Chapter 489 A Great Deal 3
"Yes, today the entire Los Angeles Lakers team seems to be playing well, but in defense, they are making so mistakes that make the Denver Nuggets team still stand a chance of winning that ga."
"The highlight of the ga so far seems to be rookie Jake Smith again, he was the best player on the Lakers team so far he is playing very well as a PG on the team."
In the third quarter of the ga, coach Harris started replacing so players for a few minutes so they wouldn’t get tired, but Jake was always on the court because he himself asked not to be replaced.
For so reason the team coach Denver Nuggets also made so substitutions for a few minutes, he even replaced Raef LaFrentz who was making an excellent ga and Nick Van Exel too.
When Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant were replaced, Jake had a few minutes when he decided to attack alone taking advantage of the weakness of the Denver Nuggets’ defense, in a few minutes Jake scored 9 points by hitting 3 shots from 3 points from 4 attempts.
This showed one of the reasons Jake was chosen as the first pick of the 1998 draft, Jake also achieved a steal in those minutes and increased the Los Angeles Lakers’ lead by 5 points, so the Denver Nuggets fans realized they wouldn’t see the team of them winning that ga.
In another attacking move by the Los Angeles Lakers team, Jake ca at a fast pace for the attack, Kobe Bryant was still off the court and Jake passed the ball to Tyronn Lue from the right, Lue received the ball and the Denver Nuggets team’s defense pressed and Lue had to pass the ball to Fox.
Rick Fox had made a good defensive ga and helped the team with so points, Stith pressed in the defense and so Fox passed the ball back to Jake, Jake saw that Shaquille O’Neal was asking for the ball and passed it to him.
McDyess pressed O’Neal in defense, but O’Neal did a Power move and passed McDyess and dunk using all his strength and held the hoop making the hoop swing, it was a good move by O’Neal who was annoyed with McDyess’s good defense in the ga.
The third quarter ended with the Los Angeles Lakers team being close to winning the ga with a big points advantage, Jake played for 12 minutes and had 13 points, 3 assists, 3 rebounds, and 3 steals.
"What a great third quarter of Jake Smith we could see, he scored 13 points in those 12 minutes and still got 3 assists, this is the fourth ga of the season and Jake Smith has played every minute so far and this has been helping the Los Angeles Lakers team a lot."
"It’s true, Jake Smith won several marathons and shows that he really has great stamina at the beginning of the season, his first ga as PG shows that he has to stay in this position and help the Lakers team to continue winning."
"With the big advantage in points that the Los Angeles Lakers team has in this ga, we can say that they have already won this ga, they are more than 22 points and the Denver Nuggets team has only 12 minutes to make that difference."
Just as the comntators said in the last quarter of the ga the two teams had already accepted the result and were not putting so much pressure on the attack and defense, so the last quarter ended and the Los Angeles Lakers team won the fourth ga this season and the Denver team Nuggets lost the fourth ga.
The Los Angeles Lakers team won with 118 points against 91 points of the Denver Nuggets team, Jake played for 12 minutes in the four-quarter and had 7 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds, and 2 steals, Jake made another triple-double, but this ti with points, assists and steals.
"And the ga ends with yet another victory for the Los Angeles Lakers team in a ga that they won from start to finish, a great ga from all the players on the Lakers team and the Denver Nuggets team had no chance of winning."
"Jake Smith was once again the star of the ga making his third triple-double followed by him and this ti making 10 steals and not 10 rebounds, he got 9 rebounds and with one more rebound he would make a historic quadruple-double."
"Yes, if Jake Smith continues to play like that he could be this season’s MVP in his debut season, and the Los Angeles Lakers team’s attack remains unstoppable, Kobe Bryant had 23 points and Shaquille O’Neal had 31 points."
"With a strong attack like this, the Los Angeles Lakers team is coming as a favorite to win the NBA title this season, we will follow in the next gas if Jake Smith continues with these incredible performances."
