bhwS

by Cr0w0019

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

27. Chapter 27

Business and Basketball

The other day before Charlie arrived in Miami, Emily called sadly to tell Jake that her father and the other investors quickly accepted and were very happy that the shares they had would be sold, they would sign the liability and in the coming days, they would sell the shares.

By selling the shares they would get $ 98,746,215, and $ 6,874,621 was from the investment firm, in Jake's case, yet they would receive $ 61,871,593 having invested $ 30 million, thus having more than 2 times the profit amount invested.

It was something they could not complain about giving 10 percent of the profit to the investment firm after earning so much, Emily's father earned $ 83,043,307 in profit and as promised gave half of that to Emily which is $ 4,021,653.

Jake gave Emily another $ 68,746 of her share for this investment and so she earned her first money in addition to her salary for the work done, that was pretty much her bonus for working at Jake's investment firm.

She would earn more than 10 times that value if Jake sold Matthew's shares now, and if Jake expected that value would increase even more in the next few years, so Emily thought it would be worth working for this company in the coming years.

Even though many CEOs of other companies could earn hundreds of thousands of dollars she knew she had no competence to do the same as them, this investment firm could only take care of billions of dollars and still make more profit because it was Jake who took care of all the investments.

Emily knew she was actually an assistant to Jake and could help him get things done, so she was pleased with Jake's respect and confidence in letting her handle all his business.

Later that day Charlie went to the restaurant Emily had booked to be able to talk to Jake and show Jake the full products, Charlie was also excited about it and thought this idea of Jake could be great in the future.

As someone who understood technology, Charlie naturally understood that such a touchscreen and multi-touch technology made so advanced and in a smartphone size could be used for many things in the future.

Charlie understood this by seeing digital cameras and computers and the internet, things that had become inaccessible to the general public became increasingly popular, Charlie still didn't have the ability to see what this could be used for, but knowing that Jake thought In trying to create so many patents this should be something important someday.

Charlie was not someone who thought of getting rich and just wanted to work on projects that would be remembered in the future, and he felt that working with Jake was the right way to go, of course, he was pleased to receive a big salary from Jake and beyond having too much investment for the products had no one rushing his work.

"Hi Charlie, I was very happy to hear you were coming to Miami."

"Hi Jake, I was very excited after my team finished this project, I had to bring this product personally to know if it was really what you thought."

So Charlie handed Jake some smartphone and tablet prototypes that Jake had ordered for him, Jake received and was a little impressed with the work of Charlie's team, they were only 3 people and managed to create something very close to a smartphone.

It was much heavier than a regular smartphone even though it had almost nothing useful inside, had a system to make the screen light up and also a simple calculator, plus it had a test system showing that it could touch everywhere until then.

Also, a simple, useless thing cost thousands of dollars to do, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of dollars Jake had invested to develop this technology, but Jake felt that this was what he needed to get major design patents. smartphone and tablet as well as touchscreen and multi-touch.

When Charlie and his team could create the Android operating system, Jake could use this smartphone to connect to the operating system so that he could get almost every patent he thought of creating.

"It was really great, Charlie, that's how I thought and I know you guys did a great job with current technology, try to keep checking the technologies to make this smartphone even lighter with its components."

"I was pleased to see how you were able to create this product and develop both technologies in a short time."

"We achieved this because the technology already existed and we just had to find a way to develop further and with your clear ideas of what the product would look like and the foundation you gave us where to look for the technologies to do it made it easier and cheap too."

It was as Charlie had said, just as his friends who worked at Matthew's company said, Jake, saying exactly what the product should look like and what they needed to do to do the project made it much easier to develop the products.

"We try to talk to Arm Holdings, Qualcomm and TSMC, but so far we haven't got anything concrete from them, it seems they want to see what our projects are and our financial ability to know whether or not they will work with our company."

Jake had expected something like this to happen, he had no known company and his financial strength was still unknown and so these companies didn't even want to think about working with Jake's company that had only 3 employees so far.

But before getting several international patents for the products he was developing, Jake did not want to show the smartphone design to these companies, and for the next few years, the technology would not be ready to make a smartphone or look like what it was thinking.

The important thing was to start contact with these companies and thus show that since 1997 they were developing a technology product, so in the future, Jake would surely be much easier to talk to these companies.

Being a partner with Amazon and Matthew Jake's company would make it even easier to get a contract with these companies, Jake would need the semiconductors, chipsets, chip systems, microprocessors, memory, and software that would be more easily partnered with.

With Qualcomm, besides many of these things, he could enter the telecommunications business more easily if he needed to, it was something he didn't even want to think about in the near future.

"I want you to develop another product that is related to this smartphone, it will be much harder to create and you will have to hire more employees than you will have to sign confidentiality contracts."

"Of course, we were already waiting for you to call us to do something else, I want to work on a project that will make this smartphone an even more revolutionary product."

"That's good, I'm thinking of creating an operating system for the smartphone, it's something like Windows 95, the difference is that it's made for small applications and needs a lot less micro-sized components to fit this smartphone."

After that Jake spent a few hours explaining his view of operating systems like Android, not the first of the time because there would be Symbian that had already been released this year.

But the operating system that Jake thought was Android many years after it had a completely different operation than Symbian, this was a project that for current technology would take several years even with the help of Jake telling how it should work.

Even though Charlie, who had studied hard, wasn't sure how he could do what Jake was suggesting, he could do something for a desktop computer, but couldn't imagine anything that could be done with micro components, so Jake had asked him to talk to all of these semiconductor and microprocessor companies.

It would be a lot easier if Jake said it was like a regular cell phone, but Jake didn't want to say it was because it would make things so much more complicated, over the years and so much investment Jake knew that Charlie's team could do that.

So Charlie returned to California excited about another project of many years that could change the future of technology, after doing so Jake thought he had done everything he could in product creation until many years later.

Now he just had to focus on creating multiple patents for the touchscreen and multi-touch smartphone and tablet, Jake still had a lot of investment ideas and so had more than 7 million dollars saved.

With the money he received from the sale of investment company Jake's stock he had 6 million more to invest, now he needed to know how much he would receive from Matthew's company this year to invest in Cisco stock again.

He had not invested everything he had in Cisco stock because he decided that he would always leave some reserve money for possible investments if Matthew's company decided not to make a profit share and Jake's investment company didn't receive those nearly 7 million Jake would have no money if he had invested all his money in Cisco stock.

In addition, he couldn't know how much he had received until February of next year when he talked to Matthew in person if Jake hadn't received a few million in sponsorship and marathon prizes he couldn't even pay the salaries of his corporate employees and his employees Charlie's company investments.

After Charlie left Jake called Emily to meet her again the other day to talk about the patents, Jake didn't have much time in Miami so he had to sort things out quickly before the next game.

The other day after training in the morning Jake went to meet Emily at the restaurant, he took some prototypes of the smartphone and tablet and several sheets he had written with some explanations about the technology and also the patents he wants to get.

"Hi Emily, I'm sorry about selling your father's shares, I really just wanted to help you and your family, but with your father really wanting to sell the shares and yet the accusations he made to the company left me no choice."

"It's okay, I understand what you are saying because I know how well my father's and other investors' complaints hurt the company, other investors who were interested gave up trying to invest by listening to these rumors."

"No problem, even if other investors showed up I would not accept any more investment in the company, we will take care only of my shares and also of Matthew and we will earn enough from it."

"If you want you can invest the money you received from your father, I'm hoping that the stock will still value almost a thousand percent over the next 3 years, those 4 million you have could turn into 40 million by 2000 and I won't charge you anything to take care of your investments."

"I appreciate it, but I don't have the courage to invest those 4 million with so many rumors that the bubble can burst at any moment and investors lose millions, and if I invest and my dad see how much I made it might feel even worse."

Emily didn't have the heart to say it, but she was also suspicious if stocks would really value that much in the coming years, she knew well that investing in the stock market was a high risk investment in which everything could be lost.

Even more so in a situation as unknown and different as that of overvaluing companies that were connected to the internet, everyone who understood the market knew that these companies were overvalued and therefore hesitated to invest.

Jake's investment firm had a number of stock market specialists, and especially the stock of the Cisco company, which was the company's only invested stock, and any investment firm that saw it would find it crazy not to diversify and invest in a number of companies and invest in just one.

