Chapter 275 The Beginning of the Season at College Basketball 7 (1/2)

In this third game, Team Tar Heels won even more easily by 91 points against just 58 points from Team Pitt Panthers, Jake could play longer and knew that at least he had secured the spot as a sixth player and could play longer in the next games.

Jake went back to the dorm and told his friends about the win, then called his mother to tell him about the win, Jake was someone more modest, and although he always told his win friends he didn't talk about how many points he made at the games.

So for a while, his friends thought that maybe Jake wasn't even playing games and so didn't count what his performance was like, but after the third game, they found that even though Jake wasn't a starter he still played many minutes and scored several points.

Just as they were their friends, they decided to watch Jake games that were played at the Dean Smith Center, so many already watched those games so they thought they had to do it for Jake at least.

Jake didn't know that and really missed seeing someone he knew in the stands, fortunately in those early games he was so focused on trying to play well and doing his best in the minutes he couldn't remember staring into the stands.

The days passed and Jake continued his training routine, he had only 2 days to train while his teammates rested because he had a game every 3 days.

The fourth game was against the Bethune-Cookman team at the Dean Smith Center, again Jake would start in reserve and enter the game when Coach Smith thought the time was right, Coach Guthridge always tried to convince Coach Smith to put Jake in the starting lineup, but could not.

The Bethune-Cookman team was also considered weak for this season, they had no players to stand out either, so the Tar Heels team that was coming from a 2-win sequence was very confident in this game.

Jake wasn't blindly confident like the others and just remembered that in his past life the Tar Heels team easily won this game by a large number of points, in fact, he thought these victories could be more dangerous for the blind team confident even winning against weaker teams.

In this game Jake played 22 minutes, he scored 22 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals, this was one of his best games at the university and the team won the game by 112 points against 60 points from the Bethune-Cookman team.

In this game, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison scored 25 points each and were the best of the team in the game, but again Jake was the most efficient in enjoying the time he had in the game, after this game he would have scored 62 points, 22 assists, 17 rebounds, and 10 steals in 63 minutes played in 4 games.

He was already the third player to score the most and was the most assisted and steals player in the team even playing on average half the time of his teammates, this is the report that Coach Guthridge made to convince Coach Smith letting Jake play as a starter.

This report was different from seeing a player play in person, it showed accurate performance data, so comparing Jake with his teammates it was impossible for Coach Smith to keep leaving Jake in reserve.

He didn't mind the criticism of others as he decided what was best for the team, but if he didn't put Jake in the starting lineup he could now be called blind and be doing something that would hurt the team.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

So unbeknownst to Jake he had been placed as a starter for the next game, Shammond Williams would have to play sometime in the positions of Jake, Vince Carter and Ademola Okulaja, so he could play a few more minutes and help the team.

Unfortunately, Ed Cota had lost this match and would have to stay most of the games in reserve, coach Smith put Ed Cota to play because he was confident he could play very well and do great things for the team.

But with someone like Jake on the team, Coach Smith could not place someone as a starter who played less than Jake himself, now he had to wait for Jake to respond positively to his expectations.

Jake realizes during this game by chance that his roommates came to watch his game, it made Jake very happy, his roommates were also very surprised to see how well Jake played in this game.

They thought Jake played better than the team stars this year that was Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison, after all even though they were better at some things, Jake was someone who played for the team and with quality.

Jake called his mother again to tell him that he had won, Eva was very happy for him and thought that this winning streak was normal for Jake as a player, of course, it didn't depend on Jake and it was the team's ability.

But the media did not think so and had already made Jake one of the best newcomers of the year, Jake was not the best at the moment because he had no opportunity to play as a starter in the team as other newbies already did in other teams.

For the next few days Jake kept training hard without knowing he would be a starter, so the day before the game it was Coach Guthridge who personally called Jake to talk, as this had not happened many times before Jake was curious why he had been called.