Chapter 114 The Tournament in Europe 2 (1/2)
If Jake knew what his mother was thinking he would just laugh, it was impossible that Jake wanted to get away from Eva, even if he started dating people his age or even got a girlfriend he would just organize the way how long he passed with each one.
There was no reason for him to lose the family relationship just by having new friends and meeting new people, as Jake had already said the only reason people moved away from their families when they grew up was out of shame, and Jake was the same in his life last.
He often wanted to have dinner with his mother after he got older and did not do it because he did not have the courage, so in this life that was his second chance he promised not to lose the good things in life out of shame, if that was so he would not have made so close to Anna.
”And then Jake, how do you feel after playing for the first time after so long?”
”All right, Mom, I really missed that, but it's better to know that it looks like even though I stayed so long without a game I could still improve.”
”This year I hope you can get back to the school team.”
”I do not think this is going to happen, even without the height rule the coach will not want me to go back to the team and play as PG which is my position.”
”Then why do not you give up and play in the position the coach wants you to play, I'm sure you'll play well.”
”I have confidence that I can also play well as SG, but I do not want to play in that position until I get to college at least, otherwise I feel like I will not be able to play PG for many years.”
”And why this?”
”Because I still have a lot to improve as a PG, and in that position, I feel I can play better in the future, but as SG I can play perfectly, so everyone will realize this and will not give me a chance to improve.”
”I don't understand.”
”It's more like that, if I have a potential of 90 on a scale of 1 to 100 as SG I've already reached 85, that means I can do very little, but as PG my potential is 100, and I'm in the 79 now, I mean if I have the chance I can become much better as a PG than as SG in the future do you understand?”
So Eva can understand, Jake wanted to say that it might be better as PG in the future, but it was better as SG now and he did not want to let the others know about it, otherwise, no one would give him a chance to get better.
And most of all Jake knew that coach Philips did not know any of this, after all, he trusted the system that said that that means that for some reason coach Philips wanted to take Jake out of PG's position, and that did not was thinking the best for Jake and neither of the team.
Jake wanted to take advantage of high school to train and improve as much as he could his PG skills, then if he was in college or the NBA and that was a decision thinking the best for the team he would accept.
So Jake's rest time was over, and he saw his opponent, he seemed to be smaller than Jake was bigger than his last opponent, so Jake planned to do what he had thought before.
He heard someone call the name of his opponent that was Carlos, Jake had the first possession of the ball, so he made a feint, he saw that Carlos appeared not to be very good in defense, after the feint he made a step back and gave the shot from outside to make the first 2 points.
In addition to being very confident in his shots from outside, Jake also planned to let the opponent have a chance to attack also to be able to train his defense a little, so Jake planned to only shoot from the outside.
It was not like Carlos knew this, so he just prepared for any attempt by Jake, Jake made another feint and Carlos fumbled again, so Jake made a step back and shot the outside.
Jake could only laugh at this when he did not mind making mistakes, then Jake got another space and fired another shot from outside and hit again to make 2 more points.