a bit arrogant and was sure the ball would be passed to him on this last play even if there were 3 players scoring it.

But he thought this because he knew he had the ability to do it and they were more than 50 percent sure that he would hit the three-point shot even if he had three players scoring it, yet Jake had to admit that Coach Smith's planned move was smart.

Not even did he expect it to be Shammond Williams who would get the ball to try the last three-point shot, but he wondered if that was proof that Coach Smith didn't have as much confidence in him as Jake had thought before.

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After all, even if that were true, it was undeniable that Jake would still have to keep playing on the Tar Heels team for his college years, but that meant that if he did, Jake would never be loyal to the team.

The game then as nobody expected was for overtime, now there were 5 more minutes for the outcome of the game to be decided, the biggest problem was that the teams were tired after playing for 40 minutes.

Even if neither player played the full 40 minutes they would still be tired the same way, of course even tired they could still keep playing, but both teams could probably make more mistakes.

Jake was an exception to this because he was fine to play another 5 minutes and Vince Carter as well as Shammond Williams also because they took turns in court time, Coach Smith naturally let Jake start playing in overtime.

No one knew if the coach had any idea what was going on in Jake's mind or maybe he didn't even care after all the most important thing now was to win this game against the Duke Blue Devils team.

Many said the advantage was all with Team Tar Heels because Team Duke Blue Devils only got upset because the strategy in them had worked now, however it was different and Team Tar Heels would do their best in those 5 minutes.

Jake was not distracted by his thoughts and played the best he could, as in the whole game Team Tar Heels was clearly stronger than Team Duke Blue Devils in this game, this time they took the opponent seriously and Jake even if tried harder in this game.

So after 5 minutes, Tar Heels ended up winning the game as expected, in that second half with extra time Jake played for 21 minutes, he made 25 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals.

In the extra 5 minutes, Jake played as he wished and with the most tired opponents, he managed to score 11 points and a few more assists, with 3 shots of 3 points in a few plays in a row.

It seemed that Jake really wanted to ensure the team's victory in those few minutes and almost did the same points of the entire second half in a third of the time, the team Tar Heels won the game by 104 points against 98 points of the opponent.

By that score few would think it was such a close match that it was even for overtime, it showed how Jake struggled to secure the team win, Jake got a double-double with 39 points and 10 assists.

"What a game we could see today, a game that seemed easy for the Tar Heels team eventually went into overtime after a surprising Duke Blue Devils end game and ended in an easy win for the Tar Heels team again."

"If we can summarize the game we could say that the Tar Heels team underestimated their opponent, at the end of the game they almost lost by carelessness and even Jake played an average game in normal time."

"It can't be said like that, Duke Blue Devils' strategy seemed to isolate Jake in the game so he couldn't play his best performance unless he passed the ball to his teammates."

"But it really looks like he was underestimating the Duke Blue Devils team during normal playing time because he scored 11 points and hit three three-point shots without missing any overtime if he did something like that during the game Team Tar Heels I would have no difficulty winning."

"This is the first time I've seen a genius perform amazingly and still get criticized, even though he has an overtime Jake hit 9 three-point shots out of 11 attempts in the game, an average of 82% on 27 points, I can say that went down in history as one of the best performers in the three-point line."

Everyone praised Jake and was surprised by his numbers, yet Jake was less praised than Stephen Curry at the same time at university even though he had better results on the three-point line.

That's because even with these results Jake was not a player who made many attempts at three-point play in a game, usually players who had three-point records averaged 9 attempts per game while Jake has averaged 6 so far.

It was rare to have an overtime game where Jake tried more than 10 shots of three while the best in three-point shots usually tried 15 times or more in the best games, so Jake averaged over 60% while the best had 44% of hit average.

By the end of the year if Jake could win a championship he would surely have more reputation than Stephen Curry had, the difference was that Jake would probably not only be known for just the three points but for getting a lot of points and having high average statistics on the box score as it had now.

After all, more than half of the games of the season were left, if the team could keep advancing in the NCAA tournament they would have only more games, so it was too early to talk about the final stats Jake would have.

After an exciting game like this everyone went back to university tired, luckily the next games would be a sequence of three home games so players would get less tired.

In addition, the team came from a sequence of 7 straight wins in which they were approaching the sequence they had earlier this year before losing to the Wake Forest team, even though they almost lost the last game as it was against a strong rival no one surprised that it was so hard.

Reporters now said that the current Tar Heels team could be one of the best players in history, being recognized as one of the best teams in history would surely be great for everyone.

From what Jake remembered Team Tar Heels after this game against Team Duke that was lost in his past life would have an incredible winning streak by the end of the season because Ed Cota had started playing longer in the games and the team it got better.

This time, however, Jake joined the team much earlier and scored more points than Ed Cota, so the team must have started this winning streak before, but Jake didn't blindly trust that as he knew he had changed that story.

After a few days the Tar Heels team soon returned to play, the game was at the Dean Smith Center and the two teams began to prepare for the game, even though coming from a game in overtime against a rival the Tar Heels team had strong players and had almost completely recovered.

