Chapter 149 The National High School Championship 6 (1/2)

Jake was annoyed to be fighting for the rebound for nothing after the ball came in after Jake picked up the ball in the bottom line and passed to his team's PG, then he started to run without looking back until he reached his position.

Jake did not want to know how to score in this game so he told his team's PG not to pass any balls to him, unlike his team at school, the imagery training teams did not have a very fixed positioning.

However, Jake did not manage to connect with it, as his teammates had hoped, and the ball went out of his way. they did not know what was going to happen.

But for this, the team had to train a lot and everyone had to have an IQ basketball high to make these plays, after all an error and the player with the ball could be surrounded, in addition, Jake liked to have control of the plays.

If the opponent can start reading his plays and is no longer working, he could think about changing the team's style of play, but for now, it was better to keep it that way.

While playing as Center he understood how difficult it was to play in that position, he had even more respect for Mark, yet the training in that first game did not work out as well as he thought.

He managed to train a lot to get the rebounds, but apart from the positioning it was very dependent on luck to get the rebounds, but he did not get any chance to make the block in that game.

Even so he tried again with another game, he purposely asked his team's defense of these more spaces so that the opponents tried to score internally, and this time he also wanted to try the plays of strength in the inner area to try to make the points as a Center and so he asked for the ball more.

So he can make more moves in that position, in attack and defense Jake had some difficulties, he was stronger than his opponent in the moves, but often he ended up making fouls trying to attack or defend by using excessive force.

So he thought it good that he did this in training and not in games, in the block was easier, he had done several times in the games, he just had to hit the time and so he could play the ball and not the opponent.

If the opponent made more elaborate moves to move the ball more Jake would give up trying the block, in fact once talking to the system he discovered that he had enough facilities with block, steal, dunk and layup because his intelligence and agility statistics were higher.

Thus both his agility and his speed of thought were faster and easier for him to guess the time of the ball, but to use the force to attack or defend if he learned only with experience, that is what Mark probably meant.

As Mark knew Jake would not play Center's position he thought Jake could never get the experience of playing in that position, so Jake would never be better than him, but Mark did not know Jake had the system.

Even so Jake understood that Mark must have talent as a defender, and also to know the right time to get the rebounds, which was something that Jake had more difficulty, but he had a lot of time in his training of imagination to learn some techniques to use in games.

When Jake's game day arrived it had already improved a lot as Center but was compared to an amateur and not to Mark, but Jake did not plan to use what he learned in that same game room, Jake thought he could use some of what he learned in the semifinal or in the very end.

After eating breakfast and saying goodbye to Eva he went to the playground, this time only coach Mike and Mark had arrived, in training during the week before the game Jake can see that his teammates seemed more focused on the training.

As he had been previously dismissed by the coach, Jake did not know what the coach talked to the team after the last game, but it seemed that he had motivated the players, yet Jake intended to rely on Mark for that game.

Mark was in good shape in the last games and Jake thought it was best to pass the ball so Mark would score more points and gain more confidence.

After a few minutes everyone had arrived for the game, Jake saw that everyone looked good in this game, he would have to see after the game began, he would pass the ball to David and Harrison to see how they were for that game.

Carter was important for him to be better on defense than on the attack, but he would find an opportunity to see how Carter was on the attack for that game, the game was about to start and Jake decided to speak with Mark shortly before the game.

”So, Mark, how are you feeling today?”