This could maximize profit, but it also greatly increased the risks of this investment, no one knew how Jake did these calculations saying that Cisco's stock would still appreciate more than 10 times because analyzing the company's accounts made no sense.

Jake didn't want to explain to anyone why he did it because he couldn't, he already knew that this was the company he would value most and so he invested all the stock in Cisco and Jake also knew exactly when to sell so as not to lose money.

"Alright then, wait until February and then I'll tell you how much it is for you to invest in stocks again, we will invest every year until 1999, we have to earn as much as possible so that your stake is even bigger."

"I see, anything else?"

"Yeah, actually the reason I called you here as you may know is because Charlie's team finished the products I asked him to develop."

"Now I want you to find a group of very good and reliable lawyers to work with them on to get as many patents as you can get for these products."

After that Jake explained to Emily some technical terms lawyers could use to get the patent, some of those terms were sent by Charlie and their team when Jake asked and others were from Jake coming from the future.

Because Jake's tech company was small, it was much easier and cheaper for them to get a patent on a product approved, especially with the reports Jake had prepared knowing exactly how a smartphone would work in the future.

Emily was a little upset at first that Jake asked her to ask a team of patent attorneys to work with her, but after hearing Jake saying all the technical terms and how many patents he wanted for these products she realized she wouldn't be able to get it that.

These patent processes usually took many years and needed a lot of research, especially when it was a patent using a technology that already existed. Jake wanted lawyers to show that the use of patents he was applying for was commercial and for a product he developed. and greatly improved a technology that already existed.

And it was true knowing that this was a technology that would only appear in another 7 or 8 years in the future, so after many hours with Jake explaining the future uses of this smartphone and tablet he let Emily and the lawyers handle it.

Even if he couldn't get all the patents he wanted, Jake knew he could get a lot of money in the future if only some of the patents he thought were approved, once the Android system was ready he could get many more patents.

Jake's biggest goal was not to stop the biggest companies from creating the smartphone, he would only do that if he really decided to start a smartphone company, what he wanted was to partner with the biggest companies in the world and make a lot of money by letting them. companies would use his patents.

He was a partner at Amazon today and would still look for more big companies of the future to become a partner, so what Jake thought was that with big partners he would be able to easily create new products.

Also, it was easy for Jake to do as he already knew how these products worked because they came from the future, if it was complicated as many products he wouldn't even bother trying to get a patent.

After that Jake spent some more time talking about all the business matters he had to talk to Emily before returning home, after this meeting he wouldn't see Emily for a few more months.

Having resolved all work matters Jake still spent one more day with Eva in Miami before returning to college, even though I tried to resolve so many issues Jake still spent most of his time with his mother because while he was talking about business Eva was in the restaurant.

Jake came back just a day before the team's next game of the season, but neither Coach Guthridge nor his other teammates complained about it, everyone knew that Jake always played well at the games and was the most trained of the whole team.

Besides, Jake had used this week to spend with his family and that was something everyone respected, after a good rest the whole team was focused and ready for the next game.

The opponent for this game was the Princeton Tigers team that Jake wanted to play this game away from home to talk to Joseph, but this game would be at home at the Dean Smith Center, was good for the team and Jake also enjoyed playing near the home crowd of the Tar Heels team.

Besides, this was always a tough game, especially in those years that the Princeton Tigers team has always been doing great seasons just like last year and this season as well as Jake remembered.

The Tar Heels team came from a 9-win streak in 9 games and so players were more confident, but the Princeton Tigers team came from a great 7-win streak in 7 games, so it would be a tough opponent.

In his past life, Jake remembered that this was one of only two games that the Princeton Tigers team would miss this season being the other game in the elimination of their NCAA tournament team.

And that victory would only come out in a tightly contested game with few points, so if Jake wasn't careful the Tar Heels team could end up losing that game, this was also one of the only games that Jamison can't score many points.

The other day came the day of the game, in a few hours both teams were ready for the start of the game, the crowd was very excited waiting for another victory of the team Tar Heels, even though the opponent was difficult the fans thought that with Jake in the team was difficult for team Tar Heels to lose the game.

"Today we are going to follow another exciting game this season, we have the Tar Heels team that has been having a great season and it's the team that won the NCAA tournament last season."

"Team Tar Heels will play at home against Princeton Tigers who are having a great season too and had a great last season too."

"And what would you say are the highlights of these two teams?"

"The highlight of the Princeton Tigers team is the coach and the style of play of this team that has been very successful in recent seasons, unfortunately has not brought any NCAA title, but who knows this season."

"The Princeton Tigers team is a great team with good players, but their highlight is their training and great team play."

"The Tar Heels team also have a great team and great players, coach Guthridge has also been doing a great job replacing coach Smith who retired this year."

"But there is no way not to say that the highlight of this team is the player Jake Smith, maybe I even say that Antawn Jamison is also having a great season, but Jake is undoubtedly the highlight of this team."

"The best player of last season even being a freshman, and this season has been doing very well since the first game of this season and we hope it will stay that way until the end of the season."

"So who do you think is the favorite to win in this game."

"The Tar Heels team, playing at home, are definitely the favorites."

As commentators have said the two teams were doing very well this season, but one team would have to lose in this game and Jake would not allow the losing team to be the Tar Heels team.

The game started with both teams being cautious, team Tar Heels had the first attack, but Jake didn't want to hurry and so end up losing the initiative of the game, he could soon feel the strong defense of team Tar Heels and his teammates having difficulty.

Jake knew he had to make more individual moves to break through the opposing defense to make it easier for the Tar Heels team to win, but even if Jake was talented and had a good hit rate of three, he couldn't just do the points whenever he wanted.

Jake had the ability to find space to get the three-point shot, but against such a great defense as the Princeton Tigers team, if he tried many individual moves he would just miss and waste the attacks.

Jake knew he could count on Williams and Carter in this game and that Jamison would not be playing well, but even Jamison not playing well in this game still attracted a lot of attention from the opposing defense.

After holding the ball Jake threw Carter from the left, Carter failed to pass by the opposing defender and passed it to Jamison, just as Jake thought as soon as Jamison received the ball the defense of the Princeton Tigers team focused on him.

Jamison had no choice and passed the ball to Jake further back, Jake quickly passed to Williams who was free to the right and tried the mid-range shot to make the first 2 points for the Tar Heels team.

The Tar Heels players knew this was going to be an important and difficult match and so they were also putting pressure on the defense, for the defense Jake was also counting on Jamison that even though he was not well in attack he was still doing well in rebounds.

The game remained difficult and well played with Jake even finding it difficult to make the plays and try the three-point shots and even the layup moves, yet the Tar Heels team was still superior and managed to finish the first quarter by winning with an advantage in the scoreboard.

Jake played for 20 minutes and made 13 points, 3 assists, 5 rebounds, and 4 steals, Jake year managed to make many points and assists in that first quarter, but in defense, he managed to play much better than in other games.

While not having a chance to make any block without risking fouls, Jake still managed to excel more in defense than in many games, so the Tar Heels team got a good lead that was important in a game like this.

"What a great defensive game we are following today, the Princeton Tigers team that has a great team and plays very well defensively is bringing a difficulty to the great attack of team Tar Heels."

"The players of the Tar Heels team are also doing a great defensive game and in this game, we saw the least points Jake and Jamison stand out in the team defense."

"That's right, I think in a game like this one of two great teams that come from a season without losing a game, opening to attack is not the best option, so both teams are more focused on defense."

"Also, if both teams tried to play offensively it is almost certain that the team of Tar Heels that has the best offensive players of the season will have a big advantage."

In the second quarter of the game, the Princeton Tigers team kept betting on the defense that as commentators said seemed the only way to tackle this strong offensive team that is the Tar Heels team.

In this second quarter Princeton Tigers couldn't keep up the pressure on defense all the time and that gave Jake more freedom to make the moves, Jake and Tar Heels continued to press on defense and so the lead kept increasing.

So the game ended with the Tar Heels team winning 61 points against 37 Princeton Tigers, in that second quarter Jake played for 20 minutes and made 11 points, 3 assists, 5 rebounds, and 4 steals.

