Chapter 275 The Beginning of the Season at College Basketball 7
In this third ga, Team Tar Heels won even more easily by 91 points against just 58 points from Team Pitt Panthers, Jake could play longer and knew that at least he had secured the spot as a sixth player and could play longer in the next gas.
Jake went back to the dorm and told his friends about the win, then called his mother to tell him about the win, Jake was soone more modest, and although he always told his win friends he didn’t talk about how many points he made at the gas.
So for a while, his friends thought that maybe Jake wasn’t even playing gas and so didn’t count what his performance was like, but after the third ga, they found that even though Jake wasn’t a starter he still played many minutes and scored several points.
Just as they were their friends, they decided to watch Jake gas that were played at the Dean Smith Center, so many already watched those gas so they thought they had to do it for Jake at least.
Jake didn’t know that and really missed seeing soone he knew in the stands, fortunately in those early gas he was so focused on trying to play well and doing his best in the minutes he couldn’t rember staring into the stands.
The days passed and Jake continued his training routine, he had only 2 days to train while his teammates rested because he had a ga every 3 days.
The fourth ga was against the Bethune-Cookman team at the Dean Smith Center, again Jake would start in reserve and enter the ga when Coach Smith thought the ti was right, Coach Guthridge always tried to convince Coach Smith to put Jake in the starting lineup, but could not.
The Bethune-Cookman team was also considered weak for this season, they had no players to stand out either, so the Tar Heels team that was coming from a 2-win sequence was very confident in this ga.
Jake wasn’t blindly confident like the others and just rembered that in his past life the Tar Heels team easily won this ga by a large number of points, in fact, he thought these victories could be more dangerous for the blind team confident even winning against weaker teams.
In this ga Jake played 22 minutes, he scored 22 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals, this was one of his best gas at the university and the team won the ga by 112 points against 60 points from the Bethune-Cookman team.
In this ga, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison scored 25 points each and were the best of the team in the ga, but again Jake was the most efficient in enjoying the ti he had in the ga, after this ga he would have scored 62 points, 22 assists, 17 rebounds, and 10 steals in 63 minutes played in 4 gas.
He was already the third player to score the most and was the most assisted and steals player in the team even playing on average half the ti of his teammates, this is the report that Coach Guthridge made to convince Coach Smith letting Jake play as a starter.
This report was different from seeing a player play in person, it showed accurate performance data, so comparing Jake with his teammates it was impossible for Coach Smith to keep leaving Jake in reserve.
He didn’t mind the criticism of others as he decided what was best for the team, but if he didn’t put Jake in the starting lineup he could now be called blind and be doing sothing that would hurt the team.
So unbeknownst to Jake he had been placed as a starter for the next ga, Shammond Williams would have to play soti in the positions of Jake, Vince Carter and Ademola Okulaja, so he could play a few more minutes and help the team.
Unfortunately, Ed Cota had lost this match and would have to stay most of the gas in reserve, coach Smith put Ed Cota to play because he was confident he could play very well and do great things for the team.
But with soone like Jake on the team, Coach Smith could not place soone as a starter who played less than Jake himself, now he had to wait for Jake to respond positively to his expectations.
Jake realizes during this ga by chance that his roommates ca to watch his ga, it made Jake very happy, his roommates were also very surprised to see how well Jake played in this ga.
They thought Jake played better than the team stars this year that was Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison, after all even though they were better at so things, Jake was soone who played for the team and with quality.
Jake called his mother again to tell him that he had won, Eva was very happy for him and thought that this winning streak was normal for Jake as a player, of course, it didn’t depend on Jake and it was the team’s ability.
But the dia did not think so and had already made Jake one of the best newcors of the year, Jake was not the best at the mont because he had no opportunity to play as a starter in the team as other newbies already did in other teams.
For the next few days Jake kept training hard without knowing he would be a starter, so the day before the ga it was Coach Guthridge who personally called Jake to talk, as this had not happened many tis before Jake was curious why he had been called.
"Jake, I have good news for you, Coach Smith has decided to put you in for the next ga."
"Thank you so much, coach."
Jake was delighted to know that he could play as a starter in the next ga, he knew that did not an that he could always play as a starter nor that he could play a whole ga, but he would try his best to take advantage of this opportunity.
"It’s good that you’re happy with that, but know that these upcoming gas will also be a test for you."
"What do you an, coach?"
Jake naturally knew that his starting gas would be a test, if he didn’t play well in so gas he could end up going back to the team reserve and getting back into the starting lineup after losing coach confidence would be much harder.
But Jake felt that Coach Guthridge was ntioning sothing else when he said that Jake would have a test, it was not about the gas themselves, but sothing else that Jake didn’t know what it was.
"This is a ti of great pressure for the players, classes are over and the team will have two gas in two straight days with no rest days, and after these two gas with the tired players you will have the tests in school to worry."
Now Jake understood what Coach Guthridge ant by hard testing, really for other players this would be the worst ti to co in as a starting lineup, after all for players like them who always have to play and train and travel often don’t have ti to study.
And the grades are also important for the player to stay in the team, not to ntion that many players were tired after this ga and will have to play for two gas in a row, it could be said that this was the worst ti to play as a starter.
"Thanks so much for the advice, Coach Guthridge."
But it wasn’t like that for Jake, so far as he was playing only half the ga he had no problem with his stamina and could still play a lot more gas, and classes weren’t a problem for Jake who had learned almost everything.
So what would be a fire test for other players would be just a normal ga for Jake, if he could perform well even with the coach thinking it was a tough test for Jake, it would be even better to ensure the coach’s confidence.
Jake was also very grateful to the coach Guthridge who had given these councils to him, after all, many players would not think about these things too much and would just be happy to have the opportunity to play as a starter.
So the Tar Heels team with a 3 straight winning streak ca full of confidence for this ga, everyone knew this was an easier ga and the next one that would be more complicated because of tiredness.
On the day of the ga, everyone knew that Jake would be the first starter in the team and he received the sincere congratulations from the whole team, everyone who saw Jake’s last gas knew he was very talented and at so point would get the place as a starter.
After a few hours, both teams were ready for the ga, the team’s opponent Tar Heels for today’s ga was USC Trojans, this was a team that had a good team for this year’s season, it wasn’t a favorite team to win But it was a good staff.
In the first half Jake played for 14 minutes and was replaced by Ed Cota, in that first half Jake scored 18 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, and 2 steals and helped the team a lot in the defensive part.
In the second half, Jake played for another 15 minutes and scored 13 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals and even helped the team in defense too, in this ga Jake was deservedly the best player of the ga and made a double-double in his ga debut which is amazing.
Team Tar Heels won the ga with 110 points against 75 points from the USC Trojans team, all celebrated this fourth straight victory a lot and served to take so of the stress out of so players who were stressed out for the week if evidence was coming.
Jake was highly praised by everyone and even Coach Smith who didn’t think Jake could play that well, scoring more than 20 points was normal in college basketball, but scoring over 30 points and still getting a double-double was harder to achieve, and Jake had played less than 30 minutes.
So with this performance, Jake confird that he deserved a place as a team starter, yet Coach Smith’s test was not over yet, the next ga would be the next day, and the team would play even more tired than today.
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