Chapter 318 1997 NCAA Division I Mens Basketball Tournament 6 (1/2)
”Jake may not be performing well, but it's not his fault, after all, Jake plays PG and if the team is not performing well he also can't stand out without making individual plays.”
”I really don't understand, you can tell by seeing this game that the California Golden Bears team is working harder on defense because they are without their best player, but the Tar Heels team is complete.”
”Even though the California Golden Bears defense is fine, it's hard to understand why the Tar Heels team is having such a hard time making the moves, only Jamison is performing well and Carter is playing only moderately.”
”This is certainly something we cannot understand, but the Tar Heels team fans can rest assured that Jake is doing his part very well and is thus leading the Tar Heels team to an easier win.”
Jake was really struggling to make moves involving his teammates to see them gain more confidence in the game and make a better match, in another move Jake made a steal intercepting a pass from the opposing team.
Jake decided not to run as in other plays and held the ball waiting for his teammates to advance to the attacking court, Jake advanced and after passing through the middle of the court passed the ball to Williams on the right.
Williams advanced and continued to advance on the left even after receiving pressure from the California Golden Bears defense, Williams passed the ball to Jamison who was on the left.
As soon as Jamison received the ball, he could see that California Golden Bears' defense was stronger in the painted area, so Jamison chose to step outside the three-point line and restart play.
Jamison wanted to pass to Jake, but soon a defender appeared in the path of his pass, so Jamison passed the ball back to Williams who was more to the left, Williams received the ball with some freedom.
In that first half of the game, the right side of the Williams He and Zwikker Tar Heels team attack was not enjoying Jake's passes, so when he received the ball more freely Williams stepped back and then attempted a three-point shot.
Unfortunately, the ball didn't come in and Williams missed the three-point attempt, Zwikker jumped and got the rebound and tried to push in to make another 2 points, but he also missed and then had to jump again to catch the rebound.
Zwikker did not attempt another attack and passed the ball to Carter on his left, Carter caught the ball and left the painted area and passed the ball back to Jake, Jake naturally had no problems with Shammond Williams and Serge Zwikker.
His reason for not passing the ball to them is because he knew they were not having a good game, so Jake held the ball to pass the time and thus made the opposing team more nervous as they were more than 6 points behind on the scoreboard.
When the time of possession was nearing its end Jake advanced into the three-point line, Jake made a quick crossover and took his defender off the pitch with this dribble, Jake took the speed boost and found a place to advance.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
With speed and agility, Jake drove to the basket and made a dunk to get 2 points more for the Tar Heels team, after this play that spent almost 1 minute the first half soon ended.
”A first half that looked more like a two-team defense attack and had no good times ended with the Tar Heels team to great advantage thanks to the good performance of Jake and Jamison.”
”Carter has also had a good first half, but even he missed a few plays in that first half, and Williams was the wrongest in the attack along with Zwikker and the two almost didn't get many Jake passes.”
”Jake knows his teammates very well and has never been selfish in the plays, he is often criticized even for not trying more individual plays, but if in this game he didn't pass the ball to Zwikker and Williams it was because he felt that his teammates were not having a good day.”
”I understand who criticizes Jake for passing the ball too much, he should not even be a PG and should play SG for his box score statistics, he has over 65% hit rate on three-point shots and over 72% hit in the attempts total shots in the game.”
”With such a performance I can understand why some people say Jake should try more than 15 shots of at least 3 points per game, so in fact, he would help the team a lot more.”
”But if he did that he wouldn't have so many triple-double and a double-double in the games, moreover, just because Jake is like PG who can help the team so much in the games.”
”But Ed Cota could also be a good choice for PG in this team, even playing a short time he has always made more than 2 assists in every game that comes in.”