"And so the game ended with the victory of team Tar Heels with a good lead on the scoreboard, but the game was not so easy to explain this big lead on the scoreboard, both teams had a very disputed first quarter and with both teams putting a lot of pressure on the defense."

"In the second quarter Princeton Tigers couldn't keep up the pressure on defense for the entire game and so gave Tar Heels space to attack and with Jake and Williams playing very well we had that difference in the score."

"Jake also had a good defensive game getting 10 rebounds and Jamison also though he couldn't make many points as he usually did well in defense and managed 8 rebounds and 3 blocks in that game."

"So the Tar Heels team now has a 10-win streak this season and the Princeton Tigers team lost the first game, let's see how far the Tar Heels team goes this season without losing any games."

The Tar Heels team was very happy with this victory and the fans also realized how good the opponent was and the game was more difficult, Jamison could not score many points in this game and be excited to do even better in the next game.

After three days the Tar Heels team went to another game of the season, the game was against the Hampton Pirates team again playing at home at the Dean Smith Center, after a difficult game with a satisfactory win the crowd was excited and the players were excited about this game.

Jamison who had not scored many points in the last game was also excited to make a great game that day, Jake trained a lot with him and Jamison said several times that he wanted more assists from Jake for this game.

Despite seeing that Jamison was taking advantage of his friendship to ask for more assists, Jake knew that Jamison would be fine for this game and would pass the ball over to Jamison who always played well helping at least in the defensive and offensive part with rebounds as in last game.

After a few hours, both teams were ready for the start of the game, the Hampton Pirates team that was the opponent of this game would not have a good season for what Jake remembered and came from an even worse last season.

Thus the Tar Heels team had the advantage since before the match began, early in the game the Tar Heels team attacked with great will and Jake wanted to try a good advantage in the first minutes pressing the opponent taking advantage that the Tar Heels had the advantage be playing at home.

As he had promised in the early minutes Jake passed the ball to Jamison whenever he had the opportunity, even though the Hampton Pirates defense tried to defend against Jamison, he was fine in this game and hit most of the plays that received Jake's assists.

When Jake saw that the Hampton Pirates defense began to pay more attention to Jamison than to other players Jake began to pass the ball more to Carter and Williams and even to Okulaja.

Jake also attacked whenever he saw the opportunities and made a few moves if three points, so the hard-pressed Hampton Pirates team could not defend with quality to keep the game up.

In the first quarter, the team Tar Heels got a good lead and Jamison was more relaxed after scoring more than 10 points in the first quarter, Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 16 points, 6 assists, 3 rebounds, and 5 steals.

With such a strong first quarter of the Tar Heels team that ended with a good lead on the scoreboard, the Hampton Pirates team had no choice but to attack further in the second quarter to try to win the game.

Team Tar Heels was playing at home and the players were rested and would have another match in just 4 days, so the players of Team Tar Heels continued with a fast pace of play and continued to attack while still being strong in defense.

Jamison still wanted to score more points and kept asking Jake for more assists which left other players with less defense pressing them, so the Tar Heels team kept attacking and further increasing the lead.

Jake also took the opportunity to score more points and so after the middle of the second quarter the Hampton Pirates team's desire to win was gone and they returned to try not to lose too many points.

So the game ended with the Tar Heels team winning with a big lead on the scoreboard making 109 points against 53 points of the Hampton Pirates team, it was another game with the Tar Heels team doing more than double the opponent's points which showed the strength of this team.

In this second quarter, Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 18 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, and 7 steals, plus a triple-double for him in a good game where the Hampton Pirates defense was weaker than the last game and with Jamison wanting to attack led the Tar Heels team to a good win.

The next game would be the first against a team from the same Tar Heels conference and would be the last game before a week-long break for Christmas, after that game Jake would go home again for Christmas with his mother and then If he returned to university, he would have no rest until February.

So also in this game players would be rested after 4 days and could play with everything because then they would have a week of rest, and it was good for the Tar Heels team to win this game and increase the winning streak to 12 games and not lose before Christmas.

With that in mind, the players didn't relax and decided to train even harder this week before the next game, they would have to keep winning so to show that Coach Guthridge was doing a good job and also because they wanted to win again the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament.

Jake had even more training because he had to do his daily training with Zack and Coach Davis for marathons and 10,000 meters, but Jake didn't care because he thought his training was getting too easy lately.

Since he greatly increased his statistics he did not change his training for marathon racing and the 10,000-meter training was no longer a challenge for him after Jake got used to running 3 times a day.

Jake had regretted not asking Coach Davis to increase his training before the holidays were over, now he had committed himself to train like this until the next vacation in the middle of next year.

Even if he still had one more point in resistance statistics and one point in agility next year, it wouldn't change much even if he changed his training now, next year Jake was already thinking of breaking his world record again with a much longer time faster than the current one to ensure his record was not threatened for a few

But to do that he needed to further improve his training time to make sure he was able to do that in marathons if he wanted to, next year would be a lot busier for Jake with the recording of The Matrix and also the possible draft for the NBA.

With that, Jake thought that possibly his marathon training would be impaired on this vacation, and that was bad for his plans to break more records, as Jake had already decided that he hoped he could do what he planned for next year.

Maybe it was even good that the next basketball season was shorter with only 50 games because of the block, so Jake would play for less time and have more time to adapt to his new NBA routine.

But what Jake already knew was that if they could always reach the finals, he would have only 4 months to rest at home, and that was the goal of all teams always reaching the final and perhaps always being the NBA champions.

What Jake knew was that he did not want to abandon the marathons and at least the Olympics would ensure that he would always find time to compete, at the Olympics, he could win the marathon and other sports such as the 10,000 meters and 5,000 meters he would be prepared for competing in 2000.

Thinking about the intensity of the NBA basketball season showed that it had been a great idea for Jake to get into college and play for two seasons, at Jake University he even though it was intense to have 38 games like the Tar Heels team would have this season.

But in the NBA there would be more than 80 games a season and that would test almost all of Jake's resistance after winning so many marathons, so Jake figured he wouldn't have so much time to practice marathon racing.

The stamina bars that Jake hardly ate anymore would be used again so that he could avoid injury even though he was willing to play games, that was what Jake wanted and he was naturally prepared for it.

But Jake would have to think about it only after the current season ended, after 4 days of training came the day of the next game for the Tar Heels team, the players were rested and wanted to win this game for Christmas without losing any games.

After a few hours, both teams were ready for this game, it was the first game against a team from the same conference team of Tar Heels and it would be a game as a visitor, so it was better to win this game because team Tar Heels would still have to play for least once again against the Florida State team.

Last season the Florida State team had a very good season coming in second in the NIT tournament, and this season even if the team wasn't going to play so well it was still a good season.

Even so, they couldn't expect the Tar Heels players to be so eager to win this game even with an 11-win streak, but the Florida State team also wanted to win, so it wouldn't be an easy game.

In the first quarter of the game, Team Tar Heels pressed in attack and also put pressure on the defense and left Florida State with difficulty playing both defense and attack.

Jamison had not enjoyed playing that game badly and so still wanted to score a lot even in that game, it also encouraged Carter who had been doing a below-average season in those early games.

Carter had only a few good games this season and other games he just scored over 14 points and was already satisfied, even Williams who stayed a few games out of the team and was having difficulty in the three-point shots was making more points than him this season.

Seeing as Jamison who had several games making more than 20 points annoyed by playing just one game badly made Carter also want to play better, after all, he was friends with Jamison and Jake too and last season the three had great games.

This season he was not taking advantage of Jake who was a great PG on the team to assist him and was pleased to play normally and seeing the team win, Jake had already told him and Jamison a few times that they had to stand out in all the games to show that they had the ability to become team stars in the NBA.

With Jamison and Carter playing well in this game Jake decided to take advantage and make more assists to further show his qualities as PG as well, with the three playings so well at the end of the first quarter Tar Heels was winning with a big lead.

Jake played for 20 minutes in this first quarter and made 14 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds, and 4 steals, with this great first quarter of the Tar Heels team they had accomplished their goal in that first quarter.

So in the second quarter, team Tar Heels could slow down the attack and keep up the pressure on the defense, the Florida State team needed to win the game, and players would be more anxious and give more freedom for the team to attack.