Jake hadn't spoken privately to the coaches and neither of them bothered to explain his decision at the end of the last game to Jake, he didn't care as long as he kept playing, but in his heart, he didn't forget that.

The team they would face today was the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders team, the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders team had a good team this year and even losing several games they had a good season so far.

Even though the opponent was strong, the Tar Heels team was doing very well today and all the players were in good shape, Jake can play for 17 minutes in that first half and scored 16 points, 9 assists, 5 rebounds, and 4 steals.

It was a game in which he realized that his teammates were in great shape and made more assists, because of that the team ended up missing more and he got more rebounds, compared to he scored fewer points than in other games.

In the second half realizing this Jake tried even more assists in his court time, in another 16 minutes he made only 11 points, but in comparison got 11 assists, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals.

It was the first triple-double he had since entering college and Jake was very happy about it, the key to doing so was to slow down his attempts to get more points and try more assists.

After all, for every 10 assists he tried in the game his teammates sometimes missed 2 or 3, and that is because Jake's passes were always accurate, so it was harder for him to have 10 assists than to have more than 30 points.

This was not exactly the problem with rebounds, but many players always wanted to fight rebounds either on their team or the opposing team, so sometimes the luck of having the right position can guarantee more rebounds for one player.

The Tar Heels team won by scoring 111 points against only 42 points from the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders team, this showed how this game was dominated by the Tar Heels team, Carter scored 22 points and Jamison scored 26 points.

So only the three scored more than 70 points, this is considered the strongest attack of all college teams, and this was considered Jake's best game of the season, even better than the game in which he scored 51 points.

With the Tar Heels team continuing their winning streak, everyone on the team was very happy and even Coach Smith was very pleased, he had not told anyone he intended to leave the team after this season.

Nothing would be better for him than his team winning the NCAA tournament in his senior year coaching the team, so he had to admit that it was Jake who was leading the team to perform well.

After this game they would have another 4 days rest until the next game, Jake as always celebrated with his roommates and called his mother to talk.

The next day Jake did his daily training running the 50 km, he himself thought that maybe he could decrease his total time a bit further by increasing his running speed, but it wouldn't make a big difference in the upcoming marathons and Jake was waiting for his trainer to see if he would change his training style.

After running with Zack who had already gotten used to running five miles every day, Jake soon believed that Zack could run a marathon, but he wanted to train him longer and so said nothing.

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Jake was not arrogant to think that his current marathon training method was the best, for he who had the system was more appropriate, but for ordinary athletes, it could end up being harmful and less effective than other training.

After returning from classes Jake did the training with the basketball team and got a call from Tiffany, he perked up thinking it should be about the coach he was expecting.

"Hi Jake, I called to let you know that I was able to talk to that coach I told you about, he said he would get to university today to talk to you."

"So fast, did you check him for me?"

"Yes, all is well with him, this coach has trained several universities without complaint and seems to have traveled around the state and even abroad to improve his coaching skills."

"How does someone so qualified need money?"

"I checked that too, his reason is legitimate, but it's very personal so I'll let him tell you in person, but I think it's very likely that you will eventually decide to hire him unless you are very picky."

After talking to Tiffany, Jake didn't have to wait long hours to see this coach she spoke so well, he appeared to be a healthy 5-foot man, black hair with a few white strands, was probably wearing a social shirt because he knew that He would find Jake, black eyes and a common face.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Smith, my name is Frank Davis, I spoke to a woman named Tiffany on the phone and she told me that I should come here to talk to you in person."Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Davis, I think we'd better go to a restaurant to talk better."

After a few minutes they formed a restaurant near the university, Jake had not eaten anything early and Davis also did not seem to have eaten and seemed tired from the trip as soon as they ordered the food to the waitress again.

"What you said is right, I asked you to come here through Tiffany, I'm looking for a qualified coach and I think you might be the right person, but I know you have some personal situations that may be involved, so I would like to know some things about you."

"That's right, I'm 40 years old, I have a degree in physical education and I did some muscle recovery massage courses, then I did a few more specializations and even sought to improve my ability abroad."

"I worked at some universities for a few years, but I was not satisfied with their investments in athletics and athletes, in many places athletes had difficulty even paying for travel to compete and even for basic living expenses."

"So athletes had to look for sponsorship to compete, they had a lot of problems with that, so I decided to open my own gym with the money I had received."

"In that time I coached a lot of athletes, but none achieved outstanding performance in sports, the best ranking was eighth in a marathon that didn't have good athletes competing."

"But I could still support my family and have a good standard of living, and I knew it would take years to prepare good athletes and had to be lucky to find someone talented, so I was pleased."

"The problem was that my 6-year-old daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease, the disease could end up killing her and there was no cure, so we had to pay for a series of emergency surgeries."

"After she was out of danger we found that we had to pay for expensive medicine every month for her to stay healthy and have a normal life when she grew up."

"But at that point, I had sold the gym to pay for surgery costs and my wife had quit her job to take care of our daughter, now I need a job that pays better than I can expect to earn to pay for my medicine daughter and support my family."

"This situation continues for a few months, I have a job and I still have money left from the sale of my gym, but I don't know how many years we can afford my daughter's medicine, and I found out from a coach friend that you were looking for a coach."

