Chapter 292 Unhappy Beginning of Year 4 (1/2)

And so it was for the next two days, Jake did his training every morning with Zack and the afternoon trained with his teammates, none of the coaches came to talk to him and Jake didn't want any more problems either and wanted to play again as soon as possible.

On January 7 which was the day before the team's second game of the year, Jake had one more surprise, Eva had arrived in the morning and Anna was with her too, they had come from Miami and closed the restaurant that day to celebrate Jake's birthday.

Jake was very happy with this surprise and that he could spend his birthday together with his mother again, they decided to throw a small party for Jake in a restaurant near the university, all players of Jake's basketball team and his roommates were called.

Even though some of Jake's classmates had been invited, this was Jake's 18th birthday which was an important date for anyone, everyone laughed a lot and most of the party Jake had spent with Eva and Anna who didn't know anyone.

After the party Eva and Anna left for Miami again, they did not like to spend the night in hotels and in the morning had to open the restaurant again so decided it was better to travel back at night.

After going through this celebration Jake was excited again even trying an unfortunate start of the year, even though the team could miss these next two games when Jake resumed playing normally he had to make sure they wouldn't lose anymore.

Even if they lost a few more games at least in the NCAA tournament games he had to make sure they didn't lose any games and be champions, another thing Jake worried about was whether he could continue to participate in marathon competitions this year.

After all, he would have to miss training or even games during the season, with Coach Smith's personality it was hard to think that the coach would accept that Jake lost any games in the season.

These were concerns Jake had for the season, in fact, he honestly had to admit that he had underestimated the difficulty of college games, he thought he would have more freedom and could do more things than in the NBA, but it seemed he had even more things to do than in the NBA.

On his birthday several of his friends called to congratulate him during the day, so Jake can be even happier feeling dear to his friends, even Joseph called congratulating Jake and apologizing for eventually falling out during the holidays.

It looked like Joseph had gone back to college earlier this year and said that if Jake was going to play again there they could talk again, Jake knew they wouldn't meet, but said nothing about it and just agreed.

After spending the whole day happily celebrating the birthday the other day Jake had to worry again about the team's next game in Regular Season, after the first loss everyone wanted to win the second game, only Jake wasn't excited about that game.

He hoped he didn't have the opportunity to play many minutes in this game either, so it would probably be his team's second straight loss, yet he would still do his best while on the court.

Unlike the game against Wake Forest that had Duncan making a difference in the game, his next opponent had no player who would make such a difference, meanwhile, they had a very strong team.

The other day later the Tar Heels team went to the Dean Smith Center to prepare for the game, all the players did the warm-up exercises and the players wondered if Jake would play normally in today's game.

The opponent did not look as strong as Team Wake Forest in the previous game, they would face Team Maryland Terrapins who also came from a sequence of over 11 straight wins earlier this season.

They also lost a game, but it was a tough game against the Georgia Bulldogs team that was also having a strong season this year and that game was even for overtime.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

This was the Maryland Terrapins team's only defeat this year, so Jake thought it was only fair for the Tar Heels team to lose this game in their past life, surely Coach Smith and Coach Guthridge had the same opinion of him.

After a few more hours the two teams were ready for the game, the Maryland Terrapins team came with Šarūnas Jasikevičius as PG, Laron Profit as SG, Rodney Elliott as PF, Keith Booth as SF and Obinna Ekezie playing as Center.

Four of them played for some time in the NBA and the best player of this team this year was Keith Booth who had almost 20 points average in all games and 8 rebounds as well, Booth was playing very well and was compared to Jamison this season by the experts.

Just like Team Wake Forest this Maryland Terrapins team played more attacking inside, the difference is that the Maryland Terrapins team did not have a player like Duncan as a reference in the attack and the team Tar Heels could defend better.

If they changed their attack style to attack more with the three-point play they could win this game more easily, it was the same solution as the last game, but as the Tar Heels team would have the same initial formation as the previous game it didn't look like Coach Smith thought of doing this.