Just as Coach Guthridge said the Florida State team tried to press the offense from the start and the Tar Heels team increased the pressure on the defense as well, so Jake was playing well in defense as in other games and stealing in some plays that could end in points for the Florida State team.

Jamison and Carter still wanted to keep scoring in the second quarter and even though Jake had slowed the game he was still assisting both of them, sometimes he would still move on to Okulaja and Williams who had a lot more freedom to attack with the defense all concentrated. in Jamison, Carter, and Jake.

Just as the experts said Team Tar Heels was a very strong team offensively and if there was no team that attacked better than them or it was better to defend the whole game, others said Team Tar Heels would only lose if some players were playing. bad in the game.

But even so, it was hard to see this happening as this season it was hard to find a game where the team Tar Heels scored less than 70 points in a game, Jake also despite making the great game as PG making many assists was for sure the player who scored the most points.

In addition, the Tar Heels team was a team that also played very well in defense which made it even harder to play against them, Jake had a very high average of the tail and steals and Jamison also had an average of over 9 rebounds per game.

So at the end of the game, the Tar Heels team managed to win by scoring 98 points against the Florida State team's 65 points, a game that was supposed to be more difficult ended up with a great advantage in the great game of Jake, Carter, and Jamison as well.

In that second quarter, Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 16 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds, and 5 steals with one more double-double Jake was playing very well and making many assists with the help of Jamison who was having a great season.

Just as the players wanted they could spend this happier Christmas with a 12-win streak and no losses this season, even if it was even more pressure on them it was good to show how the team was doing well this season.

Coach Guthridge was very happy and pleased with the performance of the Tar Heels players, especially with Jake and Jamison who had been showing why they had the best team of the season.

The sports media was already talking about the possibility that the Tar Heels team could again win the NCAA title this season, many thought it was difficult but still had confidence because Jake was on that team.

It had been a long time since a player had been that prominent in a college team, maybe just Kobe Bryant brought that much attention, but decided to go straight to the NBA and was playing well in the Los Angeles Lakers team even though he wasn't as prominent as Jake had currently.

Many players had great seasons at the university and then failed to maintain the same performance in the NBA, but Jake was on another level keeping since the freshman season an average of over 32 points per game in the season and still winning the NCAA title along with the prize of the best player.

The next day Jake went back to Miami to spend Christmas with his mother, this time Eva already knew that Jake would go home and made the decision to close the restaurant after the 23rd until the 26th when Jake would return to university.

The restaurant was a huge success since opening and never had any problems, Eva didn't need any money knowing that Jake was a millionaire and only worked at the restaurant because he liked it, so he decided to close for Christmas and let the employees rest with their family.

So Anna could also spend Christmas with them as a family, Jake was very happy when she heard that his mother did it and thought it was very good for the other employees too, as she can do it in advance customers already knew the restaurant would be closed a few days earlier.

Even so, when Jake came home on the 21st Eve still had to stay at the restaurant for the next 2 days, so Jake could also continue training on those days to get even better this rest week.

Jake didn't want to bother Matthew and Oliver that they should be busy with the business of the company that had to close the balance sheet by the end of the year, this time Jake didn't need money like last year and didn't want to bother Matthew before he had the company's official earnings report.

He also knew that Tiffany and Clara were very busy with their business this holiday season, in fact, they were busy with their business all year long, having lost several years without being able to invest and just keep selling well because of Jake's popularity, this year was much busier for them.

The truth was that even Clara often thought that the company would eventually be sold to the competitor because of her incompetence and Tiffany who always supported Clara felt bad about it too.

Jake knew this and so decided to help themselves out having to lose a lot of money for it, but after that Jake felt that Tiffany and Clara were no longer as close to him as they were before, maybe they saw him as a business partner and not as just a friend as it was before.

Jake had heard that actually Tiffany and Clara didn't really like having male friends and even with Matthew and Oliver they had only professional contacts and not as friends, so now that Jake grew up and was no longer a child, like before they no longer had one. quiet relationship with him.

Of course, this was just a theory Jake thought after hearing a lot of things and seeing that it seemed like they were ignoring him last year, it could also be that they were so busy after he recorded the commercials that they didn't have time to talk to him.

Jake hoped his theories were wrong, or else he would lose two of the best friends he ever had, by the middle of next year the sponsorship deal would end if Jake joined the NBA and after that Jake would see if they were still friends as before.

For the next few days Jake spent a few quiet days just doing his training in the morning, on Christmas Day Anna came with some people from the restaurant, Matthew, Oliver, and Joseph also just came to enjoy Christmas.

It seemed that Joseph was much calmer this time and understood that he had done wrong on his last vacation, and he himself talked with Jake for a while about what had happened at his university.

Joseph was doing very well in class even though he didn't get as good grades as when Jake helped him with his studies, it seemed like he was really fine with Liza and even they studying at different universities made them less in love.

It seemed that Oliver had spoken to Liza honestly about the idea of her doing therapy and surprisingly Liza agreed with Oliver that she needed it and started therapy to become a better person to be with Joseph.

This was an idea that had been suggested by Jake a few years ago because he really thought it would be the best, and it seemed that he was right because Oliver said Liza was really improving her personality and even encouraging Joseph to improve as a person.

So everyone made money on it and so Matthew and Oliver now started to like Liza very much and approved her to stay with Joseph because with her he was really getting better, so the two also thanked Jake who came up with the idea.

Joseph told Jake that he was also able to make some friends at the university and was spending his time there, Jake was very happy to know that Joseph was doing so well at the university and that they were still friends after that.

Jake was very happy to spend Christmas and these days at home with family and also his friends, he was sad because Tiffany and Clara did not accept the invitation to appear at this party because they were busy with work, but it was still a great day to him.

After that Jake spent another day at home and went back to college again and had a little party with his friends after Christmas, even though Jake had offered to buy their plane tickets to visit their family for Christmas no one accepted and they spent Christmas at Zack's house.

Because everyone studied away from home, Zack's family who had great people became their family, Jake always went home on holidays, but sometimes he would go to Zack's family home on weekends.

Zack's family was very fond of Jake because everyone realized that Zack was happier and healthier after he started running with Jake, as Jake still helped Zack study he was the perfect friend that anyone's family liked.

After a week of Christmas and rest for all the players the next day they were ready for the next game, this was a game that Jake remembered would be tricky for the Tar Heels team to win.

Jake didn't know if the team was more relaxed after a week of rest and Christmas, but the Tar Heels team would win this game only in extra time, so he didn't underestimate his opponent and was prepared for a tough game.

Jake spoke with the team the day before the game and with Coach Guthridge also for them to expect a tough game and prepare to do their best in the next game, Coach Guthridge and the players knew that Jake wasn't someone who exaggerated and by they worried about the next game.

After a few hours, both teams were ready for the game to begin, the opponent for this game was Georgia Bulldogs, this team had a great last season and did not do so well at the end of the season.

This season they would not play so well this season despite having a good result at the end, everyone expected the Tar Heels team to win this game easily, especially after the last game with a good performance by Jake, Jamison, and Carter.

"Welcome everyone, let's follow another game this season, it's the game between the Tar Heels team and the Georgia Bulldogs team."

"It is expected that in this game the Tar Heels team will achieve an easy win and further increase this 12-win streak, but only after the game can we know if this will happen."

"What do you think about this game?"

"I think the Tar Heels team have the advantage, the team has been doing well since the last season they won the NCAA title, this season the team has been playing as well or even better than last season."

"In the last game the offensive team Tar Heels trio had another good game with Carter playing well again, but the Georgia Bulldogs team also has a good team and has a lot of ability to surprise in that game and beat the Tar Heels team."

The game started in a few minutes of play everyone would realize that the game would not be as easy as everyone expected before, the Tar Heels team attack was fine with Jamison, Carter, and Jake playing well.

The problem was that the defense of team Tar Heels was a little weaker in today's game, and the Georgia Bulldogs players were playing very well in attack and also in defense.

Even if they didn't stop the Tar Heels team from scoring points like other teams with better defenses, they could still hinder Tar Heels's attacks, so much was also merited by Georgia Bulldogs.

In this game Jake could not relax and had to work harder in defense and also make the three-point shots when he had the opportunity, if he could Jake did not want to take this game over time and if he could it was better to win the game normally.

