Chapter 91 National Championship 3 (1/2)

The game continued like this, sometimes the Cats tried a shot of 3 and hit and on the other side Elite team hit almost all attacks but only made the safest 2 points.

As expected by coach Mike the player in whom the Cats were the most chosen to attack was Santiago who was being scored by Harrison, Jake was very good in his defense and David also managed to steal a lot of balls, so Harrison was the weakness of the defense Elite team.

Jake was not worried about it, he thought it might be even good, as the distance from the line of 3 in the Middle School was smaller than in the NBA it was normal for skilled players to hit rate was higher.

Even so the normal for a skilled player was to hit one of three per average in a game, which means that the Cats team would lose two attacks to make a 3-point.

Usually not to lose so many attacks to the teams that did a lot of shots from outside, they looked for players that could receive more rebounds like Center and PF, that was what Jake was calm.

In the defense, Mark and Carter were the only ones that disputed who took more rebounds and few finished in the hands of the attack to have another chance.

As proved by the end of the first period Jake's team was ahead of them by 3 points difference, it could be a difference of just one attack for the Cats team, but for Jake, it was a safe advantage.

In the second period coach, Mike made a small change and asked Carter to support Harrison to score Santiago, so Santiago's strike rate began to drop, so Lincon and Rick started to try more shots from outside as well.

On the attack side of the Elite team seeing that Mark and Carter had already entered the game more and were confident after making several points, Jake thought it was time for a few shots of 3 as well.

He had to rely on Mark and Carter to take advantage of the rebounds and so do not miss the attacks, Jake passed the ball to David and motioned for him to try a shot of 3 if he had the opportunity.

David was thrilled with this as well and agreed, David's reason for not being overly anxious and correctly following the coping strategies the coach and Jake did was that he realized it was the surest way to victory.

But that does not mean that he did not like to do what he did before, was that now he asked for permission before, David who had the ball made a feint and then a step back to try a shot from outside and make the 3 points later.

The Cats did not expect that in the second period the Elite team that was always ahead in the score was to try a shot of 3, although it was what the Cats wanted before the game started, seeing that they controlled the rebounds, it did not make much sense to this strategy.

Rick commanded another attack and gave the ball to Santiago who received the double marking soon after and not to risk giving the pass to Lincon that received and tried the shot of 3, on the pressure of the mark of Mark ended up missing the shot and Mark picked up another rebound.

The ball was passed to Jake who began to advance to the attack, so while the Elite team organized in the attack before reaching the line of 3 points as it had no mark, Jake made the Set Shot and was able to make 3 more points for his team.

The Cats' defense did not expect that, and everyone had to admire Jake's ability to hit a shot from 3 yards without having to jump, it made a totally unexpected move, and it was clear that Jake did it with confidence who could make the points and not just to try.

The advantage was even greater, the game continued with the Cats team hitting a few shots of 3 and increased their score, but sometimes erring and losing their attack, on the other side the Elite team tried sometimes the shots of 3 and hardly lost the attacks with Mark taking the rebounds.

At the end of the second period, the Elite team led the score by 10 points, as it was 4 attacks for the Cats team he still did not lose hope in the victory, however, taking out the rebounds everyone realized that the Elite team defense was very passive.