Chapter 395 - The Last Major Marathon 9 (1/2)

In the first minutes of the overtime, the two teams were being very aggressive in attack, they were doing some turnovers because of that and the Georgia Tech players were still very good in the three-point shots and the Georgia Tech team managed to open an advantage on the scoreboard by because of that.

On the side of the Tar Heels team, their attack was with Cota making assists for Jamison and Carter, the Georgia Tech team's defense was defending well against Williams and so Cota preferred to make the most correct plays to get the points.

Because of this, the Georgia Tech team opened an advantage on the scoreboard, but they also lost a lot of attacks because they tried only three-point shots and missed too, so in the last minutes the two teams were almost tied and Coach Guthridge asked for time to talk to the players.

He wanted to win this game and even though he thought that Ed Cota's strategy was not wrong trying to score points in all attacks and not just try 3-point shots, to achieve the victory he thought the team depended on three-point shots Shammond Williams points.

”You are playing a great game today, we are under a lot of pressure because of this winning streak and in this game, we have no Jake and we are playing as a visitor and I know that you are now tired after playing for more than 40 minutes.”

”But I need one last effort from you so that our team can achieve this victory, everyone is waiting to see our team losing this game, so they will say that without Jake our team cannot win.

”But I know that this is not true and that we have a whole good team and we don't depend on just one player to win, it's because of the whole team that we came to this incredible winning streak and not just because of Jake.”

”So we're going to win to prove it, I want to see you press on the defense so that the players on the opposing team get it wrong, and Ed, pass the ball to Williams that I trust he will bring victory to our team.”

After hearing the words of motivation from Coach Guthridge, the players came back more motivated to guarantee victory in those last minutes, the Georgia Tech team was just one point ahead of the scoreboard and the Tar Heels team had everything to win.

The ball was with the Tar Heels team and so after a play, Williams was free to receive the ball and try a three-point shot and thus turn the score and put the Tar Heels team ahead with 2 points advantage.

The Georgia Tech team tried to retaliate soon after, but the Tar Heels defense was very good, putting pressure on her, so Maddox tried a three-point shot and missed, Jamison, caught the rebound and passed it to Ed Cota.

Ed Cota did not bother to spend time in possession and soon went on the attack, Shammond Williams again got freedom and tried another shot to hit and make 3 more points for the Tar Heels team and increase the advantage to 5 points.

It was less than a minute before the game was over and now the pressure was on the Georgia Tech team, they again attacked and tried a three-point shot and missed and so they became more anxious and the Tar Heels team attacked again.

Ed Cota held the ball to spend possession and at the end of the play Williams had the defense over him and so Cota passed to Jamison who tried to score and missed close range.

The Georgia Tech team attacked quickly and managed to hit a three-point shot and thus the advantage decreased to 2 points, but the playing time was over and the Tar Heels team won that game even without Jake on the team after overtime.

Jake celebrated a lot at the hotel and only after seeing his team winning that he can be really happy after winning the marathon, in the next game he would be playing and would not let the Tar Heels team lose again until he won the NCAA title.

”What an incredible game we are watching today, the Tar Heels team managed to win another game after arriving until the overtime in an exciting game against the Georgia Tech team, the star of Shammond Williams shone and with 34 points he was the best player of that game.”

”Yes, it was really a very close game in which the Georgia Tech team also deserved to win the game with the excellent performance of Matt Harpring who scored 27 points in that game and Michael Maddox who scored 35 points in that game.”

”But the Tar Heels team showed that they have an excellent team and even without Jake on the team they had the excellent game of Williams and Jamison who scored 26 points in that game, great game, and a deserved victory.”