Chapter 169 The Last Year of High School 4 (1/2)
While Jake was training every day his school friends were studying, even his teammates who had to train on their vacations the new style of play took a few days to study anyway, even the school could not give a scholarship at the university if their grades were too high bad.
When Jake learned that his teammates were training in school for the new type of game he volunteered to train with them so the team could be more involved.
After all, even though Jake did not need to do that as a captain, he needed to set the example for his teammates on how to do it, his teammates, as well as Coach Mike, hoped to easily accept training.
After all, they knew it was because of them that the style of play had to be changed, Jake had no problem with these individual moves, on the contrary, Jake was much better at these 1-on-1 shots.
After a day of training on the court coach Mike called Jake to talk privately, Jake did not know what was agreed more easily, his teammates thought it was just Jake who would quietly go to the coach's office without any fear.
”I was very happy that you have set aside your vacation to train here with the team, I know that you have even trained after here on the athletic field every day, it was really the right decision to have you as team captain, you give a great example Jake.”
”I'm also part of the team and it's normal for me to train with all of them.”
”That's right, I called you here Jake because even though this school tries to stop them all with you it's impossible, we've got several calls from various scouts from various universities.”
”As an MVP last year in the national championship you have been the number one choice of almost all coaches who need a PG or SG in the team, so soon you would probably receive several invitations from universities across the country.”
Jake was happy to know that it was his mother's dream that he should enter college, and he had decided to go to college, after all, after entering the NBA he would have to concentrate entirely on basketball.
And even then maybe he could not play much in the early years if he came into the NBA now, after college he would be sure he would be a lot better in basketball, but Jake found it a bit odd that Coach Mike would get several college invitations.
As if he had realized Jake was confused, Coach Mike explained everything that was going on.
”Actually your case was really special, normally the scouts and coaches of college teams start talking to the players in the first or second year, and in the third and fourth years they make the offers.”
”In his first year in high school, several scouts and coaches of college teams were already watching you, after all, you had been the champion and MVP teams in the national middle school championship.”
”But they spoke to the Philips coach who spoke very badly of you and said that you would be out of the team all through high school so they all lost interest in you.”
”So all these recruiters were eyeing other high school players in those first two years, it was only in the third year that you started playing that they remembered you.”
”But these recruiters paid no attention to our team in the regional championship nor to the state championship in normal games.”
”It was only in the national championship that they started paying attention to our team, but even watching you play so well they had no interest in you what coach Philips talked about you at the time.”
”But they were very interested in Mark and then in other players of our team, with the passing of the games our team has always been winning and you have always been being the highlight of the team and eliminating several players they were watching.”
”It was after our team won the national championship and you were the MVP with a triple-double that they realized that the information that the Philips coach passed was fake and you were a great player.”
”But at that time all the coaches and scouts of the university teams also knew about you, so everyone talked to me and I gave you a good evaluation.”
”The school wanted to hold so that the colleges that we have partnerships could talk to you before, but it did not give more time, but it's impossible for everyone to talk to you before and so everyone has already made proposals with full scholarships for you.”
”Even more when they learned that you had the best grades in one of the schools with one of the best teachers in the country, so you only have to call the coaches from the universities you have the most interest and choose a good one.”
Jake even found that his situation was very different from the other basketball players, after all, he had not been called by any recruiter before and now he was called by everyone, but it was good because he could choose the universities.