To do that Jake had to do more than he normally did in defense and continue to perform well in attack, seeing Jake's effort the other players of the team Tar Heels also began to work harder to press defense and prevent the attacks of the team Georgia Bulldogs.

Jamison and Carter were also good at offense and along with Williams and Okulaja gave Jake more play options and made it difficult for Georgia Bulldogs to defend, it could be said that even though the team was poor defending, it was still recovering from the attack.

At the end of the first quarter, Tar Heels ended up winning the game with a slight lead on the scoreboard, which made the Georgia Bulldogs players more excited for the second quarter having the opportunity to win the game.

In that first quarter, Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 16 points, 4 assists, 5 rebounds, 6 steals, and 2 blocks, with a more defense-focused first quarter Jake managed to prevent Georgia Bulldogs from making some plays that could end in points.

Even though Jake still performed well on attack relying more on the three-point play as in recent games, Jake had a not very high average of 10 shots of three points per game but hit more than 70 percent of off shots in all games.

"What a great game we had in this first quarter, Georgia Bulldogs has been surprisingly having a strong offensive game taking advantage of the defects of the Tar Heels defense, and with a good defense that has been disrupting one of the best attacks of the season."

"That's right, the Tar Heels team that comes into this game with a 12-win streak has achieved this with an excellent defense even playing without a Center in most games, with good defensive players like Jamison and Jake defending very well while doing some steals."

"So it's weird to see a game like this that the players are striving for but still make some mistakes, we have to say it just seems like a bad day for the Tar Heels team."

"Yes, Georgia Bulldogs tried to take advantage of this weakness of Team Tar Heels in this game, but Jake has been playing very well again and excelling himself in defense in this game, Jamison also getting defensive rebounds so that Team Tar Heels can maintain the advantage."

"True, I see what happened to Michael Jordan happening to Jake, Michael Jordan was great at three-point shots and assists, but his defensive ability and the many points he made with dunks made fans forget a few times that he was such a versatile player."

"Jake is a great player doing three-point shots and an incredible average of points and assists, but he's also very good at defending with an amazing average of steals that is often overlooked by fans."

"I agree, sometimes seeing Jake's games I think he just doesn't have time to do everything he can on the court and has to choose between scoring or defending."

After this very difficult first quarter and the players realizing their defenses in defense, they realized that Jake was right to say that this would be a difficult game, so in the second quarter they had to play much better to secure the defense.

In the second quarter, the Georgia Bulldogs team came more willing to try to win the game, but Jake's performance in this game still intimidated them, yet if they wanted to get more points they couldn't give up trying to get past Jake in that game.

Coach Guthridge realizing the defenses of the defending team asked everyone to try to take every chance of the attack to score more points than their opponents and thus win the game, so the second quarter would be a much more open game.

After the first few minutes of the game, the Georgia Bulldogs team realized that the Tar Heels team was giving up defending with more pressure to make better attacks and that was what they wanted to try to win this game.

Risking team coach Georgia Bulldogs decided to put two players to be close to Jake and prevent him from attacking quietly, as a good PG Jake was not selfish and took advantage of these opportunities to make further assists for his teammates.

Jamison and Carter were fine again in the attack and Williams, despite making a big mistake in the attack, was doing a good game, the opportunities Jake found sometimes ended in three-point play almost giving up the two-point play.

Team Georgia Bulldogs also took advantage of this second quarter that had more freedom to attack and tried to beat Team Tar Heels by scoring more points, but Jake was still doing very well in defense and disrupted many attacking moves from Team Georgia Bulldogs.

The game ended with Team Tar Heels winning this game with a more comfortable advantage and without this game going into overtime, Team Tar Heels scored 97 points against Team Georgia Bulldogs 84 points.

Jake instead made a great defensive game in the second quarter too, he played for 20 minutes and made 12 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, 5 steals, and 3 blocks, so Jake got the first quadruple-double of this season.

Also, Jake got a five-by-five for the first time in a game at the university, for sure Jake's great performance in that game meant that the team didn't have to go into extra time even though the players were so bad at defense.

After the end of the game the fans of the opposing team applauded the Tar Heels team and especially Jake after this excellent game, Jake's great performance would be in the history of both universities.

"What a great game we saw today, the two teams very well offensively and the Tar Heels team playing poorly in defense with the exception that it was Jake's excellent five-by-five and quadruple-double in the same game."

"True, this is Jake's third quadruple-double at the university, but the highlight was this five-by-five that shows how important Jake is in attack and defense, especially in this game where the defense of the Tar Heels team it was good."

"Both teams had a very even game and the Georgia Bulldogs team had a great game pushing the best team of recent seasons which is the Tar Heels team, but the Tar Heels team had a great offensive performance and Jake unbalanced that game and brought the victory for the Tar Heels team."

"A game like this is a great justification for awarding the best college player at the end of this season if the Tar Heels team continues to play well this way."

After this difficult game, the Tar Heels players were able to go back to college knowing that they had not missed the first game after the Christmas break, everyone knew that Jake was instrumental in winning, but what they really had to think about was what had done wrong in this game.

Now the Tar Heels team was on a 13-win streak and the players wanted to keep going like this to finish first in the conference at the end of the season and have confidence for the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament.

The next day the players trained hard not to make a mistake like in the last game, even with this mindset no one was really worried about the next game and it was a rest after such a difficult and great game to finish this year well.

The next day the Tar Heels team went to the third away match they would have followed, it was the last game of the year that was very good for the whole team and especially for Jake who achieved a lot of things.

After a few hours, both teams were ready to start this game, the opponent of this last game was the team Bethune-Cookman, the team Bethune-Cookman had a bad last season, but the current season would be one of the worst in the history of this team.

As far as Jake remembered the Bethune-Cookman team won only one game in this 27th season that would be played, it was impossible for Jake to be tense for this game that had everything to be an easy win for the Tar Heels team.

Even though after the last difficult game that Team He He had players were looking forward to playing well in that game which would only further ensure Team He's victory, Jake felt it was a pity he could not have a great defensive game as the last.

In the first few minutes of the game following what Guthridge coach asked the team, everyone attacked with a great will to get a good advantage, knowing that Jake did not contain himself and accelerated the pace of the game making attacks with a few seconds of possession and using well the strengths of his teammates.

The Bethune-Cookman team did not expect such a strong start from the Tar Heels team and even if they were prepared for it would still not be enough to stop the best attack of all universities today.

Jake also made the three-point moves and also some layups in this first quarter, and Jake took every opportunity to steal the opposing players while in defense.

With this pressure, Tar Heels got great advantage in the first quarter practically guaranteeing victory, with Jake playing well in defense and Bethune-Cookman had difficulty attacking as well.

In that first quarter, Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 24 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds, and 4 steals, and Jake had a great game. Jamison and Carter were also fine and that brought more problems for the Bethune-Cookman team.

That big advantage in the first quarter left the Tar Heels team more relaxed to play the second quarter calmly and to continue attacking as coach Guthridge had commanded, the Bethune-Cookman team also had to take more risk in the attack which would make it easier for team Tar Heels attack.

In that game, the defense of the team Tar Heels came back to stand out and Jake continued to perform well even if it did not stand out as much as in the last game, the team Bethune-Cookman had difficulty defending against Jake, Carter, and Jamison in the attack.

In the second quarter, team Tar Heels began pressing in on attack just as coach Guthridge had commanded, team Bethune-Cookman also had to attack to get the victory which gave even more room for team Tar Heels to attack.

After the middle of the second quarter, the Bethune-Cookman players had already lost their will to win and it made it even easier for the Tar Heels team to continue attacking, Jake was doing very well in the three-point shots which helped further increase the advantage on the scoreboard.

The game ended with the Tar Heels team winning the game by scoring 113 points against 36 by the Bethune-Cookman team, with the Tar Heels team scoring more than three times the number of points of the opponent the Tar Heels team ended well in 1997.

In this second quarter, Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 23 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds, and 4 steals, plus this double-double Jake was also increasing his average assist per game making more than 10 assists in 4 straight games.

Jake's goal this season was again to have an average of more than 10 assists per game and more than 30 points per game and if he could get more than 10 steals per game, with rebounds he knew it would not be possible because Antawn Jamison was the best in the rebound of the team.

