Chapter 44 The Regional Championship 1 (1/2)

So Jake responded to the coach without even looking at him and then left.

Roy was frozen by shock for a while and when he recovered Jake was already gone.

Roy really did not expect Jake to be so ambitious, he even thought coaching would be great if his team entered the national championship, the more he won, he knew it was impossible.

Now he understood what Jake said the team was not enough, really to be the champion was still a long way off, and Luke would be the big flaw of his team in the national championship, until the state they could let Luke score the worst player of each team, but the national team did not have a bad player, everyone had to be good.

After thinking a little he understood why Jake dreamed of being the champion, after all with his talent he could even be elected MVP of the national championship, being the champion is normal for him to expect this.

More Roy knew that his school team was not enough, so he also wondered why Jake went to study at his school and not another famous for having a good basketball team.

Of course no matter how he thought about it he could not imagine that the reason was that just over a year ago Jake not even know how to play basketball knew how much more to think about choosing a school that was famous in that, in fact, Jake really did not expect to improve so quickly , he was hoping to reach the level of others in high school, but the system greatly accelerated his plans.

Roy was also glad that Jake was wise enough not to tell the others that he wanted to be the champion, it was too bad to give false hopes to his teammates, then they would be more depressed when they could not.

As weeks went by quickly and the day of the first regional championship game arrived, there would be 32 teams from the city of Miami and the county as well, and the winning team would go to the Florida State Championship, then another 64 teams would pass and the winner would go for the national championship, that another 64 teams would dispute the champion trophy.

Today's game was with a team from a not very well-known school, so they should win today so they were pretty calm, the Western School team always participated only to complete the numbers.

Still, all the players who were having their first game were a bit nervous, Jake was also a bit nervous, although it is not a very important game for his future career can be said that he will always remember this game throughout his life.

The other team seemed more nervous still, last year Jake's school team was a very strong team at least for the regional games, they won that championship and were eliminated in the state, of course, that's the mentality in sports, always someone wants to conquer more than it has before.

Jake's team wants to get to the state more for this adversary team to reach the state already would be a great glory, besides, when playing with young teams the strong and weak team is never very defined, if the entire team that is strong Middle School way the team in the other year may be weak.

And if a player like Michael Jordan joins any team, that team becomes strong, of course, Jake's team this year was stronger because he had him.

The league rules are four periods of eight minutes each and an interval after the second ten minute period, Jake could easily play the four periods without slowing down the pace but he knew his teammates would not hold out.

Another thing is that no matter how much of a score they score more than their opponent, they would play the same way because they were already prepared to lose and were only playing for fun or gaining experience, so their minds would be different.

So Jake's work as PG was to control the pace of play so that his team did not have to run the whole game, in defense they had the confidence to mess up the other team's plays so they were not afraid of a defeat.

In the beginning, Jake's team gained possession and the ball was sent to Jake to organize the play, so he went calmly to the opposing court, 24 seconds for possession of the ball in a quiet game is a long time.

So he advanced to a three-point line and the other team's defensive line seemed well posted, but that was the basics trained by all teams, they would have to make a play to test the waters.

The PG of the other team was marking Jake at some distance as he did not know if he was good at throwing or dribbling us into the basket he had to stay in the middle.