Chapter 365 College Basketball Season Begins 9 (1/2)

The other day the Tar Heels team already had another game this season, thanks to the last game with a slower pace the players did not spend much energy and were prepared for that game.

Jake had already talked to Coach Guthridge that after this game he would go to Miami to spend a week with his mother, he wanted to take advantage of these opportunities to stay home because this season would be very crowded and players would never have more than a week to relax.

So he would go this time and around Christmas again, because then only in February would the players have some time to rest and spend with their family and then just after the end of the season.

Jake had to enjoy it because he regretted not doing it last season and Coach Guthridge gave Jake more freedom because he knew how great he was in every game and training of the season.

He also wouldn't have time to talk to Matthew and Emily this holiday season and couldn't talk to David Falk, so he would have to delay all the things he had to work out for February next year.

The worst thing for Jake was that he was going to spend his birthday this year at university and couldn't go home as he always did, but he was expecting it when he decided to become a professional basketball player.

After a few hours, both teams were ready to start the game, the opponent in that game was the Virginia Tech team, the Virginia Tech team had a last regular season and Jake remembered that this season would not be very good for this team.

The fans and the media hoped that this was also an easy game for the Tar Heels team because Jake kept playing very well in every game and Jamison also always showed that he deserved to be one of the best players this season.

Jake remembered that Carter and Williams would also be playing well in this game, so he wasn't very nervous about the Virginia Tech team game either, so the team could play willingly because the players would have a week to rest after that game.

In the first quarter, however, the game was different from what Jake thought with Team Virginia Tech trying to pressure Team Tar Heels into both offense and defense, even though Jake could still make the moves his teammates had a harder time making the points.

In defense, Tar Heels managed to hold on well with Jake and the other more focused defense players, so Jake decided to make a few more individual plays until the team could make the attacking moves better.

The opposing defense tried to hinder Jake in the plays, but Jake was skilled and could always get space to make the three-point shot or dribble to layup, but even the opponent knowing it was hard to defend against Jake they couldn't let go. him alone and had to at least try to disturb him.

And that was right because with the pressure of defense even Jake could miss a few shots of three, luckily Jamison helped catch some rebounds and so the Tar Heels team did not miss the attacks.

Even with a tougher first quarter Tar Heels can still attack and defend well and finished the first quarter with a good lead, Jake played for 20 minutes and scored 21 points, 3 assists, 5 rebounds, and 4 steals.

The Virginia Tech team also missed more while trying to attack more willingly to try to beat this first quarter, so Jake and Jamison had more opportunities to catch the rebounds in defense.

At half-time Coach Guthridge made some changes and gave some advice to the players, the players were not tired yet and in the second quarter, it was time for the Tar Heels team to put pressure on attack and defense.

This strategy took Virginia Tech by surprise because they were thinking of slowing down the game so that they could re-press Tar Heels later and try to win, the Tar Heels attacks were much more accurate and strong and the defense then It was even stronger.

Jake started making more assists for Jamison and Carter in the attack and for Williams when he was within the three-point line because in this game Williams was poorly on a three-point play.

Jake continued to attack well in this second quarter and this made the Virginia Tech team have a harder time defending having to worry about Jake, Jamison, Carter, and Williams, so the advantage was only increasing.