Chapter 273 The Beginning of the Season at College Basketball 5 (2/2)

Arizona Wildcats won 75-70 against UNC team Tar Heels, the score was different from what Jake remembered in his past life and Jake felt his team only lost because he can only play for 10 minutes and Michael Dickerson from the opposing team made a great game.

Jake didn't like to lose any games, but he couldn't do anything about it and just consoled himself into thinking that the outcome of the game could be different if he played longer.

”This was a really great game, a season-opening game being so good is a sign showing that the season for college basketball this year is very good.”

”It is true, even though the difference in the final score was only 5 points the game was not so disputed, in the first half the two teams were very balanced and even ended the first part of the game tied.”

”But the Wildcats were rewarded for their coach betting on freshman Mark Bibby who may be one of the top names for this team next year.”

”On the other hand, Tar Heels lost this game as a result of Coach Dean Smith's indecision to trust younger players.”

”Only Ed Cota had more playing time than Jake and clearly Jake could make the outcome of this game completely different.”

”In the few minutes he was on the court he could give Tar Heels a real chance to lead the scoring, with more time on the court he could definitely do that.”

After the game was over the commentators criticized coach Dean Smith for having no confidence and putting Jake in the game, the reason being that a freshman like Mark Bibby was a major contributor to the Wildcats' victory.

Even though Coach Dean Smith didn't think he was wrong and didn't bother with the criticism he received, he thought it might be lucky that Jake had played so well in this game, one of the reasons the team lost was that Shammond Williams was the holder in PG position had a poor performance in this game.

So in the early games at least he intended to keep Jake still in reserve but would give him more minutes of play, after all, if he had a player who could do so well in a few minutes it would help a lot in the team games.

Everyone came back upset that they lost the game even though they played so well, but they didn't bother much because they knew it was normal to lose a few games this season and the Wildcats team played very well in that game.

As soon as they arrived at university everyone returned to their dormitories and Jake talked to his friends about the outcome of the game, everyone felt bad for Jake who had lost the game but understood that this was normal in a basketball season.

Jake also called her mom to tell her about the game, Eva was surprised and sad that Jake had lost the game, even though it was normal for others it was not normal for Jake, for over 5 years Eva had not remembered hearing that Jake lost some game.

”I think your coach is wrong Jake, how can anyone who plays as well as you miss out on a game like this.”

”I didn't stay out, Mom, I played for 10 minutes.”

”Still, doesn't this coach know how many universities wanted you to go to play as the team star? Now that he has you on the team not letting you play at least 30 minutes is a waste.”

”That's normal, mom, he still doesn't know how I can play at university, games are much harder than at high school, if I played for 10 minutes in a high school game I could easily score 16 points and still make 5 assists.”

Jake was honest in what he was saying, in a high school game in 10 minutes he could do what he said, but in that game, he only scored 8 points and got only 3 assists, which served to show how much more difficult it is.

That's because Jake has been able to greatly increase all of his physical stats and abilities in recent months, otherwise he could achieve even worse performance in this game, Jake could feel that perhaps in the next few years of college he could not reach a level of skill that made it superior to all other players.

After talking to Eva, Jake was much more comfortable even after losing a game after so long, which comforted him was that with more playing time he could do more and change the results of the games he remembered in his past life.

Not to mention that since this was an ordinary game it didn't matter whether it was lost or not if it was an ACC Tournament or NCAA Tournament game he might not accept defeat so easily, so what Jake could do was play the best he could something like that wouldn't happen again.