After this game, the team Tar Heels returned to the university where they would have almost 5 days to rest before the next game next year, yet the players did not just want to rest and wanted to train more defense so as not to happen against the team Georgia Bulldogs.

Coach Guthridge was also pleased with the players and the work he had done so far, with this difficult mission to replace Coach Dean Smith that many thought he could not do so well.

Even without a Center, the team had not lost any games yet and when the team was not well they still had Jake to make great games and take the team to victory, he did not expect to win the ACC tournament or the NCAA tournament again and just wanted that his work was not criticized.

The truth was that the team players and the media did not expect the Tar Heels team to have a good season let alone win tournaments like last season.

Maybe only Jake thought this team could possibly play even better than last season and win the NCAA tournament again this season, but he didn't have to talk about it with anyone and just had to play to win the games until he won the NCAA tournament.

While training for the team at the end of the year Jake was also spending Zack's turn of the year as well as all his roommates, he couldn't go to Miami whenever he wanted and New Year's Eve wasn't such an important date to Jake.

1997 was a great year for Jake in basketball winning his first NCAA tournament and winning almost every major individual player award, it was also important in marathons where he won more major marathons and improved his world record.

In business this was also an important year with the smartphone prototype that could guarantee him billions of dollars in the future getting ready, the stock also started to appreciate much more from that year and Jake had more than 100 million dollars after Amazon shares entered the stock market.

1998 promised to be even better in basketball if Jake really joined the NBA even if he didn't play that year because of his lockout this season, but just entering the NBA would make Jake have one of the best years in his career.

So in the second half of this year, Jake could focus on marathons and still try to win again the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament, this year Jake would also start filming for the movie The Matrix.

So this year would have everything to be very important to Jake and that made him very excited, Jake spent the New Year's Eve at Zack's house and soon came the year 1998, so Jake had to continue training with the basketball team and with the races.

Zack was still training with Jake and was getting better and better at training, just as Jake had thought after an athlete could improve his physical condition, it was much easier to improve in any sport.

Zack spent more than a year training for marathons while training for an athlete's fitness, now that he had managed to run the 25 km every day was easy for Zack, this year his goal was the Chicago Marathon with Jake at the end of the year, he wanted to run under 3 hours and maybe get in the top 50.

After a few days of training and rest the Tar Heels players were ready for the first game of this year, it was another visitor game and so they had to travel back to that game.

It was the second game against an ACC conference team this season and it was important to finish first at the conference at the end of the season, after a few hours both teams were ready for this game.

The opponent of this game was Team Clemson Tigers, Team Clemson Tigers had a good last season and this season would only regulate the team's performance, yet the Team Tar Heels did not underestimate the opponent.

With a 14-game winning streak it was normal for players on the Tar Heels team to have more confidence, but with the good performance also came the pressure to continue winning which made the players more focused.

Early in the game, the Tar Heels team started pressing in on the attack as they had in the last game and it worked, of course against Clemson Tigers Jake didn't play at such a fast pace while organizing the team attack.

Clemson Tigers 'defense was clearly much stronger than their last opponent's defense, but with Jake, Jamison, and Carter in the attack, it was difficult for Clemson Tigers' defense to resist.

Jake had found the rhythm he had at the end of last season when he always made at least one double-double in every game and the opponents had noticed it, so Jake's close defense had increased which only gave more room to he does the assists.

Also, this season Jake had an average of nearly 80 percent hit on three-point shots even though he tried more than 10 shots on average per game, which made things much harder for opposing teams.

After a few minutes of the first quarter, Clemson Tigers tried an attack that ended with a steal made by Jake, in this play Jake did not try a fast counterattack and just kept the ball.

So far this had been a balanced game with Tar Heels taking the lead, Jake advanced with the ball and after passing through the middle of the court passed the ball to Carter on the left.

Carter had performed well in recent games and that gave him more confidence, even though Jake and Jamison were still the top players of the team this season. Carter was happy with his good performance and the victories.

Carter advanced to the three-point line and passed the ball to Williams on the right, Williams held the ball and then passed to Okulaja farther on the right, the defender then pressed Okulaja who passed to Jake behind.

Jake received the ball near the three-point line and soon two players approached him while still watching Jamison on the left, Jake made a feint and then with a crossover managed to move left.

One of the defenders was left behind and another opposing player who was scoring Jamison came to defend against Jake, with the Clemson Tigers defense messy. Jake passed the ball to Carter who had gotten rid of the player who was in defense, Carter received the ball and advanced to make the Dunk and make 2 more points for the team Tar Heels.

What made Jake happier on this team was that all his teammates were very talented, so he was free to make the play he wanted and so he had an average of over 10 assists per game even playing against good teams in the university.

In another play at the end of the first quarter Jake advanced the ball to the three-point line and passed to Williams, Williams advanced and passed the ball to Jamison, Jamison passed back to Jake behind.

Jake received the ball with space to attempt the three-point shot and two opposing players came to defend against him, Jake passed the ball to Carter again, Carter advanced and passed the ball to Jamison who made the 2 points with a layup and increased the advantage of team Tar Heels.

In this first quarter, the Clemson Tigers team had a hard time defending because Jake and Jamison were the most dangerous players who needed the most defense attention, these players could easily score points if they had only one player in defense against them.

But the other players of the Tar Heels team were also high level, so it was difficult for the Clemson Tigers defense to stop them, so the first quarter ended up with a good lead on Tar Heels.

In that first quarter, Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 14 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, and 4 steals, the good defense of Team Clemson Tigers still made the team Tar Heels to score less even though getting a good lead.

"What a great game we have been following so far, the Clemson Tigers players have been playing very well so far and can put pressure on the Tar Heels players."

"But the Tar Heels team this season is very strong with great players and even with the good defense of the Clemson Tigers team, Jake can still find plenty of opportunities to make assists and score a lot as well."

"True, Jake is for sure one of the best college players of recent years and perhaps one of the best ever, and Jamison has also been doing one of his best seasons in college every year."

"Carter and Williams are also great players with different strengths and Okulaja who is also a good player and is overshadowed by these teammates."

"In the second quarter, Clemson Tigers who are well behind the scoring will have to give up some defense and risk more attack to try to win this game and will give even more space for Tar Heels to attack."

Just as the commentators said the Clemson Tigers team was having a very good game and it made it difficult for the Tar Heels team to gain the lead, but in this second quarter they would have to give up their style of play a little more to win.

That would give Tar Heels more openness to attack, Jamison, Carter, and Williams were fine in this game and Jake was having an easier time assisting even though they had a strong defense against him.

After a few minutes of the second quarter, the Clemson Tigers team attempted a hasty three-point strike that Jake could disrupt, and Jamison caught the defensive rebound, Jamison passed the ball to Jake, who advanced slowly for the attack.

After several games at university, Jake had a lot more experience than when he came from high school and saw that it was not a good idea to always keep a fast pace or a slow pace but to better analyze the situation of the game and the opponent.

In the first quarter, he organized the moves at a faster pace in attack to put more pressure on the Clemson Tigers defense, but in that second quarter, the Clemson Tigers seemed to be destabilizing and losing the game so he preferred to attack at a slower pace and spend more time in possession.

After passing through the middle of the court Jake passed the ball to Williams on the left, Williams advanced with the ball before the three-point line and passed the ball to Okulaja on the left.

Okulaja passed the ball to Carter from the far right and Carter quickly passed to Jake who was behind the three-point line, Jake received the ball freely and then attempted the shot from outside to score three more points for Tar Heels.

After that, the lead in the team's Tar Heels score continued to increase even if it didn't get in a way that made the Clemson Tigers team lose hope of winning, even though the Clemson Tigers team gave up defending as in the first quarter the team's defense still continued strong and with that the team Tar Heels also missed some attacks.

Thus the game continued intense and Jake was able to further disrupt the Clemson Tigers team by making steals and getting assists and hitting three-point plays increasing the advantage for the Tar Heels team.

So the game ended with the Tar Heels team winning with 85 points against Clemson Tigers team's 67 points, this was the last game of the visiting team He had two home games so they wouldn't have so much difficulty winning the games.

