Chapter 386 Continuing the Winning Streak 10
"After I managed to run under 3 hours on the 43 km I knew I was ready to run a marathon, so I decided to run in Chicago which was a marathon that I always liked and was in an offseason basketball season."
"I prepared a lot to run my first marathon and I tried my best and to my surprise, I managed to win the first marathon that I ran officially, after that I knew I could have a talent and I continued to strive in training and running several marathons."
"So you asked how I feel about having conquered so many important things and winning several marathons running less than 4 years old and being 19 years old, I feel happy and grateful for that, but I also think it’s sothing natural for ."
"I was lucky to have a talent with a lot of resistance, but I also trained a lot for almost 6 years before running my first marathon, and I continued training even though I had basketball, so I think anyone who trains so much can achieve sothing if have a talent for it. "
Eric didn’t expect a question from him to have such a complete answer from Jake, it seed that Jake loved running a lot more than he thought, Eric wanted good answers like that from Jake, but he had to be careful with the questions he asked.
"And what about your team’s great winning streak, what do you think is the reason why the Tar Heels team has achieved a 47-ga streak without losing despite facing so many tough opponents."
"I believe that the cause of this is our environnt, it is the players, the coach, the fans, all of these influences for our team to have this great sequence of gas without losing."
"When I joined this team at the beginning of last season almost two years ago, the team already had almost all the teammates I have, Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, Serge Zwikker, Shammond Williams, Ademola Okulaja, Makhtar N’Diaye between other players had been on the team for a year or more."
"So coach Dean Smith had already organized the team and had trained a lot with these players before Ed Cota and I joined the team that was already ford."
"In my debut season, we lost just 2 gas, one at the debut and the other after a 9-ga winning streak against our team and it was against the Wake Forest team, and that was our last loss."
"It ans that if we had not lost that ga we would have a streak of 57 wins, it shows how well we played in those two seasons, Coach Dean Smith did very well and Coach Bill Guthridge has also done as well."
"It shows how our entire team and the support of the fans has been instruntal in our team achieving this."
Eric was also pleased with this answer, it seed that Jake was helping him a lot by giving very generous answers for him to use in his interview, with that he thought to ask just two more questions that he had prepared and so he could finish this interview very well.
"Jake, in your debut season you won almost every individual award for your excellent performance, you broke several records for your university’s performance and even for all college basketball."
"You have averaged 32 points, 10 assists, and 6 steals per ga, and this season you have done even better than that, what do you think about everything that is happening to you in basketball today."
"I really think everything that is happening to is impressive, I am lucky to have the trust of my teammates, I have an average of 18 attempts of Field goal per ga and my team’s Jamison has only 14."
"So this confidence that allows to score so many points, assists only happens because I have excellent talented teammates who score when I pass."
"I am lucky to have a good ability to hit three-point shots and I also have my agility that helps both in my attack and in my defense, it is incredible and I feel grateful every day for what I have."
"I understand, one last question, what do you hope to achieve in the future that you have not yet achieved?"
"I hope to achieve many things, I have many dreams and goals in various things related to the sport, in relation to other things and in relation to my personal life."
"But in the sport, I hope in the future to win many gold dals for and my country in the Olympics that I will participate in the future, and I hope to one day win an NBA title and beco the MVP of a season in the NBA."
"Well, thank you for this interview Jake, sorry for having spent these years without trying to talk to you, who knows in the future we may be friends again, and we will still have a lot of interviews like this in the future when you join the NBA."
"Yes, we will et again in the future and see how things go, it was nice to see you again Eric."
After that Jake went back to the university to train, he had been happy to see Eric again after so many years, even though he was disappointed that Eric didn’t try to talk to him in those years, Jake knew these things were happening.
He could have been only 19 now, but before going back to the past he lived for 40 years and it was not in the world of sports like now but in the normal society where all kinds of things happen, at 40 Jake saw a lot happening while he worked at the company.
Many of these things didn’t happen to him because Jake didn’t have many friends and he never tried to have romantic relationships, but he saw a lot of things happen to other people.
Jake had agreed to do this interview because he wanted to help Eric for the things Eric had done for him in the past, but it was also because he thought that with this interview David’s job would be easier to get endorsents and to get a place for Jake on the team Lakers.
After a few days of training ca the day of the next ga for the Tar Heels team, this was a ga long-awaited by the sports dia these last few days after all the opponent was the team that had been the last to defeat the Tar Heels team before starting this long streak of 47 gas without losing.
It was the Tar Heels team’s first ga against the Wake Forest team this season, it was a difficult ga in many different ways for the Tar Heels team, it was a visitor ga and it had all the pressure from the dia.
Even though the Wake Forest team was not having a good season because they were still getting used to playing without Tim Duncan who was the team leader for many years, it was a dangerous team to face.
"Welco to everyone who will accompany us in today’s ga, this is a long-awaited ga in the last few days because it is the first ga between the Tar Heels team that has not lost 47 gas and the Wake Forest team that was the last team defeating the Tar Heels team."
"The Tar Heels team is definitely the favorite to win this ga, Jake and Jamison have been the best players of the season, and the team still has Carter and Williams who have also been having great performances in recent gas."
"But a ga against the Wake Forest team can have a very big psychological effect and the Wake Forest team can take advantage of that to win, they have been trying another style of play after Tim Duncan went to the NBA, and they can win that ga."
"It is true, but one thing has to be rembered when the Tar Heels team lost to the Wake Forest team, Jake did not even play 20 minutes and even today many think that this is the reason the team lost this ga."
"After this ga, Jake has almost always played for more than 30 minutes and the Tar Heels team has not lost anymore, with a player of his quality I find it difficult to imagine the Tar Heels team losing if they play normally."
Just as comntators had said with Jake on the team the fans did not believe that the Tar Heels team could lose, the problem was that the next two gas for the Tar Heels team would be very difficult and the team needed that victory.
The Wake Forest team also had good players in three-point shots and the Tar Heels team players were prepared for that, and the Wake Forest team was unable to prepare to play against Jake.
In the first minutes, the Wake Forest team decided to try to attack and take advantage of the psychological pressure from the Tar Heels team players and the advantage of playing at ho to try to get an advantage on the score against the Tar Heels team.
But it was not as they expected and they were having a difficult ti passing through the defense of the Tar Heels team, in the three-point line Jake was ready to try to block anybody who tried the shot from outside and Williams was also close by.
In the defense of the painted area, the Tar Heels team was very good even without a Center, but it was in the three-point line that the opponents had more difficulty making the points because of Jake and Williams.
In one of the plays Robert O’Kelley of the Wake Forest team tried a three-point shot after moving away from Jake, but he missed and Jamison easily managed to get a defensive rebound, Jamison also took it easy and advanced slowly until he passed the ball for Jake.
It was unexpected that the Tar Heels team that was always so strong would start a ga by defending more and not attacking with speed, for many it showed how the players of the Tar Heels team were feeling the pressure to win.
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