Chapter 260 Starting the Season for Sports 2 (1/2)

The other day with a rested body Zack managed to run the 4 km, but he was exhausted after running and ran slower than before, yet Jake didn't interfere as long as Zack could.

As it was, it would take a few more weeks for Zack to move on to 6 km training, when Zack's fitness improves faster and he can complete 42 km.

So next month Zack would improve much faster if he didn't give up on training, it also served to show Jake the difference between him and another of his age, at 14 Jake could easily run that distance with the speed that Zack was running.

And because Zack was supposed to have more than 14 on average statistics and had the advantage of being adult and having developed body that Jake did not have as a child, yet it was obvious what Jake could do better than others thanks to the system.

Not to mention when Jake started training in just over 2 months he had greatly improved his time even running faster than Zack, it would probably take 7 months before Zack could run a marathon with Jake's training.

That's because even if Jake's training was much more inefficient than others, he could ensure that Zack's body developed and when Zack could run a marathon once he could run several whenever he wanted to.

In training with the basketball team, Coach Smith performed several different play drills after pass training, in dribbling and ball control drills Jake was among the best but did not surpass Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison, and Shammond Williams.

This showed Jake that there is always someone who can be better, of course, this is because Jake chose one of the best NCAA teams, if it was a weaker team he would be the best for sure.

In attacking moves Jake outperformed his other teammates in mid-range and 3-point shots, not to mention that he was only slightly worse than his teammates in indoor moves such as layups and dunks.

That with players with Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison and Shammond William who were considered skilled even in the NBA, surprised all of their teammates and Coach Smith.

Impressed even Coach Guthridge who invited him to college, the coach had never seen Jake play at a high level and just heard what others said about him, so he thought Jake was good only at mid-range plays and shots from out.

But that wasn't really true, Jake just preferred to score mid-range shots and 3 point shots because it was so much more efficient and his opponents didn't have the ability to hinder their shots.

At Jake University he knew it would be different, so many teams would have defensive and strong players that even if they couldn't block, they would still get in the way of their shots, so now Jake would have to use his skills much more to do inside scoring.

So Coach Smith was thinking that even if Jake could not start as a starter, he could still go into the spin in the match and play for several minutes, just because he didn't have a lot of rapport with the team.

Maybe in more games, Jake could become the starter if he had good performances, it was the same situation in the high school Elite team, Nathan and Lucas were clearly better than David and Harrison and would still be the future of the team.

Even so, Coach Mike couldn't take David and Harrison out and leave them as starters because he had to think about how the two veterans had a relationship with Jake and his teammates.

Just at the end of the season last year that Nathan and Lucas were able to play as starters, Jake was in a similar situation, but even more, complicated because his teammates were of the same skill level as him so the coach could leave Jake in reserve.

Even though after these weeks of training, the basketball players talked more often with Jake and he was gradually getting in touch, Charlie was still talking to Jake more and Vince also talked to Jake more and more often.

That day when Jake returned to the dorm his friends hadn't arrived yet, Zack had gone off as he often did to talk to his brother, and William was in the library studying to do better in class.

So only Jake and Aaron were in the dorm, Jake thought this was a great opportunity to try talking to Aaron again, if he was wrong and Aaron still didn't want to talk to him, Jake would give up.

”Hi Aaron, we tried to talk the other day and I realized you seemed to have some problems that day, but we're in the same dorm so how about we go out to dinner and try to talk again?”

Aaron who was reading his book looked at Jake surprised after more than 1 month of classes and he still couldn't talk to his roommates, Aaron was shy and had already rejected Zack that day and so expected an opportunity to talk.

He didn't think Jake would understand his problems and try to talk to him first, so Aaron agreed with Jake and went out to the restaurant where Jake and the others would normally go, Aaron found it more comfortable talking to Jake than the three of them together.