In this second quarter Jake played for 20 minutes and made 19 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds, and 5 steals, he got another double-double and with that he and the Tar Heels team started very well this year.

"So one more game ends this season, in the first game of this year the team Tar Heels gets a victory that was not easy even if there was a big difference in the score."

"Team Tar Heels has a great offense and a good defense, if the defense plays regularly even if the opposing team manages to defend as well as the Clemson Tigers team they will still get the win."

"Also, since playing for the first time on the Tar Heels team Jake hasn't had any games that could be considered bad, he's had a few games that were below his very high average, but he's still one of the main players by the Tar Heels team victories."

"It's true, with one more double-double Jake got another game with more than 30 points and 10 assists, if it goes on like this and with Jamison also playing so well I think the Tar Heels team is again the biggest favorite to win the NCAA tournament this year."

"That's right, after that victory the Tar Heels team comes from a 15 straight winning streak and no losses this season, it's half of the games that the Tar Heels team will have before the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament, so it's hard not to mention the favoritism of this team and the great work of Coach Guthridge. "

As commentators had said the Tar Heels team was already one of the biggest favorites to win the NCAA tournament, not only for the great season so far but also for winning the NCAA tournament last year and having Jake as the best player university student today.

After this game, the players returned to the university where they would have another 5 days of rest and training until the next game, late 1997 and early 1998 had plenty of time for players to rest between games in preparation for a large amount of games that were left over the next 3 months for the team to reach the NCAA tournament final.

While the team was getting ready to train a lot over the next 5 days, something else was also making everyone anxious this week, after a few days it would be Jake's 19th birthday.

Jake's friends were preparing a small party for him at Zack's family home because Zack's parents asked to do so, after all besides Jake's three roommates the basketball team and some friends from his university certainly saw on His birthday and the university room wouldn't be enough for so many people.

How Zack and his family insisted on doing so Jake had to accept the good intentions of their friends, and that was the right decision because Eva and Anna also came the day before Jake's birthday by surprise.

The idea was that they would come on Jake's birthday day for the surprise to be bigger, but Anna was already older and it would be very exhausting for her to do so many things in one day, so she and Eva would be almost 3 days in one hotel near the university.

In addition to these people, Jake was very happy to see on his birthday his new friend Haruto also came to the birthday as did Coach Davis and his family, with the people from the basketball team until Zack's family house had gotten small for this party.

Matthew, Oliver, Emily, Clara, and Tiffany couldn't come to Jake's birthday because they were busy running the balance sheet companies that had been done at the end of last year.

Still, Jake was happy because more people he thought came to his birthday, after the end of the day he was very happy when he returned to his university dorm.

Jake couldn't help but think that this year would be 9 years since he went back in time for his second chance, a lot of things had happened and he knew that had changed the lives of many people besides his in those years.

With the help of the system he had completely changed his and his mother's future and everyone who worked with him, now Jake was the best college basketball player who had enough skills to be one of the best players in the NBA.

Jake was also able to do something else that he loved to run and became one of the best athletes in the world by winning the most important marathons in the world and winning important gold medals like at the Olympics.

With that, he managed to get his mother out of the bad work which was one of the things that caused her death in his past life, and now she had a restaurant that was her dream and was very happy working with her friend Anna.

Thanks to the system Jake can also meet Tiffany and Clara who helped him a lot in his early years as a player before he even developed his skills, they also became important friends of his and even though in the future their path parted, Jake never would forget the friendship they had.

On this second chance of him, Jake also had the opportunity to make a great friendship with Joseph and even though they had gone away now Jake was sure they would be friends for a lifetime.

With this friendship he met Oliver and Matthew and using his future knowledge can help Matthew change his future as someone who would almost go bankrupt or have to sell his company to one of the most successful men with the digital camera company.

With that Jake also saw that he could use more of his knowledge of the future and what he had learned before going back in time, so he was able to work on a movie as an actor and use his knowledge to make great investments that would make him a millionaire in the future.

So after almost 9 years, Jake could say that he realized most of his dreams before turning back in time for his second chance, and maybe the other dreams he had could come true with the relationship between him and Kate becoming closer.

The next three years were now very important in Jake's future anyway, he would sell the shares, try to settle in the NBA and maybe start dating Kate and could still be on top of athletics at the upcoming Olympics and would be an actor of success.

These were Jake's wishes for years to come, and if those wishes came true, he could say that he had achieved everything he had dreamed of for his second chance, of course, Jake would not forget to continue to see to it that his mother would stay well for her that his life was perfect.

After this rest of almost 5 days and his birthday party, Jake felt much better for the next game that would be the next day, it was good that this game was a day after his birthday or could not make this celebration.

The next day came the day of the second team of Tar Heels this year, this would also be the first game of team Tar Heels this year playing at home at the Dean Smith Center, with the great season that the team had been having was sure that the fans would attend to support the team in this game.

The players of Team Tar Heels were rested too and ready for today's game, the opponent of today's game was Team Georgia Tech, Team Georgia Tech had a terrible last season and this season was much better.

This team had three very good players, but the team was not very strong thinking about attack and defense, so neither Coach Guthridge nor the players were concerned about this opponent.

"Today we will be following another game from the Tar Heels team this season, their first game at the Dean Smith Center this year and it all indicates another easy win for the Tar Heels team."

"It seems that the Georgia Tech team has some good players, but after a bad season with the new good players they couldn't make such a good team in just one season."

"And the Tar Heels team has been together since last season with multiplayer in the third year, and who joined the team last year was Jake who soon adapted to that team and helped them win the NCAA tournament last season."

"So we could say that the Tar Heels team has all the advantages for this game and with Jamison and Carter playing very well it will be difficult to hold back that team's attacks."

While being the favorite team to beat Coach Guthridge was careful that the players did not relax in this game, he asked Jake to attack well, but not with a very fast attack rate, and in defense was to focus on defending against the 2 best players on the Georgia Tech team and so they could disrupt the opponent's attacks.

Jake had more freedom in defense to try the steals to further disrupt the Georgia Tech team attack, with a player like Jake who was skilled at steals and the Tar Heels team always hampered his opponent's attacks more.

In the early minutes, Coach Guthridge asked Jake to organize the team to press into the attack without speeding up too much. Jake understood that Coach Guthridge wanted Team Tar Heels to open a good lead in the early minutes without risking too much.

Jake did something he normally didn't do in games so the opposing defense didn't expect that, instead of trying more assists to see how his teammates were doing, Jake tried a few three-point shots whenever he was free in the early stages minutes

So after 10 minutes of games, Jake already had 12 points and had attempted 5 shots from three points, plus Jake got 3 assists and 2 steals and the only play he missed ended with an offensive rebound from Jamison that made the 2 points.

So at the start of the game, Team Tar Heels already had a big advantage and Team Georgia Tech didn't even know how to react to that that had a little luck and skill, with this advantage on the scoreboard Team Tar Heels pressed more defense while kept attacking.

So by the end of the 1st half of the game, Tar Heels was winning with a good lead on the scoreboard, Georgia Tech's game strategy ended Jake's multiple three-point shots in the opening minutes.

Coach Guthridge was very pleased with this and now hoped the team would continue to attack while pressing on the defense so that when Georgia Tech tried to attack further, Tar Heels would have an easier time increasing the lead.

In this 1st half, Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 21 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds, and 5 steals, with the good start of the game he had the Tar Heels team made it easier for the entire 1st half and now had the advantage in the game.

"What a great 1st half for the Tar Heels team, a very strong offensive and strong defense as well, with Jake scoring 12 points in 10 minutes with some assists and the Tar Heels team opened up an advantage on the scoreboard that left them comfortable to take control of the game."

"It's true, and Jake doesn't usually do something like this usually at the beginning of the game even though he has the ability to do it, so it took the Georgia Tech defense by surprise, a bad surprise for them."

"Now Georgia Tech will have to attack more to try to win and it will be difficult because the defense of the Tar Heels team was very good and Jake especially is very good both in attack and defense."

Just as the commentators said the Georgia Tech team had to try to attack more, but they haven't done that since the beginning of the 2nd half, they started with the defense still strong and trying to attack at a faster pace.

