Chapter 274 The Beginning of the Season at College Basketball 6
In the next few days, Jake returned to training routine normally, in the morning he had daily running training with Zack and later he did training with the basketball team.
After two days he knew he would not be starting again the next day’s ga, he was a little disappointed by that, but he understood that this was Coach Smith’s decision, Coach Guthridge tried very hard to convince Coach Smith to allow Jake played and failed.
Jake wanted to secure a place in the team using his own skills and he was sure that in a short ti he could end up convincing Coach Smith if he went to another university that the team was not so strong Jake would never have this problem, but he wanted just one university with a strong team to win many Tournant.
The other day Jake didn’t do his daily training running as usual and just woke up at the normal ti to attend classes because he had to be rested to play the ga in a few hours.
Jake spent ti with his friends after school and then had to go to the Dean Smith Center to prepare for the ga, after so ti the whole team had done the warm-up exercises and was ready for the ga.
After the last ga, Jake was much more in tune with the whole team, Vince Carter mostly helped Jake get a lot closer to his other teammates, especially Antawn Jamison who was a close friend of Carter got closer to Jake.
This made Jake very happy even with the defeat and still remaining in reserve, Coach Smith and Coach Guthridge passed so tactics and positioning to the players before the ga.
Before the last ga as the team, in debut was Coach Smith only worked on the confidence of the players, but after the defeat Coach Smith passed on in detail what mistakes they made in the last ga so they could learn and not make the sa mistakes in Upcoming gas.
After a few minutes, the opposing team arrived and they began to prepare to start the ga, the opposing team in this ga would be Richmond Spiders, they had a weaker team this year and so it would not be a big challenge for the Tar Heels team.
But as they had missed the debut ga this eventually put pressure on the players, Coach Smith did not want to calm the players down and put more pressure on them to win the ga.
Jake was pretty calm about it all, Coach Smith had praised his performance in his debut ga while criticizing all the other players, and as he would start in reserve Jake didn’t feel the sa pressure from the other players.
Especially when he rembered that the Tar Heels team had won this ga in his past life if he could play longer and the team won as he rembered it would be the best result for Jake.
After a few minutes, the ga started in the early minutes of the ga the Tar Heels team that had much more skilled players began to dominate the ga when the team led by 4 points for a few minutes everyone started to calm down and played even better.
Everyone was fine in this ga and just 6 minutes into the first half that Coach Smith decided to put Jake into the ga, Jake replaced Shammond Williams who was playing well in that ga.
In 3 minutes playing in the first half, Jake managed to make 5 points, 2 assists, and 1 rebound and was soon replaced by Ed Cota, it seed that Coach Smith wanted to put several players to play a few minutes and gain experience with a weaker opponent as was the Richmond Spiders team.
At the beginning of the second half, Okulaja eventually started on the bench and Shammond Williams was more advanced in his position, Ed Cota continued playing for another 2 minutes and Jake joined the ga again.
This ti Jake played 11 more minutes and made 8 points, 4 assists 3 rebounds and 2 steals, he managed to make fewer points but helped the overall team more, Shammond Williams ca in his place and played the last 7 minutes of the second half.
Team Tar Heels dominated the entire ga and won with a score of 90 points against 71 of team Richmond Spiders, Vince Carter was the best in the ga and scored 25 points and got 6 rebounds, after the ga everyone returned to their dorms and Jake counted To your friends the good news.
His friends were very happy for him after Jake called his mother who was very happy to know that Jake’s team had won, but was angry again to know that Jake played a few minutes in the ga, Jake thought differently.
He knew that in his past life Coach Smith and even Coach Guthridge had a difficult ti casting the team with Ed Cota playing so well, so Shammond Williams had to play a few minutes in Vince Carter’s position and a few minutes in Ed Cota’s position.
And Shammond Williams has always been a big player in Jake’s mories, so this ti the coaches still had more Jake to make that decision even harder to make in a short ti.
Even so, Jake could play longer in this ga and played even better, while Ed Cota played a lot less ti than Jake and less than in the last ga, which showed that Coach Smith was deciding to use Jake as the team’s sixth player.
Jake felt bad for Ed Cota, but he wanted this place in the starting lineup to help his future as a basketball player, if he ended up in reserve and didn’t have much ti to play, he would have to try to transfer to another university with a more weak team to have more playing ti.
In the following days, Jake continued his training routine until the day of the third ga of the season arrived, the ga would be again at the Dean Smith Center, playing at ho was always better for the Tar Heels team.
Jake felt the difference from high school having to play several days a week, he could see that those who played the longest or had the worst fitness were a little tired before the third ga.
Before that, Jake found it strange how the most skilled players who made a big difference in the outco of a ga like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron Jas were replaced in gas several tis.
For him, a 48-minute ga with a break of several minutes was not so tiring for several of these players sotis having to rest for 13 minutes, but going through it personally he understood why this was happening.
In addition to playing the 48 minutes with a lot of pressure for the result of a high-intensity ga with peers, players often had to play several tis a week and sotis had to travel long distances between these gas.
It was even worse when so gas ca in at halfti, so even the best-fit players would have to rest at least 7 minutes to avoid the risk of muscle strain injuries.
Good thing the university ga season was only for 6 months, otherwise many players could end up hurting themselves with so many gas, players like Vince Carter who played for over 20 years at both the university and the NBA were even more amazing.
The day before, Jake knew he would not play as a starting man, so when he heard that he was a little disappointed, but he still understood Coach Smith’s position, he rembered that even playing so well Ed Cota often started reserve gas in his first year even though it played almost 30 minutes every ga.
After a few hours, both teams were ready for the ga to begin, this third ga was with the Pitt Panthers team, the Pitt Panthers team was not a particularly strong team this season either.
They got a better campaign by trusting Vonteego Cummings and Mark Blount who played in the NBA and were very good players, Jake also rembered that the Tar Heels team easily won in their past life.
Again Jake started the ga on the bench, Shammond Williams started as a starter and could feel the pressure of competition with Ed Cota and Jake for his position, if he could not play as SG he would have less and fewer minutes to play.
In the first 7 minutes he played well and scored 6 points but was still replaced by Ed Cota, Ed Cota different from Shammond Williams thought more about the collective ga and made only 2 points and made 3 assists in the 5 minutes he played.
Jake took the place of Ed Cota and was playing for 8 minutes until the end of the first half, Shammond Williams still played another 5 minutes in place of Vince Carter in that first half, Jake had a great performance.
Jake made 7 points, 3 assists, 3 rebounds, and 2 steals, he played thinking of the team and also made his points, could you say he had the best of his competitors for PG’s position in the team.
Ed Cota started the second half and played for 3 minutes before being replaced, Shammond Williams played for 8 minutes before being replaced and Jake can play for another 9 minutes in that second half.
Jake had 12 points, 3 assists, 3 rebounds and 2 steals playing in those 9 minutes in the second half of the ga, this ti Antawn Jamison was the best player in the team scoring 26 points and getting 5 rebounds.
But everyone could say that actually the best player on the team was Jake who played just over half the ti Jamison played and did a lot more for the team in general after that ga everyone had accepted Jake on the team and knew he was really talented as they.
With Jake playing basketball so well and still winning several marathons and breaking records, no one else on the team could say he was jealous of him being the only sponsored player on the team.
Clearly Jake was a better athlete than them, so might still think they were better at basketball, but Jake did a lot more than all of them overall, Jake still had great grades in school and everyone knew he was smart.
So it could be said that Jake was greatly easing the situation for the university and the basketball organization that allowed Jake to be an exception and receive sponsorship, he did everything so well that if used as a reference no one else could get sponsorship.
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