Just as Tiffany hoped Jake felt touched by the life story of coach Frank Davis, someone capable but unlucky in life, he remembered him in his past life who also went through some such situations.

Also, just as Tiffany had said Mr. Davis was more than qualified to be his coach, so Mr. Davis also needed money so he should accept some demands from Jake.

Jake had no problems with money, in fact originally the money he received from sponsorship was precisely for him to pay a coach and devote himself to the sport, Jake never needed it and was always successful and so his sponsors never charged anything like this.

"Well then, Mr. Davis, I was really convinced that you may be the person I'm looking for to train me, but I first need to know how much you need to pay for these drugs to get an idea of how much you need to get paid."

Even if Jake had a lot of money he could not pay hundreds of thousands of dollars a month as salary for a coach, so he should know how much he could offer a salary for coach Davis.

"My daughter's medicine has a monthly dose that costs $ 10,000."

A monthly dose for $ 10,000 meant that he would have to pay $ 120,000 a year, which was not too high for Jake, but for a lifetime remedy it was a considerable amount, and Coach Davis would have to receive more. $ 15,000 a month to support your family and still pay for the medicine.

"I understand your situation, I can offer you a salary of $ 20,000 a month, should be enough for you to take care of your family."

"Thank you, Mr. Smith, I appreciate the opportunity very much."

"But before we agree to that, I have some conditions involving the training."

"Sure, you can tell."

"As you may know I'm studying at UNC University and playing basketball on the Tar Heels team, so I play once every two or three days for several months a year, and in the future, I plan to join the NBA so it will be harder to find time available."

"Still, whenever I can, I do my private training, but even if you are my trainer, I probably won't be able to have any training schedules and you will have to adapt to my free time to organize my training."

"I know it seems weird to think like that, but I managed to get everything I have in marathons by doing things that way, so it's a reality you'll have to accept."

Frank Davis thought for a while what Jake was talking about, that would mean that he would have no coaching authority and would only have to follow through with his training plans when Jake was available.

Normally this would be unacceptable for a coach who had to have authority over his athletes in training, but he understood that Jake's situation was different as he had many things to do and was still a basketball player and intended to continue as a professional basketball player.

Also, just as Jake had said he was only 18 now and already an elite and best marathoner in the world, so it was clear that Jake didn't need to change his training, so it seemed that Jake just intended to improve his training methods and not the time he spent training.

"I understand, I agree with that."

"Great, there's one more thing, everything that goes through our training including my physical condition, my training method, my physical and medical exams has to be kept in secret, I want a confidentiality contract for that."

"Of course, I have no problem with that."

"Another thing is that we will not have a normal coach and athlete contract, so you get no commission from my sponsorships or from the rewards of the competitions I win."

"I agree with that too."

Jake was doing this to make sure there was no way his secrets could be uncovered. Athletes usually take several exams of all kinds so that coaches can do the best training programs that fit only the athlete and the athlete to have the best enjoyment.

Jake knew that well, but he usually shied from taking these full exams, he just took the exams to prove that he had not ingested any substance that would improve his performance in official races.

But Coach Frank Davis would definitely ask for all sorts of exams often, and once he won a few more major marathons he would greatly improve his overall stats and surely something would change.

There was no way anyone could be suspicious that he was back in time or that he had a system in his body, and even if they were suspicious no one would believe it and they would have no way of proving it, but the more accurate exams and performance tests would surely have big changes with these improved statistics.

So to avoid problems it was better to ensure the secrecy of coach Frank Davis, as to why the coach was not entitled to participate in sponsorships and the rewards of competitions he wins in the coming years was another situation.

The sponsorships Jake received were more from basketball than from athletics, and when he joined the NBA he would receive tens of millions every year from basketball, so it was normal that he didn't want to mix things up with his athletic coach.

While participating in the rewards of competitions he won was because he didn't want coach Frank Davis to keep insisting that he participate in multiple marathons during the year just to receive a commission from the races Jake won.

That was a reality so it was better to be forewarned, for Coach Frank Davis it just seemed like Jake was being stingy if it went on like that he would not be a coach but an assistant to Jake who was just taking orders.

But as he needed the money he had to accept all the demands that Jake made, besides training Jake he would be training the best marathoner in history, for sure in the future he could work elsewhere and get a good salary to take care of his life daughter in a few years.

"So it's all settled, from now on Mr. Frank Davis will be my athletic coach, after you sign the contracts my lawyer gives you, you can come here to talk to me again."

"Call me Coach Davis instead of Mr. Davis, in a few days I'll be here."

Emily soon came to university with contracts prepared for Frank Davis, Coach Davis was also very decisive and as he knew he would work with Jake for many years under the conditions Jake imposed, so he sold his house in Austin, Texas.

Soon he found a hotel to host his family, he didn't know where Jake would live in a few years so it was better to wait until he bought another house for his family, with his salary they could easily live in a hotel and wait for Jake to leave college to see where they would buy a house.

His wife Zoe had quit her job to look after their daughter, and since they had nothing to hold them somewhere, it was better than the family always lived in a comfortable hotel than in Austin, Texas, just the two of them living alone.

