Chapter 306 1997 ACC Mens Basketball Tournament 2 (1/2)

As commentators have said with Coach Smith's strategy at work, the Tar Heels team easily won by 89 points against just 66 points from the Wake Forest Demon team.

Tim Duncan still had a great game and got a double-double scoring 26 points and 13 rebounds, but did not score more than Jake so Tar Heels team won with Jake winning the star clash with more points but helping less to the team.

This showed many media people the strength of the Tar Heels team in this clash between favorites and what many thought if Jake played more time in the first game this season the Tar Heels team would probably have won.

After this game, the Tar Heels team reached an astonishing 13-win streak and players were confident of winning the remaining three games of Regular Season and arriving with more confidence for the ACC tournament.

Even though they were confident everyone knew that the next games would be difficult because they would face two opponents who were having a great season and had two very strong teams and would play as a visitor.

Also, with all of these games in the season the team was starting to feel tired and only players like Jake didn't look tired, so in the next games Coach Smith would have to make more rotations in positions and let the reserves play longer.

Only Jake coach Smith intended to keep playing for a long time in every game, the team's fitness coaches have often said that Jake had a lot of stamina and stamina and had no risk of getting injured or getting tired in matches.

This was better for the team, and Coach Smith believed that because he knew that outside of Jake's basketball team training he was still training for the marathons he played, which showed how much stamina Jake had.

After a few more days the day of the next game came, team Tar Heels traveled to face the next opponents that were team Maryland Terrapins, in the last confrontation between them was a difficult game with only 5 points difference.

But that was because Team Maryland Terrapins was very strong and had a great season, and the last game this season was right after Team Tar Heels lost to Team Wake Forest and Jake didn't even play 30 minutes in that game.

So in this game, as Jake would start playing and play longer Team Tar Heels was not worried about the game, if the team had a good game Coach Smith would use more reserves to rest the main players besides Jake.

After a few hours both teams were ready to start the game, as the last game was won by the Tar Heels team by a few points and today they would play at home the Maryland Terrapins team was confident of trying to win.

In the first half, the two teams were very equal, Jake could make some smart moves and so the Tar Heels team still had the advantage, but the Maryland Terrapins team also had a strong team and made the game difficult.

In the first half Jake played for 19 minutes and scored 18 points, 6 assists, 4 rebounds, and 4 steals, with a great first half he could get the Tar Heels team to take the lead, but the points difference was not much.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

Just as Coach Smith thought some players were removed from the starting lineup a few minutes earlier and let the reserves play longer, on the contrary Jake had more playing time if it wasn't for Ed Cota having more difficulty playing in other positions Coach Smith could Let Jake play longer.

In the second half, the game remained balanced, the Maryland Terrapins team playing well and Coach Smith giving more time to the reserves, so even with Jake playing very well the Tar Heels team never got a big advantage in the game.

After the game was over the team Tar Heels still got a good win, in that second half Jake can play for another 19 minutes and made 22 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds, and 4 steals, so playing was critical to the team's victory.

”A great game for the Tar Heels team, in fact, it should say it was a great game for Jake, the whole team of the Tar Heels team played today, both early players and the reserves.”

”Still with the performance of Jake who managed to organize the plays and score several points with the starting team and the reserve team the team Tar Heels still got the victory.”

”True, Jake is the typical player who can be said that the longer he plays the better the performance, today he played for 38 minutes and almost quadruple-double in that game, he scored 40 points, 12 assists, 9 rebounds and 8 steals, it took Jake more time to go down in history for this game.”

”With his performance, this season Jake has certainly entered history as one of the best players on the Tar Heels team.”