Chapter 45 The Regional Championship 2 (1/2)

And so after the day of the first game of their first school league championship finish, Jake was back home to dine with his mother.

In fact, Eva was anxious all day, she knew that today was going to be Jake's first game at school and despite seeing how well Jake played in the street basketball tournament, she was worried because she had seen that her son was very confident to be the winner.

Her fear was that Jake would lose the game and his team would be eliminated and Jake would be depressed about it, Eva knew how dangerous it could be for someone to get a little depressed, after all, she was depressed enough after her husband died.

And that depression followed her for more than eight years until she got better, and Eve knew depression was lurking for an opportunity, for her to be shocked again and end her life.

And for young people, everything is more intense when you end up with a boyfriend, or if you lose a friend, it is like yours the world would end at that moment.

Although Eva knew that Jake was more mature than others at her age, she also knew how much basketball was important to him and how much time he invested in it, so losing a game that he thought would be easy to win could end with his self-esteem.

So just when Jake came home saying that they had won that she calmed down, she knew that her son was very skilled in basketball, more for what she knew this was a game if 5 people on a team, if only Jake was good and his companions would not arrive an hour that they would lose.

”So you guys won that game, very good, my son, I'm very happy for you.”

”Thank you Mom, I knew you would be worried about this whole thing, now the next game will be in a week, so you should calm down, I'm confident our team can win at least this regional.”

”The more you must know my son, I know how skillful you are, but this is a team sport, no matter how good you are it can not get the whole team behind.”

”I know mother, plus the team also has some good players, everyone has their weakness no one else is perfect, as I am the captain the best I can do is try to enjoy all their good points and try to cover their weaknesses.”

”I'm very proud of you for working so hard on what you do, no matter the end result as long as you give your best.”

”I do not need to be very worried, the goal of the team is just to enter the national championship, although we have no chance to be the champion this I can try to achieve.”

”It's already a great result, you'll have won two trophies by then.”

Jake just smiled and ate his food in silence, he wanted to win that national champion title no matter how difficult it was because he knows he had the potential for it, plus he was bound by the circumstances, he should now know what big players who were the best in the NBA most did not have the best teams and so they always lost.

Of course, when you are a professional you get used to the defeat, after suffering a painful defeat a very large check can relieve your pain, plus Jake did not even have the check.

So more now was not the time to think about a defeat that had not yet happened, he would have a game next week and should win.

So Jake spent the week doing only a few lightweight training sessions and a few plays with his teammates, during the intervals of the classes he always talked with Joseph, at that time they talked about other sports and also school and even television programs.

So it was an hour that Jake could relax.

So the day of the game arrived, the school team he was going to face had the name of the mascot of the Tigers school.

The Tigers were a much stronger team than the team from the first game, they reached the fourth place in the last championship losing to the opponent of Jake's team in the final.