That way things were easier for Coach Frank Davis who soon returned with his family to Jake University, then he met Emily and signed the contracts, so Emily returned to Miami and Coach Davis was hired.

Jake was kind enough to pay his first upfront salary as a kind of bonus and soon they started preparing for Jake's training, first Coach Davis followed Jake's daily training to learn how he prepared for marathons.

After all, Jake was a multiple marathon winner and had the world record, it was normal to hope that his training could help Coach Davis improve his training routine to pass to other athletes in the future.

So in the morning, Jake went to do his daily training as usual accompanied by Zack, Coach Davis went with them and took a timer and notebook to take notes, after doing the warm-up exercises Jake started running the 50 km.

After training was over Coach Davis was still calm and writing down some things in his notebook, after they got back to university and walked away from Zack they started talking.

"What did you think of my training?"

"Do you do this training every day?"

"No, I did before, but now at least twice a week I don't do this training because I have to conserve my stamina on days when I have games with the basketball team."

"If you were doing this training every day before and have never had any injuries while still playing basketball, I think this training may be very good for you."

Jake was surprised by this, in fact, he found his training routine very intense himself, this training only served him because Jake had the system and would not easily get hurt and his body recovered quickly.

He knew it was possible for elite athletes just like him to run 50km every day, but not at the running speed he did that was below the world record, so he didn't expect Coach Davis to say that this could be a good training method.

"I understand that you expected me to say something else, and I understand why you demanded that I sign a confidentiality agreement, and I was honestly surprised when I saw that you run below your own world record for 50 km."

"But it's not that weird as training, it's just your running speed, and I suppose at the time of the competitions you don't want to risk it and so slowed your running pace."

"But I think you are very careful, if you run every day at this pace you can surely run just over 42km at this pace and finish the marathon smoothly."

"If you've never had any injuries even training so intensely this shows that your body is incredibly tough and your stamina is amazing too."

"So before deciding how to improve your training routine I want to ask you to do several exams at the clinic and then let us rent an elite gym and test your physical limits."

Just as Jake hoped he would have to take some exams before he actually started training with Coach Davis, but just because he hadn't neglected the training method he had been using since a few years ago, Jake had already liked Coach Davis more.

Knowing this Jake took some exams in the coming days before the next team's Tar Heels game, the exams were tedious, but Jake still did all the tests at the academy were more complicated because Jake wanted a secret about the test results.

So it took longer to achieve, but since Jake was famous for being a great marathon runner and having the world record in the marathon he got a guarantee of secrecy about his tests, few people were present at the test sites.

Several tests were done on the most modern machines of the time and Jake tested for various sports, just as expected Jake's results on the performance tests were shocking.

In many sports, Jake almost achieved the same results as the Olympic champions other than the marathon, and in some reflex tests, Jake was also impressive.

In endurance tests then everyone was shocked to find out the limits of Jake's stamina, several hours on a treadmill race were needed to reach the limit, and this with a considered fast test speed.

In part their stamina and lung capacity were better than Olympic swimmers, the people who were collecting the results regretted signing a confidentiality agreement, otherwise, they could publish some of these results to shock the sporting world.

After that no one doubted why Jake could compete in marathons and still play high-level basketball, after that they returned to college, Coach Davis needed to wait for the results of Jake's clinical exams before preparing his training.

So while waiting for Jake to refocus on basketball, the next day came the next game for the Tar Heels team, it would be another home game and the players were more rested after four days of rest.

That was the number 20 game of the season and the Tar Heels team had an 8 straight winning streak and only lost 2 games all season, it was for sure one of the best seasons in the team's history.

The last match between the two teams this year the team Tar Heels came out with the victory after a difficult game with a small points advantage, so all players were concentrated for this game that should be difficult.

Jake started playing again and had another good performance to help his teammates, in the first half he played for 16 minutes and made 12 points, 10 assists, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals, again he saw that his teammates were having a good game and took the opportunity to improve his assist statistic.

So with Jake being well-marked and not trying to make too many plays his teammates had more opportunities, Jake didn't know that because he was thinking of making more assists, but he also won the favor of his teammates and Coach Smith.

Everyone liked a star player, but for the team, it was much better to see a talented player who did a lot of assists like Ed Cota than a player who just scored dozens of points.

In the second half the team continued to dominate this game, Jake can play for 17 minutes and made 13 points, 11 assists, 6 rebounds, and 3 steals, so the team can easily win this game.

Team Tar Heels won by scoring 97 points against 64 points for Florida State Seminoles, Jake made another triple-double with 25 points, 21 assists, 11 rebounds, and 6 steals, it was another good team game and 9 consecutive wins.

The players were also excited about this sequence and were waiting for the next game, the team mood was very good with all the animated and calm players, it was good to have a winning streak to calm the player's mind.

For the next few days Jake continued training with the basketball team, he talked even more with Charlie, Jamison, and Carter, yet normally the 4 didn't usually get together in training.

Charlie trained for a different position and had his own training partners, and they both talked more about business and fraternity, with Jamison and Carter he talked more about sports and general affairs.

But in training he spent more time with Jamison and Carter as the three often practiced plays together, they could be considered great friends after spending several months together.

The three of them had goals of joining the NBA and so it was normal for them to enjoy talking about the future, Jake felt strange because he saw the two of them play in the NBA for a long time on television.

As they talked about the future Jake couldn't stop thinking that he knew what their future could be, luckily both of them would have good careers, Jamison played as well as he could for several years and Carter even with some injuries played for over 20 years.

The one with the most uncertain future among the 3 was himself, Jake was very confident that his future would be bright and that he could achieve more important things and fulfill all his dreams, he was satisfied with the things he had now and just wanted accomplish a few more things.

Of course, that wasn't why he would stop after a few years, he would always want to achieve more and more, but the pressure of being successful would no longer exist in his heart.

Jake was happy with his performance on the basketball team Tar Heels, he was known as one of the best college basketball players and the best freshman of the year, was likely until he could win this year's awards.

But he was also unhappy because of his year as a marathon runner, this is a pivotal year for Jake in basketball, it was his first year on the Tar Heels team and even as he started the games he didn't know if he had the confidence of Coach Smith.

So he predicted that he would have to miss a few races this year to get the coach's approval, so on February 1st he missed the first marathon he intended to participate in the year.

It was the Tokyo marathon, the truth was that although the system had given a reward to every major marathon that Jake won the concept of major marathon at that time was still different from the future, these marathons were not yet recognized by the athletic association and did not give Special rewards.

So much so that the Tokyo Marathon, for example, did not have the same format it would have 10 years later, yet Jake knew that if he won he could achieve both statistics points in stamina and agility.

But this marathon was the same day as Team Tar Heels against Team Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders a week ago, so it was impossible that Jake could lose the game to run this marathon.

Whether it was a day earlier or a day later he could get a permit from Coach Smith, but the same day was impossible, luckily Jake was an American runner who never ran out of the country so no one could know he intended to run earlier this year.

So Jake didn't know if he could race in Boston or London, maybe after the NCAA tournament final was over he had a chance to race in those marathons, but if it was like Tokyo he would have to lose.

So he would have to postpone until next year his plan to win all 6 major marathons, which might take a few more years, luckily Jake was still young and had many years to try these races.

After just a day of rest and training, the next Tar Heels game came, it was another home game with a winning streak, so the Tar Heels team was confident of victory.

Fans were also excited about this game and even came early to watch, Jake's friends also came to watch all of Jake's games to support his roommate.

William was improving his grades and getting investment advice from Jake, meanwhile, Aaron was hoping his leg would fully recover, it was much better now and he might even run, but it would take a while for him to play again.

Both teams prepared and were ready to start the game, the opponent in today's game was team Virginia Cavaliers, in the last game team Tar Heels could win easily, yet it was an opponent that Jake was careful to have beaten the team Tar Heels from what Jake remembered in his past life.

Only Jake was more careful in this game and his teammates were more relaxed, even Coach Smith who was pleased with the team's performance just talked about the game strategy and didn't ask for any special care.

What the coach used to cheer up the team was that they had a 9-win streak just like at the beginning of the season before they lost to the Wake Forest team, so the coach wanted the team to increase that streak to 10 games.

No one wants to lose again, especially when the team could outperform their best performance of the year, only Jake didn't get excited about Coach Smith's speech and focused on playing well.

Jake would again start playing and the Virginia Cavaliers team was prepared to defend against Jake especially, after all in the first game he was the main cause of the team's defeat in that game.

In the first half, Jake not only struggled to play for the team as in the last games and made more individual plays as well, so the team Virginia Cavaliers did not know how to defend against Jake.

It was hard to find a team that could stop the attack of the Tar Heels team that had Jake, Carter, and Jamison to make the offensive moves, the three of them were players who could do all sorts of attacks and combinations of moves together.

In that first half, Tar Heels took the lead easily and Jake played for 17 minutes and managed to make 15 points, 6 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals, it was a good first time for him as in the last games.

In the second half, team Tar Heels continued to dominate the game and Team Virginia Cavaliers was having difficulty defending, after what happened in the game against Team Duke they no longer relaxed until the end of the game.

Jake played for 17 minutes in the second half and scored 16 points, 4 assists, 4 rebounds, and 3 steals, so he got another double-double in this game and the Tar Heels team secured another win easily.

After getting used to the whole team's style of play Jake can play more easily and a few games in a row had always managed to make at least one double-double, yet Jamison and Carter have also been having good games.

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Defensively Zwikker and Okulaja have also played well and even in offense they have an important performance in Coach Smith's playing strategies, with the whole team playing well they have been increasingly considered among the favorites to win the NCAA tournament.

Even from the university and coach background that often make a difference in the toughest games, Jake has always been shown a special performance for a freshman player.

He has been playing so well that even the fact that he is the only sponsored player has been overlooked by reporters and the media at large, even his marathon victories and world record are coming second in comparison to his performance at the University.

It is also mentioned that Jake had a smart choice to choose to play at university rather than directly to the NBA since if he entered the NBA directly from high school he would most likely stay at least two years in reserve before having a chance to play.