After another victory, the dia started to say that the Los Angeles Lakers had a strong team to win the NBA title, Jake was the most talked about player of the mont because with 3 gas in a row doing triple-double and with an average of more 7 steals per ga Jake showed himself to be a different player than he was normally seen in the NBA.
Jake was already ntioned together with the big stars of the NBA and the hopes of the fans in him increased a lot after those initial gas, only Jake was realistic and knew that things would not always be like that, this triple-double sequence ca because his teammates his team were playing very well.
But when his teammates underperford, the Lakers team would lose and he wouldn’t be able to stand out in those gas, but it was undeniable for everyone that Jake would be the best rookie of the season if he continued to play well.
The companies that chose to trust Jake and David Falk were very happy with Jake’s performance in the first gas of the season, they thought it was good that they had not yet made a television comrcial with Jake would take advantage of it after the season was over to enjoy the best Jake’s mont in the NBA.
David Falk was also happy and he could not even expect Jake to perform as well as he did in his first NBA gas, what nobody knew was that since the 1998 draft Jake was training every day with very skilled opponents in training his imagination and the real NBA opponents were usually not as good as the SS rank players in all the skills he faced.
Without Jake knowing Adidas was accelerating the production of the sneakers that were created to be the brand that Jake represented, Adidas planned to wait a few months before thinking about selling that sneaker, but with Jake’s great performance in his debut year, they didn’t think they needed to wait any longer.
Of course, it would still be a few months before it was possible to start selling these sneakers worldwide, so Adidas representatives decided not to tell Jake and David that, so Jake was just focused on the next ga.
For the next ga, the Los Angeles Lakers team had to travel again, this ti to Minneapolis, Minnesota for the third ga as a visiting visitor, the opponent of their fifth ga of the season was the Minnesota Timberwolves team.
The Minnesota Timberwolves team was not such a tough opponent, but they had young star Kevin Garnett of whom Jake was also a fan, Kevin Garnett beca one of the greatest players of all ti and was an excellent defensive player.
Jake rembered that the Los Angeles Lakers team lost that ga and one of the reasons for that was that Shaquille O’Neal had not played in that ga and this ti again coach Harris said O’Neal would not play that ga.
Even though he was on the team, Jake didn’t know the reason for this decision by Coach Harris, Shaquille O’Neal was not hurt and even though he was tired he could play for at least 20 minutes in that ga.
So not even Jake could guarantee that he could change the outco of that ga, it was a certainty that the Los Angeles Lakers team currently depended on Shaquille O’Neal for good results, after all, he was the main player on the team and a reference in the attack.
Kobe Bryant was certainly a genius and would be an idol in the future, but currently, O’Neal was the most important player for the Los Angeles Lakers, Jake was playing well, but without good teammates, he could not guarantee any victory.
The day of the ga ca and the players were a little tired with so many trips in a row, so the team did not do any training and the players could not prepare well for the ga in which Shaquille O’Neal would not be playing.
The players of the Los Angeles Lakers team went to the Target Center which was full of Minnesota Timberwolves fans, Jake was not anxious about it because he would try to make the best of him in this ga and if the Los Angeles Lakers team lost he would have more peace of mind knowing that in his past life the Lakers team had also lost that ga.
Players put on their uniforms and did warm-up exercises in the locker room and went to the court to start the ga, Jake’s teammates were also concerned about not having Shaquille O’Neal in that ga, but with Jake and Kobe Bryant, they knew that could win.
"Welco that you ca to watch one more ga this NBA season, in that ga we will have the Los Angeles Lakers team that cos from 4 victories in 4 gas this season against the Minnesota Timberwolves team that had 2 victories in 3 gas this season."
"The Minnesota Timberwolves team, which is playing at ho here at the Target Center, has a lot of problems this season after giving Kevin Garnett a $ 126 million contract for 6 years."
"It is undeniable that Kevin Garnett is an excellent player and a young man who can be the star of the Minnesota Timberwolves team for many years, but with this contract, the team no longer has the money to pay for other good players."
"Yes, the question is not whether Kevin Garnett is worth a contract of that amount, but that the Minnesota Timberwolves team is unable to pay."
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