But it was not easy to pass through the defense of the Tar Heels team and even with a strong save the Tar Heels attack could still score, so after a few minutes Georgia Tech had no choice but to go all out to try to win.

In another move, Georgia Tech managed to score two points and Jake started with the ball from the backcourt before passing through the middle of the court he passed the ball to Carter on the left.

Carter and Jamison were good at this game and even though Williams was not so good at three-point shots he was still good at mid-range plays, Carter advanced with the ball and went to Okulaja on the right.

Okulaja held the ball for a while and then moved to Jamison farther left, Jamison caught the ball and then got rid of the opposing defense and ran it to layup and score 2 points for Tar Heels.

With Jake and Jamison playing so well they both drew the defense's attention even though they were directly involved in the play, just as in this play where two players were close to Jake and one was defending against him directly even though Jamison didn't even pass the ball to him.

In another move, Jake got a steal and ran quickly to the frontcourt when Georgia Tech players realized that Jake had caught the ball and tried to get back to defense quickly, but Jake was faster and finished with a dunk to make 2 more points for the Tar Heels team.

The game went on like this and Team Tar Heels managed to further increase their lead with errors in the Georgia Tech team attack, so Georgia Tech failed to recover and eventually lost the game.

Team Tar Heels won the game by scoring 112 points against 71 points for Team Georgia Tech, the fans were very happy with this victory from Team Tar Heels in their first home game of the year and they were looking forward to the next game in a few days.

In this 2nd half Jake had played for 20 minutes and scored 19 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, and 6 steals, as well as a good start and a triple-double, to help Tar Heels win more.

After the end of the game, Jake can see several posters in the crowd wishing him a happy birthday that was the day before, which made Jake very happy and thrilled, which made Jake want to play even better to bring joy to the fans.

"One more game ends with the Tar Heels team win, after that game, there are 16 straight wins, with last season's games 41 straight wins, the Tar Heels team haven't lost a game since January 4, 1997."

"It's very rare to see a team go so long without losing, and with Jake and Jamison playing that way it's hard to find a team that can beat Tar Heels before the NCAA tournament."

"This data shows how after Jake joined this team they got even stronger, after this game of January 4, 1997, Jake started playing more minutes in the games and the Tar Heels team didn't lose anymore, now Jake plays 40 minutes in all the games."

"Sure, Jake is very important to the Tar Heels team and we'll see how long this team can continue without losing."

What commentators said became news in many sports media over the next few days, unnoticed by the change in coaches, the Tar Heels team reached 41 games without losing.

This was a great achievement for college basketball teams in recent decades where basketball has become more popular and because it is more lucrative for teams and players to attract far more talent than other sports.

This season there were 23 more games to play, and if the Tar Heels team lost no games and were NCAA tournament champions again, they would have a 64-record winning streak, which would be the second-highest record in a men's basketball team history was from the San Francisco Dons team with 60 games without losing.

And the biggest sequel was the UCLA Bruins team with 88 unbeaten games that ended in 1974, in modern basketball nobody expected anything like that to happen again so getting 41 games unbeaten was incredible for the Tar Heels team.

In the expert analysis, Jake Smith's presence was certainly the most important reason for the Tar Heels team to achieve this, a high-level player who was a team player and not alone doing many assists.

In addition, Jake had an incredible average of over 30 points per game making many three-point plays, in defense Jake also had a great performance with an average of 7 rebounds per game and 8 steals, Jake broke several records in the debut season his and kept playing even better this season.

Of course, besides Jake other players of the team were also very important, Serge Zwikker last season and Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, Ademola Okulaja, Shammond Williams and Ed Cota also kept this team performing well.

With such a good team even the change of coaches between seasons did not hinder the team's performance because even though Dean Smith was an excellent coach and a legend, Coach Bill Guthridge was also very good.

With this news, the Tar Heels team soon had another game two days later still playing at home at the Dean Smith Center, this sequence of many losing matches gave a lot of pressure to the Tar Heels players.

But it also gave a lot of pressure to the opposing team to play against this strong Tar Heels team, and besides, as players who would be future NBA stars, Jake and his teammates were not so affected by that pressure.

The opponent for this match was the V.i.r.g. Cavaliers team that would not have performed well this season, but it was still a difficult team to face due to having two great players who were Norman Nolan who would have averaged over 21 points this season and Curtis Staples who also had a good average scoring over 18 points per game and was one of the best players in the three-point shots.

"Welcome to everyone who will be watching this game with us, we will see another game from the Tar Heels team that has come to the fore in recent days as the team that has not lost for over a year at College basketball."

"And the opponent is the good team V.i.r.g. Cavaliers who has Curtis Staples who is a player who is also good at three-point shots and will give Tar Heels trouble in defense."

"I don't think it's going to be like this, Curtis Staples is good at three-point shots, but with Jake on defense he won't have many opportunities to make the points, and Jake is much better than Curtis Staples in many ways."

"Who I think can cause problems for the Tar Heels team is Norman Nolan who has a great average point in games and can play in a space in defense of the Tar Heels team that has no one to defend against."

"This is not going to be a problem, it seems that for this match Makhtar N'Diaye will play and Shammond Williams will be in reserve for today's game so Jamison can help Makhtar N'Diaye defend against Nolan in that game."

Just as the commentators had said N'Diaye would play in the starting team and Williams would be in reserve, Coach Guthridge trusted Jake to defend against Staples and he would focus on V.i.r.g. Cavaliers' Nolan defense.

The other players were not a threat to the defense of Team Tar Heels, and Coach Guthridge knew that if he could stop both of them, the V.i.r.g. Cavaliers attack would be much weakened.

In the early minutes of the game the two teams pressed into the attack, Jake organized the plays calmly and had the ability to move to Jamison and Carter at the right time to assist or try the shots outside.

In a move by the V.i.r.g. Cavaliers attack they tried to move quickly to get the Tar Heels defender unprepared, but the Tar Heels players were quick and Jake was a great deal of trouble as he returned to defend.

In this play after a careless attack by V.i.r.g. Cavaliers the ball was left for Curtis Staples who tried the shot outside with Jake close to him, Jake reacted quickly and got the block and even caught the ball to start the counterattack.

Tar Heels had a couple of points ahead in the first half of the game, so Jake was calm in organizing another attack, so it was important not to keep up with a fast pace when you didn't need to, as it would make Tar Heels players more tired.

After passing through the middle of the court Jake passed the ball to Carter on the left, Carter advanced until the defense of V.i.r.g. Cavaliers arrived and thus passed the ball to Jamison on the right, Jamison advanced and passed to Okulaja who was ahead.

Okulaja got a feint and got rid of the V.i.r.g. Cavaliers defender and advanced to the painted area, other V.i.r.g. Cavaliers defenders came to mark Okulaja who passed Carter on the left which was free.

Carter stepped forward and attempted the layup to score 2 more points for Team Tar Heels, Staples was very hasty trying to shoot from outside when Jake was so close defending, on Team Tar Heels the most skilled player on the block was Jake.

Jake just didn't make many blocks because he needed the right opportunity to try and the opponents are clever to avoid attacking when Jake was in defense, and Jake would rather try to steal than a block.

The game continued in the 1st half with Tar Heels always having a good lead on the scoreboard, Jake was defending well against Staples and Norman Nolan had difficulty attacking Jamison and N'Diaye's defense.

So by the time the 1st half ended Tar Heels had a good lead on the scoreboard, Jake, Jamison, and Carter were well on the offense and Tar Heels was also well on defense and was not giving V.i.r.g. Cavaliers opportunities to play.

In this 1st half Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 14 points, 4 assists, 4 rebounds, 5 steals, and 3 blocks, Staples still wouldn't give up trying a few three-point shots when Jake was in defense and so Jake can make some blocks in that game.

"What a great game from the Tar Heels team so far, the attack is working very well with Jake, Jamison, and Carter playing well and taking most of their opportunity on the offense."

"And the defense of team Tar Heels is also doing very well, Nolan and Staples who are the main players of team V.i.r.g. Cavaliers are not able to play well and have managed to score few points in this 1st half."

"True, Coach Guthridge was not afraid to change the initial team that was playing very well to put N'Diaye to defend against Nolan and that has been working because he with Jamison has been blocking many moves from Nolan to the V.i.r.g. Cavaliers team."