Unless he joined a low-level team, but then his chances of winning an NBA title would be very low for a few years, so after staying for a few years and showing what he can at university he could even play as a starter since your first year.

That was just what Jake thought, of course, the main reason for him to go to college was to fulfill his mother's dream and graduate from some degree, so he could also have a college background and gain more visibility.

Tar Heels won this match 89 points against 56 points of Virginia Cavaliers team, this was the tenth consecutive victory of the team and would probably continue without losing, the crowd was even happier.

Tar Heels' next match would be as a visitor so they could not watch the games at the Dean Smith Center for some time now, yet they expected the team to continue winning in the away games.

In the next few days, players would have a few more days to rest before the next Regular Season game, they wouldn't really rest as they would still have the training, but training was much less tiring for players than games that had a lot of pressure.

Jake more than anyone would have no time to rest, on the day of this match against team Virginia Cavaliers Coach Davis had already received the results of Jake's clinical examinations, so he can see that, of course, Jake was in perfect health.

He had no muscle problems, no blood, bone, or any part of his body, his training also left no injuries hidden, even the one Jake had a few years ago had been completely recovered.

Seeing this Coach Davis found it impressive and was even happier, he finally had an athlete who was very talented, willing to train and was physically very strong too, so Coach Davis was convinced that Jake's current training could do no harm.

Jake naturally knew and expected these results, after all, he had the system that always took care of his body and strengthened his body every time he gained new statistics, otherwise, Jake would have injured himself several times as a child and had no developed body and tried to exercise heavy.

Knowing this Coach Davis was pleased and knew that he could create a suitable training plan for Jake, so the day Jake played Coach Davis spent the whole night creating a training plan for Jake to start the next day.

So the next morning Coach Davis woke up early and went to the place where Jake and Zack always trained, Jake had finished warming up and started running when Coach Davis arrived.

Seeing that Jake had started training Coach Davis decided to wait for Jake to finish his race before talking to him about the new training plan he had made, after all, it would have to be approved by Jake before they started.

Jake did not actually expect to see Coach Davis anytime soon, he hoped that after the exams arrived the coach would spend several days preparing to create a suitable training plan for him .

Shortly after Jake had finished running Zack returned to university alone while Coach Davis and Jake went to a nearby diner to talk, Jake had seen a stack of papers in Coach Davis's hands and knew what the matter was .

"I received the results of your exams yesterday, as you have no health problems or with your body, I decided to make a training plan for you that I had already thought a few days ago . "

"After seeing how you have been training now I'm sure you have very big stamina and a natural talent for being a marathoner, which means a lot of the problems other normal athletes have that you don't have . "

"This is a big plus and can also be a disadvantage, even if other athletes don't train as much as you can still finish the marathon in a shorter time, you have to adapt to a quick time to win . "

"Fortunately for you, this does not seem to be a disadvantage as you can still get better, maybe just someone like you can try to break the barrier and run a marathon in less than 2 hours . "

Jake knew that it wasn't really his natural talent but the system that did it for him, but he was surprised how Coach Davis realized that quickly, to Jake's relief it could be considered a 'talent' .

Jake was a little embarrassed looking at Coach Davis's well-made training plan, he was waiting for the right moment to tell the coach about his ambition, but Coach Davis ended up working faster than he was .

Advertisement"Coach, I'm sure your training plan is very good, but I have something I didn't tell you about my expectations for the next few years in athletics . "

"You should know that I always enjoyed running and so I started training for marathons on my own, but that was because I thought it was easier to compete in marathons without good training, and then I found that I had the talent for it . "

"In addition to running I had another dream that was getting a lot of Olympic gold medals, so I think I can try to compete in other long-distance and even short distances . "

"But I know that for these modalities it is important to have proper training, so I was looking for a multi-modal trainer to at least try so I wanted a training plan that involved other modalities of athletics . "

Coach Davis's first thought of hearing this was that Jake was very greedy and wanted so much from athletics, just specializing in one sport could take several years and needed training and talent to keep up .

Besides, Jake, though very talented, was not only training in athletics and also training in basketball, so it was harder and hoping to compete in various sports, but after thinking a little he decided not to say that .

It wasn't just because he knew Jake had hired him just because he planned to compete in various sports, but because of the physical exams and fitness tests, he had done with Jake a few days ago .

In these tests, Jake achieved better results than all athletics champions in long-distance competitions and slightly lower than athletes competing in short distance modalities that required more technique and speed .

Even though these exams didn't show everything a coach needed to know, at least it showed that Jake was much more likely to compete in those competitions than someone who has never competed in any sport before .

So he thought it wouldn't hurt to do some tests for a few months to see if Jake had the ability to fight for medals in these competitions or not, to do that he would have to change his training plans .

"I will be honest, Jake, I don't think you have a chance to win multiple medals in different modalities after all long-distance modalities have very different talent requirements than long-distance athletes . "

"But we can do some tests over the next few months to see if you can do it or not, but I think for long-distance competitions like 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters you might be able to compete to win now . "

Coach Davis wasn't just trying to appease Jake and really thought that for 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters competitions Jake had a lot of chances to win, after all, Jake had a lot of talent for long-distance running .

Most important for these races besides fitness and training was knowing how to run at the right pace, so Jake could win in several marathons in a row while other elite athletes had fickle results .

As Jake easily ran 10 km in 29 minutes he didn't have to increase his running pace so much to have a chance of winning, so if Jake had stamina and endurance to run for 50 km every day it should be no problem running faster at a distance smaller .

If Jake could run 12 seconds faster per minute he could guarantee a winning time which should not be too difficult for Jake to get with a few months of training, for the 5,000 meters would be a little harder but it was not impossible .

If he could do that would make history and win three gold medals in one competition, his training would not be much different from the current one and only a few months of some competition he should focus more on .

"If you get enough time to compete in these 3 modes, let's try and see how you do from 1500 meters and 800 meters, and so on, I don't think you have the talent to try the 100 meters, but let's see with the time . "

For training he used logic even when he thought Jake could be very greedy in trying to win various sports, it made Jake satisfied and convinced that Tiffany had found the right coach for him .

"I know I'm trying to do something seemingly impossible coach, let's try to focus first on the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters modalities, then we have time to try the other modalities . "

"But I want to be ready for the upcoming Olympics to compete in the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters, if we can we will try more modalities as well . "

So Coach Davis just nodded, he thought that 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters in more than 3 years would be a reality for Jake if he had the talent, otherwise, Coach Davis would try to get Jake to give up on that idea .

After that Coach Davis returned to the hotel where he lived to redo the training plan, luckily it would not be much different as Jake was not thinking of competing in short distance modalities for years to come .

What Coach Davis didn't know was that Jake wasn't in a hurry to start short-range competitions because he knew he would get a lot of statistics over the next few years, so it was only natural that Jake wanted to wait until he was in top physical condition .

With 4 more agility points Jake did not believe that he would not approach the natural talent of the best athletes in the world, maybe he could even become faster than some, after all, Jake would pass the 40 agility points with those 4 points more .

After speaking with coach Davis Jake, he focused back on his basketball training, of course, he continued his daily training with Zack, but for Jake at the moment basketball was more important .

A few days later came the day of the next game of the team Tar Heels, after resting for a few days but the team was very excited even if the next game was as a visitor after all the team was in good time this season .

With a winning streak of 10, they were behind the eleventh against a team they had beaten earlier this season, after a few hours both teams were ready for the game .

The opponent for this game was again the NC State Wolfpack team, the last game ended with an easy victory of the team Tar Heels even if it did not perform very well of the players of the team Tar Heels .

And it looked like it would be the same in that game, in the first half the players of the Tar Heels team were performing far below what they had in the last games, the NC State Wolfpack wasn't good offensively either so they focused on defense further disrupting the Tar Heels team to make points . Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click www . webnovel . com for visiting .

Even though Jake was affected by the poor performance of the team and even getting some points made less than in other games, in the first half he could play for 16 minutes and made 12 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds, and 2 steals .

In the second half the game remained very still and was difficult to watch for the people who were present or even for those who were at home, the two coaches seemed to expect such a game and made no change in strategy .

So in the second half, Jake played for 16 minutes and made 12 points, 2 assists, 3 rebounds, and 1 steal, Jake himself was not satisfied with the game he had, but the important thing was that the team Tar Heels came out with the victory .

The Tar Heels team won by 62 points against only 42 points by the NC State Wolfpack, it was a game with a lot of advantage, but with only 62 points made by the Tar Heels team .

Even though Jake was not satisfied with his performance and the rest of the team were all happy to have won this game, they now had a winning streak of 11 and were more confident about the next games .

Now there were only 5 games left until the end of Regular Season and they saw that they had a good chance of finishing with an amazing winning streak and so an excellent season, at the conference they had only one loss and every season just two losses and against two teams strong .

At this time of the season, they were leading the Atlantic Coast Conference, and if they won 5 more games as well as remaining conference leader they would have much more confidence for the upcoming ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament .

All media that talked about college basketball always highlighted the performance of the Tar Heels team this year, the whole team seemed to have a lot of strength in every position, even though in some positions the players didn't stand out so much they were still fundamental to the team .

The biggest highlights were Jake, Vince Carter, and Antawn Jamison who accounted for much more than half of the team points in all games and most of the rebounds as well, even the reserves like Ed Cota, Shammond Williams who had even more time . of the court were also spoken .

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"It could have been said before that it could still be too early to talk about favorite teams, but now there are only 5 games left for Regular Season, then we go to the ACC tournament, so I think it's time to see who's favorite . "

"I agree with that, the Tar Heels team lost only two games this season, and those two defeats were for teams that can also be considered favorites and have a very strong team for this year . "

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"Wake Forest is definitely a favorite with a very good season so far and with Tim Duncan on the team who is an excellent player and should go to the NBA draft this year and is a favorite to win several top player awards of the season . "

"The other team they lost to is the Arizona Wildcats team that for the past 10 years has been showing their strength in college basketball and is a favorite to win this NCAA tournament with a good team making a good season . "

"That's right, besides, we have to point out that Jake is one of the best freshmen of the last 30 years or so in college basketball and comes with scary statistics this season fighting even to be the best player of the year . "

"He has an average of fewer than 30 minutes per game, playing the position with Shammond Williams who has been playing very well this season and Ed Cota who was one of the hopes for a great season this year . "

"Jake averages over 30 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, and 4 steals per game, plus an average of over 60 percent on both the three-point and field goal average . "

The commentators who were talking about Jake were impressed by this average box score statistics for this season's games, not nearly the biggest names in history, but in that, much more competitive 90's basketball was hard to even for players' geniuses score 30 points per game in a season .

"That's because this season in more than 5 games Jake played for less than 20 minutes, in the two games that Team Tar Heels lost he played less than 20 minutes in the whole game, so I think with him playing more 30 minutes these two defeats would not have happened . "

Jake's confidence in this commentator was surprising, but the others had to admit that the dice matched that description, so if Jake had played for more than 30 minutes the result could really be different .

Everyone knew that at this time of the season it was almost impossible for Coach Smith to leave Jake out of games, so they could know if that was right in the next games, which was certain with Jake on the Tar Heels team they were stronger .

"Also, let's not forget that Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison are still on that team, these two are excellent players that are highly anticipated on NBA teams in the coming seasons . "

"Even though Jake averaging nearly 30 points per game these two also maintain an average of more than 15 points per game, the three usually make more than half of the team points in all games . "

"Serge Zwikker and Ademola Okulaja have also been having a great season, both with more than 10 points per average game, even though Okulaja playing less time than the others he is still important to the Tar Heels team strategy . "

"Not forgetting coach Dean Smith who has been leading this team for several seasons, he's one of the most successful coaches in history and knows how to organize a good team . "

With all this, they had to admit that this year surely the Tar Heels team was a favorite to win this year's NCAA tournament, in the next 5 games the Regular Season would end and they could see what it would be like afterward .

Over the next few days, the Tar Heels team continued to do hard training to continue the winning streak, Jake also continuing his daily training while waiting for Coach Davis to finish his training routine .

So as soon as the day of the next game came, it was a game with the weak Georgia Tech Yellow team against whom they easily won this season with the Tar Heels team making double the Georgia Tech Yellow points .

So along with the 11 game winning streak, it was normal for players to be confident about this game, even though Jake didn't believe this game would be any problem, yet he would concentrate on playing the best he could .

It was another away game so the opponents were confident in this game even though they lost so much in the last game, so at least in confidence, both teams were equal for this game .

In the first half, Jake was playing well as always and so the whole team had a good first half, yet Georgia Tech Yellow was unexpectedly playing well in the attack and gave some problems to the defense of Tar Heels .

Even though they finished the first half with a big lead on the scoreboard, Jake played for 17 minutes in that first half and made 21 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds, and 4 steals, thus leading the team in a good first half .

In the second half, Tar Heels continued to dominate the game and so Georgia Tech Yellow started attacking less and trying to defend more, but with Jake having a good game it was difficult for the defense to stop him .

Thus the game ended with a comfortable victory for the team Tar Heels, Jake played for another 17 minutes in that second half and made 23 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, and 3 steals, with another good game led the team to victory .

Team Tar Heels win by 89 points against 68 points from Team Georgia Tech Yellow, with another double-double scoring 44 points and 11 assists Jake brought Team Tar Heels for another easy win .

The Tar Heels team now had a 12-win streak and their next game would be at the Dean Smith Center, the perfect setting for a rematch game against one of the only teams that defeated Tar Heels this year .

This upcoming game against the Wake Forest Demon team was a much-awaited game by all the media and players of the Tar Heels team, everyone was confident that with Jake on the team they could beat the Wake Forest Demon team even if their opponents had Tim Duncan on the team .

Jake was also confident of victory in the next game, after all the same time the two teams were different from the beginning of the season, the team Tar Heels was the leader of the conference while the team Wake Forest Demon was second .

Even if they expected to win this game in order to have a chance to finish Regular Season first, the Tar Heels team would play this game at home, so the Tar Heels team was considered a favorite for the next game .

So in the next few days the Tar Heels team spent preparing for the next game after a few days game day arrived, the Dean Smith Center bleachers were full that day and Jake's friends were present to watch this exciting game .

After a couple of hours, both teams were ready for the game, the Tar Heels team had the same initial formation as the other games with Jake playing as PG, Vince Carter playing as SG, Antawn Jamison playing as SF, Ademola Okulaja playing as PF and Serge . Zwikker in Center position .

The Wake Forest Demon team came with the same team from the last game they beat Team Tar Heels, Jerry Braswell as PG, Tony Rutland as SG, Ricky Peral as SF, Tim Duncan as PF and Loren Woods playing as Center .

This was to be expected after all as they had won the last game they did not need to change the initial lineup, yet the opposing team coach was more concerned with the change in the initial lineup of Tar Heels .

After all unlike the last game between them, Jake was starting in the game, it showed that the team Tar Heels hoped to win this game and would not give the team Wake Forest Demon